Age of speakers in Wigan & Bolton correlates with their attitude towards Greater Manchester (as opposed to Lancashire), which correspondingly affects their accent, specifically the vowel in words like MOUTH, SOUND, ROUND, HOUSE Dr Caitlin Halfacre caitlin91.bsky.social

continuing the variation theme, John Bellamy is documenting 'pit talk' - language as cultural heritage

Please take your time, language in ruins, a ship that has experienced a catastrophic shipwreck Dr Khawla Badwan

. Piotr Jagodziński kicking off our final session - Autistic unmasking and (im)politeness on and off the TV screen A pragmatic model of autistic (un)masking and facework - analysis on the TV series Herkules

.Dr Rachel Hatchard Linguistic (usage-based) analyses of language in aphasia ...challenging a rule-based generative approach Linguistic theory informs our understanding of language disorders Studying language disorders can challenge our Linguistic theory

And rounding out our final session Derek Bousfield Pragmatics in contested interpretation: varied audiences, implicatures, inferences "Interpretation is a fickle beast"

today we launched our report on the future of teacher education in England. it uses speculative methodologies to reimagine what a more equitable system might look like, one where trust is placed back into the hands of expert teacher educators themselves. reimaginingteachereducation.mmu.ac.uk/downloads/

Chuffed to share this neew open access 🔓 paper with Dr Niall Curry Register Studies : Exploring public-oriented research #communication. A register perspective. You can find the paper here: doi.org/10.1075/rs.2... & some details in the 🧵 below⬇️ Manchester Centre for Research in Linguistics