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Register Studies @registerstudies.bsky.social · 9d

📢Just out! Duran, Weirich, & Jannedy examine phonetic variation in German as they manipulate formality of the addressee, function of the interaction, and setting in their new study "Experimental assessment of phonetic register variation in situated interaction"

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Experimental assessment of phonetic register variation in situated interaction | John Benjamins

Abstract This study analyses phonetic variation in cross-situational conversational speech styles in German by varying situations in terms of the level of perceived formality of the addressee and the ...

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Register Studies @registerstudies.bsky.social · 9d

📢Just out! In a new paper "Sensitivity towards Registers in Czech: A Forced-Choice Study", A. Marklová, C. Demian, R. Meyer, L. Szucsich, & O. Buchmüller unite corpus linguistic and experimental methods targeting human perceptions of register-specific features.

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John Benjamins Publishing Company @johnbenjamins.bsky.social · 10d

💡 Call for Papers! 💡

Our journal Register Studies invites papers for a special issue entitled “Artificial Intelligence and Register Variation” edited by Tony Berber-Sardinha, critically examining the relationship between #AI and #register.

👉 See for further info: www.benjamins.com/series/rs/ca...

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 12d

We explored how language shifts across gender, style, and register ✍️ With Dr. Marianna Grachova, we learned how Keyfeature analysis reveals the words and structures that make each variety stand out 🔍

#DHSS2025 #Linguistics #Sociolinguistics #LanguageVariation

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Sabine Lang @sabinelang.bsky.social · 13d

What a great week it was!! Very sad that our summer school is almost over but very excited that we end it with a keynote by @mkschumacher.bsky.social 🤩 Mareike talked about corpus compilation and gender analysis in the #DH @dhssfau.bsky.social @dhregensburg.bsky.social

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 14d

CliC, CliC, CliC...📚🖥
Participants learned a great deal by using a powerful digital tool like Clic to analyze #gender in #19th-century #fiction with concordance analysis, all run by Dr. Nathan Dykes @nfdykes.bsky.social.

#DHSS2025 #DigitialHumanities #FAU
#CliC

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Elena Semino @elenasemino.bsky.social · 14d

Our book 'Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare' is out open access! We wrote it to share what we learnt in many years of research in @corpussocialsci.bsky.social, on topics such as communication about anxiety, dementia, cancer, obesity and vaccines. cambridgeblog.org/2025/08/appl...

Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare

This book has been fun and also somewhat liberating to write. To explain this we have to tell the story of how the book came about.

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 14d

✨ Good morning! After yesterday’s wonderful excursion to the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, we’re starting the day with a workshop run by Dr. Sabine Lang @sabinelang.bsky.social, where participants are modeling selected objects in #Wikidata.

#DHSS2025 #DigitalHumanities

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Sabine Lang @sabinelang.bsky.social · 14d

Almost time for my workshop on using Wikidata for cultural heritage this morning 🤩 #dhss2025

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Marianna Gracheva @mariannagracheva.bsky.social · 14d

Does your new AI study have a register angle? Consider submitting to a new special issue of Register Studies!

Register Studies @registerstudies.bsky.social · 15d

Call for Papers: Register Studies Special Issue on AI and Register Variation
Deadline for Abstracts: January 1, 2026
Guest Editor: Tony Berber Sardinha

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Prof Michaela Mahlberg @michamahlberg.bsky.social · 15d

Now @nfdykes.bsky.social is setting out to make connections between close & distant reading
#DHSS2025
@rc21project.bsky.social

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Prof Michaela Mahlberg @michamahlberg.bsky.social · 15d

“The true value of #corpuslinguistics is the combination of quantitative scale & qualitative depth”
@gavinbrookes.bsky.social gave us so much to think about this morning
#DHSS2025

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Prof Michaela Mahlberg @michamahlberg.bsky.social · 15d

Now our participants are getting ready to design their own visual abstracts - all happening at #DHSS2025 with @ismailbarakat.bsky.social
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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 16d

Our school participants had their first session on social network analysis with Prof. Anastasia Glawion, featuring exciting hands-on tasks and a lively discussion on fan fiction and network analysis!

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 17d

We had two fantastic sessions this morning!

– Prof. Michaela Mahlberg gave us a great introduction to digital humanities @michamahlberg.bsky.social
– Prof. Anna Foka delivered an inspiring first keynote on AI & heritage

Fantastic vibes all around! ✨

#DHSS2025 #DigitalHumanities

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Marianna Gracheva @mariannagracheva.bsky.social · 17d

This week at a glance: #DHSS25 @dhssfau.bsky.social @fau.de

#digitalhumanities

DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 21d

Explore the workshops and sessions offered by DHSS for next week’s Summer School!

*Sessions are shown in the order of the official schedule which you can find it on our website.

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Marianna Gracheva @mariannagracheva.bsky.social · 21d

#DHSS25 is getting closer, and I'm getting ready for my workshop on keyfeature analysis for gender, style, and register research next week!🙂

For more on our summer school @dhssfau.bsky.social @fau.de, visit share.google/avZHiUV85rJV...

#corpuslinguistics #digitalhumanities

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Phil Durrant @phil-durrant.bsky.social · 28d

I am seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate to work on the ESRC-funded project 'Writing Tasks at School and University'.
The post is full-time and will run from 1st November 2025 to 31st January 2029. See below for a brief overview of the project.
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Marianna Gracheva @mariannagracheva.bsky.social · 28d

Super excited that Corpus Linguistics 2029 is headed to @fau.de!! 🥳

Tony McEnery @tonymcenery.bsky.social · 28d

After our very succesful Corpus Linguistics 2025 conference hosted by @robbielove.org at Aston, CL is going on tour! Our next conference will be Easter 2027 in Hong Kong at HK Poly U. In summer 2029 we return to Europe when @michamahlberg.bsky.social will host CL at Erlangen!

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alexbergs.bsky.social @alexbergs.bsky.social · Aug 29

And... here's another brilliant Element! Congrats to Elisabeth! Come and get it while it's hot (and free). (Waves Hands Enthusiastically)

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Multimodal Construction Grammar

Cambridge Core - Semantics and Pragmatics - Multimodal Construction Grammar

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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · Aug 15

📌 👉 The 14th International Construction Grammar conference will be held at Princeton, June 4-7, 2026

Usage-based analyses and Empirical methods

Stay tuned for updates!

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Marianna Gracheva @mariannagracheva.bsky.social · Aug 9

Thank you!!!🙏🏼

Marianna Gracheva @mariannagracheva.bsky.social · Aug 9

Finally out in #AppliedPragmatics!

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Above all else, to me this study is a testament to just how powerful #grammar is.

#stance #agency #register #corpuspragmatics #corpuslinguistics

Does grammatical aspect convey pragmatic meaning?: The case of believe in the progressive aspect

The study investigates the stance marker believe in the progressive aspect, challenging the view established in the ESL community that state verbs are used exclusively in the simple aspect and an over...

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