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Mohammad Saeid Miri
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Ph.D. Candidate in Linguistics at Allameh Tabataba'i University ▫️ 🔖 Metaphor, Corpus Linguistics, Computational Linguistics
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anteangaeile.bsky.social
The Call for Papers and Call for Workshops for ICAME47, May 26-30 2026 in Koblenz, Germany, now out
Submission deadlines 31 October 2025.

Calls and conference dates here: wp.uni-koblenz.de/icame47/

Conference email address: icame47@uni-koblenz.de
CFP -
Call for Papers | Call for Workshops Below you’ll find the Call for Papers and Call for Workshops, along with Word templates for both. Abstracts for Full Papers, Work-in-Progress Reports, Software Dem...
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July 16, 2025 at 2:22 PM
babasaeid.bsky.social
Finally found!

Leezenberg (2001), "Contexts of Metaphor".
philpapers.org/rec/LEECOM
ToC of "Contexts of Metaphor" (Leezenberg, 2001)
May 9, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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gavinbrookes.bsky.social
'Masculinities and Language' by @paulari.bsky.social and me, out now! You can read the whole thing #openaccess here: tinyurl.com/9h6wn83a
April 14, 2025 at 9:13 AM
babasaeid.bsky.social
Writing the lit review for my thesis and curious about any definitions of metaphor before Aristotle's Poetica.
I've read Isocrates' Evagoras (8-9) and am reading Kirby (1997), Johnson (1981), Pender (2000), and Novokhatko (2013).

Any other leads? Especially non-Greek sources (pre-Aristotle).
April 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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lameensouag.bsky.social
ELDP has a new channel, which should be of interest to anyone planning to do language documentation or linguistic fieldwork more generally

www.youtube.com/channel/UCyP...
Tutorials for Language Documentation and Archiving
Welcome to Tutorials for Language Documentation and Archiving, where we share video tutorials to help support language documenters at every stage of their projects. This channel is a resource provided...
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January 8, 2025 at 1:26 PM
babasaeid.bsky.social
Two years ago, I launched a journal club on semantics, thinking it would help me and other students keep up with research. I had no idea what to expect. Looking back now, it's one of the best decisions I've made.

In this 🧵, I want to tell you a little about my experience.

