26 September 2018 Pattern Grammar, Corpora and Applied Linguistics: Implications for theory and practice Professor Susan Hunston will deliver the 32nd SAAL Lecture on Thursday 11 October 2018 at the National University of Singapore.
06 September 2018 The Language of Fake News Writing for the Birmingham Brief, Professor Jack Grieve, Professorial Fellow in Corpus Linguistics in the Department of English Language and Linguistics examines the challenge of fake news, and how the language used in it could be the key to its detection.
15 August 2018 Midlands universities partnership will train the next generation of arts and humanities researchers Eight leading universities in the Midlands are joining together to train the next generation of highly-skilled arts and humanities researchers, thanks to funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).
15 August 2018 Pregnancy loss: how to find the right words to talk about it Jeannette Littlemore, Kate Rumbold and Sarah Turner write for The Conversation.
11 July 2018 Towards One Thousand Constructions: rethinking the learner's understanding of lexis and grammar Professor Susan Hunston is giving a plenary talk at this year's Teaching and Language Corpora Conference (TaLC), which will take place on 18-21 July 2018 at the University of Cambridge.
30 June 2018 New free online course: Introduction to Linguistics Starting on 2 July, the Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics is running a new Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), Introduction to Linguistics, hosted by FutureLearn.
29 June 2018 Death Before Birth: The use of metaphor to understand and communicate about pregnancy loss June is Sands (the Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society) awareness month and the University is currently undertaking vital research into descriptions of Death Before Birth and Lived Experiences of Miscarriage in order to better understand and improve the experiences of those affected by miscarriage.
26 June 2018 The Hermeneutic Cyborg Professor Stefan Evert (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) delivered the 2018 Sinclair Lecture.
26 June 2018 Koko: Gorilla death coverage rekindles language debate Adam Schembri, Marcus Perlman and Gerardo Ortega quoted in BBC article.
22 June 2018 Birmingham student wins prestigious British Council award ELAL student Mathew Ellman won this year's British Council Masters Dissertation Award for English Language Teaching.
31 May 2018 Linguists form college link in Singapore Joe Bennett and Gareth Carrol visited Catholic Junior College in Singapore to promote the study of linguistics.
25 May 2018 CLiC on tour in China In June Professor Michaela Mahlberg, who has been leading the CLiC project, will give a keynote at the 4th Corpus Linguistics in China Conference and then speak at Beihang University (Beijing) and Southwest University (Chongqing).
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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.