Reposted by Tony McEneryDaria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · 08/09/2026One week left to register for the Influence, Manipulation, Seduction 3 conference and pay the early bird fee 🐦 From 15 September, the reg price goes up... events.tuni.fi/persuasion20... 053
Reposted by Tony McEneryCorpus Linguistics 2027 @cl2027.info · 19/08/2026We are pleased to finally announce… 📢 Call for Papers: Corpus Linguistics 2027 Venice, Italy | 12th-16th July 2027 CfP details: www.cl2027.info/call-for-pap... Deadline: 8th January 2027 🔗 All links in bio 🔁 please share widely! #CL2027cl2027.info#CL2027 - Call for PapersAdaptation and Adaptability in Corpus Linguistics 03836
Tony McEnery @tonymcenery.bsky.social · 19/08/2026This will be great! We planned to hold the conference in HK, but with on-going problems in the Middle East the CL organising group thought we should switch venues. Thanks so much to Mark and Stefania for stepping in. It will be a great conference in a great location - Venice! 02610
Reposted by Tony McEneryTony McEnery @tonymcenery.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I had the great pleasure this morning of downloading and accessing the completed Lancaster-Northern Arizona (LANA) corpus of conversational US English. Nearly 10 million words of lovely data!🙂 Big thanks to @samschmueck.bsky.social @hankslizzy.bsky.social @jesse-egbert.bsky.social in particular. 0174
Tony McEnery @tonymcenery.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I had the great pleasure this morning of downloading and accessing the completed Lancaster-Northern Arizona (LANA) corpus of conversational US English. Nearly 10 million words of lovely data!🙂 Big thanks to @samschmueck.bsky.social @hankslizzy.bsky.social @jesse-egbert.bsky.social in particular. 0174
Reposted by Tony McEneryTony McEnery @tonymcenery.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Join us online for two of these events in September, or join us in person for all three! QR codes below give you more details and allow you to register. See you there! 11711
Tony McEnery @tonymcenery.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Join us online for two of these events in September, or join us in person for all three! QR codes below give you more details and allow you to register. See you there! 11711
Reposted by Tony McEneryProf Michaela Mahlberg @michamahlberg.bsky.social · 26/07/2026The latest hardcopies of @ijcl.bsky.social have arrived. I have some to #giveaway If you’d like one, let me know - and give the journal account a follow 😀 071
Reposted by Tony McEneryNiall Curry @niallrcurry.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Some big news to share! From September 1st, I will be joining the University of Birmingham as a 125th Anniversary Fellow and Associate Professor of Languages and Linguistics. www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2026/un...birmingham.ac.ukUniversity of Birmingham's new 125th Anniversary academics - University of BirminghamIntroducing nine new 125th Anniversary Fellows and Chairs - outstanding academics who bring expertise in key areas. 8282
Reposted by Tony McEneryProf Michaela Mahlberg @michamahlberg.bsky.social · 20/07/2026⏳ Still time to apply - the deadline for applications is this Friday, 24 July 01717
Reposted by Tony McEneryDaria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · 04/07/2026I like a lot of things about this paper, but one of its special features is that it’s from the future: published in December 2026 apparently 🙃 Great stuff from Paul Baker, as usual www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 2166
Reposted by Tony McEneryCharlene Polio @charlenep.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Please share this call for book chapters with anyone teaching a research methods class. Sal Consoli and I are editing a volume in the Applied Linguistics Press series. If you are teaching a research methods course and want to submit, feel free to contact me. docs.google.com/document/d/1...docs.google.comCall for proposals_publicCall for chapters for Syllabi in Applied Linguistics Research Methods Courses Editors: Sal Consoli (University of Edinburgh) and Charlene Polio (Michigan State University) Series editors: Benjamin Kr... 013
Reposted by Tony McEneryDaria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · 26/06/2026On a vanishingly small chance you haven’t heard about it from me during CADS (sorry not sorry), we’re @sofiaruediger.bsky.social @domini.bsky.social doing a conf about persuasive language in Tampere this November and the CFP ends on July 1 and you should all come! events.tuni.fi/persuasion20... 02313
Reposted by Tony McEneryMark McGlashan @markmcglashan.com · 25/06/2026A Brucie Bonus (Scotty Supplement?) for those travelling home from @corporadiscourse.bsky.social Here's the full live stream of '30 Years of Keyness – in honour of Mike Scott' held at @livunienglish.bsky.social earlier this week ▶️ drive.google.com/file/d/1PivK... Please enjoy & share! #CADS2026 21814
