Reposted by PALAPeter Stockwell @stockwell.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I too will be present! And I know Bluesky doesn’t really do hashtags but #usppala - come on! @palapoeticsling.bsky.social 041
Reposted by PALASofia Rüdiger @sofiaruediger.bsky.social · 07/07/2026The #ISLE Outreach Prize is open for submissions (until November 30)! Comes with a cash prize & other goodies. More info at www.isle-linguistics.org/activities/i... #EnglishLinguistics 052
Reposted by PALAJoanna Gavins @joannagavins.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Academic job opportunity for a Senior Research Associate working with @ukrepro.bsky.social 👇 www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...bristol.ac.ukDetails | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol 035
PALA @palapoeticsling.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Stylistics in Action courtesy of @stockwell.bsky.social and @jessnorledge.bsky.social plus all the Uni of Nottingham Stylistics team! 030
PALA @palapoeticsling.bsky.social · 24/06/2026📢PALA Podcast Season 2 Episode 1 now available whenever you get your podcasts!! 🎉👂🎉 030
Reposted by PALACentre for Research in Applied Linguistics @uoncral.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Today is English Language Day (UN – read more via link in bio)! Today is a great day to celebrate multilingualism and the existence of so many variations of English across the globe beyond Standard English. 🌍 #uoncral #English #language #languageuse #researchcentre #appliedlinguistics #linguistics 032
Reposted by PALANaomi Adam @naomiadam.bsky.social · 06/04/2026Calling all members of the Poetics and Linguistics Association @palapoeticsling.bsky.social – the next issue of Parlance needs your news! Send any updates (and/or pet pictures) to naomi.adam@nottingham.ac.uk by Friday 15 May 2026. Inspiration at: pala.ac.uk/parlancepala.ac.ukParlanceAutumn 20025 Spring 2025 Autumn 2024 Spring 2024 Autumn 2023 Spring 2023 Autumn 2022 Summer 2021 Summer 2020 Spring 2020 Spring 2019 Spring 2018 Spring 2017 Spring 2016 Spring 2015 Spring... 011
PALA @palapoeticsling.bsky.social · 01/04/2026📢🎉New book alert!! Congratulations to PALAns @simonstatham.bsky.social and @helenringrow.bsky.social on the publication of their new book: Abortion in Ireland The Language of the Campaign for Reproductive Rights, published with @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social 📢🎉 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/abortion-...bloomsbury.comAbortion in IrelandProviding an in-depth analysis of the diverse discourse types present in the fight for women's bodily autonomy in Ireland over four decades, this book explores… 000
Reposted by PALANathan Dykes @nfdykes.bsky.social · 22/03/2026New entry in the Int. Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics with @jtauber.com: Regular Expressions for Corpus Queries. We introduce regex with actual corpus linguistics examples instead of making everything look like \]\[ Happy to send anyone a copy! doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-95504-1.01539-8 43915
Reposted by PALAPeter Stockwell @stockwell.bsky.social · 23/03/2026You idiot. You forgot to register for the on-campus version of this, and now you’ve missed the deadline. Fear not, you can still register online, and no one will ever know! Join us on 30th March tinyurl.com/teachlanglit 021
Reposted by PALALucy Jones @lucyjones.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Don't miss @uonenglish.bsky.social @uoncral.bsky.social graduate Daniel Edmondson's keynote at this year's annual @lgas-baal.bsky.social event! 0162
Reposted by PALAMarianne Hundt @hundtmariann.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Opportunity for a PhD candidate in English linguistics. Please repost. jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...jobs.unibas.chUniversität Basel: PhD position in English linguisticsAs of August 1, 2026, the Department of Languages and Literatures of the University of Basel (English division, Prof. Miriam Locher) is seeking to fill a 60% PhD position in English linguistics. The p... 1910
PALA @palapoeticsling.bsky.social · 10/03/2026The Year's Work in English Studies: Stylistics section now available to view open access! academic.oup.com/ywes/advance...academic.oup.comChapter I. English Language: 14. StylisticsSurely there is no better sign of a discipline’s dynamism than the continual updating of its seminal texts. In 2023, this proved the case for stylistics, w 010
PALA @palapoeticsling.bsky.social · 10/03/2026📢 'Ragdoll' MA Scholarships 2026-27: School of English, Uni of Sheffield 📢 010
PALA @palapoeticsling.bsky.social · 10/03/2026📢📢Calling all Telecinematic Stylisticians! New book alert: www.routledge.com/Building-Nar...routledge.comBuilding Narratives on Screen: New Approaches in Telecinematic StylisticsThis collection seeks to advance the growing field of telecinematic stylistics, building on burgeoning research in the stylistic study of aural and visual cinematic discourse through interdisciplinary... 010
