The octopus conference is back! 🐙
"Influence, Manipulation & Seduction 3: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Persuasive Language", Nov 19-20, 2026, Tampere University, Finland
#LanguageAndPersuasion #Linguistics #OctoConf
I am delighted to share our article "Developing a learner dictionary of #collocations: description and evaluation of a multi-method approach" published in Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory.
@ireneeffe.bsky.social Fabio Zanda
#corpora #dictionary #corpuslinguistics
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Happy that J.Benjamins has just published the volume "Applying Corpora in Teaching and Learning Romance Languages", which I had the honour of editing with Henry Tyne. It is the first volume dedicated to the use of corpora for teaching and learning Romance languages
benjamins.com/catalog/scl....
Hear What the Language Spoken by Our Ancestors 6,000 Years Ago Might Have Sounded Like: A Reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European Language
17th International Teaching and Language Corpora (TALC) conference, University of Extremadura, Jarandilla de la Vera, Cáceres, Spain, 15-18 July 2026. Submission deadline is 18th January 2026 #corpuslinguistics #language #languagelearning #languageteaching
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Cortigiana a me?
La necessità inderogabile di darsi un codice di comportamento (anche) linguistico nella comunicazione pubblica
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"I feel a wave of affection.."
"il sera fou de joie…"
OUT NOW: Iva Novakova, Olivier Kraif, & Marion Gymnich's contrastive corpus analysis sheds light on the phraseological motifs observed in the French and English romance novel genre.
#LiteraryGenre #CorpusStylistics
doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
lunedì #6ottobre per traduttori e altri professionisti delle lingue un workshop sul loro ruolo nel contesto dell’IA:
italy.representation.ec.europa.eu/notizie-ed-e...
(partecipazione gratuita da remoto)
#TranslatingEurope 🇪🇺
So happy that our new eye-tracking study on word combinations is out!
euroslajournal.org/articles/10....
"Columbia’s capitulation has turned a university that was once a site of free inquiry and learning into a shadow of its former self, an-anti university"
I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Save the date!
I titoli dei giornali di qualche decennio fa usavano aggettivi accurati, misurati e originali. Oggi nei titoli domina la ripetitività, l'omologazione e la ricerca a tutti i costi della sensazione e dell’effetto.
#giornali #titoli #aggettivi #newspapers
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Scientist è una parola inglese creata per essere #inclusiva, e per riferirsi a una donna.
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Occultare parte della realtà dando nomi evocativi alle leggi, non solo negli USA: dalla Salva Italia alla Buona scuola
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Fabio Zanda presenting our #corpus-based work for a Learner Dictionary of Italian Collocations at #CL2025 in Birmingham
Very sad to miss #CL2025 this year, but... our DICI-A (Learner #Dictionary of Italian #Collocations) will be presented by Fabio Zanda in the Tuesday poster session:
The PEC24, a new reference #corpus of Italian, is now available via Search-it, a CQPweb-based platform
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lt.eurac.edu/cqpweb/
A paper where PEC24 is described (English)
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doi.org/10.54103/203...
A short introduction (Italian)
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The CARLA (Corpus Approaches to Research on Language) research group will be at the #EuroSLA 34 conference in Tromsø, Norway, with this poster that will be presented tomorrow by Irene Fioravanti.
@eurosla.bsky.social
Very happy and proud to have presented our Learner Dictionary of Italian Collocations at Vocab@Maryland with my colleagues
@lucianaforti.bsky.social
Screenshot of the linked webpage
We are pleased to announce this year’s Sinclair Lecture by @jwgrieve.bsky.social, titled “Corpus linguistics is all you need: Large language models and the legacy of John Sinclair”, on 7 July. Open to the public and live-streamed. Details and registration below.
www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edac...
Il prologo di Charlie di questa settimana è uno dei motivi per essere abbonati al @ilpost.it
Happy to share my paper “A Different View of Phraseological Complexity: The Role of Density, Diversity and Distance” published on the Journal of the Europ. Second Language Association in the collection “Multiple views on #phraseology in second language acquisition”
euroslajournal.org/articles/10....
📣 BREAKING NEWS:
Harvard sues Trump administration over foreign student ban, calling move unconstitutional and a threat to academic freedom.
“Harvard is not Harvard without its international students,” the university writes.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
Due diverse rappresentazioni giornalistiche di uno stesso evento: una sobria e istituzionale, l'altra emotiva e patetica. Ecco come #ChatGPT le trasforma in immagini (ah, la rappresentazione patetica ovviamente è di un giornale italiano)
#AI #LLM
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Yes, I totally agree. And it is not even helpful to talk of "playing cards"(inparolepovere.substack.com/p/pace-e-met...) or to talk of peace with the words of war (inparolepovere.substack.com/p/parlare-di...; in Italian)
Registration is now open for the Register and task variation in Learner Corpus Research conference (VAR4LCR), taking place on 7-8 July 2025 in Louvain-la-Neuve. Early bird registration deadline: 22 May 2025
www.uclouvain.be/en/research-....
Almeno il 25 per cento degli incidenti sul lavoro è provocato dalla scarsa comprensione linguistica.
www.editorialedomani.it/economia/se-...
Applications are now open for the graduate programme in "Linguistic Computing" at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore! #Milan #NLProc #artificalintelligence
www.unicatt.it/en/programme...
La stampa riporta la posizione dell'UE sui dazi: "Trattiamo, ma il bazooka è pronto". Anche per le guerre commerciali, le parole della pace (trattiamo) sono giustapposte a quelle della guerra (bazooka).
Sulle metafore della guerra per parlare di pace:
inparolepovere.substack.com/p/parlare-di...
