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English Language & Linguistics for A-Level students and teachers. One of the Lexis podcast team https://tinyurl.com/yckh3vy5 EngLangBlog: https://englishlangsfx.blogspot.com/ English & Media Centre: https://www.englishandmedia.co.uk/ He/him
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This is well worth a listen. The historical dimensions are fascinating and the parallels to MLE are quite pertinent to current language study. It's also a lot of fun!

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@englangblog.bsky.social good little snippet for discussion with a class. Even when the government no longer uses a term (highlighting how political it is) media still do

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Thanks to all our speakers, to our hosts and to all the students and teachers who came to our @engmediacentre.bsky.social Macclesfield conference today. A great day!

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Our final talk of the day is from @robdrummond.bsky.social who is bringing us bang up to date with the latest Manchester Voices research.

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@englangblog.bsky.social for the second slot of the afternoon for the emagazine AL English Language conference Jasmine Andersson talks about fighting accent discrimination

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Our first speaker of the afternoon is @jessaiston.bsky.social introducing Critical Discourse Analysis.

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Paul Flanagan is talking about language style in pop music and taking us from the Manics through Blink 182 to Elton John in the space of 5 merry minutes.

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We're off with our first talk of the day at The King's School, Macclesfield for our @engmediacentre.bsky.social Lang in the North conference with James Tompkinson talking about forensic linguistics and police interview transcripts.

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LAST CHANCE TO BOOK! "As ever a fantastic course full of current and usable ideas and resources." Book by: 8am on 26 Feb https://buff.ly/40wlKI4

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This Telegraph piece picks up on the Walsall accent story featuring Jorja Smith, links it to TikTok trends and adds some linguistic comment from Danielle Turton. archive.today/za5la

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Very excited to announce what @DrNicciMacLeod.bsky.social and I have been working on for the past few months (with a brilliant production team behind us). You can subscribe now and listen to our trailer wherever you get your podcasts. #forensiclinguistics #linguistics #truecrime #academicsky

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Hot on the heels of Deborah Cameron's blog on 'linguistic engineering', here's a Telegraph article claiming that 'man' is being banned. By the EU of course. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

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Lovely letters responding to a story earlier in the week about some Gen Z users rejecting capital letters www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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Amazing speakers: Deborah Cameron, Rob Drummond, Julia Snell, Debra Myhill, Yamina Bibi, Lauren Cowan & Lucy Strike, (Alexandra Park School), Clare Feeney, @englangblog.bsky.social (& me).

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Looks like a good one for Language & gender.

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I liked this mini-zine yesterday .

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Really interesting new blog from Deborah Cameron on 'linguistic engineering'. One for further discussion for the Language Discourses part of the A level debuk.wordpress.com/2025/02/21/l...

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This is coming up next week!

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One for language & gender www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02...

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Emily is especially interested in whether identity terms have changed in meaning across generations, and I'm pretty sure she doesn't have any Gen X respondents yet. So... if that's you, we'd be especially grateful!

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We'd like to share our next CPD training course! We'll talk about the types of linguistic evidence admitted to Court in the English and Welsh Legal System Where? Online When? Friday, April 11 (12-2pm UK time) For booking and more information: www.aston.ac.uk/research/for...

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Nice piece on local pride in the Walsall accent www.bbc.com/news/article...

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first they came 4 the full stops, then they came for the capital letters 😱 bsky.app/profile/theg...

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My book "Researching Language and Digital Communication" is hereeee. It may just be the most camp discussion of DMC so far. Including analyses of: - Dolly Parton memes - TikTok videos of Jungle and Billie Eilish - anonymous Grindr profiles

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

Interesting opinion piece on language discrimination and identity archive.today/2025.02.17-1...

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