📚 Lexical Priming: Evolution, Evaluation and Applications to English and Japanese is out now! In it, we build on and expand Hoey’s LP theory by applying it to specific varieties of Japanese and English, as represented in corpora

🔗 You can find it here doi.org/10.4324/9781... & more details below👇

📚 New paper with Alan Partington "Lexical Priming: Evolution, evaluation, extension" out in the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics @ijcl.bsky.social! You can find it here 👇
tinyurl.com/mjwmdvyd

I'm very grateful to the editors, reviewers and colleagues for their valuable feedback 🙏

📚 Ideologies of Communication in Japan is out now! My chapter explores normative practices of linguistic correction, with a focus on how they relate to moral judgments and negative emotions 🔗 tinyurl.com/3z4zuh8a
Many thanks to the editors for their fantastic work 🙏
@multi-ling-mat.bsky.social

Post conference little adventure in beautiful Straddie 🦘

Meet my new friends 🥰🐨

Presentation day! 🥳
If you're at #IPrA2025, join us for the panel on Affective Pragmatics, where we discuss the role of emotions in communication from the perspective of pragmatic theories. You can find my slides on my OSF page at tinyurl.com/2hs9k6bu

I survived the 20+ hour flight and made it to #IPrA2025 in beautiful Brisbane! The jet lag is tough but I’m very happy to be here

🎉 Author copies are finally here!

If you’re interested in the book, more info here tinyurl.com/2559au65, or drop me an email

First day of work at the University of Venice. Can’t complain

Happy to announce that I’m starting a new position as Assistant Professor at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice 🎉

This is me six years ago, receiving my MA degree from the very same university 👩‍🎓

And they are offering a special preorder discount!

Very happy to be at the #RC21Symposium in beautiful Erlangen. Looking forward to two days of insightful talks and engaging discussions

Do evaluations of the same apology event differ cross-linguistically? What are the moral orders behind these evaluations? Can we locate them using corpus-assisted methods? 📚New OA paper out in the Journal of Pragmatics doi.org/10.1016/j.pr... and a short thread below👇

🤩New OA paper on 
Language and Cognition, co-authored with Emily Öhman. In it, we combine #corpuslinguistics with #NLP to look at the experiences associated with shame and guilt in English and Japanese online forums. You can find it at doi.org/10.1017/lang...