Reposted by Tony McEneryDan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Don’t just share this on here. Stick this on your family WhatsApp group. Send it to your Brexit uncle. Print it out and give it to that neighbour. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article.... 26457196
Reposted by Tony McEneryVaclav Brezina @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social · 11/06/2026📢 Join us for the launch of the EMI Corpus — a unique new resource for researchers and practitioners interested in English as a Medium of Instruction 🌍🎓 📅 17 June 2026 💻 Online Register here: tinyurl.com/3bntvhya @corpussocialsci.bsky.social @danagablas.bsky.social @britishcouncil.bsky.social 053
Reposted by Tony McEneryAcademy of Social Sciences @acadsocsciences.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Social scientists📣UKRI has funding available to support interdisciplinary research into the relationship between gambling & video games to generate actionable insights that can inform treatment, prevention & guide policy & best practice. ⏰ Closes 23 July. ➡️ukri.orgVideo games and gambling-related harmsApply for funding to improve understanding of the relationship between gambling and video games and produce insights to inform policy and regulation, support interventions, and promote safe and… 012
Reposted by Tony McEneryChris Jones @eltresearch.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Thanks to Bernard Cassie for this nice open-access review of 'The Big Beasts of English Grammar...', which I co-authored with @grahburton.bsky.social @candlinmynard.bsky.social www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/...euppublishing.comReview: Jones and Burton. 2024. The Big Beasts of English Grammar: An Exploration of Form and Function in Conversations. Hong Kong: Candlin and Mynard | Corpora 093
Tony McEnery @tonymcenery.bsky.social · 24/05/2026This is a great read with a conclusion that rings like a fire alarm “an object lesson for other universities from the UK … Overseas markets may not yield the fruits expected … troubles in the home campuses … can damage perceptions and stakeholder approvals” open.substack.com/pub/drgeoffr...open.substack.comTHE DESTRUCTION OF LEGACY HIGHER EDUCATION IN BRITAIN – NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY CASE STUDYGeoffrey Williams and Murray Hunter: Nottingham University is an object lesson for other universities from the UK and elsewhere who may be considering or even undergoing international expansion. 0101
Reposted by Tony McEneryMark McGlashan @markmcglashan.com · 21/05/2026Free symposium: 30 Years of Keyness Talks from: · Mike Scott · @tonymcenery.bsky.social · @michamahlberg.bsky.social & @andreaswagnr.bsky.social · @issyclarke.bsky.social · @markmcglashan.com 📅 22/06/2026, 10:00 (UTC+0) 🌍 @sotauol.bsky.social ➡️ Register: www.ticketsource.com/school-of-th...ticketsource.com 0138
Reposted by Tony McEneryTove Larsson @tovelarsson.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Just out: Kim, Larsson, Kaatari, Wang, & Sundqvist (2026). Introducing and Evaluating a Measure of Lexical Diversity Across Word Classes Available OA: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...onlinelibrary.wiley.comIntroducing and Evaluating a Measure of Lexical Diversity Across Word ClassesLexical diversity (LD) has been shown to be a strong predictor of second language (L2) proficiency. However, most current indices combine all word classes into a single measure and thus only capture .... 092
Reposted by Tony McEnery21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Who broke Nottingham University, Vol 3? Vice Chancellor Shearer West presided over property expansion & vanity projects that have caused near-bankruptcy And the landing spot? Vice Chancellorship of Leeds Uni It's important to know when to skip out www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...nottinghampost.comUniversity's disastrous new campus could be sold for just £14mIt was previously decided to sell the short-lived campus 053
Reposted by Tony McEnery21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Financial crisis at Nottingham University stems from poor decisions under Vice Chancellor Shearer West Shearer's moved on & upward, leaving staff facing consequences of her reckless management There are cuts in Arts & Humanities as well as Sciences nottinghamphysics.github.io/Open_Letter/... 1107
Reposted by Tony McEneryfilmisfabulous! @filmisfabulous.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Support Our Initiative Film is Fabulous! is a charitable trust. Its primary aim is to ensure that vulnerable film collections held privately in the U.K. are preserved when film collectors, and former industry professionals, pass away. filmisfabulous.org.uk/the-film-is-... 2215
