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. #linguistics#corpuslinguistics@linguistics@academicchatter
@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?
@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! @_bydbach_@linguistics@academicchatter
@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?
Question about #citations in #academic 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)"
@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. @linguistics
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. @corpuslinguistics @linguistics #pedagogy #DataDrivenEducation
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 @academicchatter@linguistics
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
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. #neuroscience#computationalneuroscience
@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. @corpuslinguistics@linguistics@academicchatter@academicsunite@researchdatamanagement