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Presented some recent work with Anna Koufakou and Eugenia Diegoli at JADH 2026, on perspectivism in emotion annotation for NLP. Our point: stop treating disagreement between annotators as noise to a...

Anush Hamzehian - Vittorio Mortarotti

Call for Papers: The deadline for submissions for the conference “The Expression of Indebtedness in Linguistics: Cross-Perspectives between European and Asian Languages” has been extended to April 30, 2026. Location: Jean Moulin Lyon 3 University (Lyon, France) Conference dates: December 10–11, 2026 New submission deadline: April 30, 2026 This conference explores the notion of indebtedness in linguistic interactions. It focuses on how speakers express, acknowledge, or negotiate relat

Thank you very much for taking part in this survey conducted by Eugenia DIEGOLI, Assistant Professor at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Department of Asian and North African Studies. The survey cons...

We are offering four reimbursement-based travel grants of up to 300 euros each for students and young researchers presenting at the conference. These funds are specifically intended to cover travel expenses.

This book delves into how migration is depicted through multilingual discourses, blending corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis. Emerging ...

The Indebtedness in Linguistics Conference explores the notion of indebtedness in linguistic exchanges, focusing on the ways speakers express, acknowledge, or negotiate a relational imbalance, particularly through gratitude, apologies, or expectations of reciprocity. The aim is to compare linguistic practices across European and Asian languages. We encourage comparative contributions or studies on lesser-studied languages. The conference, funded by the CEL laboratory (Jean Moulin Lyon 3 Unive

The Expression of Indebtedness in Linguistics - Cross-Perspectives Between European and Asian Languages

Tim Wharton, & Louis De Saussure, Pragmatics and Emotion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. ix + 169.

Abstract This paper is an early step in a wider project which, on the behest of the late Prof Michael Hoey, attempts to review the evolution of Lexical Priming (LP) theory since its first appearance i...

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テガラ株式会社のプレスリリース（2025年7月29日 17時）。海外製品調達サービス「ユニポス」（運営：テガラ株式会社）は、言語コーパス検索・分析ツール「Sketch Engine」の国内取り扱いを開始しました。本ツールは、言語学者・翻訳者・辞書編纂者・教育研究機関・NLP専門家など、世界中のプロフェッショナルに支持されている言語分析プラットフォームです。ユニポスでは、ライセンス手配から導入支援ま...

This month we published Ideologies of Communication in Japan edited by Patrick Heinrich, Florian Grosser and Saana Santalahti. In this post the editors explain how ideologies of communication in Ja…

Bowing in Japan is a conventionalised body movement with social meaning. In this post, I argue that bowing generally conveys emotions, and that different types of bowing convey different emotions, …

This book presents case studies of ideologies of communication in Japan which respond to recent epistemological and methodological developments in the field and reflect the subject-wide shift from ideologies of language to ideologies of communication. Chapters explore a wide range of language contexts, from formal language learning settings to video games, smartphones and language use in couples and by immigrants. The authors use an array of innovative methodological approaches and theoretical p

Abstract This introduction to the special issue Reproducibility, Replicability, and Robustness in Corpus Linguistics calls for more transparent and robust research practices in the field. It situates ...

Dear Linguist List community, I am conducting a survey as part of my research on emotions. If your first language is English or Japanese, please consider taking less than 10 minutes to answer it. It’s anonymous and there’s a small gift at the end! You can find the English survey here https://tinyurl.com/3amdd6pc and the Japanese survey here https://tinyurl.com/y3xua6t7 THANK YOU!

このたびは、Eugenia DIEGOLI（ヴェネツィアのカ・フォスカリ大学、アジア・北アフリカ研究学科、助教授）が実施するアンケート調査にご協力いただきありがとうございます。 質問は全部で17問、回答には10分程度かかります。 アンケート調査は匿名で、回答内容は第三者に提供することはなく、研究目的以外には使用いたしません。 アンケート調査への回答によって、本研究への協力についてご同意いただいたも...

ALT: a man says i 'm having so many mixed feelings while sitting on a couch