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"Imitating Indian accent as joke is racial harassment, judge rules. British-Iranian engineer wins more than £8,000 in damages after colleagues repeatedly impersonated the accent in the office." If you've got access, the outrage in the comments is really something www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02...

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📢 new 🔓open access paper in Language Teaching @cambup-linguistics.bsky.social with @tonymcenery.bsky.social, "Corpus linguistics for language teaching and learning: A research agenda". You can find the paper here: doi.org/10.1017/S026... and a short thread below ⬇️ on what it addresses

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Out now: my monograph 'Corpus Approaches to Discourse in Forensic and Legal Contexts' available for purchase as hardback and ebook. www.routledge.com/Corpus-Appro...

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✨📝 If you're interested in issues at the intersection of climate & health crises & global knowledge construction, check out my new chapter with @gavinbrookes.bsky.social, “The discursive framing of the climate and health polycrisis in English, French, and Spanish”. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

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Out now: our paper 'Discourses of Force and Failure: The Construction of Crisis in the Policing of UK Climate Change Protests' (@crkennedy.bsky.social) link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

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Really excited to see our (@wrightdw.bsky.social) chapter on British newspaper coverage of police responses to climate change protest groups published in Critical Approaches to Polycrisis! Congrats to the editors and authors on an excellent collection! Read here: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

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Very excited to announce the launch of a brand new book series: Bloomsbury Advances in Forensic and Legal Linguistics. It will publish full-length monographs & edited volumes in all areas of the discipline. If you have a book idea developing, or a proposal in the works, then please get in touch.

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This is an exciting new arrival. An update to Larry Solan and Peter Tiersma’s seminal 2005 book “Speaking of Crime” A couple of years ago Larry involved Tammy Gales in writing a second edition, in memory of Peter. And sadly with Larry’s death last year, Tammy was left to finish the job.

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Very happy to be presenting at Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics' symposium "Forensic Linguistics and the Law" in March. I will be talking on "Cross-Examination on Trial: Perspectives from Language and Law". More details about the event are below.

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What do you find when you compare how speakers of British English and learners of British English hold conversations? This is exactly what I look at in a few million words of data, with Issy Clarke and Gavin Brookes in a new FREE book out with CUP today! Link here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...

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The ruling itself stated “Our conclusion is further bolstered by the fact that including nonhuman animals in the definition of the term ‘person’ is the type of monumental change in the law that one would reasonably expect the General Assembly to make explicit”

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Our paper on accent bias in forensic contexts is out: frontiersin.org/journals/com... It’s the first in a series of studies from the IVIP project bit.ly/ivipproject with @wrightdw.bsky.social, @nataliebraber.bsky.social & @nikolaspautz.bsky.social looking at what makes voices sound more guilty.

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Our paper, out today, reported here and elsewhere: "Negative stereotypes linked to some accents raise serious concerns of bias in justice system, warn researchers". www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jan....

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Out now: "Stereotyped accent judgements in forensic contexts: listener perceptions of social traits and types of behaviour" in Frontiers in Communication. @alicepaver.bsky.social @nataliebraber.bsky.social @nikolaspautz.bsky.social www.frontiersin.org/journals/com...

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📣FINAL Call for Papers: 17th Biennial Conference of the International Association for Forensic & Legal Linguistics (IAFLL). Cape Town, South Africa, 30th June- 4th July 2025. Deadline for abstract submissions 31 March 2025. iafll.org/2025/01/14/f...

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Sad news from the linguistics community: the great sociolinguist William Labov has died at age 97 languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=67399

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In remembrance of Bill Labov

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At NTU, we are hiring an Hourly Paid Lecturer who can teach one or more of: ➡️ (Critical) discourse analysis ➡️Language, gender and sexuality ➡️Language and health ➡️Language, inequality and social justice Closing date next Thursday (19th December) vacancies.ntu.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

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The CADAAD Journal is now on Bluesky! Check out our new website and publication platform at ugp.rug.nl/cadaad/.

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Out now and open access! ‘Hard to swallow? A critical animal studies perspective on the discursive recontextualisation of the reality of dairy farming’ with @gavinbrookes.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1750... @uonenglish.bsky.social

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Very happy to be giving this free online talk on Thursday.

