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Sentence firstThe trouble with dangling modifiersOn many vexed matters of English usage, people can be divided into the following groups:1. those who neither know nor care 2. those who do not know, but care very much 3. those who know and condemn 4. those who know and approve 5. those who know and distinguish.Thus with wry wit did <a href="https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2017/05/03/fowler-the-instinctive-grammatical-moralizer/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">H. W. Fowler</a> address the existence of <a href="https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2012/07/11/how-awkwardly-to-avoid-split-infinitives/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">split infinitives</a> in his landmark usage dictionary of 1926. He concluded that the first group ‘are the vast majority, and are a happy folk, to be envied by most of the minority classes’. <a href="https://stancarey.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/stan-carey-catkins-dangling.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a>Dangling catkins in the rural west of Ireland Even more people are happily unaware of <a href="https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2013/06/06/a-hovering-dangling-modifier/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">dangling or misplaced modifiers</a>. I mean this kind of thing: Cycling downhill, a truck almost hit me. The writer was cycling, but the grammar implies, absurdly, that the truck was. Or: Born in India, Diya’s education took her to Europe. Diya was born in India, but the line says her education was.As <a href="https://stancarey.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">a copy-editor</a> I’m in category 5: I routinely edit danglers to accord with the norms of formal written English. But they’re not always a flagrant error, and they’ve occurred in English since at least Chaucer’s day.Let’s take a closer look.(A note on terminology: The modifier is typically a participle but may be a clause, an infinitive, a gerund, etc. It may be described as dangling, hanging, confused, misplaced, misattached, unattached, unrelated, misrelated, etc. – though, depending on the source, ‘dangling’ and ‘hanging’ may apply only when the intended subject is implied, not just unattached. As a general shorthand, there’s ‘danglers’.)Many danglers cause little or no harm and are ambiguous only with a feat of imagination. For example:<blockquote>While replying to your email, the doorbell rang.</blockquote>The dangling gerund suggests that the doorbell was replying to the email, but it’s commonsensical to infer that the writer was doing so. The questionable grammar is likely to go unnoticed and unremarked upon in informal contexts but might be fixed if the prose were edited:<blockquote>While I was replying to your email, the doorbell rang.</blockquote>Sometimes what’s attached to the dangler is not a noun but a dummy ‘it’ or ‘there’:<blockquote>Looking over the results, there seems to be a consensus.</blockquote>Who was looking over the results is unclear from the isolated sentence, but it’s probably obvious in context. Dangling participles like this draw the attention of readers sensitized to the problem, such as editors, sticklers, and grammatically versed readers, but go unnoticed by the majority.<blockquote>To open the lid, it must be pushed down, then turned counter-clockwise.</blockquote>This dangling infinitive could be phrased more grammatically (To be opened, the lid must…; To open the lid, you must push it down…), but there’s no real confusion or difficulty. As G. H. Vallins writes of the general structure in The Pattern of English (1956), ‘provided the result is not patently incongruous, it is not too lightly to be condemned’.Some will condemn it anyway, in all possible cases, but there are fewer absolutes in English usage than is commonly supposed. Much hinges on style and context, and what is idiomatic need not be straitjacketed.Contemporary prescriptive authorities also allow wiggle room. Garner’s Modern English Usage quotes danglers from the prose of canonical authors and reputable grammarians, and says some ‘are acceptable because of long-standing usage’, e.g., Considering the current atmosphere in the legislature, the bill probably won’t pass.To considering can be added concerning, assuming, allowing for, speaking of, owing to, and many such phrases that have acquired ‘a prepositional or adverbial force’, Vallins writes. These, he continues,<blockquote>may introduce a phrase that is syntactically independent of a noun or pronoun in the main sentence . . . . It follows that there are borderline cases; and since this is so, there would seem to be some justification for any loosely related participle whose phrase is more adverbial than adjectival in function.</blockquote>Now, about those pitfalls. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary of English Usage says that unconscious humour is ‘the one pitfall that must be avoided’ – like the truck on a bicycle, in my invented example. The Columbia Guide to Standard American English concurs: ‘It’s the funny ones that cause trouble.’We might profitably take that to mean funny ha-ha or funny peculiar. Some cases may not be amusing but are surreal, nonsensical, or otherwise jarring. And to these may be added juxtapositions that are genuinely confusing or ambiguous: though rare, they do occur.I’ll present a couple of examples I saw recently. The funny or surreal type appeared in a Quiz of the Week in the Irish Times of 12 April 2025:<blockquote>Some 12,000 years after it became extinct, a Dallas-based biotech company claimed this week they have resurrected what as the “world’s first successfully de-extincted species”? (a) Velociraptors. (b) Dire wolves. (c) Woolly mammoths. (d) Travel agents.</blockquote>Photo of the print copy:<a href="https://stancarey.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/dangling-modifier-in-irish-times-weekend-quiz-of-week-eoin-butler-12-april-2025.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a>To be clear, a Dallas-based biotech company did not, as far as we know, go extinct 12,000 years ago – but that’s what the line implies. This is the ‘unconscious humour’ that MWDEU warns against. Among the ways the line could be felicitously rephrased is to simply move the modifier to the end:*<blockquote>A Dallas-based biotech company claimed this week they have resurrected what as the “world’s first successfully de-extincted species”, some 12,000 years after it became extinct?