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elmerot

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Stout and porter loving Ph.D. student in Czech, using corpus linguistics. Also motorcycle rider with a soft spot for black flowers, trains and (Indo-European) languages.
My latest Open Access article, on polarity between nations based on income, is available through ResearchGate while the journal makes it public.
The previous is here: https://www.sciendo.com/pdf/10.2478/jazcas-2021-0060
An older one on ethnic stereotyping here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0080 6765.2019.1672090

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eugenia_diegoli, to linguistics
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I’ve recently received a peer review overall positive and very informative, but critising precisely my use of the verbs “to try” and “to attempt” because, according to the reviewer, “not adequate in academic writing”. Here’s a reminder of why we should value transparency and why framing our methods in terms of attempts and intentions can actually be a good thing.
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https://linguisticswithacorpus.wordpress.com/2023/10/31/i-tried-transparency-in-reporting-methods/

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@eugenia_diegoli
I would interpret the critique of "try" etc as imagining that you are not trying to get work done. Many reviewers get stuck on details like this without being able to convey what they mean. I make sure to always write about my data instead of the language as such, that's how I convey that even my 32 million observations dataset is a sample. Would it be possible to interpret the review comments like this?

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elmerot,
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@eugenia_diegoli
I do believe you bumped into someone extremely detailed. Many synonyms work, but "try" sounds less academic, I guess. Had that kind of reviewers, too. Annoying but may lead to a language more accepted by others, which may be a good thing to get your work spread. Difficult balance act!
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elmerot,
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@languageservicesco
Then you tell.them off 😃
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elmerot, to linguistics
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Very proud of my doctoral colleague Fabia Hultin Morger, who now has a published thesis! It's a analysis of memes in three different German varieties. Read it here: https://su.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1802265/FULLTEXT01.pdf



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pgcd, to linguistics
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@linguistics while (re)reading Pratchett I have developed the strong feeling that when one of the characters says "our Nellie" or "our Jason", the effect is similar to Northern Italian "la Agnese" o "il Gianni" - that is, a colloquialism when referring to a common acquaintance, not necessarily a family member.
Can somebody who speaks both confirm or deny this?

elmerot,
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@pgcd
Here is a possibility for you to look the phrase up in three of his book in English, to get a better feeling for the usage. Unfortunately, there are no parallel translations of Pratchett's books into neither French, Italian or Spanish here.
https://www.korpus.cz/kontext/view?viewmode=kwic&pagesize=40&attrs=word&attr_vmode=visible-kwic&base_viewattr=word&refs=%3Ddoc.id&q=~xyamgu0sCo2W&cutoff=0
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tschfflr, to linguistics
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Question about in work: Where does one put the author in citations, in which THE WORK is included in the sentence, as in (a) vs (b) below?

(a) "... which you can find in Chomsky (1981)"
(b) "... which you can find in (Chomsky, 1981)"

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elmerot,
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@tschfflr
With my meek 7 yearsbin academia proper, I'd also go for (a). When I've seen examples of (b), it disturbs my reading much more than (a) does.
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elmerot, to digitalhumanities
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And it's out 😃 My colleague Ondřej Pekáček and I have put out our first article on the representation of in the news 2015–2023, using NER and collocations, and looking at presences and absences in the 2015 vs. 2022 periods. First (as here) on paper, but will be soon.
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elmerot,
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@NoraGottlieb
Had not heard of it! Would you mind sending a link, if the CfP is still open?
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elmerot, to linguistics
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Corpus Linguists!
Would you care to share your favourite paedagogical article / chapter, relating to how to use corpus linguistics to teach a foreign language? I have pieces by O'Keefe, @ElenLeFoll and Mahlberg already, but I'm new to this topic, so all help appreciated.
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elmerot,
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Excellent, thank you for the explanation, @muranava !
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elmerot,
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Thank you, @mj ! What's so good about that research, you'd say?
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elmerot,
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@mj
Excellent, thank you!
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elmerot,
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Thank you, @ElenLeFoll ! Viana's is already on my list, but I didn't know Crosthwaite's was already out.

