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 ℹ️ ℹ️ eventos.unex.es/136933/detai...

Cortigiana a me? La necessità inderogabile di darsi un codice di comportamento (anche) linguistico nella comunicazione pubblica open.substack.com/pub/inparole...

"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....

#holiday #Italy

"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...

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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 open.substack.com/pub/inparole...

Scientist è una parola inglese creata per essere #inclusiva, e per riferirsi a una donna. open.substack.com/pub/inparole...

Occultare parte della realtà dando nomi evocativi alle leggi, non solo negli USA: dalla Salva Italia alla Buona scuola open.substack.com/pub/inparole...

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 👇 lt.eurac.edu/cqpweb/ A paper where PEC24 is described (English) 👇 doi.org/10.54103/203... A short introduction (Italian) 👇 open.substack.com/pub/inparole...

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

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 open.substack.com/pub/inparole...

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...

Sui giornali abbondano le metafore della guerra per parlare di pace: più che un paradosso, è una visione del mondo. open.substack.com/pub/inparole...

"Ciò che diciamo non veicola informazioni, afferma il nostro ruolo. Per questo, paradossalmente, più siamo vaghi, più sembriamo credibili." Un bell'articolo su lingua, comunicazione e potere su @ilpost.it www.ilpost.it/2025/03/15/p...

So glad that this volume is underway! Congrats editors Henry Tyne & @sspina.bsky.social and @johnbenjamins.bsky.social series editor @ute-rb.bsky.social #corpuslinguistics More on my contributions here later on 🎓🎓 benjamins.com/catalog/scl....

La metafora del gioco d'azzardo per descrivere la #pace è negativa: suggerisce che la pace sia un rischio casuale e non un lavoro di costruzione; implica che sia un gioco e lascia sullo sfondo la tragedia della guerra; presuppone che uno dei giocatori vinca tutto sspina.blogspot.com/2025/03/pace...

Ever wondered what it’s like to hear researchers and students discuss corpora and language analysis/teaching in a language other than English? Here’s your chance! Friday, 14th March, 4pm, in Perugia and online. No registration required. Full program here: www.unistrapg.it/it/node/12202

Good news in my mailbox! 1) my abstract on "The construction of newsworthiness in crime reporting: a study on Italian newspapers" was accepted as a presentation at @cl2025.co.uk And...

"... *accused* of promoting diversity". What is America coming to? A mere 4 years ago, the contexts of 'accuse ... diversity' were almost entirely the opposite

Togliere la voce: l’arroganza del potere è monolingue www.editorialedomani.it/politica/mon...

📢 Was bedeutet „Muttersprache“ eigentlich? Anlässlich des #TagderMuttersprache hinterfragt die Sprachwissenschaftlerin Andrea Abel den Begriff: 🗣️ Erstsprache? Identität? Vielfalt? 📖 Sprache ist lebendig, nicht statisch! 🚀 Weniger Angst vor Fehlern, mehr Freude an Mehrsprachigkeit! bit.ly/4gLAJnC

The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.

Il titolone di oggi sulle prime pagine italiane sulla "telefonata" tra Trump e Putin - che le testate americane di fatto ignorano, essendo una cosa molto più fragile e oscura di come è presentata qui - ricade in un format che dura da mesi. www.ilpost.it/charlie/limp...

Per un Dizionario delle collocazioni italiane per apprendenti abbiamo estratto da un corpus 11.000 collocazioni di 6 tipi, combinando statistica e valutazione umana. Assegneremo ogni collocazione a un livello QCER e realizzeremo una banca dati psicolinguistica sspina.blogspot.com/2025/02/il-d...

🚨 Full-time position for a Computational Linguist / #programmer (f/m/x) 🚨 Fixed-term contract from 1 April 2025 until 31 Dec. 2028 as part of the CRC 1252 "Prominence in Language" @UniKoeln: https://uni.koeln/NZXPB. Application deadline: 16 Feb. 2025. I am happy to answer any questions […]

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Happy to share our paper on Intensification in L2 Italian. It is part of a project I made with my colleagues and friends @andreaabel.bsky.social and Aivars Glaznieks at @euracling.bsky.social sky.social in Bozen, South Tyrol. www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

You can find the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics #IJCL ‪here @ijcl.bsky.social Please follow and repost! 🙏

What do you find when you compare how speakers of British English and learners of British English hold conversations? This is exactly what I look at in a few million words of data, with Issy Clarke and Gavin Brookes in a new FREE book out with CUP today! Link here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...

Study: English is replacing native languages at Finnish universities Nearly 90 percent of Finland's doctoral dissertations are written in English, the study found. yle.fi/a/74-20136342 via @yle.naamio.social #Finland #langsky

#SLRF is back! To be hosted at Northern Arizona University later this year. Call for proposals open: sites.google.com/nau.edu/slrf...

Ho confrontato le frequenze del 2024 di un web corpus di italiano con quelle del 2022-23. Parole-chiave del 2024: lessico dell'IA (prompt), della guerra (genocidio, ostaggio, pace giusta), e: dossieraggio, ultradestra, overtourism, pandoro e lessico del meteo sspina.blogspot.com/2024/12/le-p...

Merry Christmas from Assisi, Italy

"Whatever direction linguistics may take, I hope that more and more linguists will engage with the social issues that spring from linguistic diversity." -- William Labov (2016: 596) #linguistics #Labov #social #justice #sociolinguistics