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Tanja Säily

@tanjasaily.fi

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Associate Professor in English Language, University of Helsinki. Corpus linguistics, digital humanities, historical sociolinguistics, linguistic productivity, English lexis & morphology. Also into tea, papercraft, speculative fiction. tanjasaily.fi

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Tanja Säily @tanjasaily.fi · 04/03/2026

The presentation by @rob-lawson.bsky.social et al. discussed perceptions of healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic on UK Twitter using the TRAC:COVID interface. I like this function of plotting events on a frequency timeline (example word: nurses) traccovid.com/traccovid/da... #lancris2026

"Frequency over time" function of TRAC:COVID

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Tanja Säily @tanjasaily.fi · 04/03/2026

First up: a plenary by @tonymcenery.bsky.social on "Brexit – a crisis long in the making", starting with an insightful discussion of the pros and cons of corpus-assisted discourse studies. #lancris2026

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Tanja Säily @tanjasaily.fi · 18/07/2025

If you see this, I implore you to post a picture from your device without comment

A large tardigrade puppet hanging from the ceiling

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Tanja Säily @tanjasaily.fi · 21/06/2025

Surprising: love is associated with teeth in the BNC!

Human figures showing the embodiment of love in the BNC and self reports, as well as individual words

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Tanja Säily @tanjasaily.fi · 21/06/2025

Aatu Liimatta presenting "Do we write what we feel Embodiment of emotions in present-day English" #ICAME46

Aatu and a slide showing a human figure on which the emotion locations will be projected

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Tanja Säily @tanjasaily.fi · 03/06/2025

The thesis is available at: hdl.handle.net/10138/595923

Cover by Elizabeth Oakes: somewhat psychedelic illustrated circles, with the title of the thesis and the name of the author in blue boxes.

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Tanja Säily @tanjasaily.fi · 20/11/2024

Post you from a different era. Circa 1985

A girl playing a video game. Glasses, long hair, fancy joystick, sitting on the arm of a sofa.

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Tanja Säily @tanjasaily.fi · 15/11/2024

Hybrid seminar, 29 Nov: Linn Holmberg: The #Dictionary Craze in #Enlightenment Europe, 1665–1789 Everybody welcome! More information on the website of the Helsinki Society for Historical Lexicography: blogs.helsinki.fi/hellex-socie... #hellexsoc #lexicography #dictionaries

An illustration of the dictionary craze in Enlightenment Europe on the left, with the title of the talk and some information on Professor Holmberg (Stockholm University) on the right

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Tanja Säily @tanjasaily.fi · 05/02/2024

Here’s my Google Scholar word cloud (from shiny.rcg.sfu.ca/u/rdmorin/sc...) — how does yours look?

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Tanja Säily @tanjasaily.fi · 08/01/2024

Beer in Sheffield with helpfully labelled glasses.

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Tanja Säily @tanjasaily.fi · 08/11/2023

The study of derivational productivity has for a long time concentrated on structural constraints and, since the 1990s, variation across genres.

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