StefMaci
@stefmaci.bsky.social
I’m the master of my soul
PhD, Full Professor of English linguistics. UniBg. CDA, CL, ESP (tourism & medical discourses), discourse analysis· #RestInPower • she/her
PhD, Full Professor of English linguistics. UniBg. CDA, CL, ESP (tourism & medical discourses), discourse analysis· #RestInPower • she/her
Excited to be giving tomorrow’s plenary talk “Empowering Learners and Teachers through Corpus Linguistics” at the COPLUS Conference, University of Milan. Grateful for the opportunity to discuss how corpus approaches can enhance both teaching and learning
October 30, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Excited to be giving tomorrow’s plenary talk “Empowering Learners and Teachers through Corpus Linguistics” at the COPLUS Conference, University of Milan. Grateful for the opportunity to discuss how corpus approaches can enhance both teaching and learning
“ideological alignment, rather than actor prominence, plays a central role in structuring online discourse and shaping the spread of information in polarized environments “
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Ideology and polarization set the agenda on social media - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Ideology and polarization set the agenda on social media
www.nature.com
October 17, 2025 at 4:53 PM
“ideological alignment, rather than actor prominence, plays a central role in structuring online discourse and shaping the spread of information in polarized environments “
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨 we are excited to launch the Call for Papers for the Corpora and Discourse International Conference 2026. Deadline 16 November 2025. Submit your abstracts here: wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/cal.... Please share widely! #CADS2026
Call for Papers – Corpora & Discourse International Conference 2026
wp.lancs.ac.uk
September 2, 2025 at 11:19 AM
🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨 we are excited to launch the Call for Papers for the Corpora and Discourse International Conference 2026. Deadline 16 November 2025. Submit your abstracts here: wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/cal.... Please share widely! #CADS2026
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I am so pleased to announce that I have been awarded a @ukri.org Future Leaders Fellowship www.ukri.org/news/ukri-an... to undertake the project 'A Multi-Dimensional Understanding of the Digital Far Right'.
UKRI announces winners of £120 million Future Leaders Fellowships
Research into the causes of lung cancer and Alzheimer’s disease are among 77 projects to be funded by UKRI’s Future Leaders Fellowships.
www.ukri.org
September 16, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I am so pleased to announce that I have been awarded a @ukri.org Future Leaders Fellowship www.ukri.org/news/ukri-an... to undertake the project 'A Multi-Dimensional Understanding of the Digital Far Right'.
Large Language Models (LLMs) can mirror expert judgment but often rely on word patterns rather than reasoning. A new study introduces epistemia, the illusion of knowledge that occurs when surface plausibility replaces verification. PNAS: ow.ly/sobq50Xcv9f www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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October 16, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Large Language Models (LLMs) can mirror expert judgment but often rely on word patterns rather than reasoning. A new study introduces epistemia, the illusion of knowledge that occurs when surface plausibility replaces verification. PNAS: ow.ly/sobq50Xcv9f www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Excited to announce my new book Translating Tourism (Routledge), co-authored with Cinzia Spinzi 🌍✈️
The book explores how tourism discourse is translated, adapted, and mediated.
📖 30% discount code: 3FVRD2MJ3
📚 Free inspection copies available for instructors.
🔗 www.routledge.com/Translating-...
The book explores how tourism discourse is translated, adapted, and mediated.
📖 30% discount code: 3FVRD2MJ3
📚 Free inspection copies available for instructors.
🔗 www.routledge.com/Translating-...
Translating Tourism
This engaging textbook provides an in-depth examination of tourist discourse and communication and a guide to translating tourism texts.
Through analysis of the linguistic, intercultural, and sociall...
www.routledge.com
October 3, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Excited to announce my new book Translating Tourism (Routledge), co-authored with Cinzia Spinzi 🌍✈️
The book explores how tourism discourse is translated, adapted, and mediated.
📖 30% discount code: 3FVRD2MJ3
📚 Free inspection copies available for instructors.
