I explore how linguistic patterns shape 'containment' image schemas, mapping out some of the novel's container/content relationships.
There's also a short classroom activity, if anyone wants to road-test some stylistics 😎
A nice surprise in the post today!
A copy of the September issue of emagazine (for A Level English teachers and students, published by the English and Media Centre) -- featuring my article on different types of imprisonment in The Handmaid’s Tale
My chapter with @chloeharrison.bsky.social on Cognitive Grammar in literary analysis has now been published in this wonderful collection edited by Jan Alber and Ralf Schneider. An honour to be part of such a stellar line-up of authors. www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
Display of Bloomsbury Linguistics books and flyers on a blue tablecloth
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!
One of the final panels on the final day, nappers welcome
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Looking forward to presenting some ✨ new ✨ research at PALA 2025 on the unusual stylistic profile of app-based 'sleep stories', introduced by the meditation app Calm.
I'll be exploring how this new genre reduces cognitive load for listeners & facilitates sleep onset 😴
PALA2025 is edging ever closer!! Looking forward to seeing you at Aston University, Birmingham, soon!!
PALA is thrilled to finally be on Blue Sky!! Feel free to follow and/or suggest followees! 🥳🎉
Early bird registration for PALA 2025 closes today!
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Canada geese attending the PALA 2025 Digital Stylistics conference
📣#PALA2025📣
Poetics and Linguistics Association 2025 conference, 7th - 12th July
A reminder that the early bird (/goose??) registration closes 2 weeks from today, on the 16th May!
Register here -- pala2025.com/registration/
Interested in an MA in English?
The MA English at Aston offers the chance to explore English language, literature, and stylistics at postgraduate level—on campus or online, with full-time & part-time options.
Join our info webinar to find out more. All welcome!
#Ecolinguistics and #cognitivelinguistics followers: does anyone know of any Greek-speaking researchers working on or interested in (non-literary) language, cognition and the environment? I’d be grateful if you could point them in my direction for a potential funding/project opportunity.
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Poetry often deviates from schematic templates. In this paper, I will discuss...
P. s. You have until 14th Feb to submit an abstract for #PALA2025
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pala2025.com/cfp/
We launched some of the materials from our British Academy funded project on Wednesday night on Young Women & Body Image @c19thceleb.bsky.social @stephenpihlaja.bsky.social
Stockholm University 🇸🇪 looking for an Associate Professor of General #Linguistics.
Typology and neurolinguistics are current themes in their group; dept also works in phonetics, lang acquisition and sign language.
Application deadline: January 2025
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
A very late contender for favourite book read this year💛
This was so. so. good.
To paraphrase Haj Ross, #linguist folks, to study language with its aesthetics drained away is ultimately pointless. So get some aesthetics with @chloeharrison.bsky.social’s link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Yet more cuts at Coventry University. They’re cutting the English literature and language BA, & by the looks of it most if not all of the modern languages staff. Dismal. @ucu.org.uk
We’ve had two spaces open up for our FREE ‘Contemporary Cognitive Stylistics for Teachers’ day CPD event on Friday 10th January 2025 at Aston.
Come hear about the latest research in stylistics and how to integrate it into your teaching. Includes lunch!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/contempora...
Presentation title slide that reads: Young Women and Body Image Workshop. Project team: Dr Helen Ringrow and Dr Charlotte Boyce (University of Portsmouth) and Dr Stephen Pihlaja (Aston University)
Had a great time this morning speaking to girls at Portsmouth High School about body image, drawing on examples from historical magazines.
Part of a project I’m working on with the brilliant @helenringrow.bsky.social and @stephenpihlaja.bsky.social
"University should be concerned with encouraging rational inquiry and the free play of the intellect; it is not about the creation of useful drones and it’s unfortunate that tuition fees have made the experience to some degree transactional."
I hadn't realised what a challenge it is to find a home for interdisciplinary papers 🙃
How many rejections/ pushbacks would you accept before throwing in the towel on the project?! (Asking for me...)
*Showing my niece my book over FaceTime*
Her: That's a lot of words. How many words?
Me: Um, about 90,000 I think.
Her: Oh. I write 150,000 words every day at school.
Getting trolled by a 5 yr old
Hi Barbara! Of course -- just followed back
Celebrating joining the Xodus with my first post; this week Louise Nuttall and I published a new report on attitudes to diagnostic language for pregnancy loss, which was picked up by the @theguardian.com
Report here: www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usag...
Article here: amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Cheers Sara!
Thank you, Jo! 😘
Thanks, Ella! 😘
Thanks, Fransina! 😘
Thanks, Jess! It's one of my favourite trilogies too - love it
