Professor of Discourse Studies at Lancaster University. Mother, singer, Quaker 🌈
Stroud/Lancaster (UK)
Veronika Koller
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We recorded another @wordsandactions.bsky.social episode today, featuring three interviews with language activists. Who are they and what is language #activism, you ask? New episode will be out soon!
@linguadigitalis.bsky.social
This bumper issue of Discourse & Society includes two articles by @lancslinguistics.bsky.social PhD students: among many other interesting contributions, Nurnadilla Jamil and Hikaru Suzuki both have papers in it.
journals.sagepub.com/toc/dasa/37/...
It is so hot in England that I just wrote "a phenomena". This temperature is weakening my moral fibre (and also making me very cranky and prescriptivist).
What is worse for you when reviewing/marking academic work: a) having to spot and take action on AI-generated writing or b) reading human writing that is almost incomprehensible due to grammar issues?
Voters and parties as couples - interesting metaphor, even if the source and target domains are conceptually not quite distinct. And what about the gender of the party wooing the (metaphorically and partly literally) female voters?
Here's one for the nerds: A while back, I did a piece of work on the language of #auditor reports for the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW). This article reports on the findings and recommendations:
www.icaew.com/policy-and-r...
The power of punctuation:
Me to 15yo son: gif saying "go to sleep"
Son (avoiding all punctuation on WhatsApp): Id rather die
Me: gif of skeleton
Son: Fine. [goes to bed]
And yes, we were in the same place, only separated by a hallway.
