A clear case of an indirect #speechact 👉
Me very kindly taking my sister to the station by car, despite having better things to do on a Sunday morning. My sister: “Are you tired? Do you want me to drive?”. Real meaning: “You suck at driving please let me do it” @linguistics#linguistics
@Rainer_Rehak@linguistics the “assumption of intent” is tricky indeed! In this case specifically, I know my sister very well and, to be fair, driving is not my thing :)
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
@_bydbach_@linguistics@academicchatter Exactly, within corpus linguistics the point is precisely that even the biggest and most balanced corpus is always a sample. This ofc does not mean that’s not worth studying it, or that we can’t generalise from it, but simply that being aware of its (and our) limitations is part of the story
@elmerot@_bydbach_@linguistics@academicchatter As I understood it, their point was that using verbs like “try” gives the impression I’m not confident in my analysis. This said, I always appreciate the time and effort reviewers put in reading and commenting on my stuff
In 2022 I was invited to contribute to an edited collection that was supposed to come out within the year. That obv didn’t happen, and I still don’t have a prospective publication date. I feel so frustrated and I regret not sending the piece to a journal. Anyone else with a similar experience? @academicchatter
@_bydbach_@academicchatter thank you Rita is nice to hear the other side!! I guess what’s bothering me the most is the total absence of updates and explanations from the editor
@academicch@psychology@linguistics Interesting the bit arguing that public apologies may be doomed from the start. Also, I wasn’t aware of the taxonomy of apology strategies in psychology, but it looks to me it resembles very closely the one proposed in linguistics by Blum-Kulka and colleagues.
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
Hi, @hello, what would you say is best to refer to an article that has been admitted, reviewed, returned, and waiting for the journal to be published: forthcoming or in press?
For context, I work in a languages department in the US. And I have seen different ways of using “forthcoming,” from an accepted paper to a simply drafted project. @academicchatter#Forthcoming#InPress#hcommons
@vaclavh@corpuslinguistics@linguistics@academicchatter@academicsunite I use HAL, people there are quite responsive and it allows you to automatically transfer the file to arXiv, although I’ve never done it because it doesn’t look like arXiv has a domain relevant to my field (?). Anyway thanks for the feedback, I agree very few people in linguistics seems to bother with preprints. Personally I find them very helpful