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The first title in the Cambridge UP Elements series edited by @gavinbrookes.bsky.social and me has been published. The short book - the latest by Teun van Dijk - is available for free for the next four weeks. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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A fully funded PhD opportunity at Nottingham Trent University: "Human-Interpretable and Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Tackling Online Language Crimes" To start in September/October 2025. Closing date for applications is Friday 14 February 2025. Full details of the project and how to apply:

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📣CALL FOR PAPERS📣 Register and task variation in Learner Corpus Research (VAR4LCR), Louvain-la-Neuve, 7-8 July 2025: uclouvain.be/en/research-...

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Check out the latest post on our RC21 blog, where @gavinbrookes.bsky.social argues that "[c]oncordance analysis is still something that humans do best"! www.dhss.phil.fau.eu/2024/11/28/c...

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I'm very excited to welcome @hnewsome-chandler.bsky.social to NTU as a Research Assistant in Corpus Linguistics and Law. Helen will work with me and Dr James Thornton (Nottingham Law School) on the project 'The language of sentencing: transparency, consistency, and public understanding'.

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What happens when lawyers & judges rethink how testimony is produced in legal settings? In this paper I show how looking at communication in context can make a crucial difference and help ensure access to refugee protection #Langsky #LawSky #Linguistics link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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And you know what? The event is free! Do help us spread the word! 🙏#corpuslinguistics #corpusanddiscourse #digitalhumanities

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📣2nd Call for Papers: 17th Biennial Conference of the International Association for Forensic & Legal Linguistics (IAFLL). Cape Town, South Africa, 30th June- 4th July 2025. Deadline for abstract submissions 13 January 2025. iafll.org/2024/11/25/s...

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The International Association for Forensic & Legal Linguistics is now on Bluesky: @iafll.bsky.social

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I am honoured to have accepted an invitation to join the Editorial Board for The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law. I am excited to be part of the journal's next chapter as it moves to its new publisher at University of Toronto Press. utppublishing.com/journal/ijsll

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Don’t miss out on this free online lecture organised by @sofiaruediger.bsky.social and me as a part of our OSSO research group! November 27, 11-12 EET @carmen-lee.bsky.social “Linguicism and Prescriptivism: Identity (Mis)representation in Digital Media” Register: forms.office.com/e/LVmB9NYtPh 🐦🐦

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Very happy to announce this fully-funded, interdisciplinary PhD at NTU: 'Human-Interpretable and Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Tackling Online Language Crimes'. It's open to UK and International applicants. Deadline 14 February 2025. www.ntu.ac.uk/study-and-co...

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We have a responsibility to tell students the truth about careers & to point out some of the misinformation around. An English degree can lead to all kinds of things, not least careers in tech companies, health & other 'scientific' spheres, in much-needed roles other than technical & scientific.

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New edited collection, out now (one for library purchases though) > www.routledge.com/The-Politics...

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New paper co-authored with @elenasemino.bsky.social in Language and Health: A linguistic analysis of female and male opening posts on an online forum dedicated to pain Open Access and available online: doi.org/10.1016/j.la...

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An edited volume on the language of death and dying is in its final stages of completion. We are finishing the introductory chapter. J.Ziolkowska & I hope to send the manuscript off to publishers by end of month. It's been a very difficult project - my relief when it's done will be unparalleled.

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Call for papers: “Health and science communication: Inequalities, Inclusion & Innovation”, hosted by the BAAL Health and Science Communication SIG. To be held at Lancaster University on 22nd March 2025 (in person) and 25th March (online). Deadline: 11th December baalhealthsci.wordpress.com/events/

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Had a great time with students at NTU yesterday, talking about using corpus research to inform teaching, materials publishing, and language assessment! Thanks @wrightdw.bsky.social for inviting me!

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It was an absolute pleasure to host @niallrcurry.bsky.social at NTU yesterday. Niall gave a guest lecture on corpus linguistics and education to our second year undergraduate students on our BA English Language and Linguistics, as well as MA TESOL students and staff.

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In case you're interested in working on language & food with me at FU Berlin, check out this job ad for a (full-time) postdoc position: www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet... (the ad is in German only but I guess auto translation is your friend) #LanguageAndFood #CulinaryLinguistics

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🔁 Reposting this great opportunity after gaining a few new followers this weekend I'd be interested in applications focussing on/combining any of the these: Corpus linguistics (Critical) discourse studies Language, gender, & sexuality (esp. misogyny) Multimodality Mis/disinformation Safeguarding

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