#languageuse — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #languageuse, aggregated by home.social.
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PsyPost: Social media analysis links polarized political language to distorted thought patterns. “A recent analysis of millions of social media posts reveals that markers of mental distortions rose alongside political extremism between the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections. The research, published in Communications Psychology, highlights a growing overlap between extreme ideological views […]
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https://www.europesays.com/dk/46578/ Nikola Edelsztejn | We should normalise regional accents in Amsterdam student life #Adaptation #Amsterdam #BrabantAccent #CulturalDiversity #dialects #identity #inclusion #LanguageNorms #LanguageUse #LimburgAccent #LinguisticPressure #Netherlands #Randstad #RegionalAccents #sociolinguistics #StandardLanguage #StudentLife #UniversityCulture
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UConn Today: What Even Is Social Media, Tho? Adults and Teens Often Differ, UConn Researchers Find. “When it comes to digital media and social media, fam – teens and adults are sometimes lowkey on different wavelengths. And while it might just seem kind of cringe, it’s actually big yikes. Because when adolescents and the adults they interact with on the daily – their teachers, school […]
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University of Southern California: Can ChatGPT actually “see” red? New results of Google-funded study are nuanced. “Do embodied experiences — the capacity of the human visual system to perceive color — allow people to understand colorful language beyond the textual ways ChatGPT does? Or is language alone, for both AI and humans, sufficient to understand color metaphors?”
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PsyPost: Incel forum users arrive angry—and their language gets more extreme over time. “A study of prolific users on incel forums found that these individuals express more anger in their comments than users on other comparable social media platforms. However, they did not express greater sadness. The researchers also found that many users were already using incel-specific vocabulary when […]
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University of Michigan: Tweeted metaphors shape views about immigration. “People with strong political views about immigration can wield significant influence by crafting tweets laden with metaphors, shaping how others grasp this hotly contested issue.”
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Language use predicts depression and anxiety severity over time https://www.psypost.org/language-use-predicts-depression-and-anxiety-severity-over-time/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #LanguageUse #Depression #Anxiety #NegativeWords #MentalHealth
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@ColinTheMathmo "Just about" makes sense for something done by increments: "I'm just about finished"; "I'm just about there"; "I just about understand".
For a binary situation, such as catching or not catching a train, "just about" doesn't make sense.
"I only just caught the train" or "I just missed the train" would express the two options here without ambiguity. #LanguageUse
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I’m not 100% comfortable with the proliferation of “gift” as a verb and I might as well just come out and say it.
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#Introduction with #Hashtags
#Hi, I work on #ComputationalLinguistics (#CompLing): I develop models of human #LanguageLearning and #LanguageUse, and I test them on #RealWorldData. One focus of my work has been on #Lexical #Semantics, looking at how a word's #Meaning can be learnt from #Context, and indeed what kind of #MeaningRepresentation to use in the first place. This work is #Interdisciplinary, drawing on #Linguistics #PhilosophyOfLanguage #CognitiveScience #MachineLearning