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Maite Taboada

@mtaboada.bsky.social

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Distinguished Professor of Linguistics @SFU. Discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, NLP, sentiment analysis, social media language, language of misinformation. she/her

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Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · Sep 10

Last week, I visited @citius.gal, the Research Centre on Intelligent Technologies at the @usc.gal, my annual visit as a member of CiTIUS' Scientific Advisory Board.

Always great to see how well the Centre is doing.
And always such a pleasure to enjoy beautiful Santiago de Compostela!

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SFU Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences @sfufass.bsky.social · Sep 5

Congratulations to @sfulinguistics.bsky.social professor, @mtaboada.bsky.social, a finalist for the SSHRC Insight Award! The Insight Award recognizes outstanding achievement arising from SSHRC-funded initiatives which contributed to knowledge and understanding about people, societies and the world.

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Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · Sep 5

I'm a finalist for the 2025 #SSHRC Insight Impact Award! What an honour to be selected as finalist!
Thank you, @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca, for supporting social sciences and humanities research across Canada.

sshrc-crsh.canada.ca/en/news/2025...

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The Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor @raammetaphor.bsky.social · Aug 9

And we’re also thrilled to announce that the next RaAM Conference will be held in Pamplona, Spain! Save the dates!

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Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · Aug 9

Amber Rynearson and I presented today at @raammetaphor.bsky.social, on our work trying to integrate different frameworks for metaphor identification.
What a great conference and so well run. Thank you, Hamad @al-azary.bsky.social and team!

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arText @artext.bsky.social · Jun 26

It has been a pleasure to present our research in #IPrA2025 at The University of Queensland (Australia).

Thanks, @cliff-goddard.bsky.social and Helen Bromhead (panel organizers), for your interest on our @uneduniv.bsky.social #EUPlainTech project (@ageinves.bsky.social) . 🤗

#PlainLanguage
#NLP

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Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · Jun 25

IPrA in 2027 - Helsinki

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Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · Jun 25

Nice idea of the organizers of #ipra2025: signs with the first IPrA we attended

Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · Jun 25

In Brisbane for #ipra2025!

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arText @artext.bsky.social · Jun 23

📢 19th International Pragmatics Conference
🗓️ June 22–27
🌏 Brisbane
🔗 pragmatics.international/page/Program...

M. Bermúdez, I. da Cunha (@uneduniv.bsky.social) & M. Taboada (@sfulinguistics.bsky.social) will present our #EUPlainTech project (@ageinves.bsky.social).

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Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · Jun 22

Oh, wow, Laura and Carmen! Two such lovely people. Say hi!

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Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · Jun 20

Talk by Barbara Dancygier, one of the most prominent scholars in cognitive linguistics. And this one is about memes!

SFU Linguistics & Indigenous Languages @sfulinguistics.bsky.social · Jun 19

Join us via Zoom or at RCB 7402 on Thurs July 3rd, 12:30pm. More info: www.sfu.ca/linguistics/...
@sfufass.bsky.social @sfucmns.bsky.social @mtaboada.bsky.social @mglinguist.bsky.social

Constructions and stance: defining internet memes as a multimodal genre

"In this talk, I will focus in particular on two aspects of memetic grammar: the emergence of multimodal constructions and the expression and exchange of stance."

www.sfu.ca

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SFU Linguistics & Indigenous Languages @sfulinguistics.bsky.social · Jun 19

Join us via Zoom or at RCB 7402 on Thurs July 3rd, 12:30pm. More info: www.sfu.ca/linguistics/...
@sfufass.bsky.social @sfucmns.bsky.social @mtaboada.bsky.social @mglinguist.bsky.social

Constructions and stance: defining internet memes as a multimodal genre

"In this talk, I will focus in particular on two aspects of memetic grammar: the emergence of multimodal constructions and the expression and exchange of stance."

www.sfu.ca

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