New OA paper: how do you address someone online, and does it depend on where you're from?
Turns out yes. Mate dominates in UK & Australia. Americans avoid it. Dude typically US.
Address terms on Twitter/X across 🇦🇺🇬🇧🇺🇸
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/weng.70025
#WorldEnglishes #DigitalDiscourse
#30DaysOfLADAL: this month, we shared 30 tutorials covering R, statistics, and computational text analysis: all free, open-access, and designed for researchers working with language data.
Check it out: ladal.edu.au/tutorials.html
#LADAL #RStats #DigitalHumanities #OpenScience
I regularly transfer money between Australia and Germany, and I highly recommend Wise as my go-to option. It’s fast, transparent, and reliable.
Here’s a free card or transfer for Wise. Give it a try! wise.com/invite/dit/martins1…
Martin Schweinberger retweeted
📢 ALAA is coming to UQ! 🥳
A huge range of research in Applied Linguistics to be presented 🥳
📥 Abstracts due on May 18
🗓 November 26-28, 2026
#language #pragmatics #interaction
2026 Joint ALAA–ALANZ–ALTAANZ Conference: Call for Papers!
The call for abstracts is now open, closing Monday 18th May, 2026. We welcome proposals for papers, colloquia, and posters.
The conference website is now live @ alaa.net.au/2026
#AppliedLinguistics #ALAA2026 #UQ
New publication
Schweinberger, M, Rautionaho, P & Burridge, K. 2026.
Vulgarity and bad language in online and public discourse: an introduction.
Lingua 334, 104133.
This editorial introduces our special issue on vulgarity in digital and public discourse:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1mjJw…
ISLE Online Book Launch of Data-Intensive Investigations of English:
📅 Mar 17, 2026
⏰ 10:00 EET | 9:00 CET
Topics: data-intensive linguistics, computational methods & future digital approaches.
Register: link.webropol.com/ep/dataint…
#Linguistics #CorpusLinguistics #DigitalHumanities
My chapter on the Replication Crisis in Corpus Linguistics is out in Data-Intensive Investigations of English (CUP). I discuss ways to improve reproducibility & transparency in language research.
🔗 doi.org/10.1017/978100941568… #CorpusLinguistics #OpenScience #DigitalHumanities
How does vulgarity shape English? 🤔
We explored this in the ISLE Online Forum with Burridge, Beers Fägersten & Stapleton.
Catch the full discussion: youtube.com/watch?v=l3K4v4Lt… @ISLELinguistics
#Sociolinguistics #LanguageResearch #Vulgarity #Swearing
Martin Schweinberger retweeted
Don’t miss the ISLE Online Forum “Vulgarity in English” on Dec 12, 2025 (10 AM CET | 8 PM AEDT)!
Explore how “bad language” shapes creativity, identity & social meaning with Kate Burridge, Kristy Beers Fägersten & Karyn Stapleton.
Details: isle-linguistics.org/activit…
#vulgarity
Here is a short interview with me as one of the Chief Investigators at the Language Data Commons of Australia (LDaCA) on what language analytics can teach us and why they’re so cool and useful🗣️🔎
Check it out here: linkedin.com/posts/ldaca_in-…
#Linguistics #LanguageData #Research
Don’t miss the ISLE Online Forum “Vulgarity in English” on Dec 12, 2025 (10 AM CET | 8 PM AEDT)!
Explore how “bad language” shapes creativity, identity & social meaning with Kate Burridge, Kristy Beers Fägersten & Karyn Stapleton.
Details: isle-linguistics.org/activit…
#vulgarity
Don't miss it! Details and Call for the ISLE Summer School 2026 linkedin.com/pulse/isle-summ… via @LinkedIn
#englishlinguistics #corpuslinguistics #psycholinguiics #historicallinguistics #sociolinguistics @ISLELinguistics
🚨 New Open Access Special Issue 🚨
Reproducibility, Replication, and Robustness in Corpus Linguistics
💡 Key topics
Ensuring reproducibility & generalizability
Social media data & transparency in corpus pragmatics
🔗 benjamins.com/catalog/ijcl.3…
#CorpusLinguistics #OpenScience
📢 Next ISLE Online Forum "Teaching with impact: Linguistics in the classroom"
Nov 12, 2025 6PM CET Hear from ISLE Teaching Innovation Prize winner Julia Schlüter + Katharina Deckert on KorPLUS, and @ElenLeFoll on her open data-literacy textbook
@ISLELinguistics
📢 Join us for the next ISLE Online Forum!
Teaching with impact: Linguistics in the classroom
🗓️ Nov 12, 2025 6PM CET
Hear from ISLE Teaching Innovation Prize winner Julia Schlüter + Katharina Deckert on KorPLUS, and Elen Le Foll on her open data-literacy textbook
Martin Schweinberger retweeted
Don’t miss the ISLE Online Forum "Outreach with impact: Linguistics in the public sphere" by the ISLE Outreach Prize winner Celeste Rodriguez Louro on Friday, Oct. 24, 2025, 10AM CEST, 4PM AWST! See shorturl.at/LLtvK
@ISLELinguistics #EnglishLinguistics @CelesteRLouro
Martin Schweinberger retweeted
So pleased to see my UQ colleagues on this one !! @ronautic
"This introduction to the special issue . . . calls for more transparent and robust research practices in the field"
Schweinberger & Haugh (2025). Reproducibility, replicability, and robustness in corpus linguistics
doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.25081.s…
I gave an invited talk at @UniversitySA for the Linguistics & Applied Linguistics Seminar Series (thanks to Amir Sheikhan!) on Vulgarity in World Englishes 🌍💬 — exploring taboo language across contexts & corpora.
🎥 Watch here 👉 youtube.com/watch?v=Y0EFJMZn…
🤬 Who swears more — young women or men? Australians, Americans, or Brits? Join me for “Vulgarity in World Englishes.” 🗓 Fri 10 Oct 2025, 12 pm (Adelaide). Hybrid @ UniSA.
🔗 Register: lnkd.in/gXs7zYkQ
WATCH ISLE8 LIVE on the ISLE YouTube channel: youtube.com/@isle2008/stream…
September 4, 2025, 12:30 PM (CEST) Plenary by Graeme Trousdale: The surprising English language #isle8 #englishlinguistics @ISLELinguistics

















