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The CfP for our DN35 Conference ”Mapping and Countering Authoritarian Discourses“ in Opole, Poland, 25–26 February 2027, is now open.

During DN35, we want to reflect on (neo)authoritarianism today, its role in public discourse, and its impact on contemporary politics. We want to map the discursive construction of the (neo)authoritarian appeal across the Global North and South, and the ways in which they can be counteracted. We welcome a wide range of methodologies and approaches to researching these issues, including critical political, psychological, and post-structuralist #DiscourseAnalysis, #CorpusLinguistics, and #RhetoricalAnalysis.

For all relevant information see: https://discourseanalysis.net/DN35

#Authoritarianism #Discourse #DiscourseStudies

The CfP for our DN35 Conference ”Mapping and Countering Authoritarian Discourses“ in Opole, Poland, 25–26 February 2027, is now open.

During DN35, we want to reflect on (neo)authoritarianism today, its role in public discourse, and its impact on contemporary politics. We want to map the discursive construction of the (neo)authoritarian appeal across the Global North and South, and the ways in which they can be counteracted. We welcome a wide range of methodologies and approaches to researching these issues, including critical political, psychological, and post-structuralist #DiscourseAnalysis, #CorpusLinguistics, and #RhetoricalAnalysis.

For all relevant information see: https://discourseanalysis.net/DN35

#Authoritarianism #Discourse #DiscourseStudies

The CfP for our DN35 Conference ”Mapping and Countering Authoritarian Discourses“ in Opole, Poland, 25–26 February 2027, is now open.

During DN35, we want to reflect on (neo)authoritarianism today, its role in public discourse, and its impact on contemporary politics. We want to map the discursive construction of the (neo)authoritarian appeal across the Global North and South, and the ways in which they can be counteracted. We welcome a wide range of methodologies and approaches to researching these issues, including critical political, psychological, and post-structuralist #DiscourseAnalysis, #CorpusLinguistics, and #RhetoricalAnalysis.

For all relevant information see: https://discourseanalysis.net/DN35

#Authoritarianism #Discourse #DiscourseStudies

The CfP for our DN35 Conference ”Mapping and Countering Authoritarian Discourses“ in Opole, Poland, 25–26 February 2027, is now open.

During DN35, we want to reflect on (neo)authoritarianism today, its role in public discourse, and its impact on contemporary politics. We want to map the discursive construction of the (neo)authoritarian appeal across the Global North and South, and the ways in which they can be counteracted. We welcome a wide range of methodologies and approaches to researching these issues, including critical political, psychological, and post-structuralist #DiscourseAnalysis, #CorpusLinguistics, and #RhetoricalAnalysis.

For all relevant information see: https://discourseanalysis.net/DN35

#Authoritarianism #Discourse #DiscourseStudies

The CfP for our DN35 Conference ”Mapping and Countering Authoritarian Discourses“ in Opole, Poland, 25–26 February 2027, is now open.

During DN35, we want to reflect on (neo)authoritarianism today, its role in public discourse, and its impact on contemporary politics. We want to map the discursive construction of the (neo)authoritarian appeal across the Global North and South, and the ways in which they can be counteracted. We welcome a wide range of methodologies and approaches to researching these issues, including critical political, psychological, and post-structuralist #DiscourseAnalysis, #CorpusLinguistics, and #RhetoricalAnalysis.

For all relevant information see: https://discourseanalysis.net/DN35

#Authoritarianism #Discourse #DiscourseStudies

Another freaking f-word

I never fully adopted freaking as an intensifier, euphemistic for fucking, partly because I swear fairly freely, and maybe also because fecking was available in my Irish English dialect. But I like having freaking available, and with its hundredth birthday round the corner, it’s a good time to showcase it.1

Freaking substitutes for its ruder cousin in all sorts of lexical and syntactic contexts, modifying adjectives (that was freaking amazing), verbs (let’s freaking go), and nouns (how is it still freaking January?), among other word classes; it’s also used as an infix (un-freaking-real) and in set phrases like freakin’ A – euphemistic, obviously, for fucking A.

Origins and use

The earliest known use of this freaking – the first citation in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jesse Sheidlower’s The F-Word, and the OED – is in the 1928 novel Georgie May, where author Maxwell Bodenheim uses two freakings and a freakin’, including:

“Gawd, ah hate the hull, freaking pack uh you,” she cried, between her sobbing.

