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Daria Dayter

@coocho.bsky.social
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Assoc/prof in linguistics in Tampere • interested in digital language, persuasion, forensic linguistics, misogyny online • Editor-in-Chief for Pragmatics & Society

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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Honestly, as someone who has actually managed interns, it feels very adjacent to that. Lots of people who don't actually have to manage people frequently suggest "interns" as a solution to any number of capacity problems, not thinking about how much it takes to supply them with/oversee the work.
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Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
today also involved neighbours' kids who decided to make a playroom out of the upstairs storage area right on top of my head & race office chairs on concrete floor, but that's just your daily dose of apartment life suffering
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Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
spent all day working on the editorial tasks, which included way more emails about made up references and AI generated versions of thrice resubmitted papers than I would like... but also two brilliant papers that I'm honoured to consider for publication in Pragmatics & Society
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Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
So, what I would like to know about the ice coffee controversy is what kind of German-Finnish hybrid name “Wehniainen” is
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Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A very efficient day of dogsitting & working on an article. Turns out all I needed to get this done was to get up at 4am, stay in the suburbs with a very nervous dog in a half-empty house without internet… ok well maybe it’s not “just” and I won’t be repeating it any time soon
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René Magritte @renemagritte.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
L'empire des lumières (III) / The dominion of light - 1951 #artbots #magritte
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Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Speaking of forensic linguistics, we have the traditional Dark Side of Persuasion panel at the #OctoConf “Influence, Manipulation, Seduction 3” Registration open until October 30: events.tuni.fi/persuasion20...
Amy Brown (Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics)
W h e n P e r s u a s i o n B e c o m e s C o e r c i o n : L i n g u i s t i c S t r a t e g i e s o f
M a n i p u l a t i o n i n S t a l k i n g D i s c o u r s e
Dawn Archer (Manchester Metropolitan University)
D o e s N o t o r i e t y M a k e S o m e I n fl u e n c e r s I m m u n e t o “ C a n c e l C u l t u r e” ?
Damien Lenoir (Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour (UPPA);
ALTER)
M o d a l A u x i l i a r i e s a s T o o l s o f P e r s u a s i o n : I n t e r l o c u t i v e S t r a t e g i e s i n U S
A n t i-V a c c i n e D i s c o u r s e s
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Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Non-Finnish followers, can you guess the meaning of the bottom left button? 😁☕️ #multilingualism
Coffee machine, left button reads “coffee with milk reserve”
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Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My brilliant PhD student Stefan is doing guided tours in Tampere, this week in Russian on Sunday and in Finnish on Saturday. Highly recommend! m.facebook.com/story.php?st...
Screenshot of the Facebook text under the link
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Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Will I ever be done tinkering with this BlueSky vs Twitter article? But it’s just so cool to watch the same discussion unfold in two very different ways (🧊or 🔥) and I can’t stop adding examples
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Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I’m watching a crime show set in Norfolk. A superintendent calls his Detective inspector in and says he has to go to the university to run through some case studies with a psychology professor because the professor requested a policeman to motivate the students 1/
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MythologyBot @mythologybot.boodoo.co · 22/09/2026
J33 Blind man who feels young wolf recognises his savage nature.
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Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I usually repost these snippets from Stith Thompson for their sheer absurdity and entertainment value, or because they make me think about how people see the world But this one today is giving me science policy and research development and grants
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MythologyBot @mythologybot.boodoo.co · 21/09/2026
H1292.1.1 Question (propounded on quest): Why does no one ever drink water of two certain wells?
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MythologyBot @mythologybot.boodoo.co · 20/09/2026
H1331.4.2 Quest for horse with peacock tail.
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Martina Winkler @martinawinkle14.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Diese Verschwendung von Zeit und Energie (auf allen Seiten: Antragstellung, Begutachtung, Verwaltung) ist atemberaubend.
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Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The idea that someone somehow would think that this system is superior to basic funding… is mad. how on earth did we get to this place
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Anna Neumaier @annaneumaier.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Alter. 21627 Einreichungen auf ein Fellowship-Programm. Wer soll das alles begutachten? 😶‍🌫️ Wer jetzt nicht für mehr Grundförderung und weniger Drittmittel argumentiert, der ist doch nicht gescheit.
