Saddened to hear the news of David Bellos’ passing. He was one of our keynotes last year at #METM24. Glad I had the opportunity to meet him.

This may be of interest to peeps in Barcelona who were at #METM24 in Carcassonne.

Or for that matter, to anyone with an interest in sociolinguistics, language policy, or Romance language exposure/variation. 🤩

METM24 Chronicles: Kate Mc Intyre - The Hive A critical role for author voice in scientific writing, reviewed by Marije de Jager

The challenge of voice and some of the ways LPs can help were brilliantly laid out by @kmci.bsky.social at #METM24 and beautifully chronicled by Marije de Jager.

hive.metmeetings.org/2024/11/08/m...

Developing voice takes time, practice and feedback but authors face numerous pressures. >>

Mediterranean Editors and Translators MET is an association that acts as a forum for translators and editors who work mainly into or with English

Thank you, Theresa, for this beautiful #chronicle and for your and #METM24 's incredibly warm welcome.

#AcademicBluesky: if you need editors and translators who deeply care about your writing and know how to make it the best it can be, this highly professional community can help www.metmeetings.org

I've finally found time to write about the excellent #METM24 conference in Carcassonne: clairecoxtranslations.wordpress.com/2024/11/10/sto… #xl8 #cpd

METM24 - The Hive

An excellent way to (re-)tap into the sessions at Mediterranean Editors and Translator's #METM24 conference is to read the #MET Chronicles at MET's resource hub, the Hive.

While most Hive content is behind the membership wall, the Chronicles are open to all. Enjoy!

hive.metmeetings.org/tag/metm24/

Some of the resources that inform my talks (not all, but some I recently used to teach)

Julia Molinari, October, 2024, wearing sunglasses and walking against a treed-backdrop

Both went ok as far as I'm concerned ⚡

They raised uncomfortable Q&As about whose standards, rules, reality, facts, epistemic virtues, and justice are served by how we write & publish academically.

#WhatMakesWritingAcademic
#AcWri
#tleap
#AcademicLiteracies
#SocialJustice
#METM24
#CriticalRealism

Four women pose wearing the same T-shirt.

A year ago today we submitted the final proofs of our edited volume, and last weekend we wore our book T-shirts at #METM24

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

@rowenaegmurray.bsky.social, @katesw.bsky.social, @tltgisch.bsky.social, @yclepit.bsky.social, @cchlindho.bsky.social, @jogarrick.bsky.social

The medieval city of Carcassonne with its towers and ramparts above more modern houses, the green river bank of the Aude and the arches of the Pont Vieux to the right of the picture. The sky and river look perfectly blue.

Home after the fabulous #METM24 in Carcassonne. Lots of admin to catch up on and work to get back to, but so good to be able to spend time with colleagues, with lots of great meals as well as sessions and workshops.

A bit of etymology fun for those attending the Mediterranean Editors and Translators conference in Carcassonne, in Occitania (or better yet, Carcassona in Occitània).

#METM24

Title (required) Making the case for a critical realist theory of academic writing: does this matter for human emancipation? Abstract (required) Academic writing - writing that takes place in academic settings, from undergraduate essays to research monographs – matters because it is a method of knowledge enquiry. As such, and looking ahead, it should be of central concern to critical realism and its ontological project of ‘reclaiming reality’, especially as ‘artificially intelligent’ texts challenge the notion of a ‘human’ writer. Academic knowledge has a textual form, which, as Andrew Sayer highlights in his Appendix to Method in Social Science: A Realist Approach (1992), can influence how knowledge is re-presented. Moreover, since academic writing is also linguistic, my case for a critical realist theory of academic writing draws on Roy Bhaskar’s Enlightened Common Sense: The Philosophy of Critical Realism (2016), whereby an ontology of language pivots “on distinctions between the d

On re-imagining academic writing as an act of love Julia Molinari, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK Écrire est un acte d’amour. S’il ne l’est pas, il n’est qu’écriture. —Jean Cocteau In his existential book on the difficulty of being (La difficulté d’être), French writer, dramatist, poet, and film director Jean Cocteau refers to literary writing in ways that may help us re-imagine and humanise academic writing beyond performative and algorithmic tendencies. I have cited Cocteau (1957, p.151) in French in an act of what Suresh Canagarajah and other sociolinguists have referred to as “translanguaging”, the multilingual practice of communicating knowledge by drawing on one’s full linguistic repertoire to re-appropriate and democratise meanings by retaining their original voice, rhythm, and nuance. Translanguaging thus becomes a positive meaning-making practice that disrupts monolingual monopolies on meaning and replaces negative connotations of “linguistic interference” with gen

Sharing 2 talks I'll be giving in the coming months because they both excite & terrify me.

Informed critical & constructive reactions are much appreciated🙏🏼

#IACR2024
#METM24

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#CriticalRealism #AcWri #WhatMakesWritingAcademic #GAI