The next example those dictionaries list is in Nelson Algren’s The Man with the Golden Arm (1949):

“You point that freakin’ finger at me ’n you’re one dead pointer.”

That 21-year gap doesn’t mean no one was using it in the meantime. I found the line “You freaking fool!” in the 1937 screwball comedy Nothing Sacred, available on YouTube and the Internet Archive at around the 47m 40s mark:

Films and TV, with their heightened emotions and industrious regulators, are a natural home for this expressive but family-friendly expletive. A chart from COCA shows its use concentrated in those media, occurring at over four times the rate in fiction generally and over six times the rate in speech:2

As Wiktionary notes, “Freaking (or fricking) is often used in motion pictures as a substitute for fucking so that characters can be shown to swear without the motion picture incurring censorship or a higher certificate than it otherwise might.”

Less discerningly, the Encyclopædia Britannica says freaking is “used to make an angry statement more forceful”. That’s not wrong, but it’s misleadingly narrow: freaking can amplify all sorts of emotions, even joy – ask Ned Flanders.

WikiHow knows this. An article by Wits End Parenting and Elaine Heredia says you can use freaking “to emphasize how great something or someone is” and that it “can be a positive or negative word based on context”. It adds that the word “isn’t a sin to say”, in case you were wondering.

Data

Freaking is on the rise but has been levelling off, according to data in COCA and Google’s Ngram Viewer. Rows under the dates below show frequency (i.e., number of uses), number of million words in the sample, and (hence, by division) per-million figures for direct comparison:

That levelling off is despite global use. Geographically, freaking is most popular not in the US but in Singapore, per the GloWbE corpus (freakin has the same top two, reversed). Malaysia comes in third, followed by Canada, Australia, and the Philippines:

Jack Grieve’s eye-catching swear maps of the USA, meanwhile, allow us to zoom in on what States are especially partial to freaking and freakin. Californians’ relative coolness towards them came as a surprise:

Browsing the word’s collocates (freaking/freakin’ ___) in COCA shows the company it keeps. High-ranking +1s include the adjectives awesome, amazing, hilarious, crazy, cool, hot, stupid, hard, and huge; nouns like idiot, mind, thing, break, genius, clue, and deal; and occasional verbs, like love, hate, kidding, and kill.

Some of these invite us to extrapolate the full phrases, or chunks: big freaking deal; give me a freakin’ break; not have a freaking clue; out of my/your/etc. freaking mind; Are you freakin’ kidding?

Other language corpora, such as the 14-billion-word iWeb, show a similar pattern of collocations:

Easily topping the +1s are the preposition out and the pronoun me: a sign of how well freaking [me] out caught on as an idiom, with multiple senses, after being coined in the 1960s. That’s a different usage, of course: not the intensifier freaking but the verb freak (or rather the verb phrase freak out) in the present progressive tense.

Pragmatics

Zappa fits right in here: freaking offers outsider energy for any self-defined freak (or geek) who cares to use it.3 The word’s gently countercultural flavour is also apparent in dictionary citations, where Tom Wolfe’s name recurs.

What makes freaking effective as a minced oath, and attractive to mild and novice swearers, is that it offers proximity to (and thus evocation of) strong swearing while remaining relatively benign. We see this niche exploited expertly by a child in the vampire comic 30 Days of Night: Return to Barrow:

A little later the boy defaults to freakin’, this time automatically obeying his father’s no-swearing rule, and making the word more casual by dropping the g:

Freaking is not always a straightforward substitute for fucking, however. The particular way that it lands caused slight consternation for slang expert Michael Adams when his son started using it at the age of seven:

. . . he’s not just saying That’s freakin’ cool or No freakin’ way. No, he’s saying things like What the freak?! which is a long way from Oh, my gosh on the euphemism scale. There’s the underlying profanity. There’s the phonetics. There’s the fact — apparently — that What the hell? and What the freak? — while parallel — signify differently.4

Films redubbed for TV broadcast have mixed fortunes with it, as my post “Freak those monkey-fightin’ melon farmers!” shows. “I don’t need full freakin’ forensics” in Die Hard 2 (1990) is passable, if implausible in a police station, while “Freak you!” in Casino (1995) is comically underpowered.

In his 2016 book In Praise of Profanity (which I reviewed here and recommend), Michael Adams discusses how the vowels, consonants, and pragmatics of various “partial euphemisms” for fuck – feck, frak, frick, frig, and their freaky fraternity – do their work:

. . . although people usually think euphemisms work because they substitute for profanity, in fact many euphemisms are themselves partially profane, because they more or less cover up profanities—usually less—that are still inscribed in the situations of their use, and our minds’ eyes see through them to the profanities . . . . what makes profanity and the relevant euphemisms pragmatically powerful and interesting is that the euphemisms are often both euphemisms and profanity, a fact not unknown in linguistic circles but too often overlooked when we calculate the logic of language attitudes.

We’re advocates of strong language here at Strong Language, but we know it’s not suitable for all occasions: sometimes a softball is called for. And among the many euphemisms for fucking, freaking has, in a century or so of use, established itself as a truly effective and useful option. It may be mild, but it’s got freakin’ game.

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1 The OED also lists an obsolete, mid-17thC sense of freaking (adj.): “Of a person: inclined to change his or her mind, mood, or behaviour suddenly and unaccountably; given to freakish ideas; capricious, fickle, whimsical.” One of its fans was Samuel freakin’ Pepys: “He told me what a mad freaking fellow Sir Ellis Layton hath been” (Diary, 25 January, 1665).

2 I was unable to separate the verb freaking from the intensifier using part-of-speech tags in COCA, GloWbE, and iWeb, so these uses are combined in the graphs. To fortify the data somewhat I checked 300 examples in each corpus and found that, in COCA, 76% were the intensifier and 24% were the verb (freaking out, or plain freaking with the same sense); in GloWbE it was 74% and 26%, and in iWeb 68% and 32%. So you can consider the graphs broadly indicative but with that significant caveat.

3 We still don’t know where freak came from: origin unknown, the dictionaries say, though the OED offers speculation. Skeat says freak in the sense “whim” is of Germanic origin, being frec “bold, rash” in Old English.

4 Adams has also analyzed the use of freaking in the TV series 13 Reasons Why, tracing a character’s graduation from euphemistic to full-bore profanity.

#censorship #comics #corpusLinguistics #euphemisms #expletiveInfixation #freakOut #freaking #fuck #fucking #infixation #intensifiers #mincedOaths #phrases #popCulture #slang #swearing

📘 New publication!
Our members @agnieszkagegotek and @dominikgegotek have published a book chapter on analysing values, emotions, and sentiment in text. Focusing on EmoTagger, the study highlights challenges with complex language.
#corpuslinguistics #researchtools #research

🔗 https://digespedi.us.edu.pl/index.php/2025/11/30/new-publication/

Nice to finally see this in print!
New book chapter:
'Leuk: A little word (in Dutch) with great meaning.'
Available from:
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-81681-9_11
Wat een leuke verrassing!
#CorpusLinguistics #semantics #NSM
#linguistics #humanities

Corpora & Discourse Conference 2026: A reminder that the deadline for abstracts is coming up, on 16 November!
More info on BlueSky or the conference website: https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/

Source:
https://bsky.app/profile/corporadiscourse.bsky.social/post/3m52aijonnk2z

#CorpusLinguistics
#DiscourseStudies
@DiscourseNet

@corpuslinguistics
The next Corpus Linguistics conference will take place during Easter 2027 in Hong Kong at HK Poly U. In summer 2029 it returns to Europe when @michamahlberg.bsky.social will host CL at Erlangen.
#CADS
#CorpusLinguistics
@DiscourseNet
@linguistics

My postdoc at the American Philosophical Society is coming to an end. I’m still figuring out where I’m off to next, but if you have any #linguistics job leads (academic, alt-ac, or industry) that might befit someone with experience in #LanguageRevitalization, #HistoricalLinguistics, and #CorpusLinguistics, please let me know!

@linguistics

My postdoc at the American Philosophical Society is coming to an end. I’m still figuring out where I’m off to next, but if you have any #linguistics job leads (academic, alt-ac, or industry) that might befit someone with experience in #LanguageRevitalization, #HistoricalLinguistics, and #CorpusLinguistics, please let me know!

@linguistics

My postdoc at the American Philosophical Society is coming to an end. I’m still figuring out where I’m off to next, but if you have any #linguistics job leads (academic, alt-ac, or industry) that might befit someone with experience in #LanguageRevitalization, #HistoricalLinguistics, and #CorpusLinguistics, please let me know!

