Over the next few weeks we will be introducing the tutors who teach on the MA English programme at Aston🤩

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Congratulations to Anna and the whole #cads2024 team for an amazing conference. I'm hugely excited (and honoured) to welcome everyone to Lancaster for the next Corpora and Discourse conference in 2026! Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster Uni LancasterPressOffice Lancaster University

Congrats to Anna for a fantastic 7th Corpora & Discourse International Conference! Looking forward to #CaDS2026 at Lancaster University Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster Uni already!

Had such a fantastic time in Innsbruck! Thank you so so much Anna and the team for doing such an amazing job hosting #CADS2024 ❤️

Seeing a new wave of media pieces on tradwives so here are some thoughts as someone who’s studied radicalization into this movement for years that I don’t see being covered:

🎉The short movie 🎥😍 of our Corpora and Discourse International Conference is now online on YouTube, it sums up three incredible days of #CADS2024! enjoy ❤️ & spread the word 🙌🏼 youtu.be/8OJFx9-nrI8?si…

New article published in the Conversation today responding to Police declaring VAWG a national emergency theconversation.com/violence-again…

Interrupting my break from work very briefly to say that my review of Marina Lambrou 🌱 's book on Disnarration and the Unmentioned in Fact and Fiction is out in Language and Literature -- journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09…

The 2nd ed. of ‘Cognitive Grammar in Stylistics’ is finally published on 22 August. This extends our first (2018) ed. to provide a comprehensive framework for applying CG to texts & includes a brand new chapter on planning & undertaking projects using CG. bloomsbury.com/uk/cognitive-g…

Fascinating new piece by our colleague Dr Charlotte Boyce, 'Generations of young women have been bombarded with weight loss medications' UoP_SASHPL Dr Helen Ringrow The British Academy

Another great The Conversation piece, this time by my fab UoPortsmouth Eng Lit colleague Dr Charlotte Boyce. As an historian looking at film culture, it's interesting for me to see stars such as Zsar Zsar Gabor & Hedy Lamarr being deployed to promote weight loss products UoP_SASHPL UoP Humanities and Social Sciences

Fantastic work from Dr Charlotte Boyce coming out of our BA-funded project on body image & media with Stephen Pihlaja

Me and my friends meeting up after a stressful week.

Guess what day it is today

Loved being part of this discussion on big bellies - it’s on BBC Sounds if you missed it! UoP_SASHPL

A very relevant entry today for colleagues at #lavlang30! This guide to LGBTQ+ language has been written by young people I've worked with - please help spread the word!

So happy to say that Reading the Romantic Ridiculous, the book Andrew McInnes and I wrote together, is now out with Routledge! 😃 routledge.com/Reading-the-Ro…

I'm talking about accent bias and linguistic discrimination at 12.45 on 'Anti Social' on BBC Radio 4: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/li…

'Only get what you need.' Me: