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.
14 March 2019 What can we learn from the ways people use metaphor to talk about pregnancy loss? It is estimated that approximately 1 in 5 known pregnancies end in miscarriage, 1 in every 200 births is a stillbirth, and 2,000 terminations for reasons of foetal anomaly are performed in the UK each year.
10 March 2019 The role of metaphor in 'witchcraft' Professor Jeannette Littlemore's presentation at the Association of Child Protection Professionals Conference.
08 March 2019 ELAL doctoral researcher wins thesis presentation competition Walaipun Puengpipattrakul won the prize at the 8th Thai Student Academic Conference (SACC-TSAC) held at Imperial College London in Febrary,
07 March 2019 World Book Day in the Digital Age Screen time for children, changing reading behaviours or fears around the decline of the printed book are all topics of the digital age.
05 March 2019 CLiC 2.0 release We are releasing the brand-new version 2.0 of the CLiC web app with a refreshed look, many new features and additional texts. As part of the upgrade, the CLiC server will be down on Thursday 7 March.
05 March 2019 How British Sign Language developed its own dialects Adam Schembri writing for The Conversation (with Kearsy Cormier, UCL).
18 February 2019 The language of inequality in the news Michael Toolan's book published by Cambridge University Press.
11 February 2019 Words as feelings Marcus Perlman interviewed in Aeon article on ideophones and iconicity.
06 February 2019 CLiC Digital Reading Competition launched The CLiC Digital Reading Competition for Key Stages 3–5 has officially launched.
29 January 2019 Call for papers: Sign CAFÉ 1 conference proceedings The University of Birmingham hosted the first international workshop on cognitive and functional approaches to sign language linguistics, or Sign CAFÉ 1, in 2018.
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.