17 May 2018 CCR at ICAME 39 in Tampere, Finland Several members of the Centre for Corpus Research will be presenting their most recent work.
11 May 2018 University of Birmingham's CLiC web app featured in Babel – The Language Magazine Read more for details on the CLiC article in Babel and an announcement of a Digital Reading Competition.
10 May 2018 The fuzzy boundaries of language and literature Professor Michaela Mahlberg will be giving a plenary at CILC this week.
08 May 2018 Birmingham linguistics expert wins Germany's top research award A linguistics expert from the University of Birmingham has won Germany's most prestigious research award for her work on how language is represented in the mind.
08 May 2018 Why Metaphor Matters to Language Learners Professor Jeanette Littlemore is talking at the 8th Annual Conference on Foreign Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics in Almaty, Kazakhstan, May 2018.
12 April 2018 Dickens, wooden legs and the Dickensian cyberspace In this post on the CLiC Dickens Blog, Emma Curry demonstrates how different materials across the 'Dickensian Cyberspace' can be cross-referenced to inform research – with a case study of Dickensian wooden legs.
28 March 2018 Wicked witches and evil queens: why children's books need more female villains In their Conversation article, Dr Anna Cermakova and Prof Michaela Mahlberg write about gender imbalance in children's literature – with examples from the ChiLit corpus.
26 March 2018 Looking for a guide to eye-tracking in applied linguistics? Well look no further. Eye Tracking: A Guide for Applied Linguistics Research, co-authored by Gareth Carrol from the department of English Language and Linguistics has just been released by Cambridge University Press.
21 March 2018 Constructions in Applied Linguistics: Innovation and Application of Corpus-based Construction Grammar Dr Nicholas Groom, Professor Susan Hunston and Dr Florent Perek will be participating in the Colloquium 'Constructions in Applied Linguistics: Innovation and Application of Corpus-based Construction Grammar' at AAAL 2018, Chicago, Sunday 25 March 2018.
15 October 2017 CLiC Dickens talk at Dickens Day 2017, London The CLiC Dickens team (Professor Michaela Mahlberg, Professor Peter Stockwell and Viola Wiegand) gave a talk at the Dickens Day 2017: 'Textual patterns of dreaming and the unconscious mind in Dickens'.
10 October 2017 Undergraduate Awards Success Undergraduate Award success for ELAL student, Greg Woodin.
06 September 2017 Donald Trump and the language of populism Trump’s language appears to be designed to align him with non-politicians, to assert his identity as a ‘common man’.
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.