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A little blog post on Shakespeare’s birthday ukri.org/blog/shakespea… Arts and Humanities Research Council Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster Uni Encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s Language Project

💭Imagine you want to analyse language and communication across broadsheets and tabloids. How would you do that❓ This term we're teaching "Statistics and Data Visualization" for the MA in CORPUS LINGUISTICS❗️ Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster Uni Lancaster University ➡️ Details: lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/ma…

New paper out with isolde and Jonathan Culpeper in the Journal of Pragmatics: “Sociopragmatic variation in Britain: a corpus-based study of politeness”. 🗣️📝 Available open access here: doi.org/10.1016/j.prag…

I overheard a 16-year-old* this morning rejoicing at the fact that after today’s GCSE English Language exam, he never has to do English again. This makes me sad, as English Language/Linguistics is such a fascinating and useful subject. But the GCSE isn’t fit for purpose.

about to give a plenary on forensic linguistics in the age of AI, but perhaps counter-intuitively, we start our story just after the second world war...

Just before the start of this year's #LancsSS24, I have been reflecting on the 10+ years of Lancaster Summer Schools in #CorpusLinguistics organised by Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster Uni and CASS. Here are some highlights:

My department celebrated 50 years last night. A lovely evening among great colleagues (past and present) with some lovely food and some lovely speeches.

Alongside Jonathan Culpeper and isolde, I’m organising a panel at #IPrA2025: “(Im)politeness: Regional variation”. Take a look at the CfP and consider submitting an abstract - plenty of scope for exciting work at the pragmatics-sociolinguistics intersection. pragmatics.international/page/CfP2025

"How patterns of conversation could help identify early signs of autism in children" Dr Dr Vittorio Tantucci Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster Uni writes for The Conversation 👇 theconversation.com/how-patterns-o…

Don't miss out on the great discussions about #corpuslinguistics, #language and #society on CASS's #CorpusMOOC Join us now for free: ➡️futurelearn.com/courses/corpus…

There's now less than one month remaining until the #IPrA2025 abstract deadline! Do consider joining Jonathan Culpeper, @Isoldeee and me for our panel on politeness variation across regions. Details below. 😊 pragmatics.international/page/CfP2025

We are delighted that Professor Jason Rothman - a world-leading expert in bilingualism and multilingualism - has recently joined us at Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster Uni! News item: lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/ne… Find out more about Jason's work here: lancaster.ac.uk/arts-and-socia…

A fresh view of the classics: Camões and Shakespeare revisited On November 6, 2024, we will celebrate the quincentennial by bringing together two renowned scholars to provide a fresh view of Camões and his near contemporary, William Shakespeare. lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/ne…

New Cambridge Element Speech Acts by Andreas H. Jucker is now free to read for 4 weeks! cup.org/3AJev6F #cambridgeelements #languageandlinguistics

Foi um prazer comemorar os 500 anos do nascimento de Luís de Camões com os Professores Frederico Lourenço e Jonathan Culpeper. Muito obrigado aos nossos convidados por terem revisitado Camões e Shakespeare connosco. Duarte Bué Alves Céu Mateus | Camões.IP | Lancaster University | #camoes500

Doing a talk at the University of Naples (L’Orientale). Not quite the context you’d get at a British university.

We had a wonderful time at graduation last week, where MA and PhD students from the department graduated. Adrian Hemler was awarded the Geoffrey Leech prize for highest overall MA mark. Congratulations to all! 🎉

Is it really true that online discourse contain more impoliteness than face-to-face? No, but there are other differences (though both demonstrate reciprocity). Check out this new article: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S03…