A team of @Griffith_Uni researchers working on a variety of languages & related disciplines and using Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) in their analysis.

Brisbane, Queensland
Joined January 2017
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/ecologi…
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Open Access! "Applied semantics and climate communication" by @HelBromhead and me. Please click, share, RT... benjamins.com/catalog/getpdf…
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Exciting work from the @DanishInMaking team. And stay tuned for the videos from #NSM_Con2023 on our YouTube channel!
“Danish in the Making” is wishing our followers a great summertime! 🤗🍓 But first we would like to tweet a bit a bit about last week’s intense research activities & conference organisation at #NSM_Con2023
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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-con2…
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22-23 June! That's so soon! Register here. eventbrite.com.au/e/nsm-con2… #NSM_Semantics Talks on Chinese, Czech, Danish, Hebrew, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian | many fields and topics
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Constructions, icescapes, art, saudade | prepping for #NSM-Con2023 next week | Stephanie, Ida, Lissara,Yuanmeng, and me @GU_SocialCultur #linguistics
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Afterwards we spent some time playing @LaurenSadow’s NSM board game, based on scrabble.
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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/mean…
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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
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*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/kerne… #linguisticstwitter
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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
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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
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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
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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
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