Reposted by Tony McEneryVeronika Koller @veronikakoller.bsky.social · 08/05/2026It's official: after 22 (!) years at @lancslinguistics.bsky.social, I will start as Professor of Organisational Communication at @sdu.dk's Department of Language and Culture on 1 September this year. 1/2 www.sdu.dk/en/om-sdu/in...sdu.dkDepartment of Culture and LanguageResearch within the department covers the areas of American Studies, Business Language, Classical Studies, Communication, Comparative Literature, Culture, Danish, English, German, History, Middle East... 7291
Reposted by Tony McEneryVaclav Brezina @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Open Research Group meets tomorrow (Wed)! We’ll be focusing on association measures and continuing our exploration of R. Brezina, V. (2018) Statistics in Corpus Linguistics, Ch. 3: www.google.co.uk/books/editio... Evert, S. (2008) “Corpora and collocations”: stephanie-evert.de/PUB/Evert200... 062
Reposted by Tony McEneryJames K. Tauber @jtauber.com · 26/04/2026Is the Middle English Medical Texts (MEMT) corpus available any other way than the 2005 CD-ROM? 205
Tony McEnery @tonymcenery.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Am hosting a small symposium on multilingualism here in Hong Kong in early May - free to attend, so do pop along if you are interested! 072
Reposted by Tony McEneryVaclav Brezina @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social · 20/04/2026📣 Open Research Group – @corpussocialsci.bsky.social Join us from 22 April (12:00 UK time) for a new series on collocations 📊—how words co-occur and how we can measure these patterns statistically 🧠 + gentle intro to R for beginners 💻 🔗 Register: forms.office.com/e/YT5md2fjka 032
Reposted by Tony McEneryLeverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · 16/04/2026'Science is driven by an ongoing effort to make sense of the universe based on what we observe.' Nobel Laureate in Physics, Professor Didier Queloz, @ethz.ch @lclu.bsky.social @cambridgephysics.bsky.social on data, facts and what makes a good scientist. Watch now @expeditions.bsky.social.media.leverhulme.ac.ukThe discovery of a new planetScience is always grounded in data. Theories evolve, but data remain. In this EXPeditions video, Professor Didier Queloz, Nobel Laureate in Physics, highlights that science is driven by an ongoing eff... 034
Reposted by Tony McEneryIJCL @ijcl.bsky.social · 03/04/2026OUT NOW: Guest Editor David Wright introduces the Special Issue on Corpus perspectives on #LegalDiscourse Wright draws out the themes explored across the papers in the issue, as indicative of the cutting edge of forensic linguistics – showing what corpus studies can do! doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...doi.org 162
Reposted by Tony McEneryfilmisfabulous! @filmisfabulous.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Doctor Who Treat This Easter Film is Fabulous! has worked closely with the BBC Archives and iPlayer teams to ensure the two missing episodes of ‘The Daleks’ Master Plan’, which were found in a private film collection, are available for fans in the U.K. to enjoy this Easter. 39115
Tony McEnery @tonymcenery.bsky.social · 03/04/2026What a treat to have watched The Daleks’ Masterplan episode one for the first time - it was originally broadcast on my first birthday! Thanks to all at @filmisfabulous.bsky.social and to the anonymous collector who saved this gem and episode 3. On to episodes 2 and 3 …. 070
Reposted by Tony McEneryNiall Curry @niallrcurry.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Great morning at #AAAL2026, where we are discussing all things AI and Applied Linguistics! Honoured to be a part of this invited colloquium, organised by Andrea Révész & Shungo Suzuki, speaking about our paper (with @gavinbrookes.bsky.social & @tonymcenery.bsky.social) here: doi.org/10.1017/S026... 0174
Reposted by Tony McEneryLily Zhou @lilyzhou.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Our chapter on corpus-based diachronic discourse analysis in the International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics is now out.🎉 Co-authored with @tonymcenery.bsky.social. If you are interested, feel free to check it out. www.sciencedirect.com/science/chap...sciencedirect.comCorpus-Based Diachronic Discourse AnalysisThis article provides a comprehensive overview of corpus linguistic approaches to tracking language change over time. Specifically, this article explo… 071
Reposted by Tony McEneryLanguaging Crises @languaging-crises.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Prof. Hakosalo talks about the role of historians as crisis communicators. And finally, Dr. Del Fante's plenary focuses on the role of language in understanding crises: is there a common underlying factor in the way language is used to make sense of, understand, and respond to a crisis? 033