🔗 www.routledge.com/Translating-...
The book explores how tourism discourse is translated, adapted, and mediated.
📖 30% discount code: 3FVRD2MJ3
📚 Free inspection copies available for instructors.
🔗 www.routledge.com/Translating-...
That’s me in Turin at the 32nd AIA conference, speaking of digital tourism
September 20, 2025 at 7:44 AM
That’s me in Turin at the 32nd AIA conference, speaking of digital tourism
July 8, 2025 at 8:06 PM
July 8, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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What happens when you use AI to tag 8546 images in a 1.5m word corpus of UK news about Islam? How accurate is the tagger? What's the relationship between images and words? My new Cambridge Element with @hannaschmueck.bsky.social and Yufang Qian is now free to access www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Automatic Image Tagging for Corpus Linguistics
Cambridge Core - Research Methods in Linguistics - Automatic Image Tagging for Corpus Linguistics
www.cambridge.org
July 4, 2025 at 12:16 PM
What happens when you use AI to tag 8546 images in a 1.5m word corpus of UK news about Islam? How accurate is the tagger? What's the relationship between images and words? My new Cambridge Element with @hannaschmueck.bsky.social and Yufang Qian is now free to access www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Still buzzing after an amazing #CL2025 conference. Great research, great people, great chats. Thanks @robbielove.org and all the organisers for making it happen!
July 4, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Still buzzing after an amazing #CL2025 conference. Great research, great people, great chats. Thanks @robbielove.org and all the organisers for making it happen!
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In case you missed the QR code during my talk on Geometric Multivariate Analysis @cl2025.co.uk: You can find slides, code, and data at osf.io/9p25y
Corpus Linguistics 2025
Presentation slides and reproduction materials for CL 2025 presentation “Finding structure in multivariate data”
Hosted on the Open Science Framework
osf.io
July 3, 2025 at 12:29 PM
In case you missed the QR code during my talk on Geometric Multivariate Analysis @cl2025.co.uk: You can find slides, code, and data at osf.io/9p25y
July 3, 2025 at 8:32 AM
What counts? An inspiring talk about the wonder of numbers by @proftaylor.bsky.social and @journolinguist.bsky.social
#CL2025
#CL2025
July 2, 2025 at 3:48 PM
What counts? An inspiring talk about the wonder of numbers by @proftaylor.bsky.social and @journolinguist.bsky.social
#CL2025
#CL2025
Ladies and gentlemen,
I’m a Fullbrighter!
CANNOT BELIEVE MY EYES
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I’m a Fullbrighter!
CANNOT BELIEVE MY EYES
🤩🤩🤩
July 1, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Ladies and gentlemen,
I’m a Fullbrighter!
CANNOT BELIEVE MY EYES
🤩🤩🤩
I’m a Fullbrighter!
CANNOT BELIEVE MY EYES
🤩🤩🤩
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“Any corpus is like the Emerald City - you need to go inside & poke around a bit” 🏰 In her plenary @cl2025.co.uk @hankslizzy.bsky.social takes us along the yellow brick road to LANA-CASE, tackling representativeness: what (register), who (demographics), and how (authenticity) 📚🎓 #cl2025
July 1, 2025 at 8:32 AM
“Any corpus is like the Emerald City - you need to go inside & poke around a bit” 🏰 In her plenary @cl2025.co.uk @hankslizzy.bsky.social takes us along the yellow brick road to LANA-CASE, tackling representativeness: what (register), who (demographics), and how (authenticity) 📚🎓 #cl2025
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Simply super talk by @hankslizzy.bsky.social #CL2025 taking us on a journey on the yellow brick road of corpus creation and representativeness by means of a reflection on prototypicality
July 1, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Simply super talk by @hankslizzy.bsky.social #CL2025 taking us on a journey on the yellow brick road of corpus creation and representativeness by means of a reflection on prototypicality
