A glimpse into the mind of a Linguist

🎥: @jatta.zone
[ #vtuber #lingusitics ]

screenshot from Powerpoint with two bullet points: - focus on computer mediated communication - using computational and corpus lingusitic methods Except for the misspelled word "lingusitic" (should be linguistics), ALL content words are underlined in red (as if they're spelled wrong)

I MEAN IS MY SOFTWARE TRYING TO TROLL ME? #linguistics #lingusitics

Second guessing myself bc Powerpoint is red-underlining the word "Linguistics" I mean thanks for digging into our known insecurities I guess? #lingusitics #linguistics #academicChatter

What does it mean to understand language? Language understanding entails not just extracting the surface-level meaning of the linguistic input, but constructing rich mental models of the situation it describes. Here we propose that because processing...

sn-news: #ai #ml #lm #lingusitics #cognition #caw #hmc What does it mean to understand language?

How do you pronounce THIS??

🎥: @jatta.zone
[ #vtuber #lingusitics #phonology ]

This is hilarious, read online: "The first Polish language dictionary (published in 1746) included definitions such as 'Horse: Everyone knows what a horse is.'"

#lingusitics #dictionary #language

Learning my 5th #language, #Italian on DuaLingo
#italiano #italien #linguas #languages #lingusitics

#lingusitics #ForensicLinguistics Language and the law--such an interesting topic to study

#CfP Listening to the Past: Digital Approaches to the History of Sound and Language

📌 Workshop | for scholars with interest in #History, #Lingusitics and #DigitalHumanities
📅 March 19-20, 2026 | @ghiwashington.bsky.social

Deadline: May 28, 2025

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Language Log » The multivalence of interjections

The multivalence of interjections - languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=68886 "Interjections may be exclamatory, quizzical, condemnatory, laudatory, and so forth and so on. They may convey pain, delight, dismay; approbation, disapproval." #aha #lingusitics

3e séance du séminaire “Discours et Corps” animé par Sandrine Sorlin (EMMA/IUF): Invitation de Massimiliano Demata (Université de Turin, Italie). Titre “Donald Trump and the Rhetoric of Blood, Body Politics and the Nation-as-Body” **mardi 15 avril 2025 – 18h – salle 126 St Charles 1** This lecture discusses the recent rhetorical fixation on blood within Donald Trump’s political discourse and the resonance of the term among his right-wing followers and supporters. The term ‘blood’ and the recurring theme of body politics have emerged as a recurring motif, operating both literally and metaphorically to evoke anxieties about national purity, vitality, and contamination. Trump’s phraseology often invokes imagery of conflictual or existential threats, drawing on long-standing and oft-employed tropes of body politics together with the metaphor of the nation as a wounded, raped and violated body in need of restoration and vindication. Furthermore, Trump manages to link the traditional metaphor of the body politic with the failed attempt to assassinate him on July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania while on his campaign trail: images of Trump’s face streaming with blood have been instrumental in communicating the analogy between the body of the president and the body of the nation, thus reinforcing nationalist mythmaking. Massimiliano Demata is Professor of English Linguistics at the Department of Culture, Politics and Society of the University of Turin, Italy. His research interests include discourses of nationalism and borders, conspiracy theories, the language of populism, and social media discourse. He has held research and teaching positions in France, Germany, Israel, Luxembourg, Sweden, the UK, and the USA. His latest work includes _Discourses and Borders and the Nation in the USA_ (Routledge 2022) and the multi-authored book _Voices of Supporter_ (John Benjamins 2023). He is also one of the co-editors of the _Routledge Handbook of Discourse and Disinformation_ (Routledge 2024). Ce séminaire est une séance préparatoire au colloque _Expressivity, Bodies and Language in the 21st Century_ prévu les 20 et 21 novembre 2025 à l’Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry, organisé par Sandrine Sorlin (UMPV, EMMA, IUF) et Julie Neveux (Sorbonne Université, CELISO). Montpellier 15 April 2025Télécharger * * * OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante : mdrugeon (16 avril 2025). 3e séance du séminaire “Discours et Corps” animé par Sandrine Sorlin (EMMA/IUF): Invitation de Massimiliano Demata (Université de Turin, Italie). Titre “Donald Trump and the Rhetoric of Blood, Body Politics and the Nation-as-Body” _Études Montpelliéraines du Monde Anglophone_. Consulté le 16 avril 2025 à l’adresse https://emmamontpellier.hypotheses.org/5187 * * * * * * * *

3e séance du séminaire “Discours et Corps” animé par Sandrine Sorlin (EMMA/IUF): Invitatio...

https://emmamontpellier.hypotheses.org/5187

#L'(inter)agir #Séminaires #- #L'(inter)agir #Body #Politics #Donald #Trump #Lingusitics #nation #Rhetoric

Event Attributes

#protip

Never say "I love you too".

Say "I love you" as a full response.

Remove the connotation that you love them in response to anything. You just do.

#lingusitics hack for your Wednesday.

2/ - Regarding Challenging #2SLGBTQIA+ Exclusion:
#PositiveDiscourseAnalsyis in #lingusitics can help.
Identify examples of what others have said during conversations. Find examples of language that identify problems (at the societal, individual, and group level), and offer progressive solutions

Yesterday, we had a tie between biə and tyː for the preposition meaning "in(side)", so I have randomly chosen biə. Tyː is still in the running for our next one, meaning "to, toward" or "into". #conlang #language #lingusitics #dnd #ttrpg strawpoll.com/eNg6vpBA8gA

This whole thread is relevant to #lingusitics but especially this one right here

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#lingusitics #AcademicSky ISO: there must be a formal name for the roles of a service provider who considers it "just their job" and the associated user who the service deeply impacts their life. 1/

Mine - a last minute change in topic of my #lingusitics MA dissertation ➡️ volunteering with the 🇨🇦 Embassy to 🇰🇷 to teach 🇰🇵 defectors ➡️ a PhD ➡️ 'researcher wellbeing and sensitive topics' ➡️ a multilingual survey ➡️ materials development.
Unsure what's next but looking forward to it!
What's yours?

(#lingusitics joke explainer:
grammar of…
Manx (Gaelic) / Scottish Gaelic*
Irish (Gaelic) / Middle Gaelic
Old Gaelic)

** although the clan motto “touch not the cat bot [but] a glove” comes to mind!

A gary larson comic. two dolphins in a pool and scientists next to it listening to a recoding devide and making notes on a blackboard of spanish phrases rendered in english spelling. Caption "Matthews.... we*re getting another one of those strange aw blah es span yol sounds

Another one of Gary Larson's I love #language #lingusitics

To debunk the outdated “they refers to multiple people” argument: ambiguities have always an WILL always exist in the English language and in all other languages. People concerned with the meaning of “they” don’t seem to care about other ambiguities.

#lingusitics #pronouns #lgbtq

New Paper: A multimodal parallel architecture The blog of Neil Cohn, PhD, exploring the structure and c...

1yrago: My model of #multimodality integrates grammar and meaning in #language, #gestures, & drawings www.thevisuallinguist.com/2015/11/new-paper-multim... #lingusitics

New Paper: A multimodal parallel architecture The blog of Neil Cohn, PhD, exploring the structure and c...

1yrago: My #lingusitics model of #multimodality integrates grammar and meaning in #language, #gesture, & drawing www.thevisuallinguist.com/2015/11/new-paper-multim...

I love my Wednesdays bc it's the day my students and I have intense 3 hr discussions about #lingusitics theory on visual language of #comics