#IPrA2023 panel about #corpuslinguistic approaches to #epistemic and #evidential marking in #talkininteration I co-organized together with Jérôme Jacquin. Thanks to all participants! I learnt a whole lot about lexical evidential and epistemic expressions in Galician, Italian, and French, about untranslatable English 'last I checked' constructions, about corpus workflows for "ich weiss nicht" in spoken German, about how to annotate evidentiality in earnings conference calls, and about how wh-placement with situational verbs in French interrogatives is related to evidentiality. The panel was also a good occasion for the InfinIta project team to present our annotation scheme in the making, which will allow us to get a quantitative overview over evidential resources in the #corpusTIGR of spoken Italian.

So: thank you #ipra2023 for having me; thank you audience members for all the wonderful feedback, and thank you all IPrA delegates for the countless parallel sessions of inspiring work.

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Storytime!🧵 This #ipra2023 Brussels trip carries a lot of significance for me. My last visit to Brussels was for an ERC interview in 2018. The panel was skeptical and I did not get the grant. I'd also been shortlisted for a Max Planck junior research group which I didn't get, so I would be out of a job that summer were it not for one more chance: a Vidi

It was a melancholy summer in which this Louis Cole song was on repeat https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RhllQAiEQlM&pp=ygURdGhpbmdzIGxvdWlzIGNvbGU%3D
♫ Things may not work out how you thought

Things - Louis Cole

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Thank you #ipra2023 for a wonderful four days. Duty calls so I'm on the train back home. I may share more recollections from the first days but here ends my live-tooting service. It's been fun!
Thursday at 8.30 starts our #IPRA2023 panel on “Keywords” in sociopolitical debates: approaches to struggles about meaning in discourse in Room 11 - UA2.220, co-organized with Philippe Hambye, Coline Rondiat and Nadezda Shchinova, featuring talks on among others #woke, #populism, #sustainability, #polarisation, #transphobia, #fakenews with @beestween and many others who are not (yet) on Mastodon :-)
On my way to #IPrA2023, but stuck in a train somewhere between Düsseldorf and Aachen 😑
the #SIGdial decisions are in and our paper is accepted! Retroactively turning the citation on this slide from my #ipra2023 plenary from 'under review' to 'accepted' (work with @andreasliesenfeld @alianda) 🥳
And now, less than a quarter before the day is supposed to end, we start the final thing for the day: the general assembly #IPrA2023

Two plenaries this morning at #ipra2023. First up is Julia Snell on "Presumed (in)abilities and the ‘shape of interaction’ in classrooms". Schnell starts off with an intriguing definition of dialogue as "talk that discusses thinking, makes thinking public and refines thinking"

Snell's work is on dialect prejudice and what is now called #raciolinguistics; here's a relevant paper: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09500782.2012.760584

(First of a possible thread, rest will be unlisted)