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Prof Michaela Mahlberg @michamahlberg.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

📣 Job opportunity: We are looking for up to 5 outstanding postdoctoral or doctoral researchers in #DigitalHumanities to join us at the @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social Please share widely 🙏 ⏰ Deadline: 24 July 2026 For more info: www.fau-jobs.de/jobposting/6...

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Matteo Fuoli @matteofuoli.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Our new CUP Element on trust, discourse, and the Enron scandal is out and free to download! Download the book: www.cambridge.org/core/element... Watch the video abstract: vimeo.com/1125812463 Download the Enron Trader Tapes, annotated data and R code: osf.io/ngdhx

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Trust, Discourse, and Corporate Corruption

Cambridge Core - Applied Linguistics - Trust, Discourse, and Corporate Corruption

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Matteo Fuoli @matteofuoli.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Our paper on metaphor identification using LLMs is finally out open access in Applied Corpus Linguistics! doi.org/10.1016/j.ac... Code & data: github.com/Weihang-Huan...

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Matteo Fuoli @matteofuoli.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Early-career researchers: if you’d like to present your ongoing work and get helpful feedback from both peers and experienced scholars, the 2026 Linguistics Prague conference is for you! 👉 linguisticsprague.ff.cuni.cz/call-for-abs... 🗓 Abstract submission deadline: 1 February

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Matteo Fuoli @matteofuoli.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

The submission deadline for next year's #CADS conference has been extended to December 19th 2025! So, three more weeks to get abstracts in - nice! wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/cal...

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Matteo Fuoli @matteofuoli.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

It was such a pleasure to take part in the legendary Language and Power podcast! We had a very interesting chat about climate change discourses on the back of a lively panel at the last SFL Congress in Glasgow. Thanks @michaelfarrelly.bsky.social and Tom Bartlett for hosting us!

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Charlotte Taylor @proftaylor.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Funding opportunity: PhD at Sussex - Open to applicants on PhD Linguistics - Scholarships cover tuition fees, a stipend at UK Research Council rates plus some research & training costs - 5 interdisciplinary themes addressing major social sciences challenges www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f...

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SEDarc (ESRC) PhD scholarships for research in the Social Sciences : University of Sussex

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Matteo Fuoli @matteofuoli.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

How good are LLMs at identifying and tagging metaphors in text? Turns out, pretty good! In our new study, we ask 10 different open- and closed-source LLMs to label all metaphorical expressions in a dataset of film reviews using <Metaphor> and </Metaphor> XML tags. arxiv.org/abs/2509.24866

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Metaphor identification using large language models: A comparison of RAG, prompt engineering, and fine-tuning

Metaphor is a pervasive feature of discourse and a powerful lens for examining cognition, emotion, and ideology. Large-scale analysis, however, has been constrained by the need for manual annotation d...

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Matteo Fuoli @matteofuoli.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

The call for papers for the 2026 @corporadiscourse.bsky.social Conference is now out! wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/cal... Submission deadline is 16 November. Really looking forward to it!

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Call for Papers – Corpora & Discourse International Conference 2026

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Matteo Fuoli @matteofuoli.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

More and more companies have pledged to reach "net zero". But how exactly are these pledges framed in corporate communications, and how credible are they? These are the questions we explore in our new study, just published in Applied Corpus Linguistics: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Corporate buzzword or genuine commitment? A corpus-assisted analysis of corporate ‘net-zero’ pledges by major global corporations

In recent years, corporations have faced growing pressure to address their environmental impact, leading many to pledge ‘net-zero’ emissions. This stu…

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Matteo Fuoli @matteofuoli.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

What an absolute treat and honor to be invited to give a plenary at my favourite conference! 🤩 Thanks so much @gavinbrookes.bsky.social and all the #CADS2026 organizers for this invite. Can't wait!

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Matteo Fuoli @matteofuoli.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

What happens when activists creatively reimagine corporate logos to resist branding narratives? Our new paper explores the powerful multimodal practice of "figurative subversion" and its role in challenging corporate messages. Read it here: bit.ly/3GrXAse

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Matteo Fuoli @matteofuoli.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Join us for our #CCRSS25 corpus linguistics summer school! It's going to be super fun! I'll be giving a session on corpus annotation with the UAM tool.

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Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics @aifl.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

📢 Come work with us 📢 We're recruiting a new Research Assistant to work alongside @drniccimacleod.bsky.social on her project Talking Rape: Operation Soteria and the Police Interview, funded by a Leverhulme Fellowship 👇 jobs.aston.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

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Job Vacancy at Aston University: Research Assistant

The Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics is the leading hub for forensic linguistics worldwide. Set up as the Centre for Forensic Linguistics in 2008 by Malcolm Coulthard, it was expanded into a r...

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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

As we look ahead to the upcoming Corpus Linguistics Summer School (#CCRSS25, 7–11 July), we’ll be spotlighting our fantastic instructors and the sessions they’ll be leading. There’s still time to register—don’t miss out! www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edac...

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Corpus Linguistics Summer School 2025

Our Corpus Linguistics summer school is open to undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral students, as well as researchers who want to improve their skills to apply corpus methods in their own researc...

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Matteo Fuoli @matteofuoli.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Can we infer deceptive intent from fact-checker labels? And what if what fact-checkers consider “false” today turns out to be “true” tomorrow? We explore these and other methodological questions in our new paper with Bashayer Baissa & @jwgrieve.bsky.social: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

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Veracity and register in fake news analysis

This article addresses two fundamental methodological challenges in linguistic fake news research: how to reliably classify news texts as real versus fake and how to control for register variation whe...

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Matteo Fuoli @matteofuoli.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure to share my latest research on the language of trust at Hong Kong's Poly. The study’s in press with Cambridge Elements in Forensic Linguistics and we’re releasing a new 400k corpus of Enron trader phone calls. Watch this space! www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx7_...

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Seminar | Trading trust: verbal manipulation in the Enron Tapes

YouTube video by ENGL PolyU

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Matteo Fuoli @matteofuoli.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Next Monday I’ll be giving a talk on my latest research on the linguistics of trust and manipulation as part of Hong Kong Poly’s English and Communication seminar series. The talk will be on Zoom and open to all. If you’re interested, you can sign up via the link below!

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Matteo Fuoli @matteofuoli.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Our position paper on the sociolinguistic foundations of language modeling is out now in Frontiers in AI! www.frontiersin.org/journals/art... We argue that sociolinguistics holds the key to understanding and improving large language models.

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Frontiers | The sociolinguistic foundations of language modeling

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Matteo Fuoli @matteofuoli.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Great to be part of this special issue on corpus approaches to business communication! Thanks for all your work @mathewgillings.bsky.social and @susannekopf.bsky.social and congrats to all the authors.

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Matteo Fuoli @matteofuoli.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

First post on Bluesky! 🥳 Here's the recording of a talk I presented a few months ago, hosted by the fantastic team at @discore.bsky.social. bit.ly/3B9IBQX Corpus methods have transformed discourse analysis. Here, I argue it's time to take #CADS a step further by combining it with experiments.

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DISCORE Speaker Series: Dr.Matteo Fuoli - Presentation

Dr.Matteo Fuoli gave a talk titled A new methodological synergy? Combining CADS and experimental methods to investigate discourse effects.

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Department of Linguistics and Communication @UoB @lcuob.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Hi Bluesky: the department of Linguistics and Communication at the University of Birmingham is now on Bluesky! Who else from our department is here? @jeannettel.bsky.social @matteofuoli.bsky.social @adamcschembri.bsky.social @bodowinter.bsky.social @gregwoodin.bsky.social

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