May 26, 2026 at 5:42 PM
May 27, 2026 at 8:50 AM
I think it's very fitting that I'm starting #EPICSXII by listening to a talk on interactional practices in an izakaya in Japan (by Todd Allen)
#LanguageAndFood
#LanguageAndFood
May 27, 2026 at 7:33 AM
I think it's very fitting that I'm starting #EPICSXII by listening to a talk on interactional practices in an izakaya in Japan (by Todd Allen)
#LanguageAndFood
#LanguageAndFood
Caroline Tagg takes us into the realm of postdigital pragmatics: exemplified by people messaging each other even though they are in the same house (no judgment, she emphasizes)
#EPICSXII
#EPICSXII
May 28, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Caroline Tagg takes us into the realm of postdigital pragmatics: exemplified by people messaging each other even though they are in the same house (no judgment, she emphasizes)
#EPICSXII
#EPICSXII
Time for the first #EPICSXII keynote: Jannis Androutsopoulos on "Crafting Voice with Algospeak & Alternating Caps".
Follow along on his slides, even if you're not in Seville: cloud.uni-hamburg.de/s/3H87bimt4X...
Follow along on his slides, even if you're not in Seville: cloud.uni-hamburg.de/s/3H87bimt4X...
EPICS_2026_CraftingVoice.pdf
UHHCloud
cloud.uni-hamburg.de
May 27, 2026 at 10:56 AM
Time for the first #EPICSXII keynote: Jannis Androutsopoulos on "Crafting Voice with Algospeak & Alternating Caps".
Follow along on his slides, even if you're not in Seville: cloud.uni-hamburg.de/s/3H87bimt4X...
Follow along on his slides, even if you're not in Seville: cloud.uni-hamburg.de/s/3H87bimt4X...
The final (😢) keynote of #EPICSXII just started: Camilla Vásquez on metapragmatic and metacomedic material in stand-up comedy: we start with a video collage of comedians pointing out that they are...indeed...joking. This functions as a moral account used for post-offense mitigation
May 29, 2026 at 10:39 AM
The final (😢) keynote of #EPICSXII just started: Camilla Vásquez on metapragmatic and metacomedic material in stand-up comedy: we start with a video collage of comedians pointing out that they are...indeed...joking. This functions as a moral account used for post-offense mitigation
Spanish conference dinners:
- getting a snack at 8pm because you know it will be a while until you get your food 😅
- this view on the way to the restaurant 😍
#EPICSXII
- getting a snack at 8pm because you know it will be a while until you get your food 😅
- this view on the way to the restaurant 😍
#EPICSXII
May 28, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Spanish conference dinners:
- getting a snack at 8pm because you know it will be a while until you get your food 😅
- this view on the way to the restaurant 😍
#EPICSXII
- getting a snack at 8pm because you know it will be a while until you get your food 😅
- this view on the way to the restaurant 😍
#EPICSXII
Peter Teo (Nanyang Technological University) shows how male beauty influencers perform authenticity by visually appealing to normality, capacity and veracity #EPICSXII
May 27, 2026 at 9:30 AM
Peter Teo (Nanyang Technological University) shows how male beauty influencers perform authenticity by visually appealing to normality, capacity and veracity #EPICSXII
Her metapragmatic analysis of Reddit and NYT comments shows that people connect forgiveness with changing emotional states. A recoverability scale makes some offenses unforgivable, third-party forgiveness is also constructed as unacceptable #EPICSXII
We're about to find out if forgiveness is canceled in Pilar Blitvich's #EPICSXII keynote talk.
May 28, 2026 at 9:57 AM
Her metapragmatic analysis of Reddit and NYT comments shows that people connect forgiveness with changing emotional states. A recoverability scale makes some offenses unforgivable, third-party forgiveness is also constructed as unacceptable #EPICSXII
Ruth Breeze analyzed the tweets by a political bot (name + random numbers) for the use of engagement strategies: attention-getting devices, reader mentions, appeals to shared interests, directives and humor are all prolific
#EPICSXII
#EPICSXII
May 29, 2026 at 9:25 AM
Ruth Breeze analyzed the tweets by a political bot (name + random numbers) for the use of engagement strategies: attention-getting devices, reader mentions, appeals to shared interests, directives and humor are all prolific
#EPICSXII
#EPICSXII
Jan Chovanec introduces the world of memetic frogs: Kermit sipping tea, crazy frog, Pepe the Frog, it is Wednesday dudes-frog 🐸 And then there is Colonal Toad. Turned into the PhD frog on a phd community on Reddit, posted as a rite of passage
#EPICSXII
#EPICSXII
May 27, 2026 at 9:54 AM
Jan Chovanec introduces the world of memetic frogs: Kermit sipping tea, crazy frog, Pepe the Frog, it is Wednesday dudes-frog 🐸 And then there is Colonal Toad. Turned into the PhD frog on a phd community on Reddit, posted as a rite of passage
#EPICSXII
#EPICSXII
Now up at #EPICSXII: Elisabeth Scherr (Graz) on the discomfort zone on online sports blogs and how references to standard situations, collective experiences and other generalizations regarding discomfort help construct a fitness community of practice
May 27, 2026 at 10:33 AM
Now up at #EPICSXII: Elisabeth Scherr (Graz) on the discomfort zone on online sports blogs and how references to standard situations, collective experiences and other generalizations regarding discomfort help construct a fitness community of practice
From sharing to showing to storyfying your life to the opposite - Tereza Spilioti on quitting, disconnecting and digital detox (in particular by 'serial disconnectors') #EPICSXII
May 29, 2026 at 12:41 PM
From sharing to showing to storyfying your life to the opposite - Tereza Spilioti on quitting, disconnecting and digital detox (in particular by 'serial disconnectors') #EPICSXII
Ready for #EPICSXII in Sevilla!
