Don’t miss the ISLE Online Forum "Language and Identity in Online Interactions" on May 28, 6 pm CEST, with Pamela Faber and Catherine Tebaldi! See shorturl.at/LLtvK ISLE #EnglishLinguistics Sofia Rüdiger Pamela Faber

🚨 New ARDC article on our open-access study of online swearing across Englishes, co-authored with Kate Burridge! Ever wondered which country swears the most online? 💥🗣️ Read the write-up by Jo Savill tinyurl.com/2ra4ur5c Full paper (free access) tinyurl.com/mr8hytvb

📰 New in The Guardian: "Americans and Britons swear more online than Australians, research finds. WTF?" 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇦🇺 Great write-up by Tory Shepherd on our study of online vulgarity across Englishes, co-authored with Kate Burridge. Read here 👉 tinyurl.com/y8zyjtrj #swearing

🚨 Our research on online swearing was featured on Channel 10 News across Australia! Great to see linguistics on prime time TV 📺🧠💬 📝 Open access paper (with Kate Burridge): tinyurl.com/5n6p8jcy 🎥 Clip from my interview below 👇 #corpuslinguistics #swearing #LDaCA #ARDC

Swearing is considered by many to be a key part of Australian culture … but apparently the Brits and Americans have us beat. That’s according to a new study, that ranked how often each countries swears online.

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A brilliant open-access article by Sam Hames, Simon Musgrave, and Michael Haugh—published as part of our Lingua special issue on vulgarity in public and online discourse. Highly recommended reading for anyone interested in language and social norms sciencedirect.com/special-issue/…

LinkedIn summary of new paper on vulgarity in online discourse around the English-speaking world (Lingua): Swearing Online: Why Americans Out-Curse Australians linkedin.com/pulse/swearing… Full paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ling… #digitaldiscourse #swearing #digitalhumanities

⏳️ 3 weeks to IPrA2025 🥳🥳🥳 It's time to visit the event space on Exordo and explore the programme 🔍 *sessions appearing as double are hybrid

Don’t miss the ISLE Online Forum "How much room for non-mainstream approaches in (English) linguistics?" on June 18, 6 pm CEST, with Elizabeth Hanks, Axel Bohmann, and John Booth! See shorturl.at/LLtvK ISLE #EnglishLinguistics

📢19th International Pragmatics Conference 🗓️June 22–27 🌏Brisbane 🔗pragmatics.international/page/Program20… Panel: Choosing the best words for clear accessible communication M. Bermúdez, I. da Cunha (UNED) and M. Taboada (Simon Fraser University) will present our #EUPlainTech project (Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, Agencia Estatal de Investigación)

🎉 Congrats to Dr. Celeste Rodríguez Louro (Dr Celeste R Louro 🌿 ), winner of the inaugural ISLE Outreach Prize 2025! 🏆👏 Awarded for outstanding public engagement in English linguistics. 🌍📚 📄 Her portfolio: isle-linguistics.org/assets/content… ISLE #EnglishLinguistics

Australians are outdone by Americans and Brits, both in how often they swear, and in how many users swear online. Martin Schweinberger Monash University UQ News theconversation.com/201-ways-to-sa…

🚨 New in The Conversation 201 ways to say 'fuck' — Kate Burridge & I explore how the world swears online using 1.7 billion words of text. 🤬🌍 📰 Read: bit.ly/3XJRO3n 📄 Study: doi.org/10.1016/j.ling… #Linguistics #Swearing #Vulgarity #LanguageOnline #TheConversation

Hot of the press: my new LinkedIn article Reproducibility, Replicability, and Robustness in Language-Based Research: Why They Matter and How We Can Achieve Them linkedin.com/pulse/reproduc… with links to 2 brand new papers just published by International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

New article just out! "Reproducibility and transparency in interpretive corpus pragmatics" We explore how even qualitative, discourse-analytic approaches can be more transparent & reproducible. 🔗 doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.2… #CorpusLinguistics #Pragmatics #OpenScience

CNN just picked up Kate and my piece about vulgarity online that we wrote for The Conversation 📷 Here is the link to the CNN article: edition.cnn.com/2025/06/15/hea…

Don’t miss the ISLE Online Forum "Outreach with impact: Linguistics in the public sphere" by the ISLE Outreach Prize winner Celeste Rodriguez Louro on Friday, Oct. 24, 2025, 10AM CEST, 4PM AWST! See shorturl.at/LLtvK ISLE #EnglishLinguistics Dr Celeste R Louro 🌿