It's that time of year (grant rejection season in Finland 🎄🏗) when i reskeet Jan Blommaert's blogpost about what grant rejections are telling researchers

📚"The affective meanings of bowing in a web corpus of Japanese", out now OA in the Journal of Pragmatics! Access it here doi.org/10.1016/j.pr..., and more details below 👇

📚 Lexical Priming: Evolution, Evaluation and Applications to English and Japanese is out now! In it, we build on and expand Hoey’s LP theory by applying it to specific varieties of Japanese and English, as represented in corpora 🔗 You can find it here doi.org/10.4324/9781... & more details below👇

📚 My review of Tim Wharton & Louis De Saussure (2025) 'Pragmatics and Emotion’ is out now in the Journal of Linguistics! You can find it here doi.org/10.1017/S002..., or get in touch for a copy

🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨 we are excited to launch the Call for Papers for the Corpora and Discourse International Conference 2026. Deadline 16 November 2025. Submit your abstracts here: wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/cal.... Please share widely! #CADS2026

OUT NOW: Alan Partington and @diegolieugenia.bsky.social advance Lexical Priming (LP) theory, responding to Michael Hoey's desire that the theory be tested on discourse types that go beyond newspaper texts and in languages other than English – in this instance, Japanese. doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...

📚 New paper with Alan Partington "Lexical Priming: Evolution, evaluation, extension" out in the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics @ijcl.bsky.social! You can find it here 👇 tinyurl.com/mjwmdvyd I'm very grateful to the editors, reviewers and colleagues for their valuable feedback 🙏

Just a reminder that my survey is still open 🤗

Immediately added to the reading list for my course on Japanese translation!

Missed out on #CL2025? Four of our wonderful plenary talks are now available to watch on demand! YouTube links on conference website and in replies: www.cl2025.co.uk/home

"What counts?" by @proftaylor.bsky.social and @journolinguist.bsky.social #CL2025 youtu.be/dcHUftGaSQU?...

🇯🇵 We now have a Japanese agent – Unipos (ユニポス, operated by Tegara Corporation) – making it easier to gain access to Sketch Engine services in Japan. Full press release here: www.value-press.com/pressrelease...

What does it take to be recognised as a Japanese-speaking member of society in contemporary Japan? The study of communication extends far beyond language as a system or the analysis of spoken language in face-to-face settings... buff.ly/5VEZMuC

Whether you are pondering applying for one of the above positions or just looking for some good reads, I think you will enjoy these summer reads markdingemanse.net/futures/news... #SummerReads #linguistics #emca #sts #hci #FuturesOfLanguage

✍️ New blog post! thesmallbacksofwords.wordpress.com/2025/07/15/b...

Books: Ideologies of Communication in Japan: Heinrich, Grosser and Santalahti (eds.) (2025)

📚 Ideologies of Communication in Japan is out now! My chapter explores normative practices of linguistic correction, with a focus on how they relate to moral judgments and negative emotions 🔗 tinyurl.com/3z4zuh8a Many thanks to the editors for their fantastic work 🙏 @multi-ling-mat.bsky.social

Martin Schweinberger and Michael Haugh introduce the IJCL Special Issue on #reproducibility, #replicability and #robustness in corpus linguistics. Writing in relation to FAIR and CARE principles, the authors provide actionable strategies for enhancing rigor. #openscience doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...

Post conference little adventure in beautiful Straddie 🦘

FYI: Research Survey L1 English/L1 Japanese speakers

📚 My review of “Morality in Discourse” for Linguist List

Meet my new friends 🥰🐨

Presentation day! 🥳 If you're at #IPrA2025, join us for the panel on Affective Pragmatics, where we discuss the role of emotions in communication from the perspective of pragmatic theories. You can find my slides on my OSF page at tinyurl.com/2hs9k6bu

I survived the 20+ hour flight and made it to #IPrA2025 in beautiful Brisbane! The jet lag is tough but I’m very happy to be here

Hey! I have a new research paper out called "Yokomoji arerugī"! This study examines social beliefs about katakana among both Japanese natives and Japanese learners in the journal Japan Forum. And guess what, it's open access (you can read it FREE)! Check it out @ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

感情に関する研究のためにアンケート調査を実施しています！ 日本語の母語話者の方は、ぜひご協力いただけると嬉しいです（所要時間は10分未満です） アンケートは匿名で行われ、お礼に私の母のカルボナーラのレシピ🍝と、私のお気に入りのヴェネツィアの飲食スポット🍷をまとめたパンフレットを調査の終わりにダウンロードいただけます🙇‍♀️ 調査はこちらです forms.gle/U7kCWknfKLMS... 共有していただければとても嬉しいです！

I’m conducting a survey for my research on emotions! If your 1st language is English or Japanese, please consider taking 10 minutes to answer it. It’s anonymous and there’s a small gift at the end (not cash, sorry!) 🙇‍♀️ 🇬🇧 forms.gle/5sZu7rcW79yQ... 🇯🇵 forms.gle/U7kCWknfKLMS... Resharing appreciated!

