For some autistic young people online interactions provide a form of social contact that is more manageable than many physical settings.

The neurotypical listening subject in autistic young people’s accounts of participation in online affinity spaces

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Forty-eight programmes in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) are among the casualties.

Abstract. The field has long been committed to critically exploring the role of language in systemic inequality and social injustice. More recently, a grow

25 fixed-term (5-year) assistant professor roles across sciences, social sciences, arts & education. Top research environments, strong benefits, relocation s...

2-4 September 2026: Queer (dis)belonging

2-4 September 2026: Queer (dis)belonging

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Linguistics and English Language within the School of Social Sciences at Lancaster University seeks to appoint a Lecturer in Discourse Studies (full-time, indefinite). You will join the discipline...

Dozens of academics from Scottish universities have signed an open letter in support of the suspension of the researcher who sparked the pile-on…

This is a panel at the 20th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA20). Panel: The Sociopragmatics of Mediated and Digital Stylization Convenors: Jan Chovanec (Brno) and Christian Ilbury (Edinburgh) In their everyday communication, individuals adopt various social styles and enact a range of identities, both matter-of-factly and strategically (Coupland 2007, Bucholtz and Hall 2005). Such discursive performance of identity is realized via stylization, i.e., the speakers’ conscious and in

A survey on attitudes towards accents suggests that so-called "accent bias" is still an issue in many workplaces.

Researcher Nathan Cofnas previously claimed Black people would hold few high-profile positions in a meritocracy

An Act to make provision to require Ministers of the Crown and others when making strategic decisions about the exercise of their functions to have regard to the desirability of reducing socio-economi...

Description: Discipline: Sociolinguistique Fonctions: l'enseignement, la recherche, le service à la collectivité et la direction pédagogique Exigence: Une expertise en variétés du français de l'Amérique du Nord et/ou en langue algonquienne, en linguistique diachronique ou en linguistique légale constitue un atout. Expérience: 1. Avoir de l'expérience en enseignement en linguistique aux trois cycles d’études; 2. Avoir fait des publications dans le domaine visé par le poste.

Healthwatch says the EMMA system can't understand some patients in Rotherham.