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Sociolinguist and linguistic anthropologist at Charles University, Prague | language(s) and social interaction, ethnomethodology, language management, linguistic landscape, multilingualism, minorities, Slavic languages, Vietnamese

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Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers? No. No it can't. Come on, now.

New post: Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers? (No. No it can't. Come on, now.)

davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/can-ai-rep...

05.03.2026 16:49 👍 467 🔁 131 💬 25 📌 36

Thank you. I saw the 1992 adaptation with Binoche and Fiennes, I think I don’t remember the book anymore

16.02.2026 16:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Sequoyah and the Almost-Forgotten History of Cherokee Numerals The story of a numerical system nearly consigned to oblivion.

"Almost paradoxically, Sequoyah’s numerals could not succeed because they had not yet succeeded, and came into existence in a social context where a prestigious, common notation had been adopted almost universally."

15.02.2026 16:05 👍 32 🔁 18 💬 0 📌 0

Please share your impressions afterwards

15.02.2026 22:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I recall my surprise when I first heard Plato’s name in English (after I managed to identify it)

14.02.2026 15:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Language Management Theory as one approach in Language Policy and Planning Language Policy and Planning is currently a significantly diversified research area and thus it is not easy to find common denominators that help to define basic approaches within it. Richard B. Ba...

And this reminds me of the research on ‘language management’ that originated in the 1960s-70s: doi.org/10.1080/1466...

15.12.2025 22:43 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New Developments in Ethnomethodology 2026 The next iteration of the "New Developments in Ethnomethodology" will take place at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland (HES-SO Valais-Wallis) in Sierre, from 27 to 29 May 2026. Call for abstracts open until 12 January 2026.
10.12.2025 17:32 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1

Curious to know if they have coped somehow with the ethnomethodological indifference principle…

14.11.2025 08:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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When LLMs Write Our Papers Four writing issues I notice as a reviewer — and how to fix them

While reviewing for #CHI2026, I've noticed four new writing issues in #HCI papers, likely due to an increased use of #LLMs / #AI. I describe them here - and how to fix them: dbuschek.medium.com/when-llms-wr...

23.10.2025 14:15 👍 28 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 2
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Rationalizing the unreasonable: there are no good academics in the EU Jan Blommaert  Attracting external funding has become, everywhere, one of the main priorities of academics, and writing funding application has consequently also become one of their main tasks. The…

You might be interested in this older piece: alternative-democracy-research.org/2015/06/10/r...

23.10.2025 18:16 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I can’t imagine we would translate slogans that went global (like MeToo or Je suis Charlie into Czech JáTaky or Jsem Charlie), that would sound disconnected. / The “organic apple” is sth different, right, English here perhaps indicates the global movement and/or is due to “organic” being a loanword

18.10.2025 19:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

English is quite often used for slogans, in Europe at least. “Fight plastic” seems like one, like a principled statement of an international eco movement. The use of English instead of a national language sort of emphasises the slogan here

18.10.2025 19:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It may be something European - some of us try to avoid plastic packages for food because they release microplastic particles etc. If you are into “bio”, then you tend to care about this, too

18.10.2025 17:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It only means you are a presumably well-known bearer of the name “Anne”

17.10.2025 11:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What is a ‘sticky object’ and what is a ‘happy object’, please? I have read the abstract, but still have no clue what the paper (that looks interesting as well as enigmatic) focuses on…

05.10.2025 09:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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12ICOM Groningen 12th International Conference on Multimodality in Groningen

#12ICOM highlight: Our keynote live stream!

We are happy to bring some conference vibes to you at home:
bit.ly/12ICOMLive

Join us online to be part of the experience - and share this opportunity with others!

03.10.2025 05:47 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Or send it to them in advance to print out their copy if they want or to work on the electronic version on their device (some prefer the latter)

30.09.2025 17:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Saturn Ion commercial
Saturn Ion commercial YouTube video by Eliyahu Biton

WATCH THIS: The most amazing thing about this remarkable 2002 car commercial is that it didn’t seem to realize at the time, or perhaps didn’t care, how effectively it made the point that cars and car infrastructure are a HUGE waste of space in cities. Award-winning 2002 ad for Saturn car company.

23.09.2025 00:40 👍 386 🔁 130 💬 10 📌 12

:) Apropos, there is a specialised bistro here in Prague that sells meat and meat products, with windows decorated, for example, with hanging smoked pork legs etc., a nightmare for a vegetarian, and the people who queue there are Korean tourists. Wondering how come they are such meat eaters

21.09.2025 12:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

No image of how to actually eat such thick burgers? :)

21.09.2025 12:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Still it’s a good sign you are not afraid that you might cause problems to that neighbour of yours by posting this publically. In some authoritarian regimes, they would get into trouble in this way

16.09.2025 19:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Doing being an average teenager: Deploying ordinariness as subversive disability performance in presentational media | Language in Society | Cambridge Core Doing being an average teenager: Deploying ordinariness as subversive disability performance in presentational media - Volume 54 Issue 3

NEW FROM 54(3)

'Doing being an average teenager: Deploying ordinariness as subversive disability performance in presentational media" by Xiaowei May Li
#NikkiLilly #Embodiment #Multimodality #PresentationalMedia #Disability #Ordinariness #Normativity
doi.org/10.1017/S004...

12.09.2025 12:42 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

It isn’t (in my language: not-is “není”)

11.09.2025 18:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you, I didn’t know

09.09.2025 20:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It also took the land and its wealth from the First Nations

06.09.2025 08:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

For that, he’ll get the Nobel Prize in Economics

06.09.2025 08:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Authoritarian regimes do not say they murder or beat “civilians”. They present the persons as saboteurs, typically as groups sold-out to a foreign power, demonstrations as staged and orchestrated by such groups and they beat or kill them

06.09.2025 08:33 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

The same here. Just while the notion of resistance is known, the major motivation in my environment seems to be to keep one’s managerial position, hence compliance (managerial work here is done by some academics at some point in their career)

06.09.2025 08:04 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A nice historical exposé. I think it’s is also the specific Russian combination of machismo with inferiority complex and envy that is at play here

24.08.2025 20:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yes, if I remember well, the communist rule in my country fell only after a general strike

19.08.2025 20:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0