πYou can now listen to, like, download and share the final episode of series 1 of the PALA podcast. In this episode, Dr Kerry Rach shares her research on the language of contraception in sex education. Series 2 is coming soon!π
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Eco-Speak: Language and Style in Ecological Discourse
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π New book alert: Eco-Speak: Language and Style in Ecological Discourse is edited by Esterino Adami & Aoife Beville and is fully open-access and available to download here: doi.org/10.6093/978-... π₯³
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π’ Just a reminder that the CFP for PALA2026 has been extended to a final deadline of π 14th Feb. 2026 π!! For full submission details, see the PALA 2026 conference website.
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One for all interested in the teaching of language and literature!
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π’CFP: Teaching Literature in the Language Classroom, Uni. of Nottingham, 30th March 2026 (arr. @stockwell.bsky.social and @jessnorledge.bsky.social ). Send max. 200 word abstract with 5 keywords by 16th Feb. 2026 to: stylistics@nottingham.ac.uk π’
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Aston Stylistics Research Centre: Dr James Balfour
Packaging Up Pathology: How Online Communities Construct Folk Symptomatologies Through Neologism
π’The next speaker in the ASRC seminar series on 4th Feb. 2026 is Dr James Balfour, Uni. of Glasgow on "Packaging Up Pathology: How Online Communities Construct Folk Symptomatologies Through Neologism". 4-5pm MS Teams. Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/aston-styl... π
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π’Very exciting news that ASP (Aston Society of Poetry) has now become Aston Scribblers and Poets! Next session online on Monday 26th January from 7.30-9.00pm. Message @melwardlepoet.bsky.social or @naomiadam.bsky.social βοΈ
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π’CFP: Teaching Literature in the Language Classroom, Uni. of Nottingham, 30th March 2026 (arranged by @stockwell.bsky.social and @jessnorledge.bsky.social ). Send max. 200 word abstract with 5 keywords by 16th Feb. 2026 to: stylistics@nottingham.ac.uk π’
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Publishing in Language, Gender and Sexuality
Weβre pleased to announce our next online seminar will take place on Wednesday 18th February at 2-3pm. This event will focus on publishing journal articles and books in language, gender and sexuality ...
Are you a PhD student or ECR in language, gender & sexuality? Join me (an ed. of Bloomsbury Studies in Queer Linguistics book series) and Lexi Webster (an ed. of Gender & Language journal) for a FREE @lgas-baal.bsky.social online seminar on publishing (2pm 18 Feb) docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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On my way to Aston for a day of literary linguistic goodness. To the Stylisticsmobile- and away!
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Aston Stylistics Research Centre is launched!
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Aston Stylistics Research Centre: Dr. Samuel Bourgeois
Tough-guy talk in American political discourse: Characteristics and functions
Aston Stylistics Research Centre: Research Seminar Series 25-26. "Tough-guy talk in American political discourse: Characteristics and functions" - Dr. Samuel Bourgeois, University of NeuchΓ’tel, Switzerland. Wed. 21st Jan. 4-5pm GMT, online, register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/aston-styl...
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PALA 2026 β Department of English β Uppsala University
@pala.bsky.social π’A reminder that the deadline for abstracts for PALA 2026 at Uppsala University is 30th Jan. 2026!! Submission of abstracts is via: easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/P... (A link to this is also available on the PALA 2026 conference website). Look forward to seeing you there!π
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Excited to be delivering the keynote at the Aston Stylistics Research Group symposium on Friday. If any PALA folks are heading there (and are in town from Thursday), give me a shout β would be great to hang out!
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And mine arrived today! Such a pleasure working with @bloomsburyling.bsky.social on my second monograph, Analysing Environmental Discourse. It is available open access here: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...
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It was a fantastic experience to deliver a lecture to students in Khmelnytsky on Monday. For my PhD Iβm developing a model of analysis of performance poetry and it was wonderful to see the students engage with my work and try out the model in their lecture! A big thank you to
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@l19cmanmet.bsky.social of relevance to your followers?
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And you did a great job, Rebecca! π Looking forward to seeing you next year!!
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A sneak preview of PALA 2026 Uppsala ... π
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A huge thank you to all who attended, presented, plenaried, chaired, entertained, fed & watered us at a brilliant @PALA2025 & esp to the fantastic team @EnglishAston. Here's to PALA Uppsala 2026!! πππΊππΊπ₯³
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BRING ON PALA2025!! πͺSee you all at ASTON in T minus 1!! π₯³π₯³π₯³π₯³
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Select tickets β Memoirs of a P.O.W β Theatro Technis
Christiana Gregoriou and George Rodosthenous present: a dramatisation of a Cypriot Second World War memoir commemorating the 80...
