"Impoliteness, humour and environment in The Office" - is my humble contribution to start the first meeting of the Culture Vultures reading group at UAM Poznań this semester - join us on 23 October at 11:30 a.m. in room 153 Helio 😎

Hey everyone! I'm an ace PhD researcher at University Doctoral School (UoB) recruiting participants for a questionnaire about asexual TV/media representations. See the poster for more info and feel free to ask questions! Thank you 🖤🤍💜 tinyurl.com/acetvquestions

We're back! Aston Stylistics Research Group Seminar Series 2024-25 kicks off on Wednesday 13 November 4-5pm with Urszula Kizelbach on 'Impoliteness in McEwan's fiction: Literary pragma-stylistics'. Full details & registration here! PALA Literary Semantics shorturl.at/OgCnH

Listening to this reminded me of some oddness around how they pronounce Gawain in this film: mostly /ˈɡɑweɪn/ "GAH-wayne" or (most oddly) /ˈɡɑrweɪn/ "GAR-wayne" (with the /r/ pronounced). 1/

Hi Barbies! ✨ Naomi Adam and yours truly wanted to let you know that our fantastic telecinematic stylistic paper on the overlapping ontologies in Gerwig's masterpiece is now live and open access for all of you to be Barbie-fied. Now... read: jbe-platform.com/content/journa…

Please consider donating to the wonderful @ZoesPlaceLiv, who are in danger of closing if they do not reach their fundraising target

The #English voiceover of the #Chinese #VideoGame Black Myth: Wukong includes an unexpected accent: Brummie. Find out why this particular #accent was chosen here: tinyurl.com/5fap6wpf #ALE316

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📢I'm presenting on 20th November the ✨highlights✨ from my PhD thesis on 'the split Self' phenomenon in 4 American films and series, as part of the incredible ASRG series! 😎 If you wish to find more details and sign up, all details are here: shorturl.at/rlFLH

🌟Publication day🌟 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/10.1007/9…

Such a shame I only saw this interaction shortly AFTER my pragmatics seminar this morning

Goodbye Bill Labov, a true giant in the field and a wonderful human being. He will be truly missed.

The first issue of the Journal of Language and Pop Culture is now live, and available open access at benjamins.com/catalog/jlpop. See below for the contents, which cover pop music, film, video games, and social media discourse

There will be an online launch for the Journal on Friday (7 Feb) 1200-1300 with an introduction from the editors and brief outlines of each chapter by their authors. All are welcome! LINK: shorturl.at/nrW1W

The Journal of Language and Pop Culture is soon migrating to Blue Sky; please follow us over there at: bsky.app/profile/jlpopc…. A presence will remain here, but most information will be provided via the Blue Sky account.

Entyce go back to school (again!) 👩‍🎓 Earlier today, Hannah and Bec were invited back to University of Chester to deliver a guest lecture to first year English language students all about the use of lanaguage within marketing. #GuestLecture #Chester #EnglishLanguage

Always great to host Hannah and Bec from the fabulous Entyce Creative | B Corp™. Such a useful session and so many parallels between the skills used in digital marketing and those used in discourse analysis

👀 In Babel's Summer 2025 issue... 🎞️ Dr Paula Ghintuiala 🌈 discusses her work on the split Self in cinema 🛍️ Subscribe at babelzine.co.uk