@linguistics

My postdoc at the American Philosophical Society is coming to an end. I’m still figuring out where I’m off to next, but if you have any #linguistics job leads (academic, alt-ac, or industry) that might befit someone with experience in #LanguageRevitalization, #HistoricalLinguistics, and #CorpusLinguistics, please let me know!

@linguistics

My postdoc at the American Philosophical Society is coming to an end. I’m still figuring out where I’m off to next, but if you have any #linguistics job leads (academic, alt-ac, or industry) that might befit someone with experience in #LanguageRevitalization, #HistoricalLinguistics, and #CorpusLinguistics, please let me know!

@linguistics

🆕 CADSbib annotated bibliography 👩‍💻 Do you work with corpora & discourse? 📚 500+ references annotated with corpora, language, tools, methods & more. 🔗 nfdykes.github.io/blog/2025/ca... #CADS #DiscourseAnalysis #CorpusLinguistics #DH

CADSbib. An annotated bibliog...

New release of nzilbb-labbcat #Python package 0.11.0
https://pypi.org/project/nzilbb-labbcat/0.11.0/

Including a new upload API, and support for accessing non-textual annotation data, e.g. images of automatically annotated video frames.

#CorpusLinguistics #SocioPhonetics

New release of nzilbb.labbcat #RStats package 1.4-0
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/nzilbb.labbcat/

Including functions for managing media files, a new upload API,
and support for within-word segment context matching.

#CorpusLinguistics #SocioPhonetics

New release of LaBB-CAT:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/labbcat/files/install/

#CorpusLinguistics #SocioPhonetics

Finally my open access Cambridge Element in Corpus Linguistics is online!
Please share widely to anyone interested, anywhere.

Keywords:
news discourse
sentiment in news
intersectional analysis
Czech language
Corpus-assisted discourse analysis
#CorpusLinguistics
#CADS

https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/social-group-representation-in-a-diachronic-news-corpus/A428E87B5E848C3AF4CBFDA2085F4E7E\\

Abstract sent to CL2025 with @ljo and @klasronnback ! Who else is coming?
#CorpusLinguistics
#CL2025
@corpuslinguistics
@linguistics

I've just approved the *final* proofs!! This means that my book "Textbook English: A Multi-Dimensional Approach" should be out by the end of the month! #CorpusLinguistics 🥳

I'm particularly happy with the Online Supplements: https://elenlefoll.github.io/TextbookMDA/ (which include a cheeky link to an #OpenAccess version of the book's AAM 😉).

Do pre-order the book for your institutional libraries and get in touch if you'd like me to give a talk/workshop on the language of EFL textbooks! 🤓 #TEFL #TESOL

New release of LaBB-CAT:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/labbcat/files/install/

#CorpusLinguistics #SocioPhonetics

📢New Publication Alert!

📚 '#Antisemitism in #OnlineCommunication: Transdisciplinary Approaches to #HateSpeech in the Twenty-First Century' ed. by Matthias J. Becker, Laura Ascone, Karolina Placzynta & Chloé Vincent is out now!

The normalisation of hate speech, including antisemitic rhetoric, poses a significant threat to social cohesion and #democracy. While global efforts have been made to counter contemporary antisemitism, there is an urgent need to understand its online manifestations.

Hate speech spreads easily across the internet, facilitated by anonymity and reinforced by algorithms that favour engaging content. This book addresses these issues by analysing explicit and implicit antisemitic statements in mainstream online discourse. Drawing from disciplines such as #corpuslinguistics, #computational #linguistics, #semiotics, #history, and #philosophy, this edited collection examines over 100,000 user comments from three language communities.

Access at https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0406

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.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666799123000400?dgcid=author

#linguistics #corpuslinguistics #forensiclinguistics @academicchatter @linguistics

It’s Pronounced GIF - As the holiday season is upon us and a Hackaday scribe sits protected from the inc... - https://hackaday.com/2024/01/02/its-pronounced-gif/ #computationallinguistics #corpuslinguistics #languageanalysis #hackadaycolumns #computerhacks

Processing phraseology: how does it vary across L1 and L2 speakers, children, and dyslexic learners❓
Anna Siyanova Chanturia opens the #PHRAME conference in Perugia and highlights key areas for future research❗️
#corpuslinguistics #learnerlanguage #collocations

Processing phraseology: how does it vary across L1 and L2 speakers, children, and dyslexic learners❓
Anna Siyanova Chanturia opens the #PHRAME conference in Perugia and highlights key areas for future research❗️
#corpuslinguistics #learnerlanguage #collocations

