NSM Lab

Looking for a quick summary of #NSMSemantics? Or #Minimal_English? Try here: bit.ly/2z41qSy For a great resource of papers on NSM and Minimal English, try here: nsm-approach.net

My blog post on the emotional impact of climate change and environmental destruction, exploring different emotional vocabularies. Ecological emotions in an era of global boiling: A view from linguistics – by Helen Bromhead medicinanarrativa.eu/ecological-emo…

Open Access! "Applied semantics and climate communication" by @HelBromhead and me. Please click, share, RT... benjamins.com/catalog/getpdf…

Exciting work from the @DanishInMaking team. And stay tuned for the videos from #NSM_Con2023 on our YouTube channel!

I’m speaking today at #NSM_Con2023, on: “What is ‘art’? Explicating two meanings of ‘art’ in simple translatable words”. 3:15pm AEST, 7:15 CEST, 22:30 PDT After me, talks on Filipino, Danish n lots more @GC_SocialCulur Join! eventbrite.com.au/e/nsm-con2023-…

#NSM_Con2023, our annual online conference is coming up very soon! As in, next week, 22-23 June. Get tickets here, and we'll see you online then. eventbrite.com.au/e/nsm-con2023-… #linguistics #semantics #appliedlinguistics #pragmatics #NSM_semantics #MinimalLanguages #MinimalEnglish

22-23 June! That's so soon! Register here. eventbrite.com.au/e/nsm-con2023-… #NSM_Semantics Talks on Chinese, Czech, Danish, Hebrew, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian | many fields and topics

Constructions, icescapes, art, saudade | prepping for #NSM-Con2023 next week | Stephanie, Ida, Lissara,Yuanmeng, and me @GU_SocialCultur #linguistics

After much work by @MariePavlaskova, we are very happy to share that the Czech resources for NSM primes are now available on the website. The table, chart, and diagram are ready to be used, along with release notes. Find them all here: nsm-approach.net/resources #nsm_semantics

First project day for *Danish in the Making* funded by @VELUXFONDEN. Joint @AarhusUni and @roskildeuni project. And this is our proud and smiling team: Noah Rørbæk, Susana Fernández, @LaurenSadow & @CarstenLevisen. The future looks bright #intercultural #pragmatics #Danish

Scandinavian Studies in Language - semantics for all 🤩: tidsskrift.dk/sss Great papers by @cliff_goddard @HeliTissari @HelBromhead @idastevia @LaurenSadow @JaniHein @FenyvesiKatalin @Stephaniemaskov + and many more 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 #semantics #meaning #keywords #discourse

Afterwards we spent some time playing @LaurenSadow’s NSM board game, based on scrabble.

We had a great time at our NSM Lab few weeks back talking about the challenges of finding primes in Czech with Marie Pavlásková and about using corpus data from @AKazmaly. Look out for NSM resources in Czech coming soon! #NSM_semantics #linguistics #semantics

Anna Wierzbicka has put together a reading list of "The best books on meaning and language and why it matters" on @Shepherd_books Have a look! shepherd.com/best-books/mea…

This week's YouTube video from #NSM_Con2022 is from Anna Wierzbicka, who presented a feature talk on "“People can think like this” and similar frames: Their place in NSM semantics" Watch it here: youtu.be/_gDfpZYwqZY

*Danish in the Making*. We got funded and here we are 🤩! This is a great day for #Danish studies, intercultural #pragmatics, and educational #linguistics! With Susana Fernandez, @LaurenSadow and backed by the generous @veluxfonden 🙏🏻 veluxfoundations.dk/da/kernegruppe… #linguisticstwitter

Another speed talk from #NSM_Con2022 is now available! Susana Silvia Fernández and Ana Paulla Braga Mattos sharing their work on "esperanza/esperança" as a cultural keyword of Latin America. Watch it here > youtu.be/rDomu-Vr7Lw

This week, we’re sharing Marie Pavlásková’s talk from #NSM_Con2022 on "Distrust that protects us: On the Czech counterpart of common sense" youtu.be/W-KrpyTZYZw

In our next video from #NSM_Con2022 we have a speed talk by David Bullock on 'Molecule Dependency Reports’ - one of the exiting digital tools for NSM researchers he’s been working on. youtu.be/S7o_iCkVzj8

At #NSM_Con2022, Hiromichi Sakaba shared some fascinating work on the difference between the Japanese “mottainai” and English “wasteful”. Watch his talk here > youtu.be/xflsZ6ZeupQ

In our first video from #NSM_Con2022, the winner of the Bert Peeters prize for best student essay in NSM semantics @KayYeo1 presents her work on "Understanding an ‘atas Singaporean’: The cultural semantics of the Singlish keyword atas" youtu.be/piP5xm3gfbI