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Dr Fransina Stradling

@fstradling.bsky.social

PhD in Cognitive Stylistics (empathy with fictional characters)

180 Followers  |  120 Following  |  12 Posts  |  Joined: 30.08.2023  |  1.5975

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Two parents' hands envelop a baby's hand, whose left and partial face are also visible.

Two parents' hands envelop a baby's hand, whose left and partial face are also visible.

Going to be a little busy the coming time trying to work out what this thing called parenting means, so anything academic is on hold for now ๐Ÿ‘‹

28.09.2025 15:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you so much! โ˜บ๏ธ

28.08.2025 14:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽ‰

28.08.2025 14:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you so much! ๐Ÿ˜€

28.08.2025 14:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Four smiling academics in a university building. From left to right: Marian Martรญnez, Liz Towns-Andrews, Fransina Stradling and Shona Bettany.

Four smiling academics in a university building. From left to right: Marian Martรญnez, Liz Towns-Andrews, Fransina Stradling and Shona Bettany.

A screenshot of a video call between Louise Nuttall and Fransina Stradling, both smiling.

A screenshot of a video call between Louise Nuttall and Fransina Stradling, both smiling.

Happily posing as a new Dr after my PhD viva yesterday, and an elated call with a proud supervisor a minute later ๐ŸŽ‰

Thanks to Marian Martรญnez & Shona Bettany for a pleasant discussion, @louisenuttall.bsky.social for 7 years of superb supervision, & Liz Towns-Andrews for being the best academic mum!

28.08.2025 11:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Job Vacancy at the University of Nottingham: Teaching Associate/Teaching Assistant in Applied Linguistics (full-time, FTC) Do you have teaching specialisation in Applied Linguistics? ย We are looking to appoint either a Teaching Assistant or Teaching Associate to work in our team in the School of English. You would join us...

Temporary post at Nottingham - Teaching Associate in Applied LInguistics. Come and work with us in @uonenglish.bsky.social! jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

23.07.2025 16:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Well, that's that! PhD submitted ๐Ÿฅณ

A full circle moment to do so with @kpager1.bsky.social present - I got to be there when she submitted hers, and now she was there for me! ๐Ÿฅฐ

15.07.2025 09:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That's a good idea! In this case, the claim it's used for is completely unrelated to our article. It's like it's not been read!

11.06.2025 18:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's undoubtedly exciting when someone cites your work, but how should you feel when the claim it's used for is not actually made in your article? ๐Ÿค”

07.06.2025 08:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

PALA is thrilled to finally be on Blue Sky!! Feel free to follow and/or suggest followees! ๐Ÿฅณ๐ŸŽ‰

04.06.2025 20:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 26    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yaaaaaay! So exciting! Massive congratulations ๐ŸŽŠ๐ŸŽŠ๐ŸŽŠ

18.11.2024 10:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Language of Margaret Atwood This book explores Margaret Atwoodโ€™s use of language and style across a selection of her prose texts, through reader-centred, cognitive stylistic analyses.

๐ŸŒŸPublication day๐ŸŒŸ

My new book, The Language of Margaret Atwood, is now available.

This has been a Project and a Half, so a big thank you to friends and colleagues for the support along the way!

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

18.11.2024 09:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 21    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Here is a Babel starter pack - the Babel team, Babel Lecturers, and linguists who have written for Babel!

go.bsky.app/8er96Fh

14.11.2024 15:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿ“Œ

14.11.2024 12:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿซ Teachers! ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿซ
๐Ÿ“š Grab a set of free Babel issues ๐Ÿ“š
๐Ÿ“ง babelthelanguagemagazine@gmail.com ๐Ÿ“ง

14.11.2024 11:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Research Associate at University of Sheffield Apply for the Research Associate role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

Come and work at the University of Sheffield! Research Associate in corpus linguistics needed for a project on Kazuo Ishiguro. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DGF991/r...

04.03.2024 18:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Job Openings - RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY ACCELS - English

Come and work with us at RWTH Aachen. Full Professorship (W2) in Empirical Reader Response Studies and English Literary Studies at the English Department and the Aachen Center for Cognitive and Empirical Literary Studies. For details go to the ACCELS site
accels.rwth-aachen.de/cms/accels/d...

19.01.2024 16:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Aston Stylistics Research Group Applied Stylistics Conference 2024 | Aston University Online Store This is the fourth 'Applied Stylistics' symposium. Our one-day conference showcases research in applied stylistics across a number of different contexts. T

Come join us for the Aston Stylistics Research Group Applied Stylistics Symposium in January! Registration open now!

09.11.2023 13:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Really excited to share that an article I wrote with the excellent Dr Valerie Hobbs on conversion narrative in the #biomimicry movement is out now!
#ecolinguistics #religiouslanguage

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

12.10.2023 11:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Special Issue: Narrative Empathy; Guest Editors: Carolina Fernandez-Quintanilla and Fransina Stradli... Volume 52, issue 2 of the journal Journal of Literary Semantics was published in 2023.

I think the publication of a special issue that I co-guest edited with Carolina Fernandez-Quintanilla for the Journal of Literary Semantics is a great occasion for a first post! ๐ŸŽ‰

Check out our special issue on Stylistic Approaches to Narrative Empathy here ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿป

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/...

06.10.2023 08:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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