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January 1, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Why we as linguists support the Block the Ban at #MIT petition.
The petition linked here is in support of Prahlad Iyengar, PhD2 student at #MIT, & Professor Michel DeGraff of the MIT Linguistics Dept.
blocktheban.org
With @mbnoonan.bsky.social Hagit Borer, Ur Shlonsky, Janet Randall & 33 others.
December 23, 2024 Why we as linguists support the Block the Ban at MIT petition The petition linked here is in support of Prahlad Iyengar, a 2nd year Ph.D. student at MIT, and Professor Michel DeGraff of the MIT Linguistics department. We take support for Prahlad Iyengar to be straightforward, his rights of freedom of speech having been blatantly violated (see here). Support for Professor DeGraff has become less straightforward, however, due to massive back and forth correspondence made public, extensive published material, and personalized accusations, which have shifted the focus away from the core of the matter to issues of procedure, questions of appropriate and inappropriate speech, and others. In considering whether to support DeGraff and sign the Block the Ban at MIT petition, we made every effort to abstract away from all this, and determine, based on the evidence available to us, whether denying DeGraff’s request to teach a Linguistics Department Special Topics seminar entitled Decolonization & Liberation Struggles in Haiti, Palestine & Israel, is a case of the Palestine Exception. We have come to believe that it is, since we can otherwise make no sense of why MIT Linguistics would decide to reject this course. We also believe that this decision provides another example of the systematic suppression of free speech on matters of Palestinian rights and the ongoing genocide in Gaza, suppression that would be unthinkable in other cases of oppression, ethnic cleansing, and genocide in the US and abroad. DeGraff’s competence to teach this seminar has been questioned, as he supposedly lacks expertise on the “weaponization of language”. This is false: he has taught similar classes at the interface of linguistics and the politics of privilege, e.g. here and here, he has published extensively on “the weaponization of language”: how language is used for societal oppression and racialization in places where Creole languages are spoken and in movements elsewhere, inc… these actions have a particular irony given the praise he has received by the department, not only for his scholarship but also for his activism: In 2022, DeGraff was elected as a fellow of the Linguistics Society of America (LSA), which Professor Fox celebrated, “It is good to see a professional organization like the LSA promoting scientists not just for their research, but also for the kind of activism that might accompany it: battling prevalent misconceptions about the nature of the world, identifying their detrimental consequences, and fighting for change. Michel has been involved in all these activities,” (see here). DeGraff’s course exactly answers the call to linguists by John Rickford in his 2016 LSA keynote address: “more of us need to get out of our offices, labs, or libraries and make a difference in the world.” (Rickford and King, 2016). Finally, we also fail to understand why Professor Fox, Chair of Linguistics, did not recuse himself from the Ad Hoc Review Committee after heated disagreements between him and Professor DeGraff on matters relating to the politics of the Middle East (reported by DeGraff, not denied by Fox). In conclusion, we believe that preventing DeGraff from teaching this course was indeed a case of a Palestine Exception. It is for this reason that we have signed Block the Ban petition and we call on more members of the linguistics community (as well as academia in general) to step forward in support of Michel DeGraff’s academic rights and dignity. Signatures Elsa Auerbach, Professor Emerita of English and Applied Linguistics, University of Massachusetts Boston Hagit Borer, Professor of Linguistics, Queen Mary University of London, FLSA, FBA, MIT Alumna Joyce Bruhn de Garavito, Emerita Professor of Hispanic Studies and Linguistics, University of Western Ontario Anna Cardinaletti, Professore di Linguistica, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia Eugenia Casielles, Associate Professor of Spanish & Linguistics, Wayne State University Lisa Cheng, … Utpal Lahiri, Associate Professor of Linguistics & Contemporary English, the English and Foreign Languages University Máire Noonan, Chargée de cours in Linguistics, Université de Montréal Phoevos Panagiotidis, Professor of Theoretical Linguistics, University of Cyprus Karen Pennesi, Associate Professor of Anthropology & Linguistics, University of Western Ontario Pierre Pica, Associated Professor, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte / CNRS Glyne Piggott, Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, McGill University Philippe Prévost, Professor of Linguistics, Université de Tours Ljiljana Provogac, Professor of Linguistics, Wayne State University Janet Randall, Professor Emerita, Linguistics & English, Northeastern University John Rickford, Professor of Linguistics and the Humanities, Stanford University Anna Roussou, Professor of Linguistics, University of Patras, Greece Isabelle Roy, Professeure en Sciences du Langage, Université de Nantes Ur Shlonsky, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, Université de Genève Rint Sybesma, Professor of Chinese Linguistics, Universiteit Leiden Jeff Tennant, Associate Professor, French Studies & Linguistics, University of Western Ontario Arhonto Terzi, Professor of Linguistics, University of Patras Esther Torrego, Professor Emerita, University of Massachusetts, Boston Laurie Tuller, Professor Emerita of Linguistics, Université de Tours Guido Vanden Wyngaerd, Professor of Linguistics, KU Leuven Georges Daniel Véronique, Professor Emeritus of French Linguistics and Creole Studies, Aix Marseille Université Walter Wolfram, Endowed Professor of Linguistics, Department of English, North Carolina State University
December 23, 2024 at 5:44 PM
babasaeid.bsky.social
Signed ✍🏻
schock.cc Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · Nov 18
PETITION LAUNCH: blocktheban.org

We scholars, journalists, and people of conscience stand in full solidarity with Written Revolution chief editor Prahlad Iyengar and Linguistics Professor Michel DeGraff as they face targeted attacks, bans, and unjust punitive action from MIT.