Reposted by Tony McEneryLanguaging Crises @languaging-crises.bsky.social · 02/03/2026It is the week of the LanCris Conference! We are very excited to hear about new research related to language and crises. #lancris2026 In addition to over 40 paper presentations, we will have four keynote speeches that look at languaging crises from four different perspectives: 163
Reposted by Tony McEneryLanguaging Crises @languaging-crises.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Prof. McEnery (@tonymcenery.bsky.social) will discuss Brexit, taking a long-term view on British discourses about Europe. Prof. Koskela discusses Rhetorical Arena Theory that provides a lens for analyzing how crisis situations are actively constructed through discourse. 154
Reposted by Tony McEneryVaclav Brezina @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Still time to apply! 🎓✨ Fully funded PhD Opportunity @corpussocialsci.bsky.social jobs.ac.uk/job/DQL407/f... 023
Reposted by Tony McEnery LSE Impact @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 02/02/2026💥New | @rschrobuk.bsky.social reflects on the demise of a platform that united the UK research community in one thing: complaining about it. #ResearchFish #AcademicSky #ResearchFundingblogs.lse.ac.ukSo long, and thanks for all the Researchfish - LSE ImpactRob Johnson reflects on the demise of a platform that united the UK research community in one thing: complaining about it. 0106
Reposted by Tony McEneryErik Hansson @erikhansson.bsky.social · 25/02/2026greekreporter.com/2026/02/24/e... 40,000-Year-Old Signs Found in Europe Could Be Humanity’s First Language #history #langskygreekreporter.com40,000-Year-Old Signs Found in Europe Could Be Humanity’s First Language - GreekReporter.comResearch shows Ice Age humans used structured signs 40,000 years ago as a communication system, revealing deep prehistoric roots of writing. 022
Reposted by Tony McEneryYuze Sha @shayuze.bsky.social · 24/02/2026Thrilled to share that our research, “Gendered representations in swearing”, co-authored with my colleague Robin Vallery and my PhD supervisor @tonymcenery.bsky.social, has officially been published in Discourse Studies! 🤬🥳 Check it out: 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/1461... 092
Tony McEnery @tonymcenery.bsky.social · 22/02/2026A nice little article that really sums up well issues with survey data in the modern age. They also call the British Social Attitudes Survey produced by @natcen.bsky.social a gold standard - they are right to do so, imho. A superb resource. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukIs there really a 'quiet revival' of religion among Gen Z?A fierce debate is taking place about whether there really has been a revival in Christianity. 171
Reposted by Tony McEneryGavin Brookes @gavinbrookes.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Registration for this year's Corpora and Discourse conference, at Lancaster University, is now live! 0124
Reposted by Tony McEneryMarianne Hundt @hundtmariann.bsky.social · 19/02/2026English linguists #world Englishes Open rank professorial position at the university of Basel, Switzerland jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...jobs.unibas.chUniversität Basel: Professor in English linguistics (open-rank)A position as Professor in English linguistics with a focus on English as a lingua franca in the digital age is to be filled at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Basel... 0411
Reposted by Tony McEneryBas Aarts @englishgrammar.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Dates in 2026 for the CPD courses 'English Grammar for Teachers' and 'Teaching English Grammar in Context'. You can book here: tinyurl.com/2xj43u9z tinyurl.com/y9c9ufrs 052
Reposted by Tony McEneryGavin Brookes @gavinbrookes.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Out now! Special issue of @registerstudies.bsky.social, edited with @shelleystaples.bsky.social on Register and Professional Discourse. Papers address register in a range of contexts, inc. architecture, business, higher education, journalism, legal practice & virtual workspaces. Read more below! 1134
Reposted by Tony McEneryA.Z. Fell, Esq. @azfell-esq.bsky.social · 07/02/2026www.bbc.com/future/artic...bbc.com'Do you love me?': The Viking messages unearthed on Sweden's rune stonesRunic inscriptions from the Viking Age still turn up in Sweden 1,000 years after they were written – revealing fascinating stories of love, loss and epic battles. 291115217
Reposted by Tony McEneryLucy Jones @lucyjones.bsky.social · 04/02/2026A good illustration of the wide-reaching impact of university campus closures on students, staff, and communities www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.com‘If I think about what this means, I want to cry’: what happens when a city loses its university?When Essex University’s Southend campus opened, it was a message of hope for a ‘left behind’ UK seaside town. Its closure will be felt far beyond its 800 students, some of whom will not get their degr... 0144