Bloomsbury Linguistics

Dear Followers & Linguistics Lovers, click on the link below to take you to our new Bloomsbury book called 'Metalanguage and Identity; From Narration to Reflection' publishing Thursday 16th October.

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It gives sample chapters @bloomsburyling.bsky.social

Happening today! Register here: bit.ly/OnBigotryLecture

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A selection of Bloomsbury Academic books on display at BAAL 2025

#BAAL2025 delegates, have you been over to the Bloomsbury stand yet to see the array of brand new textbooks, research and study guides we have on display?

All are available at a ✨35% discount✨ with your exclusive conference discount code! Ask at the stand for details. @baal2025.bsky.social

#BAAL2025 delegates, missed our coffee break earlier?

Not to worry - Sarah will be at the stand for much of today and will be happy to answer your questions or book time for a meeting. Go and say hi 😊

Commissioning Editor Sarah behind the Bloomsbury Academic book display at BAAL 2025

Our sponsored coffee break is underway☕️

Look for Sarah near the Bloomsbury book stand - it's the perfect chance to meet our editor in a relaxed setting and perhaps even begin that new book conversation!

#BAAL2025 @baal2025.bsky.social

Good morning #BAAL2025! Our sponsored coffee break is at 11am today in the Dining Hall.

Come for the caffeine and stay to chat to our Commissioning Editor, Sarah, and plenary speakers/series editors @lucyjones.bsky.social and Angel Lin about publishing with Bloomsbury.

@baal2025.bsky.social

Cover image for the Bloomsbury Handbook of Linguistic Landscapes, edited by Robert Blackwood, Stefania Tufi and Will Amos

We're at #BAAL2025 in Glasgow and gearing up for the BAAL Book Prize announcement ceremony at 4pm.

Fingers crossed for a win for the fantastic Handbook of Linguistic Landscapes 🤞 @baal2025.bsky.social @robjblackwood.bsky.social

📖 Bloomsbury.com/9781350272514

Cover image showing Advanced English Grammar: A Linguistic Approach by Ilse Depraeter & Chad Langford

Out today, the new 3rd edition of Advanced English Grammar by Depraetere & Langford!

Fully updated and complete with online resources, this book shows clearly how the language works without getting lost in complex specifics.

More info / request an inspection copy: Bloomsbury.com/9781350451209

Angel Lin is co-series editor of Critical Perspectives on Language, Mobility and International Education: Bloomsbury.com/series/critical-perspectives-on-language-mobility-and-international-education

Language and LGBTQ+ Youth This book takes a queer linguistic and intersectional approach to the analysis of young LGBTQ+ people's identity constructions, showing how their language use r…

Lucy Jones is co-series editor of Bloomsbury Studies in Queer Linguistics: Bloomsbury.com/series/bloomsbury-studies-in-queer-linguistics and author of Bloomsbury.com/language-and-lgbtq-youth-9781350469495/

Banner showing a cup of coffee with the Bloomsbury logo on it and text reading: BAAL 2025, come along to our coffee break and meet our series editors. Friday 5th September, 11:00 -11:30.

BAAL 2025 delegates, come to our sponsored coffee break this Friday at 11am!

Chat to our Commissioning Editor Sarah MacDonald, plus two of our series editors who are also BAAL plenary speakers:

⭐️ @lucyjones.bsky.social
⭐️ Angel Lin

More info on their book series below 👇🧵 @baal2025.bsky.social

📣 Submissions now open for The Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship, in partnership with @writersandartists.bsky.social, to Black, Asian or Ethnically Diverse early career scholars (UK only).

Find out how you can apply here: bit.ly/4nd2sBp

This is by one of my colleagues but honestly it is one of the great books. It’s about books, and the restorative power of reading. Buy it.

Quotes endorsing the book A Multimodal Language Faculty by Neil Cohn and Joost Schilperoord

Quotes endorsing the book Patterns of Comics by Neil Cohn

My publisher @bloomsburyling.bsky.social is currently having a back-to-school sale, so all my books are now 30% off, including my most recent ones!

Patterns of Comics: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/patterns-...
Multimodal Language Faculty: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/multimoda...

Bloomsbury Academic: Choice and affordability To meet your students’ needs and help them save on course materials, Bloomsbury Academic offers a variety of purchasing and rental options.

This sale is part of our wider commitment to providing choice and affordability for student texts. Read more about the options we offer: bit.ly/4lAWHMl

Banner reading: back to university sale, smart savings for you and your students.

Our Back to University sale is ON! 📚

Enjoy 30% off published books across our academic range until 5th October: bit.ly/45gv1aT

Start browsing linguistics books: bit.ly/4mQpcqx

A photograph of a black and white cat on the left, a brown dog on the right, and between them a copy of The Literary Lifeline: Bibliotherapy and the Transforming Power of Reading, by Kevin Harvey.

