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Elvis Coimbra-Gomes @elviscoimbragomes.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Out now! If you would like to publish a book about language, discourse and mental health with us, please let me know :)

Elvis Coimbra-Gomes @elviscoimbragomes.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Reporterin Anna Kreidler ist auf der Suche nach jungen Personen, die mit Zwängen leben. Sie ist interessiert, wie ihr den Alltag meistert und was euch hilft. Meldet euch gerne unverbindlich per Mail an dokonline@srf.ch mit eurer Geschichte, wir freuen uns über eure Nachrichten.

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Elvis Coimbra-Gomes @elviscoimbragomes.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Scott Parrott, Laura Cariola and I are editing a book series for the University of Exeter Press called "Language, Discourse, and Mental Health". We hope to further our understanding of mental health from a pluralistically informed linguistic perspective. Do you want to publish with us? Get in touch!

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Elvis Coimbra-Gomes @elviscoimbragomes.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

If you have a book proposal that is connected to the topic of language, discourse and mental health, please get in touch! If you would like to buy a book from the series, use the code below for a 30% reduction!

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Elvis Coimbra-Gomes @elviscoimbragomes.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

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Elvis Coimbra-Gomes @elviscoimbragomes.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I'll give a 1h workshop at the next English Teachers Association Switzerland conference in Lucerne on February 1st. I'll show how to build a grid that avoids the use of points while mixing summative and formative assessment when evaluating" language production tasks. Interested? Join us 😜

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41st ETAS Annual Conference 2025 - English Teachers Association Switzerland

41st ETAS Annual Conference 2025 in Luzern

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Elvis Coimbra-Gomes @elviscoimbragomes.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I've just used NotebookLM to turn a PDF of an article into a podcast and it's really cool haha!

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Elvis Coimbra-Gomes @elviscoimbragomes.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

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Elvis Coimbra-Gomes @elviscoimbragomes.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I apologize if you've seen many posts from me for the last 3 hours. I migrated a big part of my Tweets from X to Bluesky. If you'd like to know how to do this, read this: lifehacker.com/tech/use-por... Now I'm ready to move on...

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If you're migrating from X to the friendlier skies of Bluesky, you don't have to leave everything behind—Porto is an extension for Chromium browsers that imports all of your old tweets to Bluesky auto...

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Elvis Coimbra-Gomes @elviscoimbragomes.bsky.social · 08/09/2024

I want to investigate the use of first person pronoun in academic articles across disciplines for my academic writing course. Can someone point me to a useful corpus or study that provides some statistics on this question?

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Elvis Coimbra-Gomes @elviscoimbragomes.bsky.social · 15/08/2024

I will be presenting a talk entitled "'Descriptive grades' in summative assessments to support students’ learning process" at the IATEFL TEASIG & ESPSIG Joint Conference in Winterthur, Switzerland on 6 September 2024. Check the program here: espsig.iatefl.org/wp-content/upl…

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Elvis Coimbra-Gomes @elviscoimbragomes.bsky.social · 23/06/2024

My sister 😂😂😂😂 x.com/cnnportugal/st…

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Elvis Coimbra-Gomes @elviscoimbragomes.bsky.social · 22/06/2024

I haven't had the opportunity to write about OCD for the last 3 years due to other teaching priorities. I finally have time to work on a review chapter about the linguistic research on OCD and the words are just flowing out of my mind like never before 😀

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Elvis Coimbra-Gomes @elviscoimbragomes.bsky.social · 06/06/2024

One more day to register for the OCD in Society conference! #OCD #OCDinSociety x.com/elvisgomes90/s…

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Elvis Coimbra-Gomes @elviscoimbragomes.bsky.social · 24/04/2024

Need help from conversation analysis experts. Would you consider back channeling also to be inserted/side sequences?

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Elvis Coimbra-Gomes @elviscoimbragomes.bsky.social · 14/04/2024

Great news! The program of the "OCD in Society" conference (7 June 2024) is now online. It will also be broadcast on Zoom! Please register here to get the access link: ocdinsociety.wixsite.com/home/copy-of-s…

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Elvis Coimbra-Gomes @elviscoimbragomes.bsky.social · 06/04/2024

Little question about Gricean pragmatics. I get that the non-observance of maxims creates implicature, since interlocutors assume that the cooperative principle is being respected and they make inferences to fill the gap between what is said and what "seems" to be uncooperative.

