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elmerot , 1 month ago to linguistics

Dear #DigitalHumanities and #corpus_linguistics colleagues: In order to help a colleague with a project application that may also help a project I'm involved with, I'm wondering what, if any, arguments there are for #part-of-speech-tagging as an accessibility feature? Does anyone have an example of how this can help people with non-normative functionalities?
Boosts with other hashtags appreciated.
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elmerot OP , 1 month ago

@PetraSteiner
Thank you; it seems I was unclear. I meant as in helping for example blind people in some way that I simply cannot think of because I do not have that issue myself.

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eugenia_diegoli , 5 months ago to linguistics Japanese

Our new article “Contrasting the semantic space of #shame and #guilt in English and Japanese”, co-authored with Emily Öhman, has been sent to the production team and is soon to appear in #Language and #Cognition 🧚‍♀️

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elmerot , 5 months ago

@eugenia_diegoli
Cool, congrats! Could you give a hint on the findings?
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elmerot , 5 months ago

@eugenia_diegoli
So what implications does this have for e.g. Japanese—English dictionaries?
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vilyrou , 5 months ago to academicchatter

Corpus Linguistics has been a field that I’m very interested in lately as I find it very useful for conducting forensic linguistics studies. I still need a lot more training on the use of corpora, but here’s a great article on how corpus linguistics can be used for legal interpretation by Römer and Cunningham. #linguistics #corpuslinguistics #forensiclinguistics @academicchatter @linguistics
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666799123000400?dgcid=author

elmerot , 5 months ago

@cikgusuz
Would be great if they would find out about the research. They probably just don't know about it.
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eugenia_diegoli , 7 months ago to academicchatter

I’ve recently received a peer review overall positive and very informative, but critising precisely my use of the verbs “to try” and “to attempt” because, according to the reviewer, “not adequate in academic writing”. Here’s a reminder of why we should value transparency and why framing our methods in terms of attempts and intentions can actually be a good thing.
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https://linguisticswithacorpus.wordpress.com/2023/10/31/i-tried-transparency-in-reporting-methods/

elmerot , 7 months ago

@eugenia_diegoli
I would interpret the critique of "try" etc as imagining that you are not trying to get work done. Many reviewers get stuck on details like this without being able to convey what they mean. I make sure to always write about my data instead of the language as such, that's how I convey that even my 32 million observations dataset is a sample. Would it be possible to interpret the review comments like this?

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elmerot , 7 months ago

@eugenia_diegoli
I do believe you bumped into someone extremely detailed. Many synonyms work, but "try" sounds less academic, I guess. Had that kind of reviewers, too. Annoying but may lead to a language more accepted by others, which may be a good thing to get your work spread. Difficult balance act!
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elmerot , 7 months ago

@languageservicesco
Then you tell.them off 😃
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pgcd , 8 months ago to linguistics

@linguistics while (re)reading Pratchett I have developed the strong feeling that when one of the characters says "our Nellie" or "our Jason", the effect is similar to Northern Italian "la Agnese" o "il Gianni" - that is, a colloquialism when referring to a common acquaintance, not necessarily a family member.
Can somebody who speaks both confirm or deny this?

elmerot , 8 months ago

@pgcd
Here is a possibility for you to look the phrase up in three of his book in English, to get a better feeling for the usage. Unfortunately, there are no parallel translations of Pratchett's books into neither French, Italian or Spanish here.
https://www.korpus.cz/kontext/view?viewmode=kwic&pagesize=40&attrs=word&attr_vmode=visible-kwic&base_viewattr=word&refs=%3Ddoc.id&q=~xyamgu0sCo2W&cutoff=0
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tschfflr , 8 months ago to linguistics

Question about #citations in #academic work: Where does one put the author in citations, in which THE WORK is included in the sentence, as in (a) vs (b) below?

(a) "... which you can find in Chomsky (1981)"
(b) "... which you can find in (Chomsky, 1981)"

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elmerot , 8 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

@tschfflr
With my meek 7 years in academia proper, I'd also go for (a). When I've seen examples of (b), it disturbs my reading much more than (a) does.
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elmerot , 8 months ago to linguistics

Corpus Linguists!
Would you care to share your favourite paedagogical article / chapter, relating to how to use corpus linguistics to teach a foreign language? I have pieces by O'Keefe, @ElenLeFoll and Mahlberg already, but I'm new to this topic, so all help appreciated.
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#pedagogy
#DataDrivenEducation

elmerot OP , 8 months ago

Excellent, thank you for the explanation, @muranava !
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elmerot OP , 8 months ago

Thank you, @mj ! What's so good about that research, you'd say?
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elmerot OP , 8 months ago

@mj
Excellent, thank you!
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elmerot OP , 8 months ago

Thank you, @ElenLeFoll ! Viana's is already on my list, but I didn't know Crosthwaite's was already out.

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#languageteaching

eugenia_diegoli , 9 months ago to academicchatter Japanese

Delighted (and a little daunted!) to have just signed the contract for conducting research on #Hoey ‘s #LexicalPriming theory and its application to Japanese at the University of Bologna! It’s rather a leap from (im)politeness, but all the more exciting. Any reading suggestions on previous studies on the topic are more than welcome
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elmerot , 9 months ago

@eugenia_diegoli
Wow! His Priming theory is one of the foundations for my research. Congrats!

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eugenia_diegoli , 9 months ago to academicchatter Japanese

Anyone familiar with previous studies on #laughter in written online communication?Everything from emoji (😂) to textual representation of laughter sounds (haha)! All I can find examines (co-present) laughter almost exclusively as a by-product of humour. Thank you! #academicchatter #academicmastodon @linguistics @academicchatter

elmerot , 9 months ago

@eugenia_diegoli
@tschfflr researches emojis, perhaps she knows of any "written laughter" studies?
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