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New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵
happy publication day to me 👯♀️ my paper on COVID metaphor clustering is FINALLY OUT!!
took so long that in the meantime my co-author and best friend has changed career in the meantime, but better late than ever ✨✨
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I challenged my colleagues yesterday to come up with a seven-word definition of Stylistics. This is as close as I could get:
Stylistics is the study of how language choice affects meaning.
Honoured to give a keynote at the Data, Gender and Society summer school at @dhssfau.bsky.social this morning. Thanks so much for the invitation, and great audience engagement! @lancslinguistics.bsky.social
Pleased to announce @univeng.bsky.social small funding scheme now open to members. UE will fund up to 20 projects up to £250 each to support research/pedagogy/continuing professional development activities in Lit, Lang, Creative Writing. See details here: universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat...
Book cover: The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Censorship
📕 | NEW BOOK REVIEWS
Fei Gao and Xin Li review Denise Merkle and Brian James Baer's @routledgebooks.bsky.social 'The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Censorship'
👉 Review: doi.org/10.1075/jlp.25190.gao
👉 Book: bit.ly/46KiTOP
Participants needed for my new study on parasocial attachments and the material afterlives of music keepsakes. See further details below ⬇️
#rorygallagher #blues #fender #strat #bonhams #auction #fandom
Grateful that DeGruyter have kindly made our paper open access for three months!🥳🥳
If you’re interested in how Generative AI is transforming publishing in Applied Linguistics, you can freely download and read it here 👇
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
My book "Researching Language and Digital Communication" is hereeee.
It may just be the most camp discussion of DMC so far. Including analyses of:
- Dolly Parton memes
- TikTok videos of Jungle and Billie Eilish
- anonymous Grindr profiles
Just a reminder that in the midst of waves of anti-migrant, anti-refugee and anti-asylum-seeker rhetoric and activism, there are also many charities working quietly, stoically and hard to fuel a better conversation and a better future. Actively supporting them makes a difference.
Niall I haven't been on here in weeks so I'm so behind - so well deserved, congrats!!!
So happy to share that I've been promoted to Reader in Languages and Linguistics at @manmetuni.bsky.social. I am so grateful for all the support from colleagues here and afar! 🥳🎊 @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social
Out now! #openaccess paper in Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, exploring the issue of alignment between AI and Applied Linguistics, with @niallrcurry.bsky.social & @tonymcenery.bsky.social
The Call for Papers for Corpora & Discourse 2026 has now launched! Please send us your abstracts and share the call widely!
Corpus linguistics for safeguarding children online
🔓 Out now with @crkennedy.bsky.social as part of a special issue on Corpus linguistic approaches to tackling online crime edited by the brilliant @wrightdw.bsky.social
@livunienglish.bsky.social
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Reposting this as it is now actually open access 🔓✨ (promise!). You can find the it here: doi.org/10.1017/S026... @tonymcenery.bsky.social @gavinbrookes.bsky.social @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social @lancslinguistics.bsky.social @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org. See the post below ⬇️ for some more detail!
Study finds A.I. LLMs advise women to ask for lower salaries than men. When prompted w/ a user profile of same education, experience & job role, differing only by gender, ChatGPT advised the female applicant to request $280K salary; Male applicant=$400K.
thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...
The chick is like hold my grain… 🐥 🥰
A huge thank you to all who attended, presented, plenaried, chaired, entertained, fed & watered us at a brilliant @PALA2025 & esp to the fantastic team @EnglishAston. Here's to PALA Uppsala 2026!! 🎉💃🕺💃🕺🥳
Nice to see you again!!!
Display of Bloomsbury Linguistics books and flyers on a blue tablecloth
Book highlights at #PALA2025 include:
📖 the new edition of Cognitive Grammar in Stylistics by Marcello Giovanelli & @chloeharrison.bsky.social
📖 Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language, ed. J Culpeper
📖 new books in @michamahlberg.bsky.social Corpus and Discourse series
+ more at 35% off!
Back at my desk after #PALA2025 with a full notebook and so many new ideas. Thank you to the Aston team for hosting us, and to everyone for your inspiration and support - can't wait for @pala2026.bsky.social
Not really tweeting or blueskying much but an absolute fire plenary by @helenringrow.bsky.social for #pala2025 on digital stylistics methods and futures.
Photo of luggage: pink case, brown handbag, green tote, and women’s shoes in white trainers
See you soon(ish) for the @palapoeticsling.bsky.social conference!!
Photo showing the title slide for the presentation ,„Identifying discourses within multimodal surveillant landscapes through automatic text extraction from urban signage: A corpus-assisted discourse analysis“ by Viola Wiegand, University of Stirling
Screen on an Avanti West Coast train stating „Onboard CCTV For your safety and security CCTV images are being recorded on this train.“ alongside a video display from the CCTV camera itself that shows Viola taking a photo of the screen
On my way to a quick visit at #CL2025 to talk about a corpus linguistic approach to surveillant landscapes (in the final slot on Thursday at 2.00pm) … on a rather fittingly surveilled train 😁
Thanks to @niallrcurry.bsky.social, @rachellevessey.bsky.social, @schtepf.bsky.social, Philipp Heinrich and Michael Bender for your very interesting and relevant presentations! (2/2)
Excited to have delivered a plenary at @cl2025.co.uk
@astonuniversity.bsky.social Corpus Linguistics Conference 2025. In this plenary I discussed how #corpuslinguistics & #AI may collaborate in the reconfiguration of #languagelearning ecologies. My references perezparedes.es/corpus-lingu...