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Elvis Coimbra-Gomes @elviscoimbragomes.bsky.social · 02/04/2024

Here's the great line up of speakers for this year's OCD in Society conference that will take place in Lausanne on 7 June 2024:If you'd like to attend, don't forget to register on the website. There will also be a live-transmission. ocdinsociety.wixsite.com/home/speakers

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Elvis Coimbra-Gomes @elviscoimbragomes.bsky.social · 13/03/2024

2 days left to send in abstracts! x.com/elvisgomes90/s…

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Elvis Coimbra-Gomes @elviscoimbragomes.bsky.social · 01/03/2024

Call for papers extended to 15th March for the 4th edition of OCD in Society conference in Lausanne (Switzerland) on 7 June 2024. This edition's theme will be on "The Language of OCD". Please circulate this widely as we only received a couple of papers. ocdinsociety.wixsite.com/home

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Elvis Coimbra-Gomes @elviscoimbragomes.bsky.social · 14/02/2024

Does anyone know an accessible text that summarizes the concepts used in 3rd🌊 variation in the construction of identity (indexical orders, fields, personae)? I'd like my students to think about these concepts in relation to the claim "I'm so OCD". @Christianilbury

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Elvis Coimbra-Gomes @elviscoimbragomes.bsky.social · 11/02/2024

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Elvis Coimbra-Gomes @elviscoimbragomes.bsky.social · 04/02/2024

How do you teach your students to structure a discourse analytical paper? We follow the typical "intro, framework, method, results, discussion, conclusion" structure. But I often end up with results sections that are clunky. Do you tell your students to mix results/discussion?

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Elvis Coimbra-Gomes @elviscoimbragomes.bsky.social · 16/12/2023

To corpus linguists: When doing a diachronic corpus study and we want to study different trends in keywords across time, what is the technical term to signal different keywords across time or stable keywords across time? I have the feeling that there is a specific term for them.

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Elvis Coimbra-Gomes @elviscoimbragomes.bsky.social · 31/08/2023

I'm looking for a chapter that gives an overview of different narrative analytical perspectives (preferably in relation to illness narratives). Any suggestions?

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Elvis Coimbra-Gomes @elviscoimbragomes.bsky.social · 14/06/2023

I've been away from corpus linguistics for the last two years, and I'm discovering the new version of AntConc. @antlabjp you completely nailed it! You improved every single aspect that I wished was different 3 years ago when I was analyzing data for me PhD!😃🥳🥳

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Elvis Coimbra-Gomes @elviscoimbragomes.bsky.social · 14/06/2023

Hoping that this tweet will reach the linguistics community in the midst of all the "Muskquesque" fear mongering posts. I'm teaching corpus linguistics sessions and I was wondering the following: 1/2

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Elvis Coimbra-Gomes @elviscoimbragomes.bsky.social · 03/06/2023

I'm really thinking of leaving Twitter... My feed is just filled with useless, violent, fear-mongering content that frustrates me. Where are all the linguists, OCD activists and artists that I followed? Does anyone have an alternative for Twitter where I can see you all again?

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Elvis Coimbra-Gomes @elviscoimbragomes.bsky.social · 09/05/2023

Am I the only one receiving content on my wall from accounts I'm not following (e.g. CCTV idiots, no context humans, detect fight, Ask Aubry) that publish sometimes violent videos? What's going on?

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Elvis Coimbra-Gomes @elviscoimbragomes.bsky.social · 21/04/2023

Look at the piece of art that my students drew to explain how linguists model gender performativity by using Ochs (1992), Du Bois (2007), and Irvine and Gal (2000). We didn't have time and place to incorporate Bucholtz & Hall's tactics of intersubjectivity. #proudteacher

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Elvis Coimbra-Gomes @elviscoimbragomes.bsky.social · 09/02/2023

This is for corpus linguists: Since the end of my PhD in 2021 (and even more lately) I've developped a sour taste towards CADS and its formulaic studies on linguistic representations of social groups or illnesses in the media. Am I the only one to think that? 1/n

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Elvis Coimbra-Gomes @elviscoimbragomes.bsky.social · 06/02/2023

Hey linguists! I'd like to discuss Irvin and Gal's language ideology theory in relation to the "gay voice" or unmarked heterosexual language. Do you have any article in mind that does that? Or maybe the most accessible article that explains the theory in simple terms? Thanks!

