Bonus 18: Emoji, Gesture and The International Congress of Linguists - Summer Conference Adventures 2018 (Patreon)

Gretchen and Lauren are both recently back from some exciting linguistics conferences, and now we take you behind the scenes to hear about some of our favourite parts! Lauren went to the International Congress of Linguists and the International Society for Gesture Studies conference, both in Cape Town, South Africa. Gretchen went to two whole conferences on emoji (yes, those emoji 😃) in the US: Emoji2018 in San Francisco and EmojiCon in Brooklyn. 

We also get a bit meta about the academic and non-academic conference worlds. Might you want to go to a big conference about a general topic, or a small conference about a specific topic? There are pros and cons to both!  

Links:

• Lauren's presentation at ICL20 on linguistics data
• The Austin Principles of Data Citation in Linguistics 
• Lauren's talk at ISGS8 on gesture typology
• Our paper on emoji and repetition from Emoji2018 [PDF]
• Gretchen's tweets from Susan Herring's talk at Emoji2018
• Gretchen's tweets from Tyler Schnoebelen's talk at Emoji2018
• Gretchen's tweets of the panel discussion at Emoji2018
• Rachael Tatman's Twitter story of Emoji 2018 Conference 
• Hanmoji (from EmojiCon)
• Gretchen's slides from EmojiCon 
• EmojiLand musical, which previewed a few songs at EmojiCon 
• EmojiCon tweets from the #EmojiCon18 hashtag (some cool emoji art!) 
• Lauren's tweets from ICL20 
• Lauren's tweets from ISGS8 
• Emoji2018 conference website 
• EmojiCon website 
• ICL20 conference website 
• ISGS conference website 

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