PALA @palapoeticsling.bsky.social · 10/03/2026📢The next ASRC Research Seminar on Wed. 18th March 4-5pm GMT features Dr Lisa Nahajec, Liverpool Hope University on “Can AI do stylistics (and do we want it to)?" 🎉Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/aston-styl...eventbrite.co.ukAston Stylistics Research Centre: Dr Lisa NahajecCan AI do stylistics (and do we want it to)? 000
Reposted by PALAText and Language Lab @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social · 19/02/2026🎙️ Life & Language explores how language shapes the way we see the world. Hosted by Prof. @michamahlberg.bsky.social. Now in its 5th season with 28 episodes and brilliant guests across disciplines. Curious about how words shape life? 🎧 Join the conversation. 22115
Reposted by PALAPeter Stockwell @stockwell.bsky.social · 24/02/2026Programme now up! Come and join us on 30th March - register on-campus (and we’ll feed you) or online (and we won’t). tinyurl.com/teachlanglit 085
Reposted by PALAPeter Stockwell @stockwell.bsky.social · 25/02/202625 quid for food, drink and 13 great pieces of scholarship? You’d be mad not to! Cheaper than staying at home (or you CAN stay at home and join us online) Teaching Lit in the Lang Classroom 30 March: Uni of Nottingham tinyurl.com/teachlanglit 1107
PALA @palapoeticsling.bsky.social · 01/03/2026📢New book alert! A must-have for all PALAns - and beyond - interested in the immersive experience of reading! 🤩 031
PALA @palapoeticsling.bsky.social · 13/02/2026📢The next ASRC Research Seminar on Wed. 18th Feb. 4-5pm GMT features Dr Carolin Scheider Ward on “¿Quantos me dejiste?” – Investigating Social Epistemics of Autobiographical Questions and Answers in Bilingual Dementia Contexts" 🎉Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/aston-styl...eventbrite.co.ukAston Stylistics Research Centre: Dr Carolin Schneider Ward“¿Quantos me dejiste?” – Investigating Social Epistemics of Autobiographical Questions and Answers in Bilingual Dementia Contexts 010
PALA @palapoeticsling.bsky.social · 13/02/2026📢🎉📢 FINAL reminder that the CFP for PALA2026 is TOMORROW 💓 14th Feb. 2026 💞!! For full submission details, see the PALA 2026 conference website. 000
PALA @palapoeticsling.bsky.social · 13/02/2026A reminder that the CFP deadline for this great PALA-sponsored symposium at the Uni of Nottingham is 16th Feb. 2026! 010
PALA @palapoeticsling.bsky.social · 04/02/2026👂You can now listen to, like, download and share the final episode of series 1 of the PALA podcast. In this episode, Dr Kerry Rach shares her research on the language of contraception in sex education. Series 2 is coming soon!🎉 000
PALA @palapoeticsling.bsky.social · 04/02/2026📖 New book alert: Eco-Speak: Language and Style in Ecological Discourse is edited by Esterino Adami & Aoife Beville and is fully open-access and available to download here: doi.org/10.6093/978-... 🥳doi.org Eco-Speak: Language and Style in Ecological Discourse | SHARE Libri 010
PALA @palapoeticsling.bsky.social · 04/02/2026📢 Just a reminder that the CFP for PALA2026 has been extended to a final deadline of 💓 14th Feb. 2026 💞!! For full submission details, see the PALA 2026 conference website. 000
PALA @palapoeticsling.bsky.social · 04/02/2026One for all interested in the teaching of language and literature! 010
PALA @palapoeticsling.bsky.social · 26/01/2026📢CFP: Teaching Literature in the Language Classroom, Uni. of Nottingham, 30th March 2026 (arr. @stockwell.bsky.social and @jessnorledge.bsky.social ). Send max. 200 word abstract with 5 keywords by 16th Feb. 2026 to: stylistics@nottingham.ac.uk 📢 045
PALA @palapoeticsling.bsky.social · 26/01/2026📢The next speaker in the ASRC seminar series on 4th Feb. 2026 is Dr James Balfour, Uni. of Glasgow on "Packaging Up Pathology: How Online Communities Construct Folk Symptomatologies Through Neologism". 4-5pm MS Teams. Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/aston-styl... 🎉eventbrite.co.ukAston Stylistics Research Centre: Dr James BalfourPackaging Up Pathology: How Online Communities Construct Folk Symptomatologies Through Neologism 000
PALA @palapoeticsling.bsky.social · 23/01/2026📢Very exciting news that ASP (Aston Society of Poetry) has now become Aston Scribblers and Poets! Next session online on Monday 26th January from 7.30-9.00pm. Message @melwardlepoet.bsky.social or @naomiadam.bsky.social ✒️ 020
PALA @palapoeticsling.bsky.social · 23/01/2026📢CFP: Teaching Literature in the Language Classroom, Uni. of Nottingham, 30th March 2026 (arranged by @stockwell.bsky.social and @jessnorledge.bsky.social ). Send max. 200 word abstract with 5 keywords by 16th Feb. 2026 to: stylistics@nottingham.ac.uk 📢 052
