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Margo Van Poucke @mlvp7.bsky.social · 2d

How great is the title of this book?

My book chapter: 'Revisiting the Australian literacy wars: Authorial stance in shaping contemporary educational strategies.'

Sneak peek ahead of publication.

www.google.com.au/books/editio...

Unlearning Languages that Control the Mind

The edited collection Unlearning Languages That Control the Mind (ULCM) is to be read as a continuous multi‐voiced work on what takes place when we forget that unlearning is a part of our existence as...

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Margo Van Poucke @mlvp7.bsky.social · 2d

Only a few more weeks until SFLIG 2025!

My paper, 'Corpus-based appraisal analysis: Merging machine learning and social semiotics to examine students’ emotional and evaluative responses to feedback,' has been accepted for publication in LANGCT 🎉

See: sflinterestgroup.com/announcement...

Announcement and Call for Papers

The 3rd International Systemic Functional Linguistics Interest Group Conference (SFLIG 2025) Dates: 10-13 November 2025 International Convenors: Dr Vinh To (University of Tasmania, Australia), Dr T…

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Margo Van Poucke @mlvp7.bsky.social · 8d

Same here! I was diagnosed with AD after undergoing brain surgery in 2017. I still have type 2 TN.

Margo Van Poucke @mlvp7.bsky.social · 15d

Exactly my thoughts!

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Margo Van Poucke @mlvp7.bsky.social · 15d

And protonmail works like Gmail!

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Margo Van Poucke @mlvp7.bsky.social · Sep 12

The pockets are an absolute plus!

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Margo Van Poucke @mlvp7.bsky.social · Sep 12

Congratulations! I would love to read your paper but, unfortunately, it's not available through the MQ University Library...

Margo Van Poucke @mlvp7.bsky.social · Jul 11

First presenter at LxGr 2025 today (9:30am BST, 6:30pm AEST for me). In case you'd be interested in the topic, the PPT slides will be made available soon. #CorpusLinguistics #SFL See: sites.edgehill.ac.uk/lxgr/

Symposium: Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr)

The Symposium on Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr) explores the interaction of lexis and grammar via corpus techniques.

sites.edgehill.ac.uk

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Ronald Hartz @ronaldhartz.bsky.social · Jul 2

Sociology, politics, gender major and more to be axed at Macquarie University. Please consider sharing and signing this petition.

#HigherEd

www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/sa...

SAVE SOCIOLOGY AT MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY

We urge Macquarie University management to reverse this decision and preserve the vital disciplines of Sociology and Politics. Sociology has a key place in the social sciences as the broadest and mos...

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Margo Van Poucke @mlvp7.bsky.social · Jul 4

Will a recording of the lecture be made available as well? 5pm = 2am here in Sydney...

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Dahlem Center for Linguistics @dclberlin.bsky.social · Jul 3

#OTD 94 years ago, Ruqaiya Hasan (1931–2015) was born 🎉 In her research, she worked on a wide range of topics, including verbal art, semantic variation, sociolinguistics, and systemic functional grammar.

#WomenInLinguitics #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays

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Margo Van Poucke @mlvp7.bsky.social · Jun 29

I'd love to but I will be attending a (virtual) conference that day.

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Margo Van Poucke @mlvp7.bsky.social · Jun 29

Yes! Thanks for sharing. This may be useful for when I have to make revisions to one of my papers (currently under review): www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...

White martyrs, urban monks and contemplative influencers: Discursive authority in web-based spiritual formation

Social media platforms increasingly shape contemporary religious discourse, with YouTube acting as an important site for the dissemination of mysticism. Contemplative influencers (CIs) use the platfor...

www.researchsquare.com

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The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) @sociologyaustralia.bsky.social · Jun 20

TASA is deeply dismayed by Macquarie Uni’s proposed restructuring that would decimate sociology. The social sciences matter — they help us navigate a complex world. Our full statement & call to action here: www.tasa.org.au/docs.ashx?id...

