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Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

🧚‍♀️New 'In Conversation' Piece🧚‍♀️ Our PhD student Caitlin Hogan has just published an news article in 'In Conversation'. Check it out here: theconversation.com/k-pop-is-bec...

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K-pop is becoming more international – what that means for the K in the genre

K-pop is welcoming more non-Korean idols into the genre than ever but fans are not quite on board yet.

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Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Next week is Queen Mary is hosting a free one day conference: Please sign up for Linguistic Practices, Migration and Identities, a conference bringing together academic and community voices! See you there on Friday the 26th of June 🤩 sites.google.com/view/lmi2026

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Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

😱Postgraduate Conference: Call for Papers!😱 On the 11th of September, QM will be hosting SLAGS, a one day postgrad conference on Sociolinguistic Approaches to Gender and Sexuality. The deadline to submit is the 3rd of July! Spread the word and see you there 🤓 sites.google.com/view/slags-c...

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SLAGS Conference 2026

Join us at SLAGS, a one-day postgraduate conference at Queen Mary University of London! Friday the 11th of September 2026

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Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

New piece in 'In Conversation' from our PhD student Vicotria-Elliot!

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Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

New Working Paper on QMOPALS! Check out John McLoughlin's MA thesis titled "WH-Voicing in Dublin English: Women Across Six Decades"

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Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

😱New Working Paper Out😱 Our former MA student Sydney Smith thesis is now available on QMOPALs: www.qmul.ac.uk/sllf/linguis...

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Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

🤓New Working Paper is Out🤓 One of our former MA students has published their thesis on Queen Mary Occasional Papers in Linguistics! Check it out here: www.qmul.ac.uk/sllf/linguis...

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Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Our PhD student Elliot recently did an interview with their funding body about their experience publishing a news article, how they did it and what their research project is about! Check the interview out here: centrefordoctoralstudies.newsweaver.com/e7hahbkdg1/1...

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✍️ Victoria-Elliot Bush - News Article Publication!

Congratulations to Victoria-Elliot Bush's news article publication news! Victoria-Elliot authored a news article that was published on The Conversation which you can read here [ https://centrefordo...

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Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

New paper by our PhD student Caitlin Hogan! Check it out in Language@Internet: doi.org/10.14434/li....

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Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

🤓New paper alert🤓 From Marc Barnard, Scott Kunkel, Remi Lamarque and Adam Chong have published in the Journal of Language and Speech the paper "Listening Effort across Non-Native and Regional Accents: A Pupillometry Study". Check it out here: doi.org/10.1177/0023...

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Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

🚨New Working Paper from Dr Marc Barnard🚨 @marcbarnard.bsky.social has published with his co-authors a working paper entitled about 'of' variation. Check it out here: repository.upenn.edu/entities/pub...

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Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Today's Linglunch with Torsten Leuschner!

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Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

🍔🍔🍔 Our very own PhD student Elliot bush has published a piece for In Conversation titled: 'Is a Veggie Burger Still a Burger? A linguist Explains' Read it here: theconversation.com/is-a-veggie-...

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Is a veggie burger still a burger? A linguist explains

The shape of a burger is reinforced in our mental linguistic definitions every time we see a burger but there isn’t a straight-forward definition.

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Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

🚨 New Paper Alert 🚨 Matt Hunt Gardner has just published in the Journal of Sociolinguistics! Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/josl...

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Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

📣New Paper alert! Matt Hunt Gardner has just published "A Guide to Build (ING) Generalised Mixed Model Trees in Canadian Maritime English" in Language in Linguistics Compass! Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/lnc3...

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Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

🚨New Paper Alert!🚨 Our PhD student Caitlin Hogan has published, alongside her collaborators, a new paper on the discursive framing of trust. 📖 Read it here: www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

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Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

We are excited to announce the publication of a recent outstanding MA dissertations in our Queen Mary Occasional Papers in Linguistics series. www.qmul.ac.uk/sllf/linguis...

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Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

We are excited to announce the publication of a recent outstanding MA dissertations in our Queen Mary Occasional Papers in Linguistics series. www.qmul.ac.uk/sllf/linguis...

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Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Do you #softblock (blocking and then immediately unblocking) QMUL Linguist Caitlin Hogan @caitlinhogan.bsky.social explores how it represents emerging norms of politeness on social media. Check out Caitlin's new article in Social Media + Society. doi.org/10.1177/2056...

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David Adger @davidadger.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Very Excited to have the wonderful @wmartina.bsky.social visiting us at Queen Mary Linguistics this week as this year's Quirk Fellow. Come along to her talks if you are in London www.qmul.ac.uk/sllf/linguis... @qmullinguistics.bsky.social

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David Adger @davidadger.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

More info about our new MSc in Linguistics and AI with me waxing lyrical about it! #linguistics #ai

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Dr Elisabeth Barakos @ellabarakos.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

#Sociolinguists - check this great project out

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Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Want to know how language has changed in London? Devyani Sharma's Generations of London English Project, run at @qmullinguistics.bsky.social with the University of York at generationsoflondonenglish.org @samhellmuth.bsky.social @qmulhss.bsky.social @qmul.ac.uk #linguistics #london #langsky

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Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Our current Head of Department @davidadger.bsky.social on @bbcradio4.bsky.social discussing constructed languages with @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social. David also teaches a course where our students create their own languages here @qmul.ac.uk! Tune in to learn about uvulars, and evidentiality!

