Dr Monika Pleyer
@linguisticisms.bsky.social
PhD in linguistics. Researching Impoliteness in children's fiction, and metaphors in virtual health discourses (esp. on dementia). 🩷💜💙 they/she
New brilliant #OpenAccess paper on cognition and #languageevolution
🚨NEW PUBLICATION ALERT🚨
"From extant to extinct: The role of experiments and interdisciplinary inferences in studying cognitive and #language evolution." (with Svetlana Kuleshova)
Out now in #OpenAccess in Journal of Archaeological Science
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"From extant to extinct: The role of experiments and interdisciplinary inferences in studying cognitive and #language evolution." (with Svetlana Kuleshova)
Out now in #OpenAccess in Journal of Archaeological Science
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
From extant to extinct: The role of experiments and interdisciplinary inferences in studying cognitive and language evolution
This article evaluates the role of experiments and interdisciplinary inferences in the field of language evolution and, more broadly, studies of cogni…
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November 9, 2025 at 1:24 PM
New brilliant #OpenAccess paper on cognition and #languageevolution
New paper alert!
In my newest paper, which has just appeared in Discourse, Context & Media, I analyse how people living with dementia use conceptual metaphor to construct self and their condition and as a tool for sense-making for dementia-induced changes
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In my newest paper, which has just appeared in Discourse, Context & Media, I analyse how people living with dementia use conceptual metaphor to construct self and their condition and as a tool for sense-making for dementia-induced changes
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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November 7, 2025 at 1:06 PM
New paper alert!
In my newest paper, which has just appeared in Discourse, Context & Media, I analyse how people living with dementia use conceptual metaphor to construct self and their condition and as a tool for sense-making for dementia-induced changes
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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In my newest paper, which has just appeared in Discourse, Context & Media, I analyse how people living with dementia use conceptual metaphor to construct self and their condition and as a tool for sense-making for dementia-induced changes
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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Korpuslinguistik die Pyrotechnik der Sprachwissenschaft 🧨
KORPUSLINGUISTIK IST KEIN VERBRECHEN 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
March 26, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Korpuslinguistik die Pyrotechnik der Sprachwissenschaft 🧨
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The remarkable bonobo that humans named Kanzi has died, age 44. During his life he helped researchers learn much more about the capabilities of his species, and by extension about our shared common ancestors.
www.apeinitiative.org/remembering-...
www.apeinitiative.org/remembering-...
March 19, 2025 at 7:47 PM
The remarkable bonobo that humans named Kanzi has died, age 44. During his life he helped researchers learn much more about the capabilities of his species, and by extension about our shared common ancestors.
www.apeinitiative.org/remembering-...
www.apeinitiative.org/remembering-...
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JOB ALERT in #language and #linguistics!
Postdoc Position at the Center for Language Evolution Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland.
Job offer here: www.umk.pl/en/jobs/?tas...
We are now looking at a broader candidate pool so do consider applying!
Please repost & share widely!
Postdoc Position at the Center for Language Evolution Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland.
Job offer here: www.umk.pl/en/jobs/?tas...
We are now looking at a broader candidate pool so do consider applying!
Please repost & share widely!
March 8, 2025 at 4:04 PM
JOB ALERT in #language and #linguistics!
Postdoc Position at the Center for Language Evolution Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland.
Job offer here: www.umk.pl/en/jobs/?tas...
We are now looking at a broader candidate pool so do consider applying!
Please repost & share widely!
Postdoc Position at the Center for Language Evolution Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland.
Job offer here: www.umk.pl/en/jobs/?tas...
We are now looking at a broader candidate pool so do consider applying!
Please repost & share widely!
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Dear #langsky! I have just published my survey. If you have ever used Duolingo to learn/practice German, you are welcome to participate. Whether you love or hate Duolingo, whether you use it every day or not at all, whether you speak fluent German or only a few words.
March 4, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Dear #langsky! I have just published my survey. If you have ever used Duolingo to learn/practice German, you are welcome to participate. Whether you love or hate Duolingo, whether you use it every day or not at all, whether you speak fluent German or only a few words.
My latest paper is out in OA! I discuss how family care partners use conceptual #metaphor in an online forum to conceptualise #caregiving and 'their' person living with #dementia
www.winter-verlag.de/de/detail/97...
www.winter-verlag.de/de/detail/97...
March 1, 2025 at 10:53 AM
My latest paper is out in OA! I discuss how family care partners use conceptual #metaphor in an online forum to conceptualise #caregiving and 'their' person living with #dementia
www.winter-verlag.de/de/detail/97...
www.winter-verlag.de/de/detail/97...