#Sociology #HigherEd #SupportHASS

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Margo Van Poucke @mlvp7.bsky.social · Jun 14

Preprint (currently under review).
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...

White martyrs, urban monks and contemplative influencers: Discursive authority in web-based spiritual formation

Social media platforms increasingly shape contemporary religious discourse, with YouTube acting as an important site for the dissemination of mysticism. Contemplative influencers (CIs) use the platfor...

www.researchsquare.com

Margo Van Poucke @mlvp7.bsky.social · Jun 13

😞
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Proposed Macquarie University restructure will ‘hollow out’ humanities, academics say

Macquarie blames prospect of international student caps and ‘uncertainty’ about domestic student numbers for proposed academic job cuts, fewer arts courses

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Margo Van Poucke @mlvp7.bsky.social · Jun 3

New OA paper: 'Appraising feedback stance in higher education: A corpus-assisted discourse study of student and academic perceptions, perspectives and preferences'
Check out the interactive graphs 😊
#CorpusLinguistics #SystemicFunctionalLing #education #wiasn
See: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Appraising Feedback Stance in Higher Education: A Corpus-Assisted Discourse Study of Student and Academic Perceptions, Perspectives and Preferences - Corpus Pragmatics

Feedback is a complex dialogic, sociomaterial practice that is shaped by digital affordances, institutional norms and various contextual factors. Even though it is widely recognised as crucial to acad...

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Margo Van Poucke @mlvp7.bsky.social · May 30

The programme for the LxGr2025 Symposium (Edge Hill University, UK) is now available. Registration is free.
#CorpusLinguistics #SFL
sites.edgehill.ac.uk/lxgr/

Symposium: Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr)

The Symposium on Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr) explores the interaction of lexis and grammar via corpus techniques.

sites.edgehill.ac.uk

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SFLIG @sflig.bsky.social · Apr 24

SFLIG 2025 Submission due 30 April
Submit now and don’t miss out, SFL colleagues!
👉 sflinterestgroup.com/announcement-a…

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Margo Van Poucke @mlvp7.bsky.social · Apr 11

Mr Mags is turning 7 today!
#cats #ragdolls

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Margo Van Poucke @mlvp7.bsky.social · Mar 24

Interesting! Are the concordances AI-generated? I will have to read the paper.

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Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · Mar 21

Calls: 10th Symposium on Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar: LxGr2025: Call for Papers

The theme of LxGr2025 is: Conceptions of Lexicogrammar: How can corpus linguistics shed light on its nature?

Deadline for abstract submission: 4 April 2025

The symposium will take place online on Friday 11 and…

Calls: 10th Symposium on Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar

LxGr2025: Call for Papers The theme of LxGr2025 is: Conceptions of Lexicogrammar: How can corpus linguistics shed light on its nature? Deadline for abstract submission: 4 April 2025 The symposium will take place online on Friday 11 and Saturday 12 July 2025. LxGr primarily welcomes papers reporting on corpus-based research on any aspect of the interaction of lexis and grammar -- particularly studies that interrogate the system lexicogrammatically to get lexicogrammatical answers. How

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Margo Van Poucke @mlvp7.bsky.social · Mar 24

Really enjoyed reading this new paper on DDL:
#CorpusLinguistics

Corpus linguistics for language teaching and learning: A research agenda | Language Teaching | Cambridge Core

Corpus linguistics for language teaching and learning: A research agenda

www.cambridge.org

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Margo Van Poucke @mlvp7.bsky.social · Mar 24

Highly recommended:

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · Mar 11

It doesn't do any good to say "let's get disabled people into employment" if at the very same time you're cutting the support that *keeps* disabled people in employment. Here's my letter to the Guardian about Labour's cuts to Access to Work funding:

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Disabled people need help to stay in work | Letter

Letters: Sara L Uckelman says the Labour government has slashed her Access to Work grant despite her circumstances not changing

www.theguardian.com

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