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elmerot, to academicchatter
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Combining work and pleasure: Reading a useful piece on #datadriven # learning by O'Keefe (2022) while enjoying a porter in afternoon candle light.
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eugenia_diegoli, to linguistics Japanese
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Delighted (and a little daunted!) to have just signed the contract for conducting research on #Hoey ‘s #LexicalPriming theory and its application to Japanese at the University of Bologna! It’s rather a leap from (im)politeness, but all the more exciting. Any reading suggestions on previous studies on the topic are more than welcome
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elmerot,
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@eugenia_diegoli
Wow! His Priming theory is one of the foundations for my research. Congrats!

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eugenia_diegoli, to linguistics Japanese
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Anyone familiar with previous studies on #laughter in written online communication?Everything from emoji (😂) to textual representation of laughter sounds (haha)! All I can find examines (co-present) laughter almost exclusively as a by-product of humour. Thank you! #academicchatter #academicmastodon @linguistics @academicchatter

elmerot,
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@eugenia_diegoli
@tschfflr researches emojis, perhaps she knows of any "written laughter" studies?
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Nosrat, to random
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My first post in Mastodon!
I'm Nosrat, I'm doing my PhD in computational neuroscience in university of Geneva.
I’m working on understanding underlying dynamics via direct measurement of neural spiking under the supervision of Timothée Proix.
A repost would be amazing as I’m finding my network here in Mastodon.

elmerot,
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Welcome, @Nosrat !
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dreimer, to random
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The move from twitter to X gave me the push to finally setup an account here. Looking forward to getting to know this platform!

elmerot,
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@dreimer Welcome! Not many sociology professors from Iceland here, I think?
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elmerot, to academicchatter
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Having my quality-assuring 80 percent seminar today. Swedish doctoral students have the privilege to a final seminar before the public defense. The opponent today will be Anna Čermáková (Lancaster Uni). She will pose all the hard questions that I have to consider before rewriting and delivering the final thesis version to the printers.
Of course I'm a bit nervous, but I also look very much forward to a critical discussion.




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elmerot, to academicchatter
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Another US university thinks it's a good idea to abolish proper language classes, and will "replace" them with apps … Please read about it and perhaps sign the petition here:
https://www.change.org/p/preserve-students-rights-to-study-world-languages-at-wvu
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eugenia_diegoli, to linguistics Japanese
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It seems to me that very few people in and in general (with the exception of ) use preprint services. Why is it so? Does anyone here use preprints? And if so, what archives do you use? Boosters appreciated 🙏
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elmerot,
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@eugenia_diegoli
The answer to "why" is of course "tradition", but new traditions ciuld be created! But another reason is that humanities scholars often discuss our research at seminars when they are work in progress, where more computationally focused ones present their work publically when it's finalized. That may be a reason to use preprint archives.
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nelksu, to random
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Okay, here we go! Giving social media another try with #Mastodon since I started to miss the academic community that social media used to provide for me.

I'm Nele, a #linguistics postdoc at the University of Oslo, working on the language of fake news in English. I'm also affiliated with Lund University through my work on the London–Lund Corpus 2 and spoken language.

That's (mainly) what I'll be posting about. Here we go again!

elmerot,
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@nelksu Welcome, fellow linguist! Tip of the day, then: follow the @academicchatter and perhaps @academicsunite if relevant. There is also @linguistics and of course hashtags.

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elmerot,
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@design_law
Please look into e.g. Michael Hoey's theories on lexical priming. There are also articles on gendered language that point to differences in perception, such as https://www.researchgate.net/publication/366433362_Are_Gender-Neutral_Pronouns_Really_Neutral_Testing_a_Male_Bias_in_the_Grammatical_Genderless_Languages_Turkish_and_Finnish .
I have two articles that rely on priming on my profile page here, but they are focused on applied language in use.
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