06 December 2019 Why do we like Christmas adverts so much? Figurative Tropes in the Excitable Edgar Video. The EMMA project team write for the Birmingham Perspective
18 October 2019 Local role models launch new campaign to change young people's life stories in Birmingham The university of Birmingham is now working with the National Literacy Trust to boost literacy levels in our city.
16 October 2019 Corpus of African American Writers 1892-1912 (AAW) added to the CLiC web app The corpus of African American Writers 1892-1912 is now available from the CLiC web app, with novels from Charles W. Chesnutt, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Sutton E. Griggs, Frances E.W. Harper & James Weldon Johnson.
11 October 2019 What's new in the world of creativity? The experts have spoken Creative persuasion practices have officially moved past the notion of magazines, billboards, or TV commercials, and are engaging with audiences in new ways.
09 October 2019 EMMA ads for Umbrella Health launched across the city The purpose of the ads was to draw attention to the important work that the Umbrella Health Trust does in a light hearted and memorable way through the creative use of language.
01 October 2019 IJCL special issue on "Constructions in Applied Linguistics" The International Journal of Corpus Linguistics showcases a great deal of Birmingham research in the newly published issue 24(3), "Constructions in Applied Linguistics", edited by Susan Hunston and Florent Perek.
05 July 2019 'How to write a female villain' creative writing competition winners visit campus The three winners of the GLARE competition visited campus today, where Pro-Vice Chancellor Professor Michael Whitby, presented them with a certificate and a set of signed books by author Robin Stevens.
25 June 2019 Look closer: insight and impact in corpus analysis of discourse Professor Paul Baker (Lancaster) delivered the 2019 Sinclair Lecture.
21 June 2019 Free online course - Introduction to Linguistics starting 1st July 2019 Starting 1 July - You'll get an introduction to the main approaches used in linguistic research, including linguistic experiments and discourse analysis.
09 April 2019 Corpus linguistics and the digital humanities: Looking at fictional and real speech Professor Michaela Mahlberg and Viola Wiegand from the CLiC Project will be giving a talk as part of the Aston University's Centre for Critical Inquiry into Society and Culture (CCISC) seminar series on 30 April 2019.
27 March 2019 University of Birmingham creates database of gestures that are produced systematically by people during communication without speech Staff at the University of Birmingham have been investigating humans' capacity to communicate without speech and relying only in their gestures.
22 March 2019 United Kingdom Linguistics Olympiad Round two hosted by the Department of English Language and Linguistics, including a mini-olympiad for local schools.
Sustainability and environments How we are exploring issues of climate through the arts, humanities and law.
Birmingham ranked in top 70 in the world for Arts and Humanities The College of Arts and Law is placed 67th in the Times Higher Education 2022 rankings, making it one of the best places for study and research in this field globally.