Processing phraseology: how does it vary across L1 and L2 speakers, children, and dyslexic learners❓
Anna Siyanova Chanturia opens the #PHRAME conference in Perugia and highlights key areas for future research❗️
#corpuslinguistics #learnerlanguage #collocations

Processing phraseology: how does it vary across L1 and L2 speakers, children, and dyslexic learners❓
Anna Siyanova Chanturia opens the #PHRAME conference in Perugia and highlights key areas for future research❗️
#corpuslinguistics #learnerlanguage #collocations

Hi 👋 I’m Nele Põldvere, a postdoc in English Linguistics at the Uni of Oslo. I work with large quantities of text data (#corpuslinguistics) to find recurring patterns of language in different genres/registers/groups of people. In #Fakespeak, I focus specifically on #metaphor and #evaluation in #English, and work closely with computer scientists to develop effective fake news corpora and automatic detection systems using #machinelearning techniques. I like 🐱 and to 🗺️ !

My own talk, just now, was on “Keyness in Computational Literary Studies: History, Definitions and Evaluation”.

You find the presentation here: https://dhtrier.quarto.pub/montpellier

It is based on work with @dudarjulia, @cnDuKeli, Julia Röttgermann and @julianschroeter.

Relevant publications: https://doi.org/10.48694/jcls.10 (open) and https://zenodo.org/record/5707377 (private sharing)

#montpellier #keyness #distinctiveness #corpuslinguistics #cls

Very happy to be in #Montpellier today for a "journée d'étude" on the notion of #tupleization in the context of #cooccurrence, #keyness, #frequency and #dispersion. – The opening speaker is Stefan Th. Gries, and the full programme can be found here: https://corli.huma-num.fr/events/untangling-associations-advances-in-collocation-and-keyword-analysis/

#CorpusLinguistics #CLS

Do you expect higher-quality #dialogue in small group discussions or whole class discussions?

It might depend on the metric:
- small groups fostered more invitation for peers to weigh in (d = 0.78, p < 0.001)
- whole classes generated more justifications of one's viewpoint (d = 0.69, p < 0.001)

Loads more insight from Herculean corpus analyses involving over 4000 students from 5 countries: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.linged.2023.101223

#edu #teaching #argumentation #P4C #corpusLinguistics #textAsData #DevPsych 

@andreaskemper is my favorite #corpuslinguistics worker of the year .

Although he is no corpus linguist, his analysis of the #Höcke vs. #LandolfLadig (pseudonym in extreme rightwing newspaper) texts has a sound methodological approach.

In https://andreaskemper.org/2019/06/23/ladig-hoecke-synopse/ (download file on this page) , you can find a comparison with frequencies from #DWDS. Calculations of probabilities and maybe inverse frequency measures would be a plus.

A good case study for #stylometrics or a student paper!

Interested in doing MA in Corpus Linguistics from anywhere in the world? We are very happy to announce a £1,500 bursary funded by @BritishCouncil
for the MA in Corpus Linguistics (online) at Lancaster University – October 2023 start.

More about the programme & the bursary here: https://tinyurl.com/42a2pw88

#corpuslinguistics #language #linguistics #master #postgraduate #bursary #lancasteruniversity

For a review, I am trying to work out whether the "translations" in the Europarl Corpus are a) translations of the transcripts of the proceedings or b) transcripts of the simultaneous interpretation of the speeches. Can anyone here enlighten me, please? #1nt #translation #CorpusLinguistics

I have a hard time finding a #Python implementation of statistical #cooccurrence/#collocation tests like log-likelihood (as described by Dunning 1993). There’s an #RStats implementation in #PolmineR, but isn’t there any for Python? Any hints appreciated. #CorpusLinguistics #ComputationalLinguistics

My latest publication:
'COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and shaming on TikTok: A multimodal appraisal analysis'

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/26349795231153955

#DiscourseNet #Appraisal #TikTok #CorpusLinguistics #multimodal #CriticalDiscourseAnalysis #Linguistics

How to set up LaBB-CAT with two (or more!) forced alignments at once, so you can audio-visually compare them and decide which one works best for your data:
https://labbcat.canterbury.ac.nz/howto/forced-alignment/compare
#CorpusLinguistics #Phonetics #SocioPhonetics

