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@pragmatic.bsky.social Research and teaching fellow in #linguistics at University of Basel, lecturer/ researcher at FHNW. #pragmatics #cmc #avt #corpusling

Basel, Switzerland
Joined May 2009
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Dear ADDA4 participants, we are happy to share the conference program: conference2.aau.at/event/164…
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Happy to report a new open access publication on Fiction and Pragmatics doi.org/10.1017/978100909168…
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Happy to report a new open access publication on Pragmatics in translation doi.org/10.1017/978100926121… with @coocho and @PointyEar
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Join @coocho and me for a book launch party for "The Language of Pick-Up Artists" on May 10 (16:15-17:00 CEST)! We'll talk about the writing process and reveal an alternative book cover 🤩 Registration at forms.office.com/r/k3ajAQaEb…
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Registration for the second #OSSO talk by Thomas C. Messerli (@PointyEar) is now open! Join us (virtually or in Tampere) on April 21 for a talk on identities in video-oriented comments 📼📹💻 Registration ➡️ tinyurl.com/OSSOMesserli More info on OSSO ➡️ dariadayter.org/osso
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ON MEMES 29.03.2022 H18:00 Milan&online, in English Author @beritmiriam, linguist @PointyEar and artist #JiajiaZhang will discuss the significance of memes as a pop cultural digital object, moderated by @patti_federica. Free entry, register here: istitutosvizzero.it/talk/nob…
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Zelensky to Putin: "Good Lord, what do you want? Leave our land. If you don't want to leave now, sit down with me at the negotiating table. But not from 30 meters away, like with Macron and Scholz. Sit down with me and talk. What are you afraid of? We're no threat to anyone."
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#IPrA2021 Great keynote by Miriam Locher on the #pragmatics of fiction in translated relational work scenes of Korean TV drama! I can’t wait for her BTS paper on Wednesday!
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160+ registered participants 🎉 once registered please also sign up to our slack channel (see email) #staytuned #digitalpractices2020
Exciting! On Monday we start! You can still sign up! Looking forward to an international virtual conference with already 130+ registred participants #staytuned #digitalpractices2020 #dh #evaluation #reading #writing
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Here a little insight to our website ✌🏼
Group picture with (an) orange! Closing day two in good spirits at the @snsf_ch @UniBasel @DHLabBasel workshop on #sentimentanalysis #vsm w/ Prof. Arthur Jacobs @rebsim @MMKuijpers @PointyEar @GerhardLauer
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the team is ready for kick-off #bgbasel @UniBasel_en
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For more information on #bgbasel see engsem.unibas.ch/research/co…
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Reminder: "The Beautiful Game: The Poetics and Aesthetics of Soccer in Transnational Perspective" @UniBasel 30.06-02.07.2016 #bgbasel
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Cecil the lion's a celebrity/His killer has huge global fame/ Whilst a migrant was killed in Calais/& I haven’t once heard his name
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More tasty linguistics. New book out by Catherine Diederich "Sensory Adjectives in the Discourse of Food"
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Surely Her Majesty would call this a "Onesie" rather than a "selfie". MT @ThePoke
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I guess any part of the body is up for eating.
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#ESP bring in Pedro and Javi Martinez for Xavi and Pique against #CHI - here are both line-ups #WorldCup
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