Lawyer and linguist, UK-based Chicago enthusiast. Research Associate at Cardiff University. He/him @linguistlawyer.com on Blue Sky @dgrif@mastodon.online

Cardiff, Wales
Joined December 2010
This is also probably a good time to say that if you ever find a typo in a piece of my published academic writing, please never, ever tell me about it. I'm still annoyed I posted "in corpus" instead of "in [a] corpus" here yesterday. #AcademicChatter
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I had a second article come out yesterday! "Considering legal English: Consensus and complications" looks at what we know (and what we don't) about legal English as an overall register. doi.org/10.1558/ijsll.27418 1/4 #languageandlaw #forensiclinguistics
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The article closes with some suggestions of what a truly comprehensive description of legal English might look like, and why this matters for anyone who works with legal language. 3/4
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This is a topic I've wanted to write about since the early days of my PhD, meaning that some version of it has lived in my head for almost eight years! I'm thrilled to finally have this in print. Please let me know if you have any questions; I've clearly got lots to say! 4/4
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My new website is up and running! You can follow my research and get in touch with me at linguistlawyer.com.
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I'm interviewed in the latest issue of @Babelzine! Check it out to see what I have to say about how I first became interested in linguistics, the concept of "lexomancy", and some of the things I've been up to since I finished my PhD.
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Dana is the greatest! It was an absolute privilege having them with us today.
Really enjoyed joining @d_grif ‘s class today at @RoehamptonUni to give a workshop on forensic authorship analysis ☺️
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This was a great program that I got a lot out of! I'm very proud to have achieved Fellow status and look forward to putting the things I learned into practice in my own teaching.
Today we are celebrating! 🥳🎉A HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to all of our #CUFellowships participants who have successfully achieved their fellowship this term! We are thrilled to celebrate new #AdvanceHE #AssociateFellows, #Fellows & #SeniorFellows! Check out our new successes below 👇
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It looks like the whole of this year's LCL conference is available online! You can watch my talk from about 9:45 to 26:00 here: youtube.com/watch?v=Xit2AhQi…
I'm excited to present at @BYULaw's Law and Corpus Linguistics conference this Friday! I'm talking about one of my favorite topics: what we actually empirically know about "legal English." It'll be nice to see what a more legally-minded crowd has to say about my work.
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I'm excited to present at @BYULaw's Law and Corpus Linguistics conference this Friday! I'm talking about one of my favorite topics: what we actually empirically know about "legal English." It'll be nice to see what a more legally-minded crowd has to say about my work.
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An open invitation to all those young (or geriatric) academics who are interested in #pseudolaw. I'm not going to claim I'm the lead investigator in this subject area. But I think I'm pretty near the top of the list. There is SO much work to be done in relation to pseudolaw ideas, leaders, and populations. Neither myself nor the other investigators operating in this subject area are ever going to run out of materials, questions, and topics. (We may run out of sanity points, but that's another issue.) (Oh wait, I'm already lost into the depths of evil, so forget that question.) First, if you want to study this stuff, do it! There's a damned good chance you will be a trailblazer. Second, if you ever have questions, or are looking for resources? Ask me. I don't own this space, and I'd love to have more peers with whom to exchange observations and ideas. I also think you'll find the other investigators in this domain are equally receptive. They're good people. Pseudolaw studies are a neat space. I'm happy to say when I deal with my fellow investigators in this area, we usually have lovely collaborative discussions. I'll probably not ever know these people first-hand and in person. (And that's annoying.) But I'll simply conclude - they're a very decent lot. And if you're a fellow digger? I'm looking forward to meeting you, too.
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Some exciting personal news: we got engaged last night while camping in west Wales! I'm absolutely thrilled.
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Today seems like a good day to remind people that I can be found elsewhere online!
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And another option. Who knows where everyone will end up when the dust settles...
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A proud gaggle of newly minted @cardiffuni doctoral students show solidarity with @cardiffucu members. They don’t want to work in a sector where pay is plummeting, workloads are unsustainable, casualisation is rampant, & women earn 18.5% less than men. #SettleTheDispute ✊🩷
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I submitted my thesis last September, passed my viva in November, turned in my corrections in December, received my diploma in January, and today I attended my PhD graduation! The PhD doesn't get any more officially over than this. What a journey!
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It feels appropriate to bring this back given the subject of my talk at today's #IPRA2023 panel on magic and speech acts. I've come a long way from that dusty library basement!
I just rediscovered this piece of Tanzanian case law I turned up while working on a project for @BU_ILJ a few years ago. I never would have guessed then that the intersection of law and magic would end up being such an area of academic interest for me.
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