A (stylistics-informed) lecture-performance of 'Memoirs of a POW' by PALA's own Prof. Christiana Gregoriou & Prof. George Rodosthenous opens in London's Theatro Techis Fri. 18th July 7:30 pm. Free tickets: tickettailor.com/events/theat...
Trailer: youtube.com/watch?v=B0g1... @cgregoriou.bsky.social
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Did you get your tickets yet?
βMemoirs of a POWββs London premiere is only 11 days away.
For details and (free) ticket reservation:https://www.tickettailor.com/events/theatrotechnis1/1716088
For the short trailer, see youtu.be/B0g1BHAjBKQ?...
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π’With PALA2025 fast approaching, get into the PALA spirit with the online PALA Student Meet & Greet: 2nd July 2025 3pm (CEST) (2pm GMT). Non-students also welcome! Link and further details in today's PALA Announce!π₯³
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PALA2025 is edging ever closer!! Looking forward to seeing you at Aston University, Birmingham, soon!!
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Poetry Evening β PALA 2025 π Donβt forget if you are coming to @2025PALA thereβs an exciting evening of #poetry that you can sign up to attend feat @gkagaywriting @MrCaseyBailey and me! Please book your free ticket via the link! π€ @palapoeticsling.bsky.social
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PALA is thrilled to finally be on Blue Sky!! Feel free to follow and/or suggest followees! π₯³π
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Software Engineer, Cryptographer, BlueZ Stack Maintainer, Poet?
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English teacher. Writer.MA Applied English, Nottingham U. Palestine will be free.
English lang & ling academic @UNamur & @KU Leuven. THE LANGUAGE OF MEMES out now https://www.cambridge.org/languageofmemes. He/him. https://www.unamur.be/en/profil/lvdlanot
Sociologist/Law&Society Scholar. Interested in criminalization at the margins, focusing on race and sexuality. georgebradics.com
Lecturer of Cognitive Linguistics and Discourse Analysis | Metaphor | Political Discourse | CDA
James Murray Beattie Lecturer in Victorian Lit | University of Glasgow | Co-founder @EHUNineteen.bsky.social Research Centre | #Classics | #Gothic lit | Author: Ancient Rome & Victorian Masculinity (OUP, 2019). FRHistS. She/her. #c19th
Early career historian | 18th Century Britain | research fellow at the University of Buckingham | visiting scholar at the Centre for Geopolitics | writing a book with Polity Press
PhD student
interests: Distributed Social Networks, Sustainability
#edusky #atproto #bluesky #fediverse #sustainability #academicsky
chief procurement officer of treats for a doggo of above exceptional intelligence
Cognitive Linguist. Research Fellow in Contemporary Cognitive Stylistics for Teachers @Aston University; Research Impact Assistant - The Language around Pregnancy Loss @University College London.
Professor of English Linguistics, Heidelberg University
Professor of Education, King's College London
Linguist, PhD (language proficiency, semantic knowledge), university lecturer, Tampere University, Finland
Researchportal.tuni.fi/en/persons/maija-tervola
Chair of the Linguistic Association of Finland (SKY) Linguistics.fi
Amateur translator LT>FI
Associate Professor of English Linguistics (Univ. Paul-ValΓ©ry Montpellier, France). Currently working on failed repair in mockumentary sitcoms & cringe humor.
Research interests: pragmatics, stylistics, multimodality, miscommunication & humor
Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics, Department of Communication and Culture
Associate Dean Education and Student Experience, School of Law and Social Sciences
Aston University
https://robbielove.org/
Linguist and nature lover.
Editor-in-Chief of Ezikov svyat/Orbis Linguarum
https://ezikovsvyat.swu.bg/index.php/en/
PhD-alike
TESOL, studying linguistics, sci-fi & deixis
Showcases research in long nineteenth-century studies. Housed in the School of English @ Manchester Metropolitan University.
Professor of Stylistics at Aston University, UK. I research and teach cognitive stylistics, empirical literary studies, poetry, applied English. 34
University of Liverpool. I tend to write about discourse, argumentation & racism. Editor of Critical Discourse Studies. I still π goodbye at the end of zoom calls.
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ORCID: 0000-0003-1251-8184
PhD candidate & Teaching Associate at Sheffield Hallam University. Cognitive stylistician. Children's Lit & YA Fiction for mental & emotional health. Fandom discourses.
