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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
New post: Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers? (No. No it can't. Come on, now.)
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Thank you. I saw the 1992 adaptation with Binoche and Fiennes, I think I don’t remember the book anymore
"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."
Please share your impressions afterwards
I recall my surprise when I first heard Plato’s name in English (after I managed to identify it)
And this reminds me of the research on ‘language management’ that originated in the 1960s-70s: doi.org/10.1080/1466...
Curious to know if they have coped somehow with the ethnomethodological indifference principle…
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...
You might be interested in this older piece: alternative-democracy-research.org/2015/06/10/r...
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
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
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
It only means you are a presumably well-known bearer of the name “Anne”
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…
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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)
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.
:) 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
No image of how to actually eat such thick burgers? :)
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
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...
It isn’t (in my language: not-is “není”)
Thank you, I didn’t know
It also took the land and its wealth from the First Nations
For that, he’ll get the Nobel Prize in Economics
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
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)
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
Yes, if I remember well, the communist rule in my country fell only after a general strike