Chapter I. English Language: 14. Stylistics Surely there is no better sign of a discipline’s dynamism than the continual updating of its seminal texts. In 2023, this proved the case for stylistics, w

@fstradling.bsky.social and I have been busy browsing through a brilliant range of recently published work in stylistics. We’ve broken it down into bite-sized chunks here:

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Added bonus – it’s open access! 🥳

Looking to immerse yourself in a book about immersing yourself in books? Well, look no further!

‘Immersion’ is here 👇

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Two parents' hands envelop a baby's hand, whose left and partial face are also visible.

Going to be a little busy the coming time trying to work out what this thing called parenting means, so anything academic is on hold for now 👋

Thank you so much! ☺️

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Thank you so much! 😀

Four smiling academics in a university building. From left to right: Marian Martínez, Liz Towns-Andrews, Fransina Stradling and Shona Bettany.

A screenshot of a video call between Louise Nuttall and Fransina Stradling, both smiling.

Happily posing as a new Dr after my PhD viva yesterday, and an elated call with a proud supervisor a minute later 🎉

Thanks to Marian Martínez & Shona Bettany for a pleasant discussion, @louisenuttall.bsky.social for 7 years of superb supervision, & Liz Towns-Andrews for being the best academic mum!

Job Vacancy at the University of Nottingham: Teaching Associate/Teaching Assistant in Applied Linguistics (full-time, FTC) Do you have teaching specialisation in Applied Linguistics?  We are looking to appoint either a Teaching Assistant or Teaching Associate to work in our team in the School of English. You would join us...

Temporary post at Nottingham - Teaching Associate in Applied LInguistics. Come and work with us in @uonenglish.bsky.social! jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Well, that's that! PhD submitted 🥳

A full circle moment to do so with @kpager1.bsky.social present - I got to be there when she submitted hers, and now she was there for me! 🥰

That's a good idea! In this case, the claim it's used for is completely unrelated to our article. It's like it's not been read!

It's undoubtedly exciting when someone cites your work, but how should you feel when the claim it's used for is not actually made in your article? 🤔

PALA is thrilled to finally be on Blue Sky!! Feel free to follow and/or suggest followees! 🥳🎉

Yaaaaaay! So exciting! Massive congratulations 🎊🎊🎊

The Language of Margaret Atwood This book explores Margaret Atwood’s use of language and style across a selection of her prose texts, through reader-centred, cognitive stylistic analyses.

🌟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!

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Here is a Babel starter pack - the Babel team, Babel Lecturers, and linguists who have written for Babel!

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Research Associate at University of Sheffield Apply for the Research Associate role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

Come and work at the University of Sheffield! Research Associate in corpus linguistics needed for a project on Kazuo Ishiguro. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DGF991/r...

Come and work with us at RWTH Aachen. Full Professorship (W2) in Empirical Reader Response Studies and English Literary Studies at the English Department and the Aachen Center for Cognitive and Empirical Literary Studies. For details go to the ACCELS site
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Come join us for the Aston Stylistics Research Group Applied Stylistics Symposium in January! Registration open now!

Really excited to share that an article I wrote with the excellent Dr Valerie Hobbs on conversion narrative in the #biomimicry movement is out now!
#ecolinguistics #religiouslanguage

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Special Issue: Narrative Empathy; Guest Editors: Carolina Fernandez-Quintanilla and Fransina Stradli... Volume 52, issue 2 of the journal Journal of Literary Semantics was published in 2023.

I think the publication of a special issue that I co-guest edited with Carolina Fernandez-Quintanilla for the Journal of Literary Semantics is a great occasion for a first post! 🎉

Check out our special issue on Stylistic Approaches to Narrative Empathy here 👇🏻

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