I'm overjoyed to announce my first co-authored project of 2025: welcome to the world, Samuel *14.02.3025
February 26, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I'm overjoyed to announce my first co-authored project of 2025: welcome to the world, Samuel *14.02.3025
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Noch wenige Stunden, dann gehen die Uhren womöglich auch in Deutschland rückwärts. Oder doch nicht? Noch haben wir es in der Hand. Falls ihr noch nicht wisst, ob ihr wählen geht: tut es! Eure Stimme ist wichtiger denn je. Let‘s vote the shit out of this (im besten Fall im Wortsinn) #btw25
February 23, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Noch wenige Stunden, dann gehen die Uhren womöglich auch in Deutschland rückwärts. Oder doch nicht? Noch haben wir es in der Hand. Falls ihr noch nicht wisst, ob ihr wählen geht: tut es! Eure Stimme ist wichtiger denn je. Let‘s vote the shit out of this (im besten Fall im Wortsinn) #btw25
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Und nicht zuletzt: planen, organisieren, freuen auf unsere interdisziplinäre Tagung im Juli:
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January 30, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Und nicht zuletzt: planen, organisieren, freuen auf unsere interdisziplinäre Tagung im Juli:
uebercringe.de/call-for-pap...
uebercringe.de/call-for-pap...
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JOB ALERT! Come work with me!
34-Month Postdoc Position here at the Center for Language Evolution Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń in my project "Paths to Polysemy"
Job offer here: www.umk.pl/en/jobs/?tas...
Please repost & share widely!
34-Month Postdoc Position here at the Center for Language Evolution Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń in my project "Paths to Polysemy"
Job offer here: www.umk.pl/en/jobs/?tas...
Please repost & share widely!
January 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM
JOB ALERT! Come work with me!
34-Month Postdoc Position here at the Center for Language Evolution Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń in my project "Paths to Polysemy"
Job offer here: www.umk.pl/en/jobs/?tas...
Please repost & share widely!
34-Month Postdoc Position here at the Center for Language Evolution Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń in my project "Paths to Polysemy"
Job offer here: www.umk.pl/en/jobs/?tas...
Please repost & share widely!
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Publication day: Voices in the Linguistic Landscape, our study on anthropomorphic objects and their first person pronouns.
If you are interested in theories of posthumanist sociolinguistics and/or pictures of talking trash cans, this is for you!
If you are interested in theories of posthumanist sociolinguistics and/or pictures of talking trash cans, this is for you!
Voices in the Linguistic Landscape | John Benjamins
Abstract
This paper contributes to the emerging analytical framework of anthropomorphized artifacts as part of Linguistic
Landscapes. It describes and analyzes cases where signage, objects, or relate...
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January 23, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Publication day: Voices in the Linguistic Landscape, our study on anthropomorphic objects and their first person pronouns.
If you are interested in theories of posthumanist sociolinguistics and/or pictures of talking trash cans, this is for you!
If you are interested in theories of posthumanist sociolinguistics and/or pictures of talking trash cans, this is for you!
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Mal wieder eine kleine Sprachumfrage - geht ganz schnell: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Umfrage Bild-Zuordnungen
Liebe Studienteilnehmer:innen,
Im Rahmen des Germanistik-Masterseminars „Ist das Ihr Seminar oder das Seminar von Ihnen? Was Alternationen über unser sprachliches Wissen verraten“ der Heinrich-Heine...
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January 20, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Mal wieder eine kleine Sprachumfrage - geht ganz schnell: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Andrew Van Ginkel has been slept on by the AP and was named 2nd-Team All-Pro.
Gink deserves 1st-Team accolades in our humble opinion.
📰: mnvkn.gs/40a8f0r
#Skol
Gink deserves 1st-Team accolades in our humble opinion.
📰: mnvkn.gs/40a8f0r
#Skol
January 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Andrew Van Ginkel has been slept on by the AP and was named 2nd-Team All-Pro.
Gink deserves 1st-Team accolades in our humble opinion.
📰: mnvkn.gs/40a8f0r
#Skol
Gink deserves 1st-Team accolades in our humble opinion.
📰: mnvkn.gs/40a8f0r
#Skol
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January 5, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Stellenausschreibung: Uni Heidelberg, Psycholinguistik, A13 100%, 3+3 Jahre ⬇️
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January 3, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Stellenausschreibung: Uni Heidelberg, Psycholinguistik, A13 100%, 3+3 Jahre ⬇️
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Jahresabrechnung kam, deshalb gibt es jetzt WERBUNG! :)
2015 erschien im Verlag Torsten Low meine Kurzgeschichtensammlung "Das öde Land und andere Geschichten vom Ende der Welt". Es ist der älteste Titel von mir, der noch am Markt ist, und ich bin Torsten sehr dankbar dafür.
