Associate Professor in Contemporary Discourse • Swiftie • she/her • my own views
England(South)• Ireland(North)
Joined September 2012
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Dr Helen Ringrow retweeted
🚨Free access to some articles to commemorate #InternationalWomensDay!
🟪In 2020, @HelenRingrow analysed metaphors of motherhood in blogs of 2 religious communities.
🟣Common metaphors (journey, job, season) contextually emphasised gendered parenting.
🔗bit.ly/48c19dP
Dr Helen Ringrow retweeted
🌟Publication day🌟
My new book, The Language of Margaret Atwood, is now available.
This has been a Project and a Half, so a big thank you to friends and colleagues for the support along the way!
link.springer.com/book/10.10…
Is everyone really leaving this time? Last time there was chat of mass exodus I got new profiles on different platforms but quickly realised I don’t have the time or energy to maintain them, so deleted them…
Dr Helen Ringrow retweeted
Please share! Feel free to DM if you don’t want to share your views publicly
Teachers: are conspiracy theories a problem in school? Do you hear your students discussing them? If so does it concern you? Do they come up in class? Have you had any training or resources to discuss conspiracies with students? Whatever your experiences I’d love to hear from you
30%Yes, it’s an issue
42%No, it’s not a problem
1%Other
27%Want to see results
77 votes • Final results Dr Helen Ringrow retweeted
Trying to get a sense of whether conspiracies are an issue in schools or not for a new research project - would love if you could consider retweeting this poll @Team_English1 @researchED1 @rs_network @Positivteacha @FunkyPedagogy @shadylady222 @AlwaysLearnWeb @SaysMiss
Dr Helen Ringrow retweeted
Teachers: are conspiracy theories a problem in school? Do you hear your students discussing them? If so does it concern you? Do they come up in class? Have you had any training or resources to discuss conspiracies with students? Whatever your experiences I’d love to hear from you
30%Yes, it’s an issue
42%No, it’s not a problem
1%Other
27%Want to see results
77 votes • Final results Dr Helen Ringrow retweeted
Our study on the TikTok algorithm and eating disorders is finally published (big thx 2 @emilya_harris). We scraped the metadata for ~1 million TikTok videos delivered to users w/ eating disorders versus users w/out eating disorders (i.e. healthy controls) sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Dr Helen Ringrow retweeted
so close! I was learning about Kristy running the Babysitters Club like it was the marines
If you were a big reader as a kid, you were disassociating.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
While, technically, being deeply engrossed in reading is an example of mild dissociation, this incorrectly applies the psychological context of coping with stress/trauma or struggling with psychosis. Pathologising normal behaviour is trivialising to those with real disorders.
wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociat…
Dr Helen Ringrow retweeted
So happy to see my research into the language of mindfulness training finally out in the world!
#AppliedLinguistics #mindfulness
academic.oup.com/applij/adva…
Dr Helen Ringrow retweeted
“Waffles, it’s not about you,” a man just earnestly said to his beagle at the park
Dr Helen Ringrow retweeted
If I get my teaching sorted this morning, and my emails done after lunch, I'll hopefully have just enough time to complete my 3 years of unfinished writing
Dr Helen Ringrow retweeted
Academia is held together by caffeine, free labour, and the two people who nod encouragingly during presentations
Dr Helen Ringrow retweeted
So pleased to say @ShaYuze and I have had our paper accepted in Linguistics Vanguard's special issue on fake news, entitled "Using ATLAS.ti to intepret Keyword Co-occurrence Analysis: A case study on the representation of vaccin* across pseudoscience and conspiracy websites".