Text, dass bei einem Fellowship-Call 21627 Bewerbungen eingegangen sind, von der Webseite der Funding Agency.
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HiPhiLangSci @hiphilangsci.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Post-doctoral assistant in the Department of Linguistics at Ghent University starting 1 January 2027 (at the earliest)! Application deadline: 6 October 2026 🔗 hiphilangsci.net/2026/09/17/p...
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Post-doc Linguistics Uni Ghent
Apply until 06 October 2026, 23:59 (Brussels time) Further information:
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Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
going to go & sprinkle some holy water on my Outlook
screenshot of the folder "Deleted items" in Outlook with the counter of 666
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Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The preliminary program for Influence, Manipulation, Seduction 3 is now available! events.tuni.fi/persuasion20... Make sure to register by September 15 to take advantage of the early bird fee
events.tuni.fi
Programme | Influence, Manipulation, Seduction 3 | Tampere Universities
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Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Join us at IPrA in Helsinki for the panel on online coaching (us = @sofiaruediger.bsky.social and me) Abstract submission deadline 15 October
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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
the focus on work experience beyond what universities already do just sets most unis up to fail. we all know what the actual economic challenges are and we are in no position to fix them
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Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
One week left to register for the Influence, Manipulation, Seduction 3 conference and pay the early bird fee 🐦 From 15 September, the reg price goes up... events.tuni.fi/persuasion20...
a red and black poster depicting octopus tentancles and the information from the post
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Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Remember to catch your early bird registration fee for the #OctoConf by 15 September events.tuni.fi/persuasion20...
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Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Remember to catch your early bird registration fee for the #OctoConf by 15 September events.tuni.fi/persuasion20...
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Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Poster slam! #cmccorpora2026
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MythologyBot @mythologybot.boodoo.co · 26/08/2026
E142 Resuscitation by polishing sword that contains dead man's life.
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Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
On my way to Oulu for the CMC Corpora conference! (And of course immediately found a typo on the printed poster, sigh)
A view of a table in the train with a PowerPoint slide open on a laptop
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MythologyBot @mythologybot.boodoo.co · 13/08/2026
F61.2.2 Ascent to sky on eagle-down rope.
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Sofia Rüdiger @sofiaruediger.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Getting ready for the first of two guest lectures during my stay here at NTU, the first one is up this Friday where I will talk about @coocho.bsky.social's and my work on PUA online discourses
Green Flyer: Analyzing the Language of Pick-up Artists: Online Discourses of the Seduction Industry
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MythologyBot @mythologybot.boodoo.co · 10/08/2026
K551.20 Wolf is requested by tailor to be measured for suit of clothes; wolf beaten.
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Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Confs: Panel at IPC20 - The Pragmatics of Online Influence: Persuasion and Authority in Online Coaching Discourses
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Confs: Panel at IPC20 - The Pragmatics of Online Influence: Persuasion and Authority in Online Coaching Discourses
From the perspective of pragmatics, coaching can be understood as a communication-based, co-constructed discourse genre in which coach and client jointly build meanings, goals, and courses of action turn by turn (see Fleischhacker & Graf 2023). Rather than merely transmitting information, coaching works through persuasion: it relies on speech acts such as advising, evaluating, goal-setting, while also managing uptake and creating an expert identity for the coach (see Weinzinger 2016, Dayter & Rü
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Tatjana Scheffler @tschfflr.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026
New PhD position in my group on Digital Forensic Linguistics! 🧑‍💻 If you think that's you, please contact me and/or apply! #linguistics #joboffer #phdPosition #phd jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/…
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PhD Candidate (65%, m/f/x) in Digital Forensic Linguistics
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Sofia Rüdiger @sofiaruediger.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
@coocho.bsky.social and I are organizing a panel on online coaching discourses at next year's IPrA conference ( #IPC20) in Helsinki (27 June - 2 July). Abstracts due Oct 15. We'd be delighted to meet you there! #OnlineInfluence #Persuasion More info at: pragmatics.international/page/CfP2027
Call for Panel Contributions
20th International Pragmatics Conference (IPC20)
International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)
27 June - 2 July 2027, University of Helsinki, Finland