In the context of our DFG-funded project on child bilingual code mixing, we are advertising a 65% #PhD position at LMU #Munich #jobs #linguistics #CorpusLinguistics #DataScience #LanguageAcquisition #Multilingualism #ConstructionGrammar #München @linguistics https://www.b-ite.com/recruitingmanager/job-postings/share/3tXLeR7M6ihctWsn5Pzfx2MNuaOngaB5BkItq5DlUZLI6IL8NkpT6h7vGSNGgdz7

@natalie, Thanks for the recommendation, this looks great! It looks like it may be a good companion to the Santa Fe Institute’s (free) Foundations & Applications of Humanities Analytics https://www.complexityexplorer.org/courses/162-foundations-applications-of-humanities-analytics which starts on Jan 17. #DigitalHumanities 

#corpus-linguistics #digital-humanities #future-learn #jupyter #python #santafeinstitute #textual-analysis

https://boffosocko.com/2023/01/14/55813762/

@natalie, Thanks for the recommendation, this looks great! It looks like it may be a good companion to the Santa Fe Institute’s (free) Foundations & Applications of Humanities Analytics https://www.complexityexplorer.org/courses/162-foundations-applications-of-humanities-analytics which starts on Jan 17. #DigitalHumanities 

#corpus-linguistics #digital-humanities #future-learn #jupyter #python #santafeinstitute #textual-analysis

https://boffosocko.com/2023/01/14/55813762/

@natalie, Thanks for the recommendation, this looks great! It looks like it may be a good companion to the Santa Fe Institute’s (free) Foundations & Applications of Humanities Analytics https://www.complexityexplorer.org/courses/162-foundations-applications-of-humanities-analytics which starts on Jan 17. #DigitalHumanities 

#corpus-linguistics #digital-humanities #future-learn #jupyter #python #santafeinstitute #textual-analysis

https://boffosocko.com/2023/01/14/55813762/

@natalie, Thanks for the recommendation, this looks great! It looks like it may be a good companion to the Santa Fe Institute’s (free) Foundations & Applications of Humanities Analytics https://www.complexityexplorer.org/courses/162-foundations-applications-of-humanities-analytics which starts on Jan 17. #DigitalHumanities 

#corpus-linguistics #digital-humanities #future-learn #jupyter #python #santafeinstitute #textual-analysis

https://boffosocko.com/2023/01/14/55813762/

Together with several students from Estonia, Austria and Hungary, we wrote a paper about the ways in which languages without grammatical gender (Uralic) can express gender in lexical items (job titles). The topic is way outside of my comfort zone, but we have definitely learned a lot! https://homepage.univie.ac.at/jeremy.moss.bradley/jl60/jl60_30_shagal_et_al.pdf #uralic #finnougric #uraliclanguages #gender #linguistics #corpuslinguistics

Thanks to Mastodon, I now have "swear like a [X]" phrases from about 20 #languages, some with multiple versions. I'd love to hear examples from non-Indo-European languages, if anyone knows them.

I'll try to write it up here over the weekend: https://stronglang.wordpress.com/ #swearing #translation #idiom #CorpusLinguistics #KindOf

I guess it’s time for an #introduction!

I’m a linguistics PhD focusing on #LanguageRevitalization, #LanguageChange, #LanguageDocumentation, and #SecondLanguage teaching. I work with the Tunica Language Working Group on Tunica, an #IndigenousLanguage in Louisiana.

I’m also interested in #CorpusLinguistics, language and the law, #DoubleModals, and #Humor.

Outside of linguistics, I'm forever honing my trivia skills and editing Wikipedia.

I guess it’s time for an #introduction!

I’m a linguistics PhD focusing on #LanguageRevitalization, #LanguageChange, #LanguageDocumentation, and #SecondLanguage teaching. I work with the Tunica Language Working Group on Tunica, an #IndigenousLanguage in Louisiana.

I’m also interested in #CorpusLinguistics, language and the law, #DoubleModals, and #Humor.

Outside of linguistics, I'm forever honing my trivia skills and editing Wikipedia.

I guess it’s time for an #introduction!

I’m a linguistics PhD focusing on #LanguageRevitalization, #LanguageChange, #LanguageDocumentation, and #SecondLanguage teaching. I work with the Tunica Language Working Group on Tunica, an #IndigenousLanguage in Louisiana.

I’m also interested in #CorpusLinguistics, language and the law, #DoubleModals, and #Humor.

Outside of linguistics, I'm forever honing my trivia skills and editing Wikipedia.