StefMaci
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
- 📘✨ 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...
- 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...
- 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'.
- Congrats!!!
- 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/...
- 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-...
- That’s me in Turin at the 32nd AIA conference, speaking of digital tourism
- I was looking forward to this presentation! #CL2025
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- Not at all. This is an oversimplification of ‘interpret’, which, following your and CED definitions, seems a synonym of explain. Interpretation requires contextualization, understanding of intent, and value judgment. The latter can’t be done by AI, which cannot tell what is right or wrong.
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- AI can certainly explain, but not interpret, in the sense of assigning a meaning to something, which is always relative, because AI does not know what is right or what is wrong, does not have feelings or positions. In this discussion, what is missing is the definition of interpretation.
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- I enjoyed the first part of the talk. I do not really agree with the final part, when you said that AI is good for interpretation. I think this clashes with the fact that AI is stochastic. But l your talk can be the very much needed starting point for further discussion & research about this
- Still buzzing after an amazing #CL2025 conference. Great research, great people, great chats. Thanks @robbielove.org and all the organisers for making it happen!
- Me (again) explaining how gender neutrality can be realized in grammatical-gendered languages #CL2025
- That’s me, speaking about Climate Change #CL2025
- So sorry to say goodbye! #CL2025
- Ready, set, go! Pascual’s promising talk is live now! #CL2025
- What counts? An inspiring talk about the wonder of numbers by @proftaylor.bsky.social and @journolinguist.bsky.social #CL2025
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- Ladies and gentlemen, I’m a Fullbrighter! CANNOT BELIEVE MY EYES 🤩🤩🤩
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- Come and visit me in Pittsburgh, Zsófia!
- Even the stairs are beautiful! #CL2025
- Impossible to get lost😊 #CL2025
- The concorDANCE at #CL2025!!!
- How to refresh a bunch of linguists #CL2025
- CL and context. Great kick-off talk by @gavinbrookes.bsky.social #cl2025
- Here we go #CL2025
- Naples, here I come! 3rd international CIRLaM conference “Artificial intelligence in medical communication: current challenges, future directions” My plenary talk is: Standardizing Care, Simplifying Context: The Impact of AI on Medical Discourse. #cirlam2025
- Beautiful Salamanca
- Off to CILC2025 in Salamanca! Presenting on AI and medical discourse with a talk titled: “From doctor to algorithm: How AI is reshaping communication in medicine” Let’s chat about chatboxes, algorithms, and language in healthcare.
- Thrilled to return to Ca’ Foscari University tomorrow—my Alma Mater—with a talk titled “Chip chip Hooray! How food is presented to children.” We’ll dive into the linguistic and visual strategies behind food marketing for young audiences. Curious minds welcome!
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- Tho is an under-explored fascinating topic!!!
- Off to Catania for the PhD seminar where I will be speaking about the discourse of arbitration
- Glad to announce I will be panelist at the SCOT( Smart Community Tourism) webinar about Co-Creating Tourism Values through Regeneration on 14 June at 10 CET If you are interested in it, and would like to participate, please register for free here scotwebinars.org/events/volum...
- Instagrammable tourism. An overview.. Now, at the University of Sassari
- CfP!!! 🎤 Panel 34 "Edible Narratives" AIA Torino 2025 Deadline: April 23 Notification of acceptance: May 15 Presenters must be members of AIA We look forward to hearing your paper! Further info here: corep.it/images/aia20...
- Happy to announce I'll be delivering a keynote 🎙️ at the University of Udine on 10 April 2025.In my talk: “Polarizing Conversations in the Digital Sphere” I'll explore the forces driving digital division. Let’s decode the algorithms together. #OpenDebate #SocialMedia #Polarization #UdineTalks
- Just released: Translating Tourism, co-authored with Cinzia Spinzi—unpacking the critical role of translation in tourism discourse. Essential reading for linguists and travel professionals. Available now at Routledge. 🌍📚 #TranslationStudies #Tourism www.routledge.com/Translating-...
- Thrilled to announce I will be at the Birmingham #CL2025, Salamanca #CILC2025 , and Barcelona #GenderTranslation2025 conferences!
- Another thing that struck me about yesterday’s Oval Office disaster is the place of language. 🧵
- That is exactly what I thought!
- Birmingham, here we go! #cl2025
- Hurray! A million thanks to @tamsinparnell.bsky.social @fabrichunter.bsky.social and to Tom Van Hout for their great editorial job
- Happy to announce my new publication! Many many thanks to the wonderful editors @tamsinparnell.bsky.social and Dario Del Fante!!!
- 🤞🤞🤞 I’m in one of those 365 papers… It’s going to be a great conference - as usual!
- We’ll be in touch! #CERLIS2025
- You overwhelmed us with your abstract proposals! In the next weeks our #CERLIS2025 programme committee will be reviewing a total of 210 submissions. We’ll be in touch soon! #CERLIS2025