2015 erschien im Verlag Torsten Low meine Kurzgeschichtensammlung "Das öde Land und andere Geschichten vom Ende der Welt". Es ist der älteste Titel von mir, der noch am Markt ist, und ich bin Torsten sehr dankbar dafür.
Das öde Land und andere Geschichten vom Ende der Welt / Oliver Plaschka
Das öde Land und andere Geschichten vom Ende der Welt
(Oliver Plaschka)
Fantastische Geschichten aus Vergangenheit und Zukunft, den fernen Winkeln der Welt und vom Ende aller Tage.
Ein Dieb auf der F...
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December 31, 2024 at 11:02 AM
Jahresabrechnung kam, deshalb gibt es jetzt WERBUNG! :)
2015 erschien im Verlag Torsten Low meine Kurzgeschichtensammlung "Das öde Land und andere Geschichten vom Ende der Welt". Es ist der älteste Titel von mir, der noch am Markt ist, und ich bin Torsten sehr dankbar dafür.
2015 erschien im Verlag Torsten Low meine Kurzgeschichtensammlung "Das öde Land und andere Geschichten vom Ende der Welt". Es ist der älteste Titel von mir, der noch am Markt ist, und ich bin Torsten sehr dankbar dafür.
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Euer Sprachgefühl ist gefragt - gerne teilnehmen und/oder teilen: surveys.phil.hhu.de/umfrage/inde...
Ihr $prachge£ÜhI istgefragt!
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December 25, 2024 at 10:59 AM
Euer Sprachgefühl ist gefragt - gerne teilnehmen und/oder teilen: surveys.phil.hhu.de/umfrage/inde...
Abwesenheitsnotiz ✅
Plätzchenteller und Kerzen ✅
Noch einmal mit dem BTSV verlieren
Und dann ist Weihnachten
Plätzchenteller und Kerzen ✅
Noch einmal mit dem BTSV verlieren
Und dann ist Weihnachten
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December 20, 2024 at 5:02 PM
Abwesenheitsnotiz ✅
Plätzchenteller und Kerzen ✅
Noch einmal mit dem BTSV verlieren
Und dann ist Weihnachten
Plätzchenteller und Kerzen ✅
Noch einmal mit dem BTSV verlieren
Und dann ist Weihnachten
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Reminder für alle #IchBinHanna|s: Es ist okay, in der Weihnachtspause nicht zu arbeiten. Deadlines in oder direkt nach der Pause sind nicht normal, sondern Teil einer toxischen Arbeitskultur. Habt kein schlechtes Gewissen wegen Nichtstun! Das Jahr war hart. Take a break! ❤️
November 8, 2024 at 7:05 PM
Reminder für alle #IchBinHanna|s: Es ist okay, in der Weihnachtspause nicht zu arbeiten. Deadlines in oder direkt nach der Pause sind nicht normal, sondern Teil einer toxischen Arbeitskultur. Habt kein schlechtes Gewissen wegen Nichtstun! Das Jahr war hart. Take a break! ❤️
That moment when you can combine your twin passions in teaching: illness metaphors and power metal
#whatlibguistsdo
#whatlibguistsdo
December 12, 2024 at 9:13 AM
That moment when you can combine your twin passions in teaching: illness metaphors and power metal
#whatlibguistsdo
#whatlibguistsdo
Yuletide baking has commenced!
December 8, 2024 at 6:39 PM
Yuletide baking has commenced!
There are days when dreams do come true. Today I signed my permanent contract at the English Department in Heidelberg. Thank you to everyone who supported me on my way here! #IchWarHanna
March 13, 2024 at 12:54 PM
There are days when dreams do come true. Today I signed my permanent contract at the English Department in Heidelberg. Thank you to everyone who supported me on my way here! #IchWarHanna
We are looking for English speakers for a short (approx. 5min) evaluation study! Linguists are welcome to share this post, but please do not participate yourself!
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November 24, 2023 at 8:49 AM
We are looking for English speakers for a short (approx. 5min) evaluation study! Linguists are welcome to share this post, but please do not participate yourself!
www.soscisurvey.de/evaluationst...
www.soscisurvey.de/evaluationst...
Wir suchen deutsche Muttersprachler*innen für eine kurze (ca. 5min) Bewertungsstudie! Sprachwissenschaftler*innen gerne RT, aber bitte nicht selbst teilnehmen!
www.soscisurvey.de/bewertungsst...
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November 24, 2023 at 8:48 AM
Wir suchen deutsche Muttersprachler*innen für eine kurze (ca. 5min) Bewertungsstudie! Sprachwissenschaftler*innen gerne RT, aber bitte nicht selbst teilnehmen!
www.soscisurvey.de/bewertungsst...
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