The Literary Lifeline is now out! Here's the author's dog and cat pondering who's going to paw over it first 🐾

Bloomsbury.com/literary-lifeline-9781472583604/

A photograph of the book, the literary lifeline: bibliotherapy and the transforming power of reading by Kevin Harvey, in front of a countryside scene and next to a packet of crisps

Book-lovers everywhere, take note: The Literary Lifeline is out today! 📚

Read it up a mountain, with your favourite snack, at home, out loud to your loved ones... Just read it.

Plus, get your copy 30% off from us this week only: Bloomsbury.com/literary-lifeline-9781472583604/

#bibliotherapy

Flyer for the Bloomsbury Studies in Queer Linguistics series, featuring information including the the series editors' names, a series blurb, and a call for proposals. Much of this information is also available via the series page url included in this post.

It's the first book in the Bloomsbury Studies in Queer Linguistics series, which is open to new book proposals.

More details below and at Bloomsbury.com/series/bloomsbury-studies-in-queer-linguistics/

Book cover for 'language and LGBTQ+ youth: analysing marginalised identities through an intersectional lens' by Lucy Jones

If you're at #IGALA13 this week, look out for our display of key books on language, gender & sexuality.

Plus, pick up a discount flyer to pre-order IGALA President @lucyjones.bsky.social's new book, Language and LGBTQ+ Youth, at 35% off: Bloomsbury.com/language-and-lgbtq-youth-9781350469495/

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Book highlights at #PALA2025 include:

📖 the new edition of Cognitive Grammar in Stylistics by Marcello Giovanelli & @chloeharrison.bsky.social
📖 Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language, ed. J Culpeper
📖 new books in @michamahlberg.bsky.social Corpus and Discourse series

+ more at 35% off!

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A display of Bloomsbury Linguistics books on a table covered by a blue branded Bloomsbury Academic tablecloth

We ♥️ being back in Brum for #PALA2025!

Commissioning Editor Sarah is there with some of our latest coursebooks and research on poetics, stylistics, cognitive linguistics and much more.

She's also available for meetings - come and chat to her about your publishing plans!

Photograph of a display of Bloomsbury Linguistics books, flyers and business cards on a blue Bloomsbury Academic branded tablecloth

Our Commissioning Editor Sarah is at #CL2025 today and hoping to see many of you there.

Come to say hi, stay to browse the fantastic new books and series, request textbook inspection copies and learn about publishing with us - not to mention claim your 35% delegates' discount! 📚

Book cover of Writing with Students: New Perspectives on Collaborative Writing in EAP Contexts

In further exciting book prize news, Writing with Students has been shortlisted for the 2025 ASFLA M.A.K. Halliday Book Prize!

Congratulations to (and fingers crossed for) author Lucy Macnaught. #ASFLA2025

📖 Bloomsbury.com/writing-with-students-9781350297708/

Abstract cover image for the Bloomsbury Handbook of Linguistic Landscapes

We're delighted that The Bloomsbury Handbook of Linguistic Landscapes has been shortlisted for the BAAL Book Prize 2025!

Congrats to Robert Blackwood, Stefania Tufi, Will Amos + contributors. And fingers crossed for September! #BAAL2025

📖 Bloomsbury.com/9781350272514/

Banner with a photo of Commissioning Editor Sarah MacDonald, and the text: Publishing with Bloomsbury Linguistics / Free online workshops with editor Sarah / Tuesday 3rd June - Tuesday 4th Nov'

A great opportunity next week for prospective authors at all career stages!

Join Linguistics Commissioning Editor Sarah to learn all about the publishing process and what you need to know to get your academic book published.

📅 Tues 3 June, 14:30 (BST) / 9:30 (EDT)

Book your place: bit.ly/4ig8NZX

Get a head start on your summer reading list! This week only, enjoy up to 30% off sitewide on hardbacks, paperbacks and ebooks!

Get a head start on your summer reading list! This week only, enjoy up to 30% off sitewide on hardbacks, paperbacks and ebooks!

🌷 Shop now: bit.ly/3RSihzG

How are 21st-century developments in technology changing the very nature of language and the ways that we communicate with each other? Philip Seargeant, author of The Future of Language, provides a brief history of the future of human communication.

How are 21st-century developments in technology changing the very nature of language and the ways that we communicate with each other?

@philipseargeant.bsky.social, author of The Future of Language, provides a brief history of the future of human communication bit.ly/4merPmK

A photograph of the book The Literary Lifeline by Kevin Harvey, held up against a countryside landscape with a packet of Walkers crisps beside it

Spotted in the wild:

An advance copy of The Literary Lifeline, showcasing bibliotherapy in action!

Out in July, this insightful book is a tribute to the transporting and consoling power of reading:
Bloomsbury.com/literary-lifeline-9781472583604/

Do you want your academic writing to reach a wider, non-specialist readership?

Author Josephine Quinn (How the World Made the West) will delve into how to write for a commercial, non-fiction publication in our upcoming masterclass!

Join us on 8th May: www.writersandartists.co.uk/events-and-c...