</blockquote>As automatic as the misreading may be, no one is likely to seriously interpret the line that way, though they may pause for reanalysis when they find the sentence’s grammatical subject – a Dallas-based biotech company – to be wildly different from anything the modifier had primed them to expect.Next is the confusing type. This one, from Pat Falvey and Pemba Gyalje Sherpa’s book The Summit: How Triumph Turned to Tragedy on K2’s Deadliest Days, starts with the word ‘Sacked’; I include a few lines before it for context:<blockquote>Ever since he had climbed out of his tent at 2am, Jehan [Baig] had not been feeling well. His expedition leader, Hugues D’Aubarède, had asked him to bring some extra oxygen bottles to the top of the Bottleneck. He had just done so and now he wanted nothing more than to get back to his tent. Jehan’s visit to K2 had been a litany of misfortunes and mishaps.Sacked by the Singaporean team for an alleged failure to comply with instructions and for poor climbing techniques, his friend and mentor, Shaheen Baig, had secured a place for him on Hugues’ team.</blockquote>The syntax implies that the Singaporean team sacked Shaheen Baig, but in fact they sacked Jehan Baig. Luckily, the broader context shows this, and the information is conveyed unambiguously elsewhere in the book. But if the line were taken out of context, or read inattentively, it could easily lead one astray. The two names’ similarity deepens the difficulty.Through this example you can see the potential for damage – to meaning, to reputation – when writers are unmindful of misplaced modifiers. Genuinely ambiguous cases are fortunately not common, because context usually clarifies things. And copy-editors reduce their numbers, which, paradoxically, may make the phenomenon more obscure than it otherwise would be.As it is, innocuous danglers are common, especially in unedited writing. And they will inevitably jar on some readers. Benjamin Dreyer, in Dreyer’s English, deems them ‘the most common error committed in otherwise competent prose and by far the most egregious type of error that regularly makes it to print’.Many danglers are like the one below, which I read this morning in a film review. I’ve altered the details while preserving the syntactic essence:<blockquote>The plot follows Kim as she returns to her hometown after a period of travel. Looking for direction, her mentor advises she join a local organization designed to meet young people’s needs.</blockquote>Grammatically it implies the wrong subject – Kim’s mentor is not looking for direction. (Or, if she is, it’s irrelevant and not what the line means to say.) Context makes the risk of ambiguity negligible, but the line may incur a brief miscue or distraction in readers as they rearrange the elements for sense.Among the ways the line might be edited to avoid the misplaced modifier is to employ the <a href="https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2016/05/13/passive-voice-peeving-and-ignorance/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">much-maligned passive voice</a>: Looking for direction, she is advised by her mentor to join a local organization . . . .Dangling modifiers come in a range of types, some more conspicuous or problematic than others. In their defence, you can cite <a href="https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2013/06/06/a-hovering-dangling-modifier/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Shakespeare and Jane Austen</a> – but even harmless danglers can interfere with a smooth reading experience, so they’re worth being on guard for. My earlier conclusion holds:When the meaning is plain and no genuine ambiguity arises, you might get away with dangling a modifier. But it’s best to be aware of the potential pitfalls, and to recast the sentence if you judge it necessary.** There’s a split infinitive for you, as a treat. <a href="https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2012/07/11/how-awkwardly-to-avoid-split-infinitives/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">I’m in group 4</a> for these.Update:Thanks to <a href="https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2025/05/the-trouble-with-dangling-modifiers.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">3 Quarks Daily</a> and <a href="https://thebrowser.com/free/tattoos-trouble/?ref=the-browser-newsletter" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Browser</a> for sharing this grammar nerdout with their readers.<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://stancarey.wordpress.com/tag/ambiguity/" target="_blank">#ambiguity</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://stancarey.wordpress.com/tag/dangling-modifiers/" target="_blank">#danglingModifiers</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://stancarey.wordpress.com/tag/descriptivism/" target="_blank">#descriptivism</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://stancarey.wordpress.com/tag/editing/" target="_blank">#editing</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://stancarey.wordpress.com/tag/english-usage/" target="_blank">#EnglishUsage</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://stancarey.wordpress.com/tag/grammar/" target="_blank">#grammar</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://stancarey.wordpress.com/tag/language/" target="_blank">#language</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://stancarey.wordpress.com/tag/misplaced-modifiers/" target="_blank">#misplacedModifiers</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://stancarey.wordpress.com/tag/pragmatics/" target="_blank">#pragmatics</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://stancarey.wordpress.com/tag/prescriptivism/" target="_blank">#prescriptivism</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://stancarey.wordpress.com/tag/reading/" target="_blank">#reading</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://stancarey.wordpress.com/tag/syntax/" target="_blank">#syntax</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://stancarey.wordpress.com/tag/usage/" target="_blank">#usage</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://stancarey.wordpress.com/tag/writing/" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://stancarey.wordpress.com/tag/writing-style/" target="_blank">#writingStyle</a>