Looking forward to some hot (literally due to weather) discussions on identity construction on cheat day vlogs #CarnivalesqueConsumption #LanguageAndFood
Looking forward to some hot (literally due to weather) discussions on identity construction on cheat day vlogs #CarnivalesqueConsumption #LanguageAndFood
May 25, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Ready for #EPICSXII in Sevilla!
Looking forward to some hot (literally due to weather) discussions on identity construction on cheat day vlogs #CarnivalesqueConsumption #LanguageAndFood
Looking forward to some hot (literally due to weather) discussions on identity construction on cheat day vlogs #CarnivalesqueConsumption #LanguageAndFood
Minna Nevala talks about pandemic voices at #EPICSXII
Part of the Languaging Crises project at @helsinki.fi
blogs.helsinki.fi/languaging-c...
Part of the Languaging Crises project at @helsinki.fi
blogs.helsinki.fi/languaging-c...
Languaging Crises – Diachronic Perspectives on Public Communication during Three Pandemics
blogs.helsinki.fi
May 28, 2026 at 10:41 AM
Minna Nevala talks about pandemic voices at #EPICSXII
Part of the Languaging Crises project at @helsinki.fi
blogs.helsinki.fi/languaging-c...
Part of the Languaging Crises project at @helsinki.fi
blogs.helsinki.fi/languaging-c...
Thank you to the wonderful #EPICSXII organizing team for a fantastic conference and to the Universidad Sevilla Pablo de Olivade for hosting us!
And now please stop it with the cool conference series, I'm running out of time to attend them all 🫠
And now please stop it with the cool conference series, I'm running out of time to attend them all 🫠
May 29, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Thank you to the wonderful #EPICSXII organizing team for a fantastic conference and to the Universidad Sevilla Pablo de Olivade for hosting us!
And now please stop it with the cool conference series, I'm running out of time to attend them all 🫠
And now please stop it with the cool conference series, I'm running out of time to attend them all 🫠
It's the final day of #EPICSXII. Shoutout to everybody showing up for the first session after the epic (😎) conference dinner!
I'm starting the day with Calogero Rampello's talk on hotels' costumer webcare
I'm starting the day with Calogero Rampello's talk on hotels' costumer webcare
May 29, 2026 at 7:36 AM
It's the final day of #EPICSXII. Shoutout to everybody showing up for the first session after the epic (😎) conference dinner!
I'm starting the day with Calogero Rampello's talk on hotels' costumer webcare
I'm starting the day with Calogero Rampello's talk on hotels' costumer webcare
From peer reviewers telling you to lose specific words to student presenters commenting on which word is "good" or not to capture a specific concept, Annelie Ädel on speaker commentary on word choices
#EPICSXII
#EPICSXII
May 28, 2026 at 11:16 AM
From peer reviewers telling you to lose specific words to student presenters commenting on which word is "good" or not to capture a specific concept, Annelie Ädel on speaker commentary on word choices
#EPICSXII
#EPICSXII
Cecilia Lazzeretti now presenting her work on 'magical thinking' by health influencers. Different influencers construct different identities both discursively and multimodality. We just me the biohacker, God's faithful sentinel, and the medium guy 🔮
#EPICSXII
#EPICSXII
May 29, 2026 at 8:21 AM
Cecilia Lazzeretti now presenting her work on 'magical thinking' by health influencers. Different influencers construct different identities both discursively and multimodality. We just me the biohacker, God's faithful sentinel, and the medium guy 🔮
#EPICSXII
#EPICSXII
Anyone else going to #EPICSXII? Very excited to have a good reason to travel to Spain in 2026 as well 🤩
Bringing along a presentation from another part of the Carnivalesque Consumption project: "‘I don’t worry about the scale’ – Identity Construction and Self-Presentation in Cheat Day Vlogs" 🍩🍩🍩
Bringing along a presentation from another part of the Carnivalesque Consumption project: "‘I don’t worry about the scale’ – Identity Construction and Self-Presentation in Cheat Day Vlogs" 🍩🍩🍩
January 8, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Anyone else going to #EPICSXII? Very excited to have a good reason to travel to Spain in 2026 as well 🤩
Bringing along a presentation from another part of the Carnivalesque Consumption project: "‘I don’t worry about the scale’ – Identity Construction and Self-Presentation in Cheat Day Vlogs" 🍩🍩🍩
Bringing along a presentation from another part of the Carnivalesque Consumption project: "‘I don’t worry about the scale’ – Identity Construction and Self-Presentation in Cheat Day Vlogs" 🍩🍩🍩
We haven't published much these days, but we have been very busy. So here is a bit of what we have been doing...
1️⃣Very happy to host @pechersteph.bsky.social who is doing research with us for three months.
2️⃣We participated with two papers at the #EPICSXII conference held in Seville.
1️⃣Very happy to host @pechersteph.bsky.social who is doing research with us for three months.
2️⃣We participated with two papers at the #EPICSXII conference held in Seville.
June 25, 2026 at 5:30 PM
We haven't published much these days, but we have been very busy. So here is a bit of what we have been doing...
1️⃣Very happy to host @pechersteph.bsky.social who is doing research with us for three months.
2️⃣We participated with two papers at the #EPICSXII conference held in Seville.
1️⃣Very happy to host @pechersteph.bsky.social who is doing research with us for three months.
2️⃣We participated with two papers at the #EPICSXII conference held in Seville.