Had a great time today chatting with ⁦Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷⁩ about Language, Pragmatics and Cliches. Looking forward to the episode “It’s not what we say, it’s how we say it!” on R4’s Word of Mouth later this month. ⁦Manchester Centre for Research in Linguistics⁩ ⁦Manchester Metropolitan Uni⁩

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The reporting on Charlie Kirk’s killer in the UK & US highlights again how fundamentally ill equipped mainstream media is to report on political violence in the digital age. They do not know anything about online far right meme culture & it’s starting to do real harm. #r4today

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The start of a new academic year. Seems like a good time to remind students and teachers who are looking at spoken language and identity for the first time that this is available and very accessible! In all the usual places. Please leave a review if you can😁

As one might expect, an article - replete with presuppositions and erroneous assumptions - which is all about costs and with zero recognition of value. Source: Financial Times share.google/N5Za5nr0BC6r8M…

If you’re free BBC Radio 4 ‘s “Word Of Mouth” show with Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 at 3:30 pm today promises to be a corker! Exploring the comfort food of cliches, and pragmatics more widely. For lovers of language, what more could you want? Turn on, tune in, chill out.

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It's not what you say, it's how you say it. Loving this brilliant new episode of #WordOfMouth with Derek Bousfield and Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 👇 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Dr Ben King 🌏 Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 Derek Bousfield Interesting and entertaining.

Tomorrow 3.30pm I'm interviewing Julia Donaldson.

To celebrate National Poetry Day, check out this exclusive reading from award-winning poet and professor Andrew McMillan. Professor McMillan's poem 'Today', written for his debut collection 'physical', explores the hustle and bustle of city life. Manchester Poetry Library Manchester Writing School

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The sad news of Manchán Magan death reminded me of this lovely and enlightening interview with Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 We are all more connected and alike then some amongst us are willing to admit. RIP Manchán

What has the ECHR ever done for us? Quite a lot actually, and we wrote it too.

Here’s a primer on ‘accents and dialects’ For American English, you’re correct. For other varieties of English, not so much.

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