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Last week I attended #DNC3ALED where I presented a paper related to my MSc project dedicated to finding out the views of the university faculty in Russia on the proposal to substitute up to 1/3 of classes at universities with compulsory online lectures by leading universities #DN
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I have just finished watching Episode 1 of Chernobyl on @HBO. My perspective is that of someone born and raised in the Soviet Union who has vivid memories of 1986, the catastrophe itself and how it was handled by the Soviet politicians and the state media...
The International Corpus Linguistics Conference 2019 (#CLconf2019) will be hosted at Cardiff University (23-27 July 2019). The first call for papers will be released on 24th Sept 2018. Preliminary details (inc. key dates) are available here: cl2019.org @clcr_cardiffu
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I have just finished watching Episode 1 of Chernobyl on @HBO. My perspective is that of someone born and raised in the Soviet Union who has vivid memories of 1986, the catastrophe itself and how it was handled by the Soviet politicians and the state media...
Very useful thread! For the first few years of teaching I expected Freshmen to KNOW how to write emails but then figured: what they learned for a school exam (emails, too!) isn't perceived as real-life skills by them. So I greatly minimized my irritation by teaching them how to!
Don't stay on the high horse of "they should already know". You can't retroactively make your students HAVE LEARNED something before they get to you. All you can affect is what they learn from you now. If that thing is email, so be it.
The CfP for the @DiscourseNet Winter School No. 4 on "The Transformation and Reproduction of Social Inequalities: Discourse, Power, and Critique" in Valencia, Spain [16-18 Jan 2019] is out now. Check it out! discourseanalysis.net/wiki.php?wiki=…
![Johannes__Bee's tweet image. The CfP for the @DiscourseNet Winter School No. 4 on "The Transformation and Reproduction of Social Inequalities: Discourse, Power, and Critique" in Valencia, Spain [16-18 Jan 2019] is out now. Check it out! discourseanalysis.net/wiki.php?wiki=…](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DlDFuV6WwAAoQ_j.jpg)
CFP 1st Italian @DiscourseNet conference @UniBergamo. discourseanalysis.net/wiki.php?wiki=… Please RT
Essential networking tips for young scholars: - Google scholar page - Personal, clean website. Quick links to: papers, CV, biography, code - get a name/affiliation Twitter account even if you only use it to post your latest papers.
On the importance of choosing words and grammar: theconversation.com/war-of-words-w…
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War of words: why journalists need to understand grammar to write accurately about violence
When reporting violence, grammar matters: the use of voice is key to apportioning blame and, importantly, an accurate depiction of what has taken place.
Want to freak yourself out? I'm gonna show just how much of your information the likes of Facebook and Google store about you without you even realising it
meanwhile in #traditionalvalues Russia: magazine called Happy Parents runs a column (written by psychologist!) arguing that beating girls is OK when they “provoke” boys. boys not beating girls in response to provocations “may have negative impact on their sexual orientation” 😳
Early career and senior career researchers read papers differently. Interesting analysis here: journals.plos.org/plosone/articl… #academia #research
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