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Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Our current Head of Department tells all about @qmul.ac.uk's new MSc in Linguistics and AI. Applications open now.(www.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate...) youtube.com/shorts/dpzWO...

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Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

We have a new MSc in Linguistics and AI starting next September at Queen Mary, aimed at giving relevant skills to people from non-STEM backgrounds who are keen to work in the tech sector, integrating humanities/social science #linguistics with #ai. www.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate...

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Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

🚨New Paper Alert!🚨 PhD student Scott Kunkel has recently published an article entitled Longitudinal change in the adjective intensifier system of Hexagonal French. The article considers both social and grammatical drivers of change. Congratulations Scott! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

🚨New Paper Alert!🚨 PhD student Célia Richy has recently published an article entitled Combinatorial Effects of Southern French Features on Perception. This is part of Célia’s unique research on coherence and co-occurrence in French. Congratulation’s Célia! repository.upenn.edu/entities/pub...

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Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

🚨New Paper Alert!🚨 PhD student Logan Simpson has recently published an article entitled From icons to identities: Analysing visual cultural elements in emerging scripts. journals.uc.edu/index.php/vl...

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Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · 30/08/2024

🚨 New publication in our Occasional Papers in Linguistics (QMOPAL) series! 🎓 Our BA student Isra Khan Afridi’s dissertation explores the impact of ADHD on narrative discourse amongst university students. 👀 Read here: www.qmul.ac.uk/sllf/linguis...

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Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · 12/07/2024

🤔 Is RP really dying out? 📝 Our own Sophie Holmes-Elliott and her collaborator Erez Levon have published a paper investigating modern Received Pronunciation! 🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · 02/07/2024

🎉 Congratulations to our student Dave Kenneth Tayao Cayado who has been awarded a PhD in Linguistics! www.qmul.ac.uk/sllf/linguis...

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Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · 13/06/2024

🗞️ Read all about it! 📝 Our former postdoctoral researcher Johanna Gerwin has published a paper exploring Multicultural London English as discussed in English newspapers 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · 31/05/2024

📢 We're excited to be holding our annual Jenny Cheshire Lecture today! We will be welcoming Prof Crispin Thurlow (Bern) who will giving a lecture entitled "Finding value in waste: Language, materiality, and the stuff of words" 🔗 For details and tickets: www.qmul.ac.uk/sllf/linguis...

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Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · 19/04/2024

🚨 New paper alert! 🧠 Our own Swarnendu and Linnaea, with their collaborator Dustin, present this MEG study of word length in Bangla 🔗 Read here: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

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Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · 28/03/2024

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Croeso i Gymru! We were excited to be in Cardiff this week for #BAAP2024 where we had no fewer than ✨TEN✨ Queen Mary posters and presentations. Here's a thread with what we got up to 🧵

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Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · 22/03/2024

👽 Take a look at the new out-of-this-world book chapter from our own Prof. Daniel Harbour 📖: “Writing systems and METI: Off-the-shelf encoding of human physiology, language, cognition, and culture” 📙: Xenolinguistics: Towards a Science of Extraterrestrial Language tinyurl.com/3398ms7x

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Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

🎉 We are excited to announce that our student Kerrilyn Jackson has been awarded a PhD in Linguistics. Thesis title: Them without the capital get the punishment”: A rhetorical move analysis of death row final statements and their structural, grammatical, and pragmatic features.

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Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · 05/02/2024

Check out this spiffing new paper from our own Dr Rhys Sandow and his collaborators… “Ultimately, our findings challenge the belief that allegedly U (upper-class) words are shibboleths of upper-classness.” benjamins.com/catalog/eww....

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Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · 18/12/2023

🚨 New publication in our Occasional Papers in Linguistics (QMOPAL) series! Our MA student Yunzhu Chen’s dissertation explores the metaphorical framings of women in the Women of China magazine. www.qmul.ac.uk/sllf/media/s...

New QMOPAL publication from Yunzhu Chen. Women are warriors or women are flowers. A corpus based study on the metaphorical framings of women in Women of China.

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Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · 18/12/2023

Check out this *wicked* paper on semantic change from our own Dr Rhys Sandow and his collaborators! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · 24/11/2023

Thinking about postgrad study in Linguistics? At the Department of Linguistics, we run MA, MRes and PhD programmes across a range of specialisms. Find out more about our postgraduate opportunities at: www.qmul.ac.uk/sllf/linguis...

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Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

A new working paper in QMOPAL (Occasional Papers Advancing Linguistics) from Philip Grant explores the semantics of possessive ordinal and superlative DPs in English. Read this paper and more on the QMOPALs Working Papers repository: www.qmul.ac.uk/sllf/linguis...

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