Nele Põldvere (PhD)

Reading recommendation! 📖

Earlier this year, Vassiliki Geka published an excellent book on Imperative-Based Dialogic Constructions and Discourse Units: https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027244918

Later this year, Journal of Pragmatics published my review of the book, which you can […]

What did Elon change? A comprehensive analysis of Grokipedia

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.09685

Newsletter summary: "Grokipedia cites a Nazi forum and fringe conspiracy websites. A site-wide comparison with Wikipedia sheds light on what Elon Musk is trying to do" […]

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory. An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC […]

@ergative
Great! 🙏 Will definitely order that and hope he's addressed it in one way or another.

Dear readers of #mastodon!

Is anyone familiar with academic literature on communicative efficiency in short-form videos like #tiktok? I'm thinking of ways in which #influencers may adjust their speech to fit into bite-sized clips? Is there any?

If not specifically on language, then maybe […]

Ever heard of the Global Fact-Checking Network? Nope, not the International Fact-Checking Network (https://www.poynter.org/ifcn/) - the other, "alternative" one.

Anyway, just reading their posts for research purposes. Was positively surprised by their awareness of the role of language, lexical […]

Hello everyone! 👋

After having run a project account for a while, I thought it's high time to put a face to my research. So here I am: an English linguist with an interest in the language of fake news and spoken language (not always together, actually I prefer to take a break from fake news […]