Events

  • Paper by Messerli & Dayter at DRDHum 2022
    The following paper has been accepted and we are excited to present it in Jyväskylä in December: Messerli, Thomas C., & Dayter Daria (2022, December): Persuasion and Persuadability: Positioning of original poster opinions on R/changemyview as changeable. Conference paper. Digital Research Data and Human Sciences (DRDHum) – Diversity of Methods and Materials. Jyväskylä, Finland, 1–3 December… Read more: Paper by Messerli & Dayter at DRDHum 2022
  • Paper by Messerli & Dayter at SS24
    We will present the following paper in Gent in July, 2022: Messerli, Thomas C., & Dayter Daria (2022, July): Change my view about language: Language awareness on the subreddit r/changemyview. Conference paper. SS24. Sociolinguistic Symposium 2022 – “Inside and beyond boundaries”. Ghent, Belgium, and online, 13–16 July 2022.
  • Panel at DH2022 accepted!
    Our second panel at the Digital Humanities conference 2022 has been accepted! While it is a shame we cannot travel to Tokyo, we will present our work online 25-29 July 2022.
  • Panel at EPICS X accepted!
    Our panel at EPICS X International Symposium on Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics has been accepted. We will be in Sevilla between 23–25 May, 2022, to present our work!
  • Lecture
    Changed and unchanged views: A corpus of persuasive practices on the subreddit CMV Thomas C. Messerli (University of Basel) 30 November, 2021 This talk explores aspects of corpus building for a particular purpose and of corpus-based linguistic pragmatic research on the example of data from the subreddit CMV, where original posters invite commenters to change… Read more: Lecture