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Elvis Coimbra-Gomes @elviscoimbragomes.bsky.social · 24/01/2023

I created this slide to highlight the different research paradigms in Language, Gender & Sexuality. Any suggestions on how I can improve it?

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Elvis Coimbra-Gomes @elviscoimbragomes.bsky.social · 20/11/2022

Does someone have access to the article " Coming-out stories and the 'gay imaginary' " by Andrew Wong? Could you send it to me elvis.coimbragomes[atThanks twitterverse! unil.ch

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Elvis Coimbra-Gomes @elviscoimbragomes.bsky.social · 13/11/2022

Gonna teach a seminar on "Language and Sexuality" next semester. Does anyone have a syllabus, slides, etc., they'd kindly share with me to help me out with the planning? Thanks! @AimeeFBailey @scordoban @jones_lucy @SalinaCuddy @Noun_Fraze @william_leap @genderedform @Lavlang

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Elvis Coimbra-Gomes @elviscoimbragomes.bsky.social · 10/11/2022

OCD in Society is back! The 4th conference "OCD in the Anthropocene: Navigating a World Under Planetary Threats" will be held at @WesternU on 2-3 June 2023. For more info:I'm so proud that my baby continues to travel around the world😃 ocdinsociety.wixsite.com/home

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Elvis Coimbra-Gomes @elviscoimbragomes.bsky.social · 09/10/2022

Little question: Is there an academic term to describe the current practice of Hollywood to include a certain number of female, black, LGBT characters in movies? Can we call that "inclusive representation"? I'm asking for a teaching project. Thanks in advance!

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Elvis Coimbra-Gomes @elviscoimbragomes.bsky.social · 06/09/2022

Hey linguists in the twitterverse, I need your help. I'd like to create a phonetics exercise for B1 English students, and I'm looking for a database of phonemes and images that show how to produce the sound. What would be your go to? Thanks in advance!

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Elvis Coimbra-Gomes @elviscoimbragomes.bsky.social · 25/06/2022

Yesterday I gave my last English lesson to a turbulent class of 9th graders. I used @classcraftgame to manage their behaviors, and tried to bring the best out of them. Before leaving, they offered me this. I cried like a baby 🥰 (For some reason they called me "Mr. Teacher"🤣

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Elvis Coimbra-Gomes @elviscoimbragomes.bsky.social · 23/05/2022

#LavLang28 is currently happening and I'm missing taking part in conferences where you share your intellectual work. On another note, my thesis has reached 500 reads 🥳 Check it out here: researchgate.net/publication/35…

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Elvis Coimbra-Gomes @elviscoimbragomes.bsky.social · 21/04/2022

Don't forget to register to this awesome conference! This years "OCD in Society" conference will focus on the notion of practice RT as much as possible! 😬😬 @ocdaction @OCDUK @TheOCDStories @TamingOlivia @oliviaknapton @PoppyPlumb @FredAardema @AdamRadomsky x.com/EvaSurawy/stat…

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Elvis Coimbra-Gomes @elviscoimbragomes.bsky.social · 16/03/2022

When PhD students get lost, one of the best things supervisors can do is to bring the research question to the front and force the student to integrate it into their thought process (especially when the latter gets somewhere stuck/lost)!

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Elvis Coimbra-Gomes @elviscoimbragomes.bsky.social · 24/02/2022

I truly believe that the only ones who can stop the madness that is happening in Ukrain are the Russian mass of people protesting for peace. #RussianSolidarity Bring down the Putin! x.com/Joyce_Karam/st…

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Elvis Coimbra-Gomes @elviscoimbragomes.bsky.social · 11/01/2022

2nd call for papers for the 3rd OCD in Society conference! Share it widely! x.com/EvaSurawy/stat…

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Elvis Coimbra-Gomes @elviscoimbragomes.bsky.social · 27/11/2021

HELP from fellow linguists! Does anybody have an evaluation grid for assignments dealing with a discourse analysis of some data (500-1000 words). It's not a full research article, but really only the analysis bit. I'm a bit lost in how to tackle the corrections😰

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Elvis Coimbra-Gomes @elviscoimbragomes.bsky.social · 21/11/2021

I don't know if I will ever publish parts of my thesis in journals/books (currently doing teacher's training & not sure if I want to stay in academia). So I thought it might be a good idea to upload it and let it circulate freely:Fly baby fly!🐦🦅 researchgate.net/publication/35…

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