Do you know that I’m conducting a survey for my research on emotions? If your 1st language is English or Japanese, please consider taking a few minutes to answer it. It’s anonymous and there’s a small gift at the end 🫶
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Resharing appreciated!
Search triggered by this headline - in which the 'simpler times' are not those of the text world so much as the cultural context of the first adaptation
Google ngrams for the phrase simpler times. Shows this occurs from early 1800s onwards but peaks in present period
The #nostalgia for 'simpler times'. Ever present but increasing?
Spoiler alert: the imagined simpler times are very much not the same period.
📚🔎 The Adam Kilgarriff Prize is open for applications. If you created a dictionary, corpus, or language tool, consider applying or sharing the opportunity.
#lexicography #NLP
kilgarriff.co.uk/prize/
This week, Rachelle Vessey @rachellevessey.bsky.social will talk about "Gender ideologies in workplace surveys: The case of the Canadian military"
Join us on March 13 at 16 EET (check the time zone!): tinyurl.com/talkosso
@lulind.bsky.social @ylvabiri.bsky.social
Here is the link for today's NOSTALGIA reading group meeting teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...
See you at 3 p.m. Italian time
📚 New publication for the International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics: Corpus Linguistics and Discourse Analysis, co-authored with the amazing @proftaylor.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/B978...
For today's World Book Day, @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social are giving you a taste of all the books to explore on www.clic-ficiton.com.
Using the FlexiConc tab developed by RC21 gives you even more options to see how books were described in 19th century literature.
Our comeback choice for the #nostalgia reading group is a perhaps unusual and long (but I promise rewarding) listening: an interview (by @veganfuturist.bsky.social) with historian @adapalmer.bsky.social on her book "Inventing the Renaissance" open.spotify.com/episode/58Ku...
Tue 10/03 (link soon)
the conference website for the 9th conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English is live now: isle9conference.com
KU Leuven, 24-27 May 2027
#ISLE9
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Not yet a susbcriber to Babel magazine? Well, you can find out what you're missing through the back-issue (BrE) lucky dip*!
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🚨 Job alert in my group:
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The #nostalgia reading group reprises in March: meeting every 2nd Tuesday of the month at 2 p.m. UK time. If you'd like to join contact @proftaylor.bsky.social or myself. See you on March 10th. You can also suggest reading (or listening) material; our next reading will be announced on Friday.
Now published: Our analytical paper on strategic, far-right/illiberal reversal of meanings of key social & political concepts: “We put family at the centre of social life”: On Conceptual flipsiding of the “family” in discursive-political strategies of PL populist far-right" doi.org/10.1080/1035...
I used the Parlamint corpus which is *free* to access
It offers interoperable and comparable corpora for parliamentary discourse across 29 countries and autonomous regions in Europe
www.clarin.si/ske/#open
The book came out of an excellent colloquium organised by Maria Calzada Perez & editors of this book. It was a brilliant opportunity to share ideas & learn
Whole book is free to download & includes contributions by @sofialampro.bsky.social @ricardzapata.bsky.social & colleagues not in this space
Key findings
- A wide range of emotions are referenced (not only negative)
- Little variation according to political orientation of speakers
- Emotion talk supports two familiar tropes: binary opposition of ‘deserving’ & ‘undeserving’ migrants & mythopoetic positive representation of the UK
📢New chapter: Emotion talk in UK parliamentary debates on migration
I look at the rhetorical use of explicit references to pride & gratitude, shame & regret, fear & tolerance
Free to download: www.peterlang.com/document/147...
I see the University of York is offering a fixed-term post in public history for the same salary (£37k) I earned for a fixed-term post in public history, also in Yorkshire, in 2012. Had the rate risen with inflation it would now be £53k.
octopus tentacles on a red background, writing: Influence, Manipulation and Seduction 3
#OctoConf3 news: we have a new poster aaaand 3 confirmed plenary speakers!
- Charlotte Taylor @proftaylor.bsky.social (Discourse and Persuasion, Uni Sussex)
- Massimiliano Demata (English Linguistics, University of Catania)
- Katarina Pettersson (Social Psychology, Uni Helsinki)
How do we persuade someone to act against their initial intentions? How do we reshape what they think about an issue?
See the Call for Papers for Influence, Manipulation & Seduction 3: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Persuasive Language
November 19-20, 2026, at Tampere University, Finland
“We must not run scared of Reform. They will always outdo us in hostility. What we have got to do is to say that certain basic human rights principles must apply."
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
🚨 The Call for Papers for the Indebtedness in Linguistics Conference is now online! Deadline is April 15, 2026. Submit your abstracts here: indebtedness.sciencesconf.org and please share widely!
#indebt2026
Water in a Changing Environment: Too much, too little, too hot
Professor David M. Hannah (UNESCO Chair in Water Sciences) speaks at DHSS about how water quantity and quality respond to climate and other drivers of change.
📅 14 Jan 2026| ⏰ 12:30–14:00
📍 Nürnberger Straße 74, Room 00.013
#fau #DHSS
That's so shocking. What a waste of the author's time.
Today is the final day to send us your abstracts! You have until midnight (UK time)! 😁 Here is the submission link: forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...
If you have never applied for a British Academy fellowship before, let me just say that you will need a lot of onboarding and the institution will have internal deadlines, so you should get in touch with your proposed partner institution/faculty mentor no later than end of January.
Would this be Frontiers previously-classed-as-predatory journals?
Worth a read. My take is that universities are undervaluing the importance of the external which makes the system vulnerable. EEs receive less time & information than previously and the work done by EEs is +/- ignored by the 'sending' institution
www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/extern...
In this and the following pictures, we share information about the judith baxter award!
Please find below all information to nominate wonderful researchers in language, gender and sexuality.