Manchester Centre for Research in Linguistics

As @derekbousfield.bsky.social moves on to be the new Doctoral College Faculty Head, we are delighted to have @niallrcurry.bsky.social joining @khawlabadwan.bsky.social as our research group co-lead.

Critical AI literacy for applied linguistics and language education students Following the generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) boom of the early 2020s, research in applied linguistics has become preoccupied with identifying how artificial intelligence (AI) and GenAI can...

📃 new open access 🔓 paper with @perez-paredes.bsky.social & @carlosordonana.bsky.social on Critical AI Literacies for Applied Linguistics & Language Education, in the Journal of China CALL. Find the paper here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... & details in🧵⬇️ @um.es @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social

We considered theory, impact, AI & teaching, social change, and more...a discussion that can't be summarised here...but we invite you to reflect on these questions

Our closing panel @robdrummond.bsky.social Dawn Archer, @khawlabadwan.bsky.social discussed The Future of Linguistics Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

And rounding out our final session @derekbousfield.bsky.social Pragmatics in contested interpretation: varied audiences, implicatures, inferences

"Interpretation is a fickle beast"

Rachel Hatchard Linguistic (usage-based) analyses of language in aphasia
...challenging a rule-based generative approach

Linguistic theory informs our understanding of language disorders
Studying language disorders can challenge our Linguistic theory

Piotr Jagodzinski kicking off our final session - Autistic unmasking and (im)politeness on and off the TV screen
A pragmatic model of autistic (un)masking and facework - analysis on the TV series Herkules

. @pjagodz kicking off our final session - Autistic unmasking and (im)politeness on and off the TV screen
A pragmatic model of autistic (un)masking and facework - analysis on the TV series Herkules

Nimra Khorramrooz
The Sociopragmatics of protest and resistance: voices of the Iranian Green Movement

Lorenzo Zannini
Discourses of Climate Adaptation in The Conversation Australia

Kate Montgomery
Hopeful Ecologies: what linguists can learn from lichen

Kate's plans for an alternative approach to studying language of autistic people

Hollie Rochfort
Investigating Potential Linguistic Prejudice With Children in the Youth Justice System

This is Hollie's methodological approach and plan for her PhD research

Hamza Nurein
Endangered Languages: at a loss for words

Perceptions of Barawanis on their mother tongue Chimwiini

We now have a session with a selection of our MA students, PhD students, and visiting scholars. Slightly shorter talks but we'll give some spotlights here

Please take your time, language in ruins, a ship that has experienced a catastrophic shipwreck @khawlabadwan.bsky.social

continuing the variation theme, John Bellamy is documenting 'pit talk' across the UK - language as cultural heritage

Age of speakers in Wigan & Bolton correlates with their attitude towards Greater Manchester (as opposed to Lancashire), which correspondingly affects their accent, specifically the vowel in words like MOUTH, SOUND, ROUND, HOUSE
@caitlin91.bsky.social

Generative AI for corpus approaches to discourse studies: A critical evaluation of ChatGPT This paper explores the potential of generative artificial intelligence technology, specifically ChatGPT, for advancing corpus approaches to discourse…

paper here --> www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

. @niallrcurry.bsky.social on Generative AI in research...it's not a question of whether but how, the horse has bolted.

Now we can reflect on what we've learned so far and how to go forward

Many people answer with Ed Sheeran or Taylor Swift

...Katy's dad is stuck in a 70s time loop and answered ABBA...

. @k8ebrown.bsky.social asking how we define mainstream

Who would you answer with if asked for a mainstream music artist? (not a rhetorical question)

We are go...

...huge thanks to @niallrcurry.bsky.social (1) and @k8ebrown.bsky.social (2) for setting this all up and @khawlabadwan.bsky.social for keeping us all both in line practically and looking at the big picture of looking after language

@caitlin91.bsky.social on skeeting duty today.

Today is the day! We're excited to share what our members have been up to this year.

Linguistics could make language learning more relevant – and attractive – for school pupils A languages curriculum enriched with linguistics is appealing to students and teachers.

🚨Following the Curriculum and Assessment Review Interim Report, we share thoughts on how a languages curriculum enriched with #linguistics can address challenges for languages study in schools theconversation.com/linguistics-... #edusky #langsky @languageonthemove.bsky.social @ucflangs.bsky.social

Enjoying @khawlabadwan.bsky.social's talk on unthinking language and decentering traditional views of 'mastery' in language learning contexts @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social

Having a great time at the annual NATESOL conference and honoured to have given the opening plenary. I talked about corpus linguistics and language learners with a focus on developments in AI and critical AI and corpus literacies! @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social

Come join us in Manchester @manmetuni.bsky.social @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social for a day of linguistics research on May 28th! The event is free, lunch is provided, and there are still a few days left to register!

A day full of #Linguistics in #Action. Please join us and explore the exciting breadth and possibilities that linguistics research enables

Manchester Centre for Research in Linguistics Inaugural Symposium: Linguistics in Action Free Face-to-Face Event Manchester Metropolitan University Manchester Centre for Research in Linguistics May 28th 2025 @ ManMet Business School G.26 Event outline running from 9am to event closing at 5pm.

MCRL Symposium 2025: want to know what @manmetuni.bsky.social's #linguistics researchers have been up to over the last year? Register to come and join us on 28th May at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/linguistic...