Mel Evans

Lecturer English Language/Digital @UniversityLeeds. Aphra Behn ( She/Her. Vegan. Twitterer for @__BAAL. Duathlete-in-progress

[Mel Evans @_MelEvans]

@MichaMahlberg @victorinoxab @UniFAU @UniversityLeeds @victorinoxab DM me with your details and I can send you the link

[University English @UnivEnglish]

Don't forget to submit your video about your positive experience of studying English! You could potentially win £250 for first place :) #englishcreates #englishdegree #englishgraduate @EnglishAssoc @Team_English1

[UofG Information Studies @UofGInfoStudies]

In celebration of Dr Johanna’s Green's life and work, we invite you to join us for the first Annual Lecture in her honour, 24th April at 5.00pm https://t.co/vKGroyUKMO
@UofGlasgow @UofGArtsHums @UofGlasgowASC

[Mel Evans @_MelEvans]

Online talk tomorrow! FRIDAY 15th March 1-2pm:
"Corpus approaches to stance and evaluation in fake news" Dr Nele Poldvere, University of Oslo
All welcome!
https://t.co/pWpGlSGNVe
#Linguistics #academia

[Mel Evans @_MelEvans]

Upcoming Corpus Linguistics Online Talk, University of Leeds:
THURS 29th Feb 4-5pm: Heike Pichler, Newcastle University "Researching later-life language use: challenges and opportunities"

https://t.co/Pb9CAhjRGm for Zoom link

[Mel Evans @_MelEvans]

Leeds folk: come join us for a focussed chat about corpus approaches to history and the humanities - it'll be fun!

[John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn]

Leeds humanities colleagues! Booking is now open for this @LeedsAHRI Speculative Conversation on 'Corpus-Informed Approaches to the Humanities'. For anyone who uses databases & wants to use corpus tools to analyse them. Also: free lunch! https://t.co/n74B8sBsdV @_MelEvans

[Mel Evans @_MelEvans]

@HuntingRebels Top of the reading list!

[Mel Evans @_MelEvans]

Should anyone still be lurking in this place...
Today is our launch event for @UKIE_DH Community Interest Group Digital Correspondence
"Conversations about Correspondence" 12.30pm on Zoom
With @JuliaGillen
@cb_mckean and @niallDH
Visit https://t.co/DmHhQDxTL1 for info!

[Mel Evans @_MelEvans]

BNC64 users - is anyone else having problems with the interface? I want to use it for teaching and I can't get the search function to work anymore 🙁 #corpus #corpuslinguistics #academia

[Babel: The Language Magazine @Babelzine]

👀 Babel seeks reviewer 👀

Fancy writing a review of Tony Crowley's 'Liverpool: A Memoir of Words'?

Get in touch at [email protected]

[Mel Evans @_MelEvans]

Had the pleasure of seeing her speak on several occasions and this tribute is spot on

[Dr Una McIlvenna 💀🎶 @UnaMcIlvenna]

Natalie Zemon Davis has passed away. No scholar’s work has had more impact on mine than her immensely humane approach, both to her historical subjects and her readers. Complex research delivered in the most accessible language. But more importantly, she was a model of +

[The British Academy @BritishAcademy_]

A majority of the UK public would support making modern language learning compulsory in primary and secondary school, according to a new YouGov poll commissioned by the British Academy:
https://t.co/veyIXJ6aRi

[Sir Jonathan Bate @profbate]

Small tribute to great man @TimesObits

[Mel Evans @_MelEvans]

Launch day for the Digital Creativity and Cultures Hub! @dcch_leeds @UniversityLeeds

[Mel Evans @_MelEvans]

When you ask AI to create a picture of letter-writing, and it gives you the stuff of nightmares/the future

[Mel Evans @_MelEvans]

We're currently looking into this for historical pragmatics-type stuff as well...Haven't come across too much as yet

[Matteo Fuoli @MatteoFuoli]

Fellow (corpus) linguists! I'm putting together a list of tools for *automatically* annotating pragmatic/discursive features. So far, I've only come across Weisser's DART tool for tagging speech acts: https://t.co/iQW9l0bfZ0

Do you know any similar tools? 🙏

[Mel Evans @_MelEvans]

Thank you for the questions!

[Richard Badger @RichardBadger2]

Mel Evans talking about Language, Long Covid and Transmedia Communities at #BAAL2023York

[Mel Evans @_MelEvans]

Looking forward to two (very) full days @BAAL2023York @__BAAL

I'll be presenting some pilot results on the language around Long Covid across social and public media for the first time. I hope to do the topic justice #appliedlinguistics

[Mel Evans @_MelEvans]

@_JoeStephenson_ @oelj @dnmcinnis Not knowingly, I'm afraid!

[Mel Evans @_MelEvans]

@JoannaKopaczyk @UofGEnglishLang @UofGCritStudies @UofGArts Yay congratulations!!! Hugely well deserved