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[CfP] ‘Computational and Corpus-based Phraseology’ – CALL FOR PAPERS – Deadline Extended to 15 June 2017

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International Conference ‘Computational and Corpus-based Phraseology’ Recent advances and interdisciplinary approaches ************************* London, 13-14 November 2017 ************************* CALL FOR PAPERS – *Deadline Extended to 15 June 2017* The forthcoming international conference ‘Computational and Corpus-based Phraseology – recent advances and interdisciplinary approaches’ will take place in London on 13 and 14 November 2017 (http://rgcl.wlv.ac.uk/europhras2017/). ———————- Conference topics ———————- The

Influence of English is fading, says EU chief Juncker

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By Crispian Balmer | FLORENCE, ITALY European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker took a swipe at Britain on Friday, saying he would not give a speech in English because the language was becoming less significant following Brexit. “Slowly but surely English is losing importance in Europe,” Juncker told a conference in Florence before switching into French

Toxic words and political discourse

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By Graham J Noble | Mar 7, 2017 Anyone who spends time on social media platforms or in the comments sections of any media website has learned that if one expects a civil discussion – better stick to sports. The level of animosity between online political foes has reached almost fever-pitch. Even news stories not

Sarcasm SIGN: Sarcasm interpretation corpus

26AprilLeximania.grCorpora, English Language, Language, Linguistics, Monolingual, NewsACL, acl 2017, Sarcasm SIGN, SIGN

We are happy to announce the release of the Sarcasm SIGN corpus: a parallel corpus of sarcastic tweets and their non-sarcastic interpretations, as created by human experts (3000 tweets annotated by their authors with the hashtag #sarcasm, 5 human translations per tweet). The corpus was created as part of the paper: Sarcasm SIGN: Interpreting Sarcasm with

[Article – Greek] Τα γλωσσικά μιάσματα της χούντας

24AprilLeximania.grGreek Language, Language, Newsdictatorship, junta, political discourse, propaganda, Αυγή, γλωσσικό θέμα, δικτατορία, πολιτικός λόγος, προπαγάνδα, Χούντα

ΕΝΤΥΠΗ ΕΚΔΟΣΗ Χατζημωυσιάδης Παναγιώτης Δημοσίευση: 21 Απριλίου 2017 19:00 Η απλή καθαρεύουσα της χούντας είναι ένα γλωσσικό υβρίδιο. Βλοσυρή, αγέλαστη, άκαμπτη, μισαλλόδοξη, διατακτική και σε κάθε περίπτωση μουμιοποιημένη. Μια κατασκευασμένη, ανύπαρκτη γλώσσα, που ελλείψει σταθερού σημείου αναφοράς νιώθει την ανάγκη να επικαλείται τη νομοθεσία ως γλωσσικό παράδειγμά της Ποιο ρόλο έπαιξε η δικτατορία στην εξέλιξη

[CfP] ‘Computational and Corpus-based Phraseology’ – CALL FOR PAPERS – *Deadline Extended to 15 June 2017*

Influence of English is fading, says EU chief Juncker

Toxic words and political discourse

Sarcasm SIGN: Sarcasm interpretation corpus

[Article – Greek] Τα γλωσσικά μιάσματα της χούντας

[CfP] ‘Computational and Corpus-based Phraseology’ – CALL FOR PAPERS – Deadline Extended to 15 June 2017