The Pragmatics of Online Influence:
Persuasion and Authority in Online Coaching Discourses

Panel organizers: Daria Dayter (Tampere University), daria.dayter@tuni.fi; Sofia Rüdiger (Freie Universität Berlin), sofia.ruediger@fu-berlin.de 

From the perspective of pragmatics, coaching can be understood as a communication-based, co-constructed discourse genre in which coach and client jointly build meanings, goals, and courses of action turn by turn (see Fleischhacker & Graf 2023). Rather than merely transmitting information, coaching works through persuasion: it relies on speech acts such as advising, evaluating, goal-setting, while also managing uptake and creating an expert identity for the coach (see Weinzinger 2016, Dayter & Rüdiger 2022). Both existing work on seduction coaching (Dayter & Rüdiger 2019) and on financial influencers (Biri 2025) shows how coaching may be built through terminology-heavy language, narrative framing, and interactional strategies resembling sales discourse including asymmetries of conversational power. 
We invite panel contributions addressing persuasion and authority in online coaching contexts. This encompasses, for example, one-to-one sessions, courses, and subscription-based coaching (e.g., dating coaches and membership-based financial coaching communities), where commercially-driven authority and expertise are negotiated through situated pragmatic practices. We are also interested in discourses produced by influencers in the realm of health, finance, dating, and lifestyle on various social media platforms such as TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, etc. We are particularly interested in empirical studies of persuasive strategies, the construction of authority, and the performance of expert personae. We also invite contributions that critically examine problematic or harmful forms of persuasion, including malicious influence and bad-faith sales practices operating under the guise of coaching. The aim of this panel is to open up discussion of how persuasive strategies are enacted within ‘coaching’ discourses and to relate these practices to linguistic understandings of authority and expertise.
The panel consists of both full (20+10 minutes) and work-in-progress (10+5 minutes) slots; please indicate your format choice in the abstract. Abstracts (no more than 500 words) need to be submitted via the conference website (https://ipra2027.exordo.com/) by 15 October 2026. Make sure to select the panel “The Pragmatics of Online Influence” during the submission process.
Further information on submitting abstracts can be found in the IPC20 Call for Papers (https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP2027). Note that an active IPrA membership is required to submit an abstract. If you have further questions regarding the panel, feel free to email us directly.

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MythologyBot @mythologybot.boodoo.co · 30/07/2026
D2144.5.1 Ice produced by magic.
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MythologyBot @mythologybot.boodoo.co · 25/07/2026
K171.7.2 Deceptive division of sheep.
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MythologyBot @mythologybot.boodoo.co · 24/07/2026
G216.1 Witch with goose feet.
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Henry Sweet Society @henrysweetsoc.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
✨️Martin Burr Grants✨️ We invite applications for grants (max. £500) to support projects in the history of linguistic ideas aimed at: ✅️ non-academic outreach ✅️ field-work ✅️ supporting research by under-represented groups in the history of linguistics Apply by 30 September 2026! buff.ly/eucFmjf
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Martin Burr Grants — Henry Sweet Society
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Prof Michaela Mahlberg @michamahlberg.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
⏳ Still time to apply - the deadline for applications is this Friday, 24 July
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Kilu von Prince @kilinguistics.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
To do research is, among other things, to give value to ideas. To review is to critically assess the value of ideas. If you think this process can be done by a Chatbot, you probably shouldn’t be anywhere near it.
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Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Slowly saying goodbye to this house. We had a lot of good times, but it’s lost its furry heart
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Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
In other news: went lake swimming twice today, in two different lakes, both 🌟
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Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
keeping this garden in a decent shape is a very sweaty business. I won't miss the insect gala that happens every time I cut the grass and trim the creeper
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Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
“Indeed, scientific publishing is starting to experience some Taylorism with the insertion of AI. Rigorous human checking of AI-generated research papers is creating bottlenecks as publishers strive to maintain the integrity of the scientific record.” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensive
There’s a saying in the management world, popularized by NASA administrator Daniel Goldin in the 1990s, that the goal of technological improvements is to make products faster, better, and cheaper. Alt...
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MythologyBot @mythologybot.boodoo.co · 17/07/2026
E539.4.1 Ghostly chair in cellar jumps up and down on three legs, points with fourth at spot on floor.
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Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I’m viewing flats in Tampere trying to reconcile my volatile wishes, which switch on the same day from wanting a green quiet area near the forest to wanting to be close to the nice city spots like Kaleva (to say nothing of what I consider acceptable in terms of kitchen appliances). It’s so 1/2
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MythologyBot @mythologybot.boodoo.co · 15/07/2026
A489 Gods of abstractions --miscellaneous.
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Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
My feed consists entirely of dark mythological motifs and it is not an accident 👾
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MythologyBot @mythologybot.boodoo.co · 15/07/2026
B177.3 Magic sea-turtle sucks men to the bottom.
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