Look what happened while I was on holiday :) There is also a 20% discount with code: ESA32

Spotted a familiar title top left :) Thanks Bloomsbury Linguistics Many of the chapters are co-authored with clinicians and all are focused on making linguistic analysis relevant and applicable to healthcare practice 35% is a good discount too #healthcommunication

New open access paper from Quo VaDis: Questioning Vaccine Discourse Project in Discourse & Society. We've talked about this at conferences & now it's officially out: “Pro-vaccination personal narratives in response to online hesitancy about the HPV vaccine: The challenge of tellability” journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09…

Our UCL Institute of Mental Health Special Interest Group (SIG) in #SelfHarm & #Suicide launched today. It was great to meet so many UCL researchers interested in collaborating on these important clinical & public health topics Anthony David Sarah Rowe Dr Gemma Lewis ucl.ac.uk/mental-health/…

* RA Opportunity * I’m looking for someone to work with me on my current UKRI-funded project; a collaboration with Tommy's and Sands - baby loss charity 💙🧡 Would suit a PhD student specialising in linguistics and/or social research. Email for further details. RTs very welcome! 🙏

On Sylvia Plath's birthday, Meryl Streep reads her stunning "Morning Song" themarginalian.org/2018/04/04/mer…

The Victorian Anti-Vaccination Discourse Corpus (VicVaDis) is freely available online, and can now be downloaded from the UKDataService’s ReShare repository. You can find it here: reshare.ukdataservice.ac.uk/856736/

In a recent study Professors Elena Semino @elenasemino.bsky.social, Stephen Flusberg, and Mackey explored metaphors' impact on understanding #vaccinations. The castle metaphor, among the top performers, illustrates how #vaccines work. Watch our animation to find out more: bit.ly/49nEvjX

Out now: 'Laughter in Hospital Emergency Departments'. Paper in Discourse Studies, led by Susy Macqueen, with Luke Collins, Dr Zsófia Demjén, @zsofiademjen.bsky.social, Elena Semino @elenasemino.bsky.social and diana slade. Available #openaccess 🔓 here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14… ANU Institute for Communication in Health Care CASS Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster Uni

🗓️Save the date! On 11-12 September 2025, Lancaster University is hosting the 5th Symposium of the International Consortium for Communication in Health Care (IC4CH). We hope to see you there! For more information, see ic4ch.wordpress.com/activities/