Dr Sharon Glaas

Dr Nicci MacLeod made a second appearance on BBC’s Expert Witness this week. This episode reports on her involvement with a case in which a man was convicted for sending abusive and harassing messages to his former partner. You can view the episode here: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

📢 Call for Papers: Corpus Linguistics 2025 📢 Submissions are now open for paper presentations, poster presentations, thematic panels, and pre-conference workshops: cl2025.co.uk/call-for-papers Deadline: 17th January 2025 Join us in Birmingham in July! #CL2025

From today, we have a new department name. Welcome to the Department of Linguistics and Communication at @unibirmingham!

Uni of Leeds new research project, 'Young people, criticality and figurative language' (tinyurl.com/y56h68tf), is recruiting a full-time fixed-term research fellow, based in Leeds, UK. See jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r….

I'm very excited to share the pre-print for our new position paper! The Sociolinguistics Foundations of Language Modeling doi.org/10.48550/arXiv… A quick 🧵summing up our main claims...

‘Everything is a journey now’ - Several linguists, including myself, contributed to this New York Times article on the rise of ‘journey’ as a metaphor. nytimes.com/2024/05/13/wel…

@DrClaireH Knock down ginger (1970s South East England)

but what did you CALL this? local feral linguist demands answers

Please share the details of new posts advertised at the University of Birmingham! Assistant Professor in Digital Media and Communications (specialising in VR/Video Game) (Research and Education) at University of Birmingham jobs.ac.uk/job/DGK451/ass…

I'm looking for a corpus linguistic Research Associate to collaborate on a project about Kazuo Ishiguro's style... full advert here... please RT and share! jobs.ac.uk/job/DGF991/res…

📢Don't forget to join us for Professor Adam Schembri's (@AdamCSchembri) Inaugural lecture 'How is sign language?' Adam will sign in BSL with interpretation into English provided. 🗓️Thursday 14 March 18:00-19:00 📍Arts main lecture theatre & online 🔗ow.ly/fI0v50QBO4E

Last month we mentioned some of the qualities, skills, and qualifications you need to become a forensic linguist and/or a forensic speech scientist. But if you did our MSc in Forensic Linguistics and Speech Science, what might you actually learn about in class? Guess what...

The special issue of @JCaDS_journal in honour of Alan Partington is in preparation and it will host a "tabula glatulatoria" introduced by @deliaclear. If you wish to celebrate Alan and his contribution to the field with us, you are welcome to join docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Are you working on any of the following? ⬇️If so, please have a look at this CfP and submit your abstract by 1 February icl2024poznan.pl/userfiles/file…

We are happy to welcome to @jcads team our new copyeditors @SLGlaas @diegoli_eugenia

‼️The deadline for abstract submission for the 7th Corpora & Discourse International Conference (#CADS2024) has been extended to 31 January 2024. uibk.ac.at/congress/cads2… Share this information with the colleagues who might be interested in submitting their abstracts.

Job for a Principal Computational Linguist, deadline 21 January civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi?j… (applicants must be British citizens)

Out now: experimental study on blaming in political protest discourse with @Sten_Hansson and @ruthtweetpage. We develop and test a model of how the linguistic framing of political protest posts influences the spread of blame on social media. doi.org/10.1177/009365…

January: the month of blahs and mehs 😑🌧 But here's something to cheer us up: the BAAL Corpus Linguistics SIG Symposium! We'll be exploring "Corpus Perspectives on Crisis Discourse". Best part? It's FREE! No need to break the bank, just the winter doldrums 😄

Lectureship in Forensic Linguistics: We are looking for a part-time (0.75) lecturer in Forensic Linguistics at the University of Manchester (fixed term for 7 months). Please re-tweet! If you have any questions about the position you can contact me. jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?…