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We are delighted to welcome @lukeccollins.bsky.social‬ to the #IJCL team!
Luke is joining us as our new assistant editor.
He is taking over from Natalie Finlayson - thank you Natalie for all your work & best of luck with the new projects!

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In the second of two papers from our upcoming special issue on #reproducibility and #transparency in CL out today #onlinefirst, Schweinberger & Haugh explore how to improve transparency and reproducibility in qualitative approaches like #corpuspragmatics

#openscience

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In the first of two papers from our upcoming special issue on #reproducibility and #transparency in CL out today #onlinefirst, Laitinen & Rautionaho review 30 studies with data from Twitter/X asking: how transparent are the methods—and how reproducible are the results?

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In "Grammatical complexity in film dialogue", Maicol Formentelli, Liviana Galiano & Maria Pavesi show how film language mirrors the complexity of spontaneous speech while developing register-specific patterns shaped by the medium

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#corpuslinguistics #filmstudies #SLA

How stable are word type lists?

In "Achieving stability in corpus-based analysis of word types", ‪@jesse-egbert.bsky.social‬, Doug Biber, Bethany Gray & ‪@tovelarsson.bsky.social‬ review empirical case studies that challenge assumptions

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#corpuslinguistics #wordlists

How is the phrase “I'm so OCD” used—and challenged—on social media?

Batchelor & Lee-Laminack explore this in 'I'm so OCD lol: A corpus-based study of obsessive-compulsive disorder used as an adjective' benjamins.com/catalog/ijcl...

#corpuslinguistics #mentalhealthdiscourse @gsuresearch.bsky.social

In the first paper from our upcoming special issue on #reproducibility and #transparency in #corpuslinguistics, Joseph Flanagan clarifies key terms in "Reproducibility, replicability, robustness, and generalizability in corpus linguistics"

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@helsinki.fi #onlinefirst

In our first #onlinefirst paper of 2025, the authors show how positions of contrastive adverbs, emphatic pronouns and "quant à" constructions vary in writing vs. speech and formal vs. informal contexts

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@kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social #corpuslinguistics #French #syntax