🆕 CADSbib annotated bibliography 👩‍💻 Do you work with corpora & discourse? 📚 500+ references annotated with corpora, language, tools, methods & more. 🔗 nfdykes.github.io/blog/2025/ca... #CADS #DiscourseAnalysis #CorpusLinguistics #DH

really excited to announce that a new special issue of JCaDs has just been published: a rich interdisciplinary collection on "Keywords in sociopolitical debates" guest edited by @barbaradecock.bsky.social ‬, P. Hambye, C. Rondiat, N. Shchinova jcads.cardiffuniversitypress.org/10/volume/8/...

🎉 Author copies are finally here! If you’re interested in the book, more info here tinyurl.com/2559au65, or drop me an email

First day of work at the University of Venice. Can’t complain

'Masculinities and Language' by @paulari.bsky.social and me, out now! You can read the whole thing #openaccess here: tinyurl.com/9h6wn83a

📌 New blog post: Apologies in The Big Bang Theory

Happy to announce that I’m starting a new position as Assistant Professor at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice 🎉 This is me six years ago, receiving my MA degree from the very same university 👩‍🎓

New book coming out July15 2025! My chapter is on #L2 #Japanese Speakers and #Language #Ideologies, I examine the impact of #Monolingual bias on beliefs about unwanted #CodeSwitching .Use discount code ICJ50 & get 50%off @multi-ling-mat.bsky.social here: www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/...

The volume 'Ideologies of Communication in Japan' is now available for pre-order! My chapter explores normative discourses around linguistic (in)correctness and how they relate to moral judgements and negative emotions. Huge thanks to the editors for their fantastic work @multi-ling-mat.bsky.social

Interesting piece by Peter Backhaus, my former supervisor at Waseda

It's poster session time at the #rc21symposium! Here is the first poster: @diegolieugenia.bsky.social investigated question mark patterns in a web corpus of Japanese

Very happy to be at the #RC21Symposium in beautiful Erlangen. Looking forward to two days of insightful talks and engaging discussions

A piece of good news from Italy: JCaDs is now recognised as a Class A scientific title by ANVUR in the L10 area

I’m both excited and a little terrified to share my first book, Online Apologies in Japanese, published by BRILL! 🥳 (1/4)

📢 ABSTRACTION presents: A workshop with brilliant speakers who will discuss language, conversations, and social interaction! 🗓️ April 3rd | 9-18 (Rome time) 📍 In person: Bologna, IT 💻 From remote: shorturl.at/oEM7S 🔴 Limited in-person seats–Register by March 21st (see the flyer) Don’t miss it!

Social media is getting fragmented, so if you've newly joined somewhere or are thinking about switching and want more linguistics in your feeds, we've put together this list of tons of linguisticsy options both online and off!

Do evaluations of the same apology event differ cross-linguistically? What are the moral orders behind these evaluations? Can we locate them using corpus-assisted methods? 📚New OA paper out in the Journal of Pragmatics doi.org/10.1016/j.pr... and a short thread below👇

Proofs are in for my first book ‘Online apologies in Japanese’, out April 2025! brill.com/display/titl...

well happy #NationalLinguisticsDay! Some celebrations of linguistics at our research centre CoLiTec (Corpora, Linguistics, Technology) over the past few years centri.unibo.it/colitec/en/p...

The Journal of Corpora and Discourse Studies is now on BSky @jcads.bsky.social

This came out when birdchan was already in demise & bsky didn't exist yet — I'm super proud we pulled it off: a manifesto for moving beyond single-mindedness doi.org/10.1111/cogs... Part of the 'progress and puzzles in cognitive science' series; PDF & fellow travellers at markdingemanse.net/beyond/

I made a linguistics and language podcast starter pack for you, if you're looking for your new favourite linguistics podcast: go.bsky.app/5pirXas

Call for papers: Corpus Linguistics 2025 #CL2025 Birmingham, UK First week of July 2025 Submissions welcome for papers, posters, thematic panels and pre-conference workshops! www.cl2025.co.uk/call-for-pap...