"Expat", "not a proper" linguist, "reader" & "bookseller ": multimodality, early childhood & social media discourse. Opinions are my very proper Bitmoji's.
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11 Nov 2024
Our paper on Semantics and Sentiment: Cross-lingual Variations in Emoji Use is now available in the ACL anthology (for this year's @emnlpmeeting ) It was a project I did with our most talented and hardworking CDT NLP students, which was great fun! aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-…
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7 May 2025
Hello All, Dr Xi Cui (@CofC) and I are editing a special issue on Global Diaspora and Social Media for a free open access journal. You can find the call here
omgc.shisu.edu.cn/fd/2f/c124…
All approaches welcome and especially those who work on less documented diasporic communities.
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Sumin （蘇敏）Zhao retweeted
16 Nov 2024
Many thanks to Edinburgh Linguistics Circle (@Christianilbury @SuminZhao & @dialect & many others) for the opportunity to share my @LeverhulmeTrust funded project on the urban history of Shanghainese. Really enjoyed learning more about your research during my visit as well! ✨
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24 Oct 2024
My paper with Chris Cummis "Arguing with numbers on social media" is out (open access). In the paper we ask a simple question, can a visual graph encode an argumentative agenda when this is not explicitly expressed in the written text? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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24 Oct 2024
Our analysis suggests that language is necessary for setting up the argumentative context for graphs, even when it does not explicitly encode evaluative meaning. Interlocutors are very adept at inferring the argumentative agendas based on very little multimodal information.
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1 Aug 2024
Pleasantly surprised to discover that my honours student Sophie Anderson has received this year's Angus Mactintosh Prize for her project on pointing gestures across vlog genres. 😆 It is one of those moments that make you feel that your life is not completely wasted..🥹🥹
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15 Jun 2024
A huge thanks to @drjenrowsell for such a wonderful conference and all the great talks 😚 meeting with Sheffield literacy scholars has always been a joy, especially after 2 millions of years @_FionaScott @AbiHackett @drchrisjbailey. Shine on all you diamonds
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13 Jun 2024
The sexiest talk I have event written mostly because I interpreted the conference theme in a very literal way 🙂↔️🫣😳
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6 Jun 2024
Our @BAAL SIG (baallangnewmedia.wordpress.c…) is looking for new convenor (replacing me) and event coordinator! I have served on both roles and they helped me to build up a community in the UK as a "foreigner" ;-) ! Do put your hands up 🙋♂️🙋🙋♀️.
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Sumin （蘇敏）Zhao retweeted
30 May 2024
Hello lovely corpus people, can any one help one of my PhDs? Does anyone know how one can fix or get around this bug on CQPweb? 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
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17 May 2024
I have finally wrapped up all the old projects and sent off all the writings I owe people. It’s time for new projects I had been plotting since the end of the COVID 😭😭😭🙂↔️🙂↔️
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Sumin （蘇敏）Zhao retweeted
16 May 2024
Join us and guest speaker Sumin Zhao (@EdinburghUni) to discuss the role social media apps play in the literacy practices of young people from Chinese-speaking families.
📅 23 May
⏰ 1 - 2 p.m.
📍 University of Bath
Book your space below. ⬇️
bath.ac.uk/events/the-hundre… @SuminZhao
ALT This is an image of a child using a tablet.
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15 May 2024
The joint annual event organised by two @BAAL SIGs (Lang & New Media and Health Communication) is just over a week away. Do forget we also have a series of online talks organised in the following week! Two exciting weeks ahead!
baallangnewmedia.wordpress.c…
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10 May 2024
Marking is hardly a fun task, but this year's student projects for my Discourse Analysis course are just so freakingly amazing 🤯🤩. I learned so much from reading them in particular how we can creatively use social media data in linguistic research.
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3 May 2024
Our @Leti_TianZhang paper (open access) on how video-sharing platforms shape video practices is finally out 😇 it gives an overview of Bilibili ("the Chinese youtube for the TikTok youth 🤪") and includes a section the (in)famous Guichu videos! journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…
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26 Apr 2024
The programme for joint SIG event is now online 🥳🥳 baallangnewmedia.wordpress.c…
23 Apr 2024
Don’t forget to register for the joint research workshop hosted by two @__BAAL SIGs health communication and language & new media! A great lineup for a hybrid mode with in person talks on the day and more online talk sessions following the event eventbrite.com/e/baal-new-me…
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23 Apr 2024
Don’t forget to register for the joint research workshop hosted by two @__BAAL SIGs health communication and language & new media! A great lineup for a hybrid mode with in person talks on the day and more online talk sessions following the event eventbrite.com/e/baal-new-me…
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16 Apr 2024
When I was living in the International House (a residential college of Usyd), there was a photo of six Chinese linguistic students hanging in the common room. They were the first group of Chinese students who studied overseas after the Cultural Revolution. They received training
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16 Apr 2024
Strange how random facts of one’s life entangle with the history of institutions, nations and one’s field. It almost gives one an illusion of destiny. Luckily, the urge of moving to a warmer and sunnier place soon takes over 🤪
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16 Apr 2024
P.s I just recently found out that Wangli was a student of Yuanren Zhao (趙元任). So yes, it’s my fate ending up in this rainy and cold place. Remember not to complain and accept your fate… 🥶🥶🤪😅
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