Steam Powered Frisbee 🥏This is one reason why I ignore mission statements when I make decisions.<a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/uncertainty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uncertainty</a> <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/complexity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#complexity</a> <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/prediction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#prediction</a> <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/pragmatics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pragmatics</a> <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/simplicity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#simplicity</a> <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/humility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#humility</a> <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/epistemology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#epistemology</a> <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#philosophy</a> <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#quote</a> <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#quotes</a> <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/quoteoftheday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#quoteoftheday</a> <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#quotation</a>

MottG"Retrieval-augmented systems can be dangerous medical communicators"This article makes some great points about some limitations of RAG-based systems."Unlike a human physician, RAG-based systems often retrieve sources and generate responses according to a highly literal and narrow interpretation of patient queries, serving to reinforce patient presuppositions (e.g., queries that contain implicit assumptions) and biases; ..."<a href="https://arxiv.org/html/2502.14898v1" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://arxiv.org/html/2502.14898v1</a><a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#research</a> <a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#medicine</a> <a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/RAG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RAG</a> <a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/pragmatics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pragmatics</a>

Martin CorleyNew Paper!Those of you interested in <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#psychology</a> of <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#language</a>, espeically <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/pragmatics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pragmatics</a>, might be interested in our paper showing that "some" can be made to mean "one", or even "zero", in context -- with cool real-time mousetracking analyses, thanks to Wei Li's hard work (also with Hannah Rohde)<a href="https://doi.org/10.5070/G6011.19407" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.5070/G6011.19407</a>

Oliver CzuloRegarding <a href="https://wisskomm.social/tags/translation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#translation</a> , we have mostly been discussing the interface between 'the <a href="https://wisskomm.social/tags/digital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#digital</a>' and <a href="https://wisskomm.social/tags/humans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#humans</a> in terms of process guidelines and product quality in terms of a narrowed-down set of concepts such as adequacy and fluency. But what about concepts typically studied in the humanities such as <a href="https://wisskomm.social/tags/creativity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#creativity</a>, <a href="https://wisskomm.social/tags/pragmatics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pragmatics</a> and <a href="https://wisskomm.social/tags/discourse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#discourse</a>? I have jotted down a few thoughts on how we would benefit from expanding on those on the <a href="https://wisskomm.social/tags/EMTnet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EMTnet</a> blog: <a href="https://european-masters-translation-blog.ec.europa.eu/articles-emt-blog/pushing-boundaries-digital-translatology-some-notes-creativity-pragmatics-and-discourse-2025-01-09_en" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://european-masters-translation-blog.ec.europa.eu/articles-emt-blog/pushing-boundaries-digital-translatology-some-notes-creativity-pragmatics-and-discourse-2025-01-09_en</a>What are your thoughts?

Stefan HartmannHappy to be part of this edited volume on <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/evolutionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#evolutionary</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/pragmatics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pragmatics</a> - another great collaboration with <a href="https://scholar.social/@symbolicstorage" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@symbolicstorage</a>

Radical A Journal of Phonology🎺 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CallForPapers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CallForPapers</a> Rencontres d’Automne de Linguistique Formelle in Lille (France), June 4-6th, 2025🛠️ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RALFe2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RALFe2025</a> invites contributions on formal <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/phonology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#phonology</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/morphology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#morphology</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/syntax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#syntax</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/semantics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#semantics</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pragmatics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pragmatics</a> (and their interfaces)⏰ 2-page abstracts due January 31st 2025🔗 <a href="https://ralfe2025.sciencesconf.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://ralfe2025.sciencesconf.org/</a>

Nicola BroccaThank <a href="https://social.uibk.ac.at/@DiSC_uibk" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@DiSC_uibk</a> for having me at the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DiSCourseSeminar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DiSCourseSeminar</a>! 🙏 It was a pleasure sharing insights on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LLMs</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pragmatics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pragmatics</a> with such an engaged audience. Missed it? Catch the talk here: 🎥 OLAT (video): <a href="https://lms.uibk.ac.at/auth/RepositoryEntry/4849139825/CourseNode/110919116153415" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lms.uibk.ac.at/auth/RepositoryEntry/4849139825/CourseNode/110919116153415</a> 🎧 YouTube (slides+audio): <a href="https://youtu.be/yiUfexWOfuw?si=_I6m1DDL2GWXcSet" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/yiUfexWOfuw?si=_I6m1DDL2GWXcSet</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linguistics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LanguageEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LanguageEducation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uibk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uibk</a> <a href="https://social.uibk.ac.at/@fachdidaktik" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@fachdidaktik</a>

DiSC_uibkDid you miss our recent <a href="https://social.uibk.ac.at/tags/DiSCourseSeminar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DiSCourseSeminar</a> with <a href="https://mastodon.social/@nicolabrocca" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@nicolabrocca</a> from <a href="https://social.uibk.ac.at/@fachdidaktik" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@fachdidaktik</a> on <a href="https://social.uibk.ac.at/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LLMs</a> and <a href="https://social.uibk.ac.at/tags/Pragmatics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pragmatics</a>: Insights from <a href="https://social.uibk.ac.at/tags/Linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linguistics</a> and <a href="https://social.uibk.ac.at/tags/LanguageEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LanguageEducation</a>? Watch it now on OLAT (video): <a href="https://lms.uibk.ac.at/auth/RepositoryEntry/4849139825/CourseNode/110919116153415" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lms.uibk.ac.at/auth/RepositoryEntry/4849139825/CourseNode/110919116153415</a> or on Youtube (slides and audio only): <a href="https://youtu.be/yiUfexWOfuw?si=_I6m1DDL2GWXcSet" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/yiUfexWOfuw?si=_I6m1DDL2GWXcSet</a>! 📺🙃<a href="https://social.uibk.ac.at/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://social.uibk.ac.at/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChatGPT</a> <a href="https://social.uibk.ac.at/tags/PoliticalDiSCourse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoliticalDiSCourse</a>

Gila SchauerIf you are interested in second language (<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/L2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#L2</a>) <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pragmatics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pragmatics</a> & young language learners (<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/YLL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#YLL</a>), I highly recommend "Researching and Teaching Speech Acts with Young L2 Learners: Beneath the Linguistic Surface" by M. Savic, A. Mryset, M. Economidou-Kogetsidis, <a href="https://www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/?k=9781800412712" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/?k=9781800412712</a>

Nicola BroccaExcited to join the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DiscourseSeminar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DiscourseSeminar</a> this Friday at 12:00 CET! I'll be discussing "'<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LLMs</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pragmatics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pragmatics</a>: Insights from Linguistics and Language Education". Looking forward to sharing ideas with the DiSC community and engaging with your questions! 💬📚 More info: <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/disc/events/discourse-brocca/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/disc/events/discourse-brocca/</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linguistics</a>"<a href="https://social.uibk.ac.at/@DiSC_uibk" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@DiSC_uibk</a> <a href="https://social.uibk.ac.at/@fachdidaktik" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@fachdidaktik</a>

DiSC_uibkJoin us on Friday, 12:00 (CET) for another <a href="https://social.uibk.ac.at/tags/DiscourseSeminar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DiscourseSeminar</a>! Topic: <a href="https://social.uibk.ac.at/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LLMs</a> and <a href="https://social.uibk.ac.at/tags/Pragmatics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pragmatics</a>: Insights from <a href="https://social.uibk.ac.at/tags/Linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linguistics</a> and <a href="https://social.uibk.ac.at/tags/LanguageEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LanguageEducation</a> Speaker: <a href="https://mastodon.social/@nicolabrocca" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@nicolabrocca</a> (<a href="https://social.uibk.ac.at/@fachdidaktik" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@fachdidaktik</a>) Location: Onsite at DiSC or online on Big Blue Button.More info: <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/disc/events/discourse-brocca/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/disc/events/discourse-brocca/</a>

