StefMaci
@stefmaci.bsky.social
I’m the master of my soul PhD, Full Professor of English linguistics. UniBg. CDA, CL, ESP (tourism & medical discourses), discourse analysis· #RestInPower • she/her
Honored to be invited by the Consulate General of Italy in Philadelphia to speak at: “80 Years of Fulbright – Continuing the Transatlantic Dialogue between Italy and the US” A great opportunity to reflect on academic exchange and international collaboration. April 16, 2026, Philadelphia.
On February 23, 2026, I will be speaking at the University of Pittsburgh for the Distinguished Italian Fulbright Lecture “Tourism Goes Digital.” The talk examines live virtual guided tours as an emerging communicative practice in tourism and digital technologies.
Excited to be a keynote speaker at Vital Signs (University of Parma, 10–11 Feb 2026). My (online) talk: “AI and the Reconfiguration of Linguistic Structures and Communicative Norms in Medical Discourse.” How is AI reshaping medical English and the norms of healthcare communication? Let’s discuss.
📘✨ Happy to share that my chapter “Revenge porn: a new form of online gender-based violence discourse. A case study” has just been published in Discourse Approaches to Gender-Based Violence 🎉 (De Gruyter Mouton) 🗣️💻 🔗 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...
Discourse Approaches to Gender-Based Violence
This volume illustrates how the adoption of discourse approaches can cast light on the complex and often subtle ways in which gender-based violence (GBV) discursively operates. The focus is on careful...
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What Kind of Reasoning (if any) is an LLM actually doing? On the Stochastic Nature and Abductive Appearance of Large Language Models
This article examines the nature of reasoning in current, mainstream Large Language Models (LLMs) that operate within the token-completion paradigm. We explore
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On December 5th I’ll be in Chieti–Pescara for the Languaging Diversity conference, where I’ll talk about accessibility in tourism. I’ll be sharing reflections on how live virtual guided tours can help make travel experiences more inclusive and open to everyone. ✨
Thrilled to teach my Fulbright module at the University of Pittsburgh this upcoming term: Analyzing Tourism Communication in Transforming Media Ecosystems We’ll explore how tourism storytelling changes across traditional and digital media. #Fulbright #TourismCommunication #DigitalMedia
Excited to be giving tomorrow’s plenary talk “Empowering Learners and Teachers through Corpus Linguistics” at the COPLUS Conference, University of Milan. Grateful for the opportunity to discuss how corpus approaches can enhance both teaching and learning
“ideological alignment, rather than actor prominence, plays a central role in structuring online discourse and shaping the spread of information in polarized environments “ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Ideology and polarization set the agenda on social media - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Ideology and polarization set the agenda on social media
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🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨 we are excited to launch the Call for Papers for the Corpora and Discourse International Conference 2026. Deadline 16 November 2025. Submit your abstracts here: wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/cal.... Please share widely! #CADS2026
Call for Papers – Corpora & Discourse International Conference 2026
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I am so pleased to announce that I have been awarded a @ukri.org Future Leaders Fellowship www.ukri.org/news/ukri-an... to undertake the project 'A Multi-Dimensional Understanding of the Digital Far Right'.
UKRI announces winners of £120 million Future Leaders Fellowships
Research into the causes of lung cancer and Alzheimer’s disease are among 77 projects to be funded by UKRI’s Future Leaders Fellowships.
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Large Language Models (LLMs) can mirror expert judgment but often rely on word patterns rather than reasoning. A new study introduces epistemia, the illusion of knowledge that occurs when surface plausibility replaces verification. PNAS: ow.ly/sobq50Xcv9f www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Excited to announce my new book Translating Tourism (Routledge), co-authored with Cinzia Spinzi 🌍✈️ The book explores how tourism discourse is translated, adapted, and mediated. 📖 30% discount code: 3FVRD2MJ3 📚 Free inspection copies available for instructors. 🔗 www.routledge.com/Translating-...
Translating Tourism
This engaging textbook provides an in-depth examination of tourist discourse and communication and a guide to translating tourism texts. Through analysis of the linguistic, intercultural, and sociall...
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That’s me in Turin at the 32nd AIA conference, speaking of digital tourism
What happens when you use AI to tag 8546 images in a 1.5m word corpus of UK news about Islam? How accurate is the tagger? What's the relationship between images and words? My new Cambridge Element with @hannaschmueck.bsky.social and Yufang Qian is now free to access www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Automatic Image Tagging for Corpus Linguistics
Cambridge Core - Research Methods in Linguistics - Automatic Image Tagging for Corpus Linguistics
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Still buzzing after an amazing #CL2025 conference. Great research, great people, great chats. Thanks @robbielove.org and all the organisers for making it happen!
In case you missed the QR code during my talk on Geometric Multivariate Analysis @cl2025.co.uk: You can find slides, code, and data at osf.io/9p25y
Corpus Linguistics 2025
Presentation slides and reproduction materials for CL 2025 presentation “Finding structure in multivariate data” Hosted on the Open Science Framework
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Me (again) explaining how gender neutrality can be realized in grammatical-gendered languages #CL2025
What counts? An inspiring talk about the wonder of numbers by @proftaylor.bsky.social and @journolinguist.bsky.social #CL2025
Ladies and gentlemen, I’m a Fullbrighter! CANNOT BELIEVE MY EYES 🤩🤩🤩
“Any corpus is like the Emerald City - you need to go inside & poke around a bit” 🏰 In her plenary @cl2025.co.uk @hankslizzy.bsky.social takes us along the yellow brick road to LANA-CASE, tackling representativeness: what (register), who (demographics), and how (authenticity) 📚🎓 #cl2025
This morning I was honoured to give the opening plenary at the #CL2025 conference - thanks to everyone who came along and engaged!
