My PhD thesis in linguistics analyses how and why we express subjective perspective on social media. Titled "Stancetaking in interest-based online communities: A corpus pragmatic comparative analysis", it is now available for download as pdf: helda.helsinki.fi/handle/10138/5…

The Department of the History of the English Language invites everybody to the 4th on-line lecture in the series Sociolinguistic Aspects of Historical Orthography, organised within the framework of the AMU Institute of Advances Studies in Social Sciences and Humanities programme.

I'm Researcher of the Month at the Language Bank of Finland – thanks, @FinClarin! helsinki.fi/en/faculty-art…

📢Tampere University is looking for a university lecturer in English linguistics: tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_RJ…

The Small Corpus of Colombian English as a Second Language Essays (SCoCESLE) has been added to CoRD: varieng.helsinki.fi/CoRD/corpora/S… #corpusresources

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⁦University of Helsinki⁩ based scholar Elizabeth Peterson co-edited a book ”English in the Nordic countries”. In short: English is not a threat to national languages, not at least in Finland. Worth reading for ones worried. ⁦@epeterso⁩ hs.fi/kotimaa/art-20…

Want to meet and network with other researchers of English language, translation and literature in Finland? Finsse-11 conference offers a good opportunity to do just that! Today is the deadline for abstract submission, more info on the website: helsinki.fi/en/conferences…

This is a friendly reminder of the visiting lecture organized University of Helsinki : Dr. Matt Hunt Gardner 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 will be talking on the topic "Old Areal Feature, New Social Meaning: The Balto-Atlantic Ingressive yup↓ in Canadian Maritime English" on April 18, at 14.15 at Metsätalo Lect. Hall 6

📣 New paper! 📣 Changing styles of letter-writing? Evidence from 400 years of early English letters in a POS-tagged corpus Unfortunately not open access but if you'd like a copy, please be in touch. 😊 #corpuslinguistics doi.org/10.1075/cilt.3…

The Transatlantic Component of the Corpus of Academic Spoken English (TaCoCASE) has been added to CoRD: varieng.helsinki.fi/CoRD/corpora/T… #corpusresources

Check out the next ISLE Online Expert Panel "Perspectives on Grammatical Change" Wednesday, September 18, 5pm (CEST), with Marianne Hundt, Terttu Nevalainen, and Joel Wallenberg! Details at isle-linguistics.org/activities/out… ISLE #EnglishLinguistics Marianne Hundt Claire Childs

Can social media discussions be civil? 🤔 Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen and I are organizing a panel called "Keeping it civil online: in pursuit of civility in social media interaction" @ #IPrA2025 in Brisbane. Call for papers open until 1 Nov 2024 #pragmatics linguistlist.org/issues/35/2314/

Only a month and a week now to my workshop on epistolary materiality – do join us! Students welcome too! Come for the seals 🦭💌, stay for the elephants 🐘 and blue silk floss.

One month to go to my workshop on material aspects of letter-writing! ✉️ Epistolary materiality includes the text – join us to talk about forgotten marginalia, tremulous hands, and instructions to turn the page or burn the letter. 🔥 Do come! – small bursaries available. 💶

Join us TODAY, 6:30pm CEST: ISLE Online Expert Panel on "From the core to the periphery: The value of marginal aspects of language" with Brian Joseph , Gunther Kaltenböck, and Belén Méndez-Naya! isle-linguistics.org/activities/out… ISLE #EnglishLinguistics Belén Naya Méndez

New paper with Turo Vartiainen! The working title was "Life is hard when you're a historical corpus linguist" 😄 Engaging with bad (meta)data in historical #corpuslinguistics doi.org/10.1075/scl.11… #openaccess version: hdl.handle.net/10138/587373

New paper with Martin Hilpert & Jukka Suomela! New approaches to investigating change in derivational productivity: Gender and internal factors in the development of ‑ity and ‑ness, 1600–1800 doi.org/10.1075/scl.11… #openaccess version: hdl.handle.net/10138/587305 #cxg #sociolx

Hybrid seminar, 29 November: 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-society… #hellexsoc #lexicography #dictionaries

Happy New Year! Here's a list of last year's publications by Variengers – lots of research on variation, contacts and change in English 😊 #corpuslinguistics helsinki.fi/en/researchgro…