Come and work with me! ICYMI: I'm advertising a fully funded PhD studentship at Aston in cognitive stylistics, starting in October 2026 Details are also now up on the university website --https://www.aston.ac.uk/study/courses/re-reading-wellbeing-phd/october-2026 Any questions, please get in touch

Chloe Harrison@chloeharrison.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🌟 𝐅𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐏𝐡𝐃 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐲𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 🌟 I am very pleased to announce a fully funded PhD studentship at the Aston Stylistics Research Centre (ASRC), based in the School of Law and Social Sciences at Aston University.

The Department of Communication and Culture at Aston University are delighted to announce the launch of 2 new standalone, CPD modules: 🔹 Cognitive Poetics: aston.ac.uk/study/course... 🔹 Language and Literature in Education: aston.ac.uk/study/course...

🌟 𝐅𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐏𝐡𝐃 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐲𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 🌟 I am very pleased to announce a fully funded PhD studentship at the Aston Stylistics Research Centre (ASRC), based in the School of Law and Social Sciences at Aston University.

A nice surprise in the post today! A copy of the September issue of emagazine (for A Level English teachers and students, published by the English and Media Centre) -- featuring my article on different types of imprisonment in The Handmaid’s Tale

My chapter with @chloeharrison.bsky.social on Cognitive Grammar in literary analysis has now been published in this wonderful collection edited by Jan Alber and Ralf Schneider. An honour to be part of such a stellar line-up of authors. www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Cognitive Studies

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Cognitive Studies offers a comprehensive survey of cognitive approaches to literature, introducing the influential theoretical tools and latest developments i...

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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!

Looking forward to presenting some ✨ new ✨ research at PALA 2025 on the unusual stylistic profile of app-based 'sleep stories', introduced by the meditation app Calm. I'll be exploring how this new genre reduces cognitive load for listeners & facilitates sleep onset 😴

PALA2025 is edging ever closer!! Looking forward to seeing you at Aston University, Birmingham, soon!!

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

Early bird registration for PALA 2025 closes today! 🦤🦉🦜

Chloe Harrison@chloeharrison.bsky.social · last yr.

📣#PALA2025📣 Poetics and Linguistics Association 2025 conference, 7th - 12th July A reminder that the early bird (/goose??) registration closes 2 weeks from today, on the 16th May! Register here -- pala2025.com/registration/

📣#PALA2025📣 Poetics and Linguistics Association 2025 conference, 7th - 12th July A reminder that the early bird (/goose??) registration closes 2 weeks from today, on the 16th May! Register here -- pala2025.com/registration/

Interested in an MA in English? The MA English at Aston offers the chance to explore English language, literature, and stylistics at postgraduate level—on campus or online, with full-time & part-time options. Join our info webinar to find out more. All welcome!

#Ecolinguistics and #cognitivelinguistics followers: does anyone know of any Greek-speaking researchers working on or interested in (non-literary) language, cognition and the environment? I’d be grateful if you could point them in my direction for a potential funding/project opportunity.

Roses are red, Violets are blue, Poetry often deviates from schematic templates. In this paper, I will discuss... P. s. You have until 14th Feb to submit an abstract for #PALA2025 💜 pala2025.com/cfp/

Call for Papers

Call for Papers PALA 2025 Aston University, Birmingham, UK Digital Stylistics The conference theme is Digital Stylistics. We invite proposals for twenty-minute papers that explore the relationship …

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We launched some of the materials from our British Academy funded project on Wednesday night on Young Women & Body Image @c19thceleb.bsky.social @stephenpihlaja.bsky.social

Toolkit launched to support young women with body image

A toolkit designed to promote a positive body image among young people in Portsmouth has been launched.

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Stockholm University 🇸🇪 looking for an Associate Professor of General #Linguistics. Typology and neurolinguistics are current themes in their group; dept also works in phonetics, lang acquisition and sign language. Application deadline: January 2025 su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Senior Lecturer in General Linguistics

The Department of Linguistics offers courses and programmes in two main areas: linguistics and sign language. Our researchers are active in areas such as child language development, computational ling

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A very late contender for favourite book read this year💛 This was so. so. good.

To paraphrase Haj Ross, #linguist folks, to study language with its aesthetics drained away is ultimately pointless. So get some aesthetics with @chloeharrison.bsky.social’s link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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.

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Yet more cuts at Coventry University. They’re cutting the English literature and language BA, & by the looks of it most if not all of the modern languages staff. Dismal. @ucu.org.uk

We’ve had two spaces open up for our FREE ‘Contemporary Cognitive Stylistics for Teachers’ day CPD event on Friday 10th January 2025 at Aston. Come hear about the latest research in stylistics and how to integrate it into your teaching. Includes lunch! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/contempora...

Contemporary Cognitive Stylistics for Teachers

A FREE 1 day event with Aston's English team. Learn about concepts and tools from cognitive stylistics and how to use them in your teaching

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Had a great time this morning speaking to girls at Portsmouth High School about body image, drawing on examples from historical magazines. Part of a project I’m working on with the brilliant @helenringrow.bsky.social and @stephenpihlaja.bsky.social

"University should be concerned with encouraging rational inquiry and the free play of the intellect; it is not about the creation of useful drones and it’s unfortunate that tuition fees have made the experience to some degree transactional."

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2y ago

The Guardian view on humanities in universities: closing English Literature courses signals a crisis

I hadn't realised what a challenge it is to find a home for interdisciplinary papers 🙃 How many rejections/ pushbacks would you accept before throwing in the towel on the project?! (Asking for me...)

*Showing my niece my book over FaceTime* Her: That's a lot of words. How many words? Me: Um, about 90,000 I think. Her: Oh. I write 150,000 words every day at school. Getting trolled by a 5 yr old

Celebrating joining the Xodus with my first post; this week Louise Nuttall and I published a new report on attitudes to diagnostic language for pregnancy loss, which was picked up by the @theguardian.com Report here: www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usag... Article here: amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

🌟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! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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.

link.springer.com

I love that even though I'm new here, this place somehow knows that I would like to see lots of owl photos, which currently make up approx. 70% of my feed 🦉

jayne@jayneh.bsky.social · 2y ago

On Wednesday, I found a window of drier weather that would allow me to at least do a tiny bit of birding, but the rain came back unexpectedly. Defeated, I was leaving the reserve and almost missed this cold, wet Barred Owl. #originalcontent #birds #photography 📷 (more in alt-text)

Our new podcast, Plastic: Unwrapped, is available now! I had so much fun making this for the Off the Shelf festival. Three 20-minute episodes, unwrapping our relationship with one of the most ubiquitous and controversial materials on earth. Give it a listen! offtheshelf.org.uk/event/plasti...

Plastic: Unwrapped - Professor Joanna Gavins - Off The Shelf

This podcast explores our relationship with one of the most ubiquitous and controversial materials on the planet: plastic. Over three episodes, Professor Joanna Gavins talks to experts from a range of...

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