#Gaza #FreeSpeech
Block the Ban at MIT
A petition to challenge MIT’s censorship of Palestine advocacy and education.
blocktheban.org
December 28, 2024 at 7:55 PM
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drkatcarm.bsky.social
#linguistics Blue Sky-ers -- check out my book with Paul Reed, 'Language and Place', coming out *OPEN ACCESS* Jan 16, 2025! It's part of the Cambridge Elements in Sociolinguistics series, & offers advice to sociolinguists looking to engage more with place theory www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Language and Place
Cambridge Core - Sociolinguistics - Language and Place
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December 11, 2024 at 3:14 PM
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veronikakoller.bsky.social
The first title in the Cambridge UP Elements series edited by @gavinbrookes.bsky.social and me has been published. The short book - the latest by Teun van Dijk - is available for free for the next four weeks.
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Discourse and Ideologies of the Radical Right
Cambridge Core - Applied Linguistics - Discourse and Ideologies of the Radical Right
www.cambridge.org
December 2, 2024 at 7:31 PM
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fmoncomble.tract-linguistes.org
🗣💬 Major update: the corpus collection tool BlueskyScraper now comes with a live stream module which lets you collect posts in real time, either randomly or through filters, then download the results as a file in the format of your choice.

🔗 Info: fmoncomble.github.io/blueskyscrap...
Screenshot of the BluesyScraper live stream module's interface, displaying the available filters (by language, by user, by keywords, including regular expressions) and the "start streaming" button.
December 2, 2024 at 11:48 AM
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paulapsobrino.bsky.social
Can metaphors change your expectations about the teaching methods used at your children's school? @lorenaph.bsky.social and I have some evidence about it. Long story short: YES, THEY DO. Here's the paper: journals.ispan.edu.pl/index.php/cs... but if you only have 5 mins, keep reading 👇
two men are sitting at a table in a kitchen talking to each other . one of the men is wearing a beanie .
ALT: two men are sitting at a table in a kitchen talking to each other . one of the men is wearing a beanie .
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November 26, 2024 at 3:09 PM
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wimpouw.bsky.social
At envisionBox we are now also collating downloadable multimodal communication datasets! envisionbox.org/multimodalda... Please reach out if were missing anything.
November 28, 2024 at 8:46 AM
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fmoncomble.tract-linguistes.org
Thanks to recent feedback, I have just updated Social Corpus Scraper to v0.4.9 to address an interface issue on Firefox where the dropdown menus of the Bluesky module did not reset properly. Also fixed: automatic authorization renewal after expiry.
#linguistics
fmoncomble.github.io/SocialCorpus...
November 25, 2024 at 5:15 PM
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robbielove.org
Call for papers:

Corpus Linguistics 2025 #CL2025
Birmingham, UK
First week of July 2025

Submissions welcome for papers, posters, thematic panels and pre-conference workshops!

www.cl2025.co.uk/call-for-pap...
CL2025 - Call for papers
Abstract submission is now open here
www.cl2025.co.uk
November 17, 2024 at 3:49 PM
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bnerlich.bsky.social
So, I have created a starter pack for people interested in #metaphor. I bet I left a lot of people out. Please let me know if you want to be added. go.bsky.app/DvxejFX
November 17, 2024 at 11:46 AM
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lilyzhou.bsky.social
As a huge fan of corpus linguistics, I thought it would be helpful to create a starter pack dedicated solely to this amazing field!

go.bsky.app/RmFQ5NJ
November 19, 2024 at 6:59 PM
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superlinguo.bsky.social
I made a linguistics and language podcast starter pack for you, if you're looking for your new favourite linguistics podcast: go.bsky.app/5pirXas
November 19, 2024 at 4:48 AM
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superlinguo.bsky.social
Very excited to have a new team-authored chapter in the Open Access book Inclusion in Linguistics, launched alongside Decolonizing Linguistics.

Creating Inclusive Linguistics Communication: Crash Course Linguistics
www.superlinguo.com/post/7455975...
March 25, 2024 at 4:08 AM