Out now! Article in the Journal of Politeness Research, showing how seemingly unassuming pieces of language guide interaction in certain directions. View here or get in touch for a copy https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/pr-2022-0002/html @degruyter_pub

#politeness #linguistics #pragmatics @linguistics @corpuslinguistics

It seems to me that very few people in #corpuslinguistics #pragmatics #DiscourseAnalysis and #linguistics in general (with the exception of #nlp ) use preprint services. Why is it so? Does anyone here use preprints? And if so, what archives do you use? Boosters appreciated 🙏
@corpuslinguistics @linguistics @academicchatter @academicsunite

Holding in my hands the first printed issue of Pragmatics & Society that I ‘made’, and that says Daria Dayter - Editor-in-Chief.
Some big shoes to fill after a Jacob Mey. But today, academia feels alright!
#pragmatics #linguistics #academia #academiclife

#Stellenausschreibung: Wissenschaftliche:r Mitarbeiter:in (w/m/d) an der Professur für #Angewandte #Sprachwissenschaft mit Schwerpunkt Englisch, 50 % #Stelle , #befristet, mit Ziel der Promotion im Fachgebiet (bevorzugt: Projekte zur Sprechaktforschung im Bereich interlanguage / second language #pragmatics), deadline: 04.08.2023 , https://jobs.uni-erfurt.de/jobposting/50edc564b2a10a189a6bcac03fcf19c2d49480d00

Finalising my presentation for #IPrA2023 on perceptions of the same #apology event in American English and Japanese! More details on Thursday in the panel on First-order #pragmatics by Klaus Schneider 🔥

Ability to detect paradoxical or illogical is good test for understanding.

#AI #chatGPT #LLM #NLP #semantics #pragmatics

Here's a subtle native speaker intuition I have about English:

You can send warm greetings or write a warm note. But you can only announce the greetings as warm to the recipient. Announcing a warm note like this comes off as presumptuous - how do you know it'll be received warmly?

This is perfectly fine package copy, but it did leave me scratching my head for a while: someone actually labeled a warm note as such? #linguistics #pragmatics

A good paper on what counts as a slur, or not:

https://semanticsarchive.net/Archive/2Y0NTg2Y/Davis-McCready-Instability_of_Slurs.pdf
#language #linguistics #pragmatics #slurs

Gestern Höhe Magdeburg eine linguistisch sehr befriedigende Bahnansage: "In dieser Zeit können sie sich außerhalb des Zuges aufhalten, aber nicht großartig den Bereich verlassen."
Erstmal: "großartig" als Modifikator von "den Bereich verlassen", was zu einer "nicht zu weit entfernen" Lesart führt.
Und zweitens: welcher Bereich? Und was ist der Bereich des Zuges wenn man außerhalb des Zuges ist eigentlich genau?
Ich bin sicherheitshalber lieber sitzengeblieben, ging auch trotz angeblicher Reperatur am Triebwagen nach nur 10 Minuten dann doch weiter.
#BahnAnsagen #Pragmatics #Semantics #German

📝 Just published, with Sophia Malamud: “Won’t you?” reverse-polarity question tags in American English as a window into the semantics-pragmatics interface

It's #openAccess, so you'll go read it, won't you? 😁
#semantics #pragmatics #tagQuestions #scoreboard @linguistics https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-023-09385-2

When yes-means-no is so confusing that it needs to be spelled out explicitly: an example from German (#GermanAcademia, of course :))
#semantics #pragmatics #semanticTransparency

In the first lecture of "Information Service Engineering" yesterday we were talking about the "Art of Understanding". What does it mean to "understand" and what does it really take to "understand"?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/12v7aR5RwkkCnsH_OrLVLWablUgVWcib1/view?usp=sharing

#linguistics #nlp #knowledge #diwk #semantics #syntax #context #pragmatics @fizise @KIT_Karlsruhe #creativeAI #AIart #stablediffusionart

little grocery trip results in me asking that age-old question:

does this aisle marker sign imply the existence of dysfunctional water?

#linguistics #pragmatics #labels #badJokes #whatIsFunctionalWater?

If I may self-advertise a little… Cambridge has just published two Elements with me as a co-author:
•Pragmatics in Translation
•Corpus Pragmatics

Both are open access and you can download them right now: https://www.cambridge.org/core/publications/elements/elements-in-pragmatics
#OA #pragmatics #xl8 #CorpusLinguistics

Sometimes a single innocent sentence is enough to show that language is not language: "Sie sprechen die gleiche Sprache, englisch der eine, deutsch der andere." 'They speak the same language, English the one, German the other."
The German sentence comes from the liner notes to Peter Hammill's Offensichtlich Goldfisch, and "they" are Peter Hammill and Heinz Rudolf Kunze, and their same language should then I guess be music, which apparently you can speak in any language or something like that.

#German #semantics #pragmatics #edgesOfUnderstanding

New #Introduction: I’m a #Linguistics professor in #Texas. Originally from #Chicago. Lived in Birmingham, UK & Hefei (Anhui province) #China. I do research in English lexical semantics, #pragmatics, health communication, and discourse markers, using corpus methods. Currently learning #Arabic on #DuoLingo. I edit #Wikipedia. I love contemporary fiction, science fiction, and poetry. And travel—hopefully one day again soon. Loved my academic Twitter network. Great meeting you all!

My #TTR book is now available for open access download https://global.oup.com/academic/product/from-perception-to-communication-9780192871312
#semantics #pragmatics #linguistics

Prof. Schauer gave a presentation with the title "Exploring the potential of 4 graphic novels for teaching L2 #pragmatics to young #EFL learners in primary school" at the University of Oxford today. #L2Pragmatics, #GraphicNovels , #YoungLearners

Interested in Questions Under Discussion? Come to our online workshop this Thu/Fri on annotating #QUDs for real world texts! Programme here: https://pragma.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/qud-challenge/programme.html
#semantics #pragmatics #NLProc @linguistics

"Much – even most – meaning in conversation does not reside in the words spoken at all, but is filled in by the person listening." —Deborah Tannen, You Just Don’t Understand
#language #linguistics #conversation #pragmatics