An excellent day with our newly formed department that brings together History at Aston and English at Aston University. Lots to celebrate and plenty of exciting ideas for the future!

Doing research on swearing? If so, there is still time to put in an abstract for the next Swearing in Scandinavia conference. I gave a talk on swearing in British Engllish at the last conference and heard plenty of interesting papers to boot. Recommended! blogs.helsinki.fi/swisca9hel/

✨ Partner News ✨ We are delighted to share that Aston University is now a Litdrive partner! buff.ly/4gGwYBa #Litdrive #TeamEnglish English at Aston University Team English

I am recruiting a Research Assistant in Corpus Linguistics and Law to work on an interdisciplinary legal linguistics project at Nottingham Trent University on the language of sentencing. Please share: vacancies.ntu.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?…

Forensic Linguistics for A level English teachers. A one day event run by Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics. See here for details Team English Litdrive UK EngLangBlog NATE aston.ac.uk/research/foren…

Our Undergraduate Open Day takes place this Saturday! We are excited to welcome prospective students on to our single-site campus in the heart of Birmingham. Register your place and kickstart your future by gaining skills that make employers take notice: tinyurl.com/5yfh2yuu

Fantastic turnout Brian Sudlow (Aston) History at Aston speed-dating-an-archivist event to discover local archival collections and professionals! It's official, I want to be a student again!

This was a very cool experience. Thanks for having me come to talk about Corpus Linguistics and World Englishes Dr Robbie Love

Coming soon: My book 'Corpus Approaches to Discourse in Forensic and Legal Contexts' will be published in February 2025 by RoutledgeLinguistics, in Tony McEnery and Jesse Egbert's Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics series. Pre-order from January: shorturl.at/t2gze

🎙 CorpusCast with Dr Robbie Love 🗣 GW on World Englishes 🔎 Exploring Grammatical Variations in English: USA vs UK WATCH👉youtu.be/VdUUQ7p4dPo LISTEN👉t.ly/k9v9q #CorpusCast

An excellent Aston University Open Day yesterday. Great to talk to visitors about our English and History programmes. English at Aston University History at Aston

Please consider joining us in Birmingham in July 2025 for the thirteenth international Corpus Linguistics conference, co-organised by Aston University, Birmingham City University and Uni of Birmingham! Call for papers now live: cl2025.co.uk/call-for-papers #CL2025

Join us in Birmingham in July 2025 for the 13th International Corpus Linguistics Conference, co-organised by Aston University, Birmingham City University and Uni of Birmingham!

A Level English Language teachers: exciting news! We English at Aston University are running FREE online subject knowledge CPD on 7th November, with talks from the brilliant Stephen Pihlaja and Joyce Lim! Book your tickets here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/subject-know…

#AESLA #AESLA_info 🔁 RT Dr Robbie Love 👉 The role of corpus linguistics in documenting and analysing World Englishes 🗣️ Guyanne Wilson ▶️ youtu.be/VdUUQ7p4dPo?si…

New paper with brilliant former PhD student Bashayer بشائر باعيسى and Jack Grieve out now in Discourse & Communication! We analyze how fake news stories are framed as newsworthy to maximize their persuasive appeal. Open access article available here: doi.org/10.1177/175048… 🧵

😷📔'Reading Habits in the Covid-19 Pandemic: An Applied Linguistic Perspective' (2024) by Dr Abigail Boucher, Marcello Giovanelli, Dr Chloe Harrison, Dr Robbie Love & Caroline Godfrey was such a pleasure to read and to review! 👇tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… English Studies

'The authors adopt an eclectic approach to methodology whereby corpus linguistics, stylistics, thematic coding & literary methodologies [...] offer readers a comprehensive comparative analysis of reading habits before vs. during the first lockdown'. Thanks for the review, Amélie!