Hall with wall paintings
Pink hallway with benches and busts of people
Vilnius university logo
Conference venue vibes from Vilnius. After #ICAME45 right at the beach, going for a more historical approach with #ICAME46
Well, ICAME45 Vigo is over, and what a wonderful conference it was, in such a beautiful location! Looking back across the Ría de Vigo from Cabo Estai, with some clouds moving in towards Illas Cíes #ICAME45
Icame title slide and an empty stage
#ICAME45 is officially closed! Congrats to the organizers for an absolutely perfect event 💯
Many thanks to my fellow Bsky posters @anteangaeile.bsky.social @diemerstefan.bsky.social @racheledf.bsky.social let's bring some more conference posting to Bsky 🤩
Missed #ICAME45? Wanna come again? (Of course you do)
Here are the next dates and locations:
ICAME46 takes place in Vilnius, June 17-21, 2025
ICAME47 in Koblenz in 2026
#CorpusLinguistics
„Ditch the superfoods - your word frequencies will keep you young!“ How do people respond to language change? In the last plenary at ICAME45 Vigo, Hendrik de Smet (KU Leuven) looks at politicians’ language use. Lessons learned: You cannot go back; you cannot stand still 🏃🏼 #ICAME45
What a sophisticated study on the mutual influences of population and individual changes. Final takeaway message by Hendrik De Smet: "ditch the superfoods, your word frequencies will keep you young" #ICAME45
Hendrik de Smet and a slide titled "can anyone still write 19th century prose?"
The very final plenary of #ICAME45: Hendrik De Smet on "Flexible habits or habitual inflexibility? Individuals' responses to ongoing change". Asking the important questions (as he put it) 😉
Nina Funke & Karola Schmidt provide a multifactorial analysis of adjectives in Sri Lankan English @ #icame45
Peter Uhrig (Erlangen-Nürnberg) discusses how to move from manual to automatic annotation of co-speech gestures in multimodal corpora. Very promising; still lots of manual (training) transcription of prosody & gestures, but already a substantial boon for qualitative researchers! 👍🏻 #ICAME45
Andreas Weilinghoff
presenting Sarah Buschfeld and his talk on modeling morphosyntactic variation in Sint Maarten English #icame45
Gerold Schneider (Zürich) presents ChaLL, a voice based chatbot for language learners 🤖🎓 Very entertaining, with a potentially huge impact on language learning! So will chatbots replace human teachers now? 🤔 #ICAME45
Last session at ICAME45 Vigo 😢 Sebastian Hoffmann (Trier) examines the „Thirteen Men rule“ (stress shift) in speech. Intriguingly (and contrary to received wisdom) it might not be stress shift but storage/retrieval of the varied form. Yo ho! 🏴☠️ (okay fifteen men, but…) #ICAME45
Sebastian Hoffman presenting his and Sabine Arndt-Lappe’s paper on the linguistic context of stress shift in authentic speech #icame45
Sofia standing in front of the icame45 poster
Still here, still Icame-ing, still looking happy 😃 It's the last panel before the final plenary and the general assembly at #ICAME45
Big congrats to @catlaliberte.bsky.social for winning the John Sinclair bursary of #ICAME45 with her talk on "Newswriting in the Caribbean diaspora"! 🥳💐👏
It's my last talk at #ICAME45 and wow am I going out on a high with the amazing demo from Gerold Schneider of chatbot for language learning for children. Gerold is really getting into the spirit of the inquisitive 11 year old 👏👏
Morning session after #ICAME45 conference dinner and disco: we're up and running with some wonderful talks on expertise construction, Mountaineering English, and persuasion
„Change the way you listen, not the way you speak“ Accent van, perception map, oral history, direction task. In his plenary at ICAME45 Vigo, Rob Drummond presents his fascinating Manchester Voices project as means of tapping into local identity & pride. Nice one! #ICAME45
Ignacio Palacios-Martínez (Santiago de Compostela) presents an insightful study on the evolution of swearing in British teen talk 🤬 Interesting: not much change: limited repertoires, mostly stable numbers. Idiomatic use of “f***” is up. “Bloody” seems to be a mild swearword now #ICAME45
“In Delhi, it’s our greeting, goodbye, surprise, happiness.” How does swearing in Indian English work? In their Reddit corpus, Sven Leuckert and Claudia Lange find both annoyance and social functions. Code-mixing is common, though English is the preferred matrix language. #ICAME45
Great analysis by Gisle Andersen & Christian Langerfeld (NHH) on humour, laughter & interruptions in leadership meetings, using the US FOMC transcripts 💵 Humour is generally supportive, with quips, anecdotes, wordplay & banter. Also, interruptions are surprisingly abundant #ICAME45
Rob Drummond standing on a stage in front of his title slide
Next up for plenary #3: @robdrummond.bsky.social bringing a true sociolinguistic perspective to #ICAME45 with his Manchester voices project
Claudia Lange and Sven Leuckert explore the much underresearched field of swearing in #WorldEnglishes - in their case Indian English. Nearly no traditional English swear words can be found in ICE-India. But surely Indian English speakers do swear - the question is how! #ICAME45
Absolutely! For individual but also as meta-research across studies 🤩ICAMErs, donate your 'trashbin' categories and their contents to us now! #ICAME45
Gisle Andersen & Christian Langerfeld providing a quantitative and qualitative analysis of laughter and interruptions in FOMC transcripts #icame45
From: Audience To: Rachele De Felice
We are strongly in favour of your convincing study of expressives in workplace emails. Glad you decided to tackle the topic - we very much appreciate your clear summary. Looking forward to hearing more from the exciting new corpus soon! #ICAME45
