The #ISLE Outreach Prize is open for submissions (until November 30)! Comes with a cash prize & other goodies. More info at www.isle-linguistics.org/activities/i... #EnglishLinguistics
Academic job opportunity for a Senior Research Associate working with @ukrepro.bsky.social 👇 www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
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Stylistics in Action courtesy of @stockwell.bsky.social and @jessnorledge.bsky.social plus all the Uni of Nottingham Stylistics team!
Peter Stockwell@stockwell.bsky.social · 4w agoAll set here @natecommunity.bsky.social with swag and info about the Nottingham Stylistics Toolkit. Come and say hello
📢PALA Podcast Season 2 Episode 1 now available whenever you get your podcasts!! 🎉👂🎉
Dr Paula Ghintuiala@paulaghintuiala.bsky.social · last mo.Episode 1 of Season 2 of The PALA Podcast was released! You can find it anywhere you listen to your podcasts! If interested in the place of emotion in pedagogy, give it a listen! 🎵🎤🎧 @palapoeticsling.bsky.social @polinagavin.bsky.social @meganmansworth.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/0x61...
Today is English Language Day (UN – read more via link in bio)! Today is a great day to celebrate multilingualism and the existence of so many variations of English across the globe beyond Standard English. 🌍 #uoncral #English #language #languageuse #researchcentre #appliedlinguistics #linguistics
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
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📢🎉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-...
Abortion in Ireland
Providing an in-depth analysis of the diverse discourse types present in the fight for women's bodily autonomy in Ireland over four decades, this book explores…
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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
![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)
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...
Universität Basel: PhD position in English linguistics
As of August 1, 2026, the Department of Languages and Literatures of the University of Basel (English division, Prof. Miriam Locher) is seeking to fill a 60% PhD position in English linguistics. The p...
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The Year's Work in English Studies: Stylistics section now available to view open access! academic.oup.com/ywes/advance...
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
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📢 'Ragdoll' MA Scholarships 2026-27: School of English, Uni of Sheffield 📢
Joanna Gavins@joannagavins.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe University of Sheffield has 2 ‘Ragdoll’ Scholarships available to support students studying an MA in 2026/27. These are funded by The Ragdoll Foundation, created by honorary graduate Dr Anne Wood, creator of iconic children's TV programmes such as Teletubbies. sheffield.ac.uk/funding/scho...
📢📢Calling all Telecinematic Stylisticians! New book alert: www.routledge.com/Building-Nar...
Building Narratives on Screen: New Approaches in Telecinematic Stylistics
This collection seeks to advance the growing field of telecinematic stylistics, building on burgeoning research in the stylistic study of aural and visual cinematic discourse through interdisciplinary...
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📢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...
Aston Stylistics Research Centre: Dr Lisa Nahajec
Can AI do stylistics (and do we want it to)?
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🎙️ 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! 🤩
Naomi Adam@naomiadam.bsky.social · 5mo agoLooking to immerse yourself in a book about immersing yourself in books? Well, look no further! ‘Immersion’ is here 👇 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-immersi...
📢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...
Aston Stylistics Research Centre: Dr Carolin Schneider Ward
“¿Quantos me dejiste?” – Investigating Social Epistemics of Autobiographical Questions and Answers in Bilingual Dementia Contexts
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📢🎉📢 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!
Peter Stockwell@stockwell.bsky.social · 6mo agoCome and talk Lit in the Lang classroom with us in Nottingham! @baal-linguistics.bsky.social @palapoeticsling.bsky.social @lagbling.bsky.social @iatefl.bsky.social
👂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-... 🥳
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📢 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.
📢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... 🎉
Aston Stylistics Research Centre: Dr James Balfour
Packaging Up Pathology: How Online Communities Construct Folk Symptomatologies Through Neologism
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