Nicola BroccaExcited to be part of the upcoming <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DiSCourseSeminar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DiSCourseSeminar</a>! I'll be sharing insights on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LLMs</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pragmatics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pragmatics</a>, exploring connections between <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PoliticLinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoliticLinguistics</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Promting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Promting</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LanguageEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LanguageEducation</a>. Looking forward to engaging discussions on 29 November 2024! 🗓️✨ @fachdidaktik <a href="https://social.uibk.ac.at/@DiSC_uibk" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@DiSC_uibk</a> <a href="https://social.uibk.ac.at/@fachdidaktik" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@fachdidaktik</a> Learn more: <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/disc/events/discourse-brocca/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/disc/events/discourse-brocca/</a>

Oliver CzuloHow can <a href="https://wisskomm.social/tags/pragmatics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pragmatics</a> be modelled by means of <a href="https://wisskomm.social/tags/frames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#frames</a> and then be applied to <a href="https://wisskomm.social/tags/translation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#translation</a> analysis? Susanne Triesch-Herrmann and I published some thoughts on this in the recent edition of trans-kom on the basis of the German word "bekanntlich" ('as is known') in English-German translations: <a href="https://www.trans-kom.eu/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.trans-kom.eu/</a>

Head·word /ˈhedˌwɜː(ɹ)d/ n.<a href="https://mastodon.social/@ZachWeinersmith" class="u-url mention">@ZachWeinersmith</a> Immensely funny. I'll add some relevant hashtags here:<a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/phonetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#phonetics</a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/prosody" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#prosody</a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/pragmatics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#pragmatics</a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/SpeechSounds" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#SpeechSounds</a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/ArticulatoryPhonetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ArticulatoryPhonetics</a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/SpeechSynthesis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#SpeechSynthesis</a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/TextToSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#TextToSpeech</a>

Matt ColerThe Guardian did a write-up on <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/sarcasm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sarcasm</a> detection research in our Speech Tech Lab at the University of Groningen. <a href="https://social.edu.nl/@universityofgroningen" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@universityofgroningen</a> Read all about it! <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/16/researchers-build-ai-driven-sarcasm-detector" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/16/researchers-build-ai-driven-sarcasm-detector</a><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/SpeechTechnology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpeechTechnology</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/AutomaticSpeechRecognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AutomaticSpeechRecognition</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/sarcasm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sarcasm</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/pragmatics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pragmatics</a>

Ulrike Hahn<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/gpt4o" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gpt4o</a> I watched the new OpenAI demo and the combination of real-time text, vision and audio streams and it feels like a renewed, more in-depth discussion around <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/pragmatics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pragmatics</a> and “situationally embedded meaning“ is needed <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/linguistics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@linguistics</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/DQacCB9tDaw?feature=shared" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/live/DQacCB9tDaw?feature=shared</a>

Sprachwissenschaft Uni ErfurtProf. Schauer gave a presentation at the University of Padua on 8th May with the title "L2 <a href="https://wisskomm.social/tags/Pragmatics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pragmatics</a> and young learners - focus on (instructional) materials". <a href="https://wisskomm.social/tags/L2Pragmatics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#L2Pragmatics</a> , <a href="https://wisskomm.social/tags/ELT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ELT</a> , <a href="https://wisskomm.social/tags/YLL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#YLL</a> , <a href="https://wisskomm.social/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#English</a> , <a href="https://wisskomm.social/tags/AppliedLinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AppliedLinguistics</a>

Nicola Brocca🎉 Exciting News for Pragmatics Enthusiasts! We've just released a comprehensive dataset tailored for learners researches in pragmatics. Available now on ARCHE.at! 📊📚 Explore two new datasets: Ladder and DisDir, each designed to enhance your studies in coprus pragmatics and intercultural pragmatics. Check them out now and start exploring! 🔗 Ladder: <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/21.11115/0000-0011-BF1F-5" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://hdl.handle.net/21.11115/0000-0011-BF1F-5</a> 🔗 DisDir: <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/21.11115/0000-0011-BF16-E" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://hdl.handle.net/21.11115/0000-0011-BF16-E</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pragmatics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pragmatics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LearnerCorpusResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LearnerCorpusResearch</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linguistics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PragmaticsDataset" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PragmaticsDataset</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenAccess</a>

Kristiina KPhilosophy of language/linguistics question. Is there a name for a speech act which applies simultaneously for both metaphorical and literal aspect in a situation? E.g., “put a lid on it” said to someone who is distracted by a conversation while cooking. I’m 100% certain Mastodon will have someone who knows the answer! <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/PhilosophyOfLanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PhilosophyOfLanguage</a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/speech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#speech</a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/pragmatics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pragmatics</a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/semiotics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#semiotics</a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/LanguagePhilosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LanguagePhilosophy</a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/CognitiveScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CognitiveScience</a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/Sociolinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sociolinguistics</a>

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