The Department for Education has recently issued a press release stating that Thousands of pupils are set to benefit from a £2 million investment in reading and writing, breaking down the barriers to opportunity. Read it here: buff.ly/4gtxxN9

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We are looking forward to our next ASRG research seminar with Amélie Doche this afternoon 4-5pm (online). I’ve read the chapter Amélie’s talk is based on and it’s one of the best things I’ve read in stylistics recently! All welcome and still time to register shorturl.at/fGVnf

Looking forward to revisiting my research on the language of Margaret Atwood at Nottingham Trent in 2 weeks' time! I'll be talking about the COLD, and about revenge, so you might want to bring a coat🥶

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, hosted by English at Aston University 💜 pala2025.com/cfp/

Teachers of English: if you can get to Birmingham in half term, this is a great opportunity to hear Carol talk about her wonderful book ‘Reading Lessons’ and how and why the books we teach matter. And it’s free! Team English National Association for the Teaching of English English Association English & Media Ctr Litdrive UK

This didn’t take me long at all - well worth your time if you have 5 mins, teachers!! 👇

Working on the final stages of our ASRG book for RoutledgeLinguistics today w/chapters on: parameters of stylistics; research design/ethics; narratological stylistics; cognitive stylistics; media stylistics; corpus stylistics; and educational stylistics. #stylistics #appliedlinguistics

Initial symposium to book submission: 10 months. One reviewer said the timescale was ‘wild’ and they were not wrong! Thanks to our brilliant contributors. Out with Edinburgh University Press later in the year

Very happy that my article with Dr Polina Gavin on self and other alignment when reading Covid poetry has just been accepted for publication in MedHums_BMJ. Our first publication from the 'Writing and Reading the Pandemic' project! #stylistics #medicalhumanities

Please retweet!!!! I’m looking for people to take part in a study for my PhD. This will involve 4 online Teams sessions (each lasting one hour) where we will read a different ecopoem at each, watch a video of the performance of the poem, and discuss the poem. There will be a

Very excited to be presenting some of my new cognitive stylistics of conspiracies research at #PALA2025

deficit ideologies about working-class children and their families lie at the very foundation of how 'oracy' was first theorised. those deficit framings persist in many contemporary oracy initiatives. the new oracy movement must be explicitly anti-deficit. doi.org/10.1080/030549…

Fully funded PhD opportunity at English at Aston University starting in October 2025! Please contact Dr Robbie Love if you have any questions or for more information findaphd.com/phds/project/s…

Last chance to book your A-level English students in for our Lang/Lit conference on 1st April here in Nottingham. This is the venue englishandmedia.co.uk/conferences/18…

Thrilled our 'Reading for Pleasure' book is out!!😃 It focuses on understanding readers, texts, pedagogies and contexts supportive of RfP 😊Huge thanks to our brilliant contributors! 👇 Teresa Cremin Reading for Pleasure 🧶 UKLA Moray House School of Education and Sport

across 563 school behaviour policies, i found that ‘misbehaviour’ is routinely associated with linguistic features such as non-standard grammar, informal language, slang, incomplete sentences, non-academic language, and other allegedly deficient ways of speaking.

school discipline policies can be core tools to perpetuate linguistic injustice. for some children, especially those from marginalised backgrounds, their alleged inability to 'speak properly' gets framed as symptomatic of their alleged inability to 'behave properly'.

‘Researching Stylistics’, written by members of the Aston Stylistics Research Group is now available for pre-order with a publication date of September 2025! routledge.com/Researching-St…

All of our English at Aston University student conferences are FREE! A great opportunity for those studying A level English Language.