Reposted by PALALucy Jones @lucyjones.bsky.social · 16/01/2026Are you a PhD student or ECR in language, gender & sexuality? Join me (an ed. of Bloomsbury Studies in Queer Linguistics book series) and Lexi Webster (an ed. of Gender & Language journal) for a FREE @lgas-baal.bsky.social online seminar on publishing (2pm 18 Feb) docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...docs.google.comPublishing in Language, Gender and SexualityWe’re pleased to announce our next online seminar will take place on Wednesday 18th February at 2-3pm. This event will focus on publishing journal articles and books in language, gender and sexuality ... 21915
Reposted by PALAPeter Stockwell @stockwell.bsky.social · 16/01/2026On my way to Aston for a day of literary linguistic goodness. To the Stylisticsmobile- and away! 091
Reposted by PALAPeter Stockwell @stockwell.bsky.social · 16/01/2026Aston Stylistics Research Centre is launched! 0183
PALA @palapoeticsling.bsky.social · 16/01/2026Aston Stylistics Research Centre: Research Seminar Series 25-26. "Tough-guy talk in American political discourse: Characteristics and functions" - Dr. Samuel Bourgeois, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Wed. 21st Jan. 4-5pm GMT, online, register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/aston-styl...eventbrite.co.ukAston Stylistics Research Centre: Dr. Samuel BourgeoisTough-guy talk in American political discourse: Characteristics and functions 000
PALA @palapoeticsling.bsky.social · 16/01/2026@pala.bsky.social 📢A reminder that the deadline for abstracts for PALA 2026 at Uppsala University is 30th Jan. 2026!! Submission of abstracts is via: easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/P... (A link to this is also available on the PALA 2026 conference website). Look forward to seeing you there!🎉uu.sePALA 2026 – Department of English – Uppsala University 022
Reposted by PALAChristiana Gregoriou @cgregoriou.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Excited to be delivering the keynote at the Aston Stylistics Research Group symposium on Friday. If any PALA folks are heading there (and are in town from Thursday), give me a shout — would be great to hang out! appliedstylistics.com/applied-styl... 021
Reposted by PALAScott Burnett @burscott.bsky.social · 13/01/2026And mine arrived today! Such a pleasure working with @bloomsburyling.bsky.social on my second monograph, Analysing Environmental Discourse. It is available open access here: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...bloomsburycollections.comAnalysing Environmental Discourse 051
PALA @palapoeticsling.bsky.social · 28/07/2025@l19cmanmet.bsky.social of relevance to your followers? 021
PALA @palapoeticsling.bsky.social · 18/07/2025And you did a great job, Rebecca! 😃 Looking forward to seeing you next year!! 020
PALA @palapoeticsling.bsky.social · 13/07/2025A huge thank you to all who attended, presented, plenaried, chaired, entertained, fed & watered us at a brilliant @PALA2025 & esp to the fantastic team @EnglishAston. Here's to PALA Uppsala 2026!! 🎉💃🕺💃🕺🥳 062
PALA @palapoeticsling.bsky.social · 07/07/2025BRING ON PALA2025!! 🪇See you all at ASTON in T minus 1!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳 030
PALA @palapoeticsling.bsky.social · 07/07/2025A (stylistics-informed) lecture-performance of 'Memoirs of a POW' by PALA's own Prof. Christiana Gregoriou & Prof. George Rodosthenous opens in London's Theatro Techis Fri. 18th July 7:30 pm. Free tickets: tickettailor.com/events/theat... Trailer: youtube.com/watch?v=B0g1... @cgregoriou.bsky.socialtickettailor.comSelect tickets – Memoirs of a P.O.W – Theatro TechnisChristiana Gregoriou and George Rodosthenous present: a dramatisation of a Cypriot Second World War memoir commemorating the 80... 010
Reposted by PALAChristiana Gregoriou @cgregoriou.bsky.social · 07/07/2025Did you get your tickets yet? ‘Memoirs of a POW’’s London premiere is only 11 days away. For details and (free) ticket reservation:https://www.tickettailor.com/events/theatrotechnis1/1716088 For the short trailer, see youtu.be/B0g1BHAjBKQ?... 001
![Graphical abstract for "Regular Expressions for Corpus Queries" (Dykes & Tauber, 2026). Title: "Translating linguistic patterns into corpus queries."
A table demonstrates how a linguistic research question: "Which actions are explained in terms of someone's underlying reasons?", is translated into a CQL query.
Colour coding links linguistic patterns (red), query syntax (grey/bold), and corpus results (red italics).
The top row shows the linguistic pattern components: possessive, optional adjective or adverb, reason-word, linker, and verb.
The middle row shows the corresponding CQL query: [pos="POSS"] [pos="ADJ|ADV"]? "reason|rationale" "for|to" [pos="V"].
The bottom three rows show example corpus results: "my reason for asking," "her only rationale to go," and "their main reason to pivot."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7zfw7izsoitrzto6p6fenuey/bafkreidehnxt6tfvjpvyddz73dmj2dhzetongroduf3xbxjwxek6zxxwvm)
