Conference presentations

Ajšić, A. (2025, June). Artificial intelligence/large language models: A terrible master but an excellent servant? Paper presented at the ZHAW Symposium of the Swiss Association for Applied Linguistics (VALS-ASLA): Creativity meets technology – Applied Linguistics at the interface of artificial and human intelligence, Winterthur, Switzerland.

Ajšić, A. (2024, June). The convergence of physical and virtual semiotic landscapes of the UAE: Ideological implications.Paper presented at the 15th Linguistic Landscape Workshop (LL15), Wellington, New Zealand.

Ajšić, A. (2024, February). Better student evaluations through prompt engineering. Paper presented at the Best Practices in Teaching and Learning Conference 2024, Sharjah, UAE.

Ajšić, A. (2023, August). Language ideology as the language of fake news. (Session: The language of fake news: Theoretical, empirical and methodological perspectives). Paper presented at the British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL) Annual Conference 2023, York, UK.

Ajšić, A. (2022, September). Pseudoscientific argumentation as the original fake news: Combating right-wing populist discourses on language in the former Yugoslavia. Paper presented at the Language, Ideology, and Social Differentiation Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Ajšić, A. (2021, August). Media discourses on language, multilingualism, and immigration: Large-scale lexical patterns in discourse as indicators of ideologies. Paper presented at the AILA 2021 (International Association of Applied Linguistics) World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Groningen, the Netherlands, online.

Ajšić, A. (2021, March). Floating on English in a rising sea of globalization: Liminality, liability, transformation. Colloquium conducted at the meeting of the American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference, online.

Ajšić, A. (2020, June). Challenges in corpus-based study of language-related discourses and ideologies. Paper presented at the Corpora and Discourse International Conference 2020, Falmer, Sussex, UK, online.

Ajšić, A. (2020, May). Large-scale lexical patterns in discourse as indicators of ideologies: Comparing exploratory factor analysis and topic modeling. Paper presented at ICAME 41 (Language and Linguistics in a Complex World: Data, Interdisciplinarity, Transfer, and the Next Generation), Heidelberg, Germany, online.

Ajšić, A., Filipović, Z., & Tankosić, A. (2019, June). Changing cities, changing linguistic landscapes: The convergence of physical and virtual linguistic landscapes of the UAE. Paper presented at the 4th International Conference on Changing Cities (CCIV), Chania, Crete Island, Greece.

Filipović, Z., Tameez, H., & Ajšić, A. (2019, June). Storytelling in VR: A case study of digital heritage preservation of Wadi al Helo, Sharjah, UAE. Paper presented at the Museums in Arabia 2019 Conference, London, United Kingdom.

Ajšić, A. (2018, September). Driven: Audience design and the technological hybridization of traditional media. Paper presented at the Second International Conference on Sociolinguistics, Budapest, Hungary.

Ajšić, A. (2018, May). Corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis: Identifying large-scale lexical patterns in discourse as indicators of ideologies. Paper presented at the DiscourseNet 20 Conference (Exploring Fuzzy Boundaries in Discourse Studies), Budapest, Hungary.

Ajšić, A. (2017, March). The web as a research tool. Paper presented at the 23^rd TESOL Arabia International Conference and Exhibition: Advancing the ELT Profession, Dubai, UAE.

Ajšić, A. (2016, June). Combining corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis to study inter-varietal variation in language ideologies. Paper presented at the Eighth Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS) Conference: Corpora and Context, Bath, UK.

Ajšić, A. (2016, May). Language ideology research: New trends. Paper presented at the Sixth International Conference on Foreign Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics (FLTAL), Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Ajšić, A. (2016, April). Capturing Herder: A methodological comparison of corpus-based approaches to language ideologies. Paper presented at the American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference, Orlando, Florida.

Ajšić, A. (2014, September). Effects of corpus-based instruction on L2 recognition and recall of signal markers. Paper presented at the American Association for Corpus Linguistics Conference, Flagstaff, Arizona.

Ajšić, A. (2014, August). “Crossing” into the L2 and back: Agency and native-like ultimate attainment by a post-critical-period learner. Paper presented at the International Association for Applied Linguistics Conference, Brisbane, Australia.

Ajšić, A. (2014, March). Language ideologies, public discourses, and ethnonationalism in Bosnia-Herzegovina (1990-2010): Combining critical discourse analysis and corpus linguistics. Paper presented at the American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference, Portland, Oregon.

Ajšić, A. (2013, September). Raising monolinguals in multilingual homes: Family language policy in intermarried Bosnian immigrant families in the United States. Paper presented at the Multidisciplinary Approaches in Language Policy and Planning Conference, Calgary, Canada.

Ajšić, A. (2013, April). The cultural political economy of English as a global lingua franca: A South African perspective. Paper presented at the 58^th Annual International Linguistic Association Conference, Brooklyn, New York.

Ajšić, A. (2013, March). Political loanwords: Postwar constitutional arrangement and the co-occurrence tendencies of anglicisms in contemporary Bosnian. Paper presented at the American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference, Dallas, Texas.

Ajšić, A. (2013, March). Effects of corpus-based instruction on L2 recognition, recall, and use of signal markers: A pilot study. Paper presented at the Arizona State University’s 19^th Annual Graduate Linguistics/TESOL Symposium, Tempe, Arizona.

Ajšić, A. (2013, January). Co-occurrence tendencies of anglicisms in contemporary Bosnian print journalism. Paper presented at the American Association for Corpus Linguistics Conference, San Diego, California.

Ajšić, A. (2012, February). Language policy in intermarried immigrant families: Three case studies in the United States. Paper presented at the Peaks Interdisciplinary Conference, Flagstaff, Arizona.

Ajšić, A. (2011, October). Five lessons from etic research and teaching in multicultural settings. Paper presented at the AZ-TESOL State Conference, Prescott, Arizona.