<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[New Instance #Introduction: I’m a #Linguistics professor in #Texas.]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p>New Instance <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Introduction" rel="tag">#<span>Introduction</span></a>: I’m a <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Linguistics" rel="tag">#<span>Linguistics</span></a> professor in <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Texas" rel="tag">#<span>Texas</span></a>. Originally from <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Chicago" rel="tag">#<span>Chicago</span></a>. Lived in Birmingham, UK &amp; Hefei (Anhui province) <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/China" rel="tag">#<span>China</span></a>. I do research in English lexical semantics, <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/pragmatics" rel="tag">#<span>pragmatics</span></a>, health communication, and discourse markers, using corpus methods. Currently learning <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Arabic" rel="tag">#<span>Arabic</span></a> on <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/DuoLingo" rel="tag">#<span>DuoLingo</span></a>. I edit <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Wikipedia" rel="tag">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a>. I love contemporary fiction, science fiction, and <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/poetry" rel="tag">#<span>poetry</span></a>. And <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/travel" rel="tag">#<span>travel</span></a>—as the budget allows. Welcoming any survivors from my academic Twitter network. Great meeting you all!</p>]]></description><link>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/f7401406-fd88-4c39-8dd5-866abdf66c93/new-instance-introduction-i-m-a-linguistics-professor-in-texas.</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 05:21:09 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/f7401406-fd88-4c39-8dd5-866abdf66c93.rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 21:45:29 GMT</pubDate><ttl>60</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to New Instance #Introduction: I’m a #Linguistics professor in #Texas. on Mon, 22 Jun 2026 14:39:25 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/linglass%40hcommons.social" rel="nofollow noopener">@<span>LingLass</span></a></span> It is crucial for any kind of authorship analysis, at least. If you’d like some reading on this, I can send you recommendations (there keeps coming new stuff but much is in the computational vein and often not deeply focused on the language or on explainability in court).</p>]]></description><link>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://expressional.social/users/tanyakaroli/statuses/116794272324853388</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://expressional.social/users/tanyakaroli/statuses/116794272324853388</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[tanyakaroli@expressional.social]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 14:39:25 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to New Instance #Introduction: I’m a #Linguistics professor in #Texas. on Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:09:02 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/tanyakaroli%40expressional.social">@<span>tanyakaroli</span></a></span> Oh how interesting! I've been starting to explore how corpus work applies to forensic linguistics.</p>]]></description><link>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hcommons.social/ap/users/116786029676152098/statuses/116793916962265217</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hcommons.social/ap/users/116786029676152098/statuses/116793916962265217</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[linglass@hcommons.social]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:09:02 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to New Instance #Introduction: I’m a #Linguistics professor in #Texas. on Mon, 22 Jun 2026 03:14:21 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="https://hcommons.social/@LingLass" rel="nofollow noopener">@<span>LingLass</span></a></span> Hi Laurel, welcome to the fediverse! <img src="https://forum.fedi.dk/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f44b.png?v=7979fdcf9c7" class="not-responsive emoji emoji-android emoji--wave" style="height:23px;width:auto;vertical-align:middle" title="👋" alt="👋" /><br />I’m a linguistics professor, too, but toot mostly about my private life—and in Danish (may get translated by your app, though). Working mostly in forensic linguistics these days.</p>]]></description><link>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://expressional.social/users/tanyakaroli/statuses/116791578586669874</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://expressional.social/users/tanyakaroli/statuses/116791578586669874</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[tanyakaroli@expressional.social]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 03:14:21 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to New Instance #Introduction: I’m a #Linguistics professor in #Texas. on Mon, 22 Jun 2026 02:53:27 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="https://hcommons.social/@LingLass">@<span>LingLass</span></a></span> </p><p>My son used DuoLingo to learn Arabic as well! Then once he's gotten as far as I could with DL, he switched to Mango -- which he says is actually working better for him. He's been at it for ... at least 3 or 4 years now and can write/speak/read pretty well I think. <img src="https://forum.fedi.dk/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f642.png?v=7979fdcf9c7" class="not-responsive emoji emoji-android emoji--slightly_smiling_face" style="height:23px;width:auto;vertical-align:middle" title=":-)" alt="🙂" /></p>]]></description><link>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toot.cat/users/anne/statuses/116791496351081844</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toot.cat/users/anne/statuses/116791496351081844</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[anne@toot.cat]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 02:53:27 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to New Instance #Introduction: I’m a #Linguistics professor in #Texas. on Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:21:12 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="https://hcommons.social/@LingLass">@<span>LingLass</span></a></span> Welcome! This polyglot looks forward to learning from you <img src="https://forum.fedi.dk/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f601.png?v=7979fdcf9c7" class="not-responsive emoji emoji-android emoji--grin" style="height:23px;width:auto;vertical-align:middle" title="😁" alt="😁" /></p>]]></description><link>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/samvarma/statuses/116790897725773894</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/samvarma/statuses/116790897725773894</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[samvarma@fosstodon.org]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:21:12 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to New Instance #Introduction: I’m a #Linguistics professor in #Texas. on Sun, 21 Jun 2026 21:59:56 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/gnomon%40mastodon.social">@<span>gnomon</span></a></span> Seems like it's happening. Fingers crossed!</p>]]></description><link>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hcommons.social/ap/users/116786029676152098/statuses/116790342195127300</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hcommons.social/ap/users/116786029676152098/statuses/116790342195127300</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[linglass@hcommons.social]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 21:59:56 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to New Instance #Introduction: I’m a #Linguistics professor in #Texas. on Sun, 21 Jun 2026 21:59:37 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/elizabethlee%40metalhead.club">@<span>ElizabethLee</span></a></span> So far so good!</p>]]></description><link>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hcommons.social/ap/users/116786029676152098/statuses/116790341005333857</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hcommons.social/ap/users/116786029676152098/statuses/116790341005333857</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[linglass@hcommons.social]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 21:59:37 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to New Instance #Introduction: I’m a #Linguistics professor in #Texas. on Sun, 21 Jun 2026 21:55:59 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><a href="/user/linglass%40hcommons.social">@LingLass@hcommons.social</a><span> <br />Welcome, enjoy the stay, have fun. </span><img src="https://forum.fedi.dk/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f603.png?v=7979fdcf9c7" class="not-responsive emoji emoji-android emoji--smiley" style="height:23px;width:auto;vertical-align:middle" title="😃" alt="😃" /><img src="https://forum.fedi.dk/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f44d.png?v=7979fdcf9c7" class="not-responsive emoji emoji-android emoji--+1" style="height:23px;width:auto;vertical-align:middle" title="👍" alt="👍" /></p>]]></description><link>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://electricrequiem.com/notes/anrw42xzhyhc1zxa</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://electricrequiem.com/notes/anrw42xzhyhc1zxa</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[dougroudouvari@electricrequiem.com]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 21:55:59 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to New Instance #Introduction: I’m a #Linguistics professor in #Texas. on Sun, 21 Jun 2026 21:52:00 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="https://hcommons.social/@LingLass">@<span>LingLass</span></a></span> glad you were able to get moved ok!</p>]]></description><link>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://metalhead.club/ap/users/116183721388329745/statuses/116790311039022297</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://metalhead.club/ap/users/116183721388329745/statuses/116790311039022297</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[elizabethlee@metalhead.club]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 21:52:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to New Instance #Introduction: I’m a #Linguistics professor in #Texas. on Sun, 21 Jun 2026 21:48:44 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="https://hcommons.social/@LingLass">@<span>LingLass</span></a></span> ah good, I'm glad that your instance migration went smoothly!</p>]]></description><link>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/gnomon/statuses/116790298174953808</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/gnomon/statuses/116790298174953808</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[gnomon@mastodon.social]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 21:48:44 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>