Calling all members of the Poetics and Linguistics Association @palapoeticsling.bsky.social – the next issue of Parlance needs your news! Send any updates (and/or pet pictures) to naomi.adam@nottingham.ac.uk by Friday 15 May 2026.
Inspiration at: pala.ac.uk/parlance
📢🎉New book alert!! Congratulations to PALAns @simonstatham.bsky.social and @helenringrow.bsky.social on the publication of their new book: Abortion in Ireland
The Language of the Campaign for Reproductive Rights, published with @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social 📢🎉
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/abortion-...
![Graphical abstract for "Regular Expressions for Corpus Queries" (Dykes & Tauber, 2026). Title: "Translating linguistic patterns into corpus queries."
A table demonstrates how a linguistic research question: "Which actions are explained in terms of someone's underlying reasons?", is translated into a CQL query.
Colour coding links linguistic patterns (red), query syntax (grey/bold), and corpus results (red italics).
The top row shows the linguistic pattern components: possessive, optional adjective or adverb, reason-word, linker, and verb.
The middle row shows the corresponding CQL query: [pos="POSS"] [pos="ADJ|ADV"]? "reason|rationale" "for|to" [pos="V"].
The bottom three rows show example corpus results: "my reason for asking," "her only rationale to go," and "their main reason to pivot."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7zfw7izsoitrzto6p6fenuey/bafkreidehnxt6tfvjpvyddz73dmj2dhzetongroduf3xbxjwxek6zxxwvm)
Graphical abstract for "Regular Expressions for Corpus Queries" (Dykes & Tauber, 2026). Title: "Translating linguistic patterns into corpus queries." A table demonstrates how a linguistic research question: "Which actions are explained in terms of someone's underlying reasons?", is translated into a CQL query. Colour coding links linguistic patterns (red), query syntax (grey/bold), and corpus results (red italics). The top row shows the linguistic pattern components: possessive, optional adjective or adverb, reason-word, linker, and verb. The middle row shows the corresponding CQL query: [pos="POSS"] [pos="ADJ|ADV"]? "reason|rationale" "for|to" [pos="V"]. The bottom three rows show example corpus results: "my reason for asking," "her only rationale to go," and "their main reason to pivot."
New entry in the Int. Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics with @jtauber.com:
Regular Expressions for Corpus Queries.
We introduce regex with actual corpus linguistics examples instead of making everything look like \]\[
Happy to send anyone a copy!
doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-95504-1.01539-8
You idiot. You forgot to register for the on-campus version of this, and now you’ve missed the deadline. Fear not, you can still register online, and no one will ever know!
Join us on 30th March
tinyurl.com/teachlanglit
Don't miss @uonenglish.bsky.social @uoncral.bsky.social graduate Daniel Edmondson's keynote at this year's annual @lgas-baal.bsky.social event!
Opportunity for a PhD candidate in English linguistics. Please repost.
jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...
The Year's Work in English Studies: Stylistics section now available to view open access! academic.oup.com/ywes/advance...
📢 'Ragdoll' MA Scholarships 2026-27: School of English, Uni of Sheffield 📢
📢The next ASRC Research Seminar on Wed. 18th March 4-5pm GMT features Dr Lisa Nahajec, Liverpool Hope University on “Can AI do stylistics (and do we want it to)?" 🎉Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/aston-styl...
🎙️ Life & Language explores how language shapes the way we see the world.
Hosted by Prof. @michamahlberg.bsky.social. Now in its 5th season with 28 episodes and brilliant guests across disciplines.
Curious about how words shape life?
🎧 Join the conversation.
Programme now up! Come and join us on 30th March - register on-campus (and we’ll feed you) or online (and we won’t).
tinyurl.com/teachlanglit
25 quid for food, drink and 13 great pieces of scholarship? You’d be mad not to! Cheaper than staying at home (or you CAN stay at home and join us online)
Teaching Lit in the Lang Classroom
30 March: Uni of Nottingham
tinyurl.com/teachlanglit
📢New book alert! A must-have for all PALAns - and beyond - interested in the immersive experience of reading! 🤩
📢The next ASRC Research Seminar on Wed. 18th Feb. 4-5pm GMT features Dr Carolin Scheider Ward on “¿Quantos me dejiste?” – Investigating Social Epistemics of Autobiographical Questions and Answers in Bilingual Dementia Contexts" 🎉Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/aston-styl...
📢🎉📢 FINAL reminder that the CFP for PALA2026 is TOMORROW 💓 14th Feb. 2026 💞!! For full submission details, see the PALA 2026 conference website.
A reminder that the CFP deadline for this great PALA-sponsored symposium at the Uni of Nottingham is 16th Feb. 2026!
👂You can now listen to, like, download and share the final episode of series 1 of the PALA podcast. In this episode, Dr Kerry Rach shares her research on the language of contraception in sex education. Series 2 is coming soon!🎉
📖 New book alert: Eco-Speak: Language and Style in Ecological Discourse is edited by Esterino Adami & Aoife Beville and is fully open-access and available to download here: doi.org/10.6093/978-... 🥳
📢 Just a reminder that the CFP for PALA2026 has been extended to a final deadline of 💓 14th Feb. 2026 💞!! For full submission details, see the PALA 2026 conference website.
One for all interested in the teaching of language and literature!
📢CFP: Teaching Literature in the Language Classroom, Uni. of Nottingham, 30th March 2026 (arr. @stockwell.bsky.social and @jessnorledge.bsky.social ). Send max. 200 word abstract with 5 keywords by 16th Feb. 2026 to: stylistics@nottingham.ac.uk 📢
📢The next speaker in the ASRC seminar series on 4th Feb. 2026 is Dr James Balfour, Uni. of Glasgow on "Packaging Up Pathology: How Online Communities Construct Folk Symptomatologies Through Neologism". 4-5pm MS Teams. Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/aston-styl... 🎉
📢Very exciting news that ASP (Aston Society of Poetry) has now become Aston Scribblers and Poets! Next session online on Monday 26th January from 7.30-9.00pm. Message @melwardlepoet.bsky.social or @naomiadam.bsky.social ✒️
📢CFP: Teaching Literature in the Language Classroom, Uni. of Nottingham, 30th March 2026 (arranged by @stockwell.bsky.social and @jessnorledge.bsky.social ). Send max. 200 word abstract with 5 keywords by 16th Feb. 2026 to: stylistics@nottingham.ac.uk 📢
Are you a PhD student or ECR in language, gender & sexuality? Join me (an ed. of Bloomsbury Studies in Queer Linguistics book series) and Lexi Webster (an ed. of Gender & Language journal) for a FREE @lgas-baal.bsky.social online seminar on publishing (2pm 18 Feb) docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
On my way to Aston for a day of literary linguistic goodness. To the Stylisticsmobile- and away!
Aston Stylistics Research Centre is launched!
