News in English Language and Linguistics Metaphor and the COVID-19 Pandemic DescriptionProfessor Jeanette Littlemore discusses how Jonathan Van Tam and others use metaphors when talking about the Covid-19 Pandemic, and why it works.Date:Monday 14 June 2021 Ancestors may have created 'iconic' sounds as bridge to first languages DescriptionThe 'missing link' that helped our ancestors to begin communicating with each other through language may have been iconic sounds, giving rise to the unique human power to coin new words describing the world around usDate:Wednesday 12 May 2021 Employer-led learning in English Language and Linguistics DescriptionA new module in the Department of English Language and Linguistics gives all of our undergraduate students the opportunity to work on a project set by an employer.Date:Tuesday 30 March 2021 Professor Jeanette Littlemore awarded prestigious Fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences DescriptionProfessor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of English Language and Linguistics, Jeanette Littlemore, has been conferred the award of Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.Date:Wednesday 24 February 2021 Why knowing languages matters DescriptionProfessor Dagmar Divjak comments on the British Academy joint statement warning that the pandemic should serve as a wakeup call on the decline of language learning across the English speaking worldDate:Friday 18 December 2020 Is 'A Christmas Carol' more than a ghost story DescriptionIn this post, Mary Hind-Portley comments on Dickens's Christmas Carol with a focus on its religious elements.Date:Wednesday 9 December 2020 Research Council Studentships Available to Support Doctoral Research DescriptionThe Department of English Language and Linguistics is inviting applications for studentships as part of the AHRC-funded Midlands4Cities and the ESRC-funded Midlands Graduate School Doctoral Training Partnerships.Date:Thursday 12 November 2020 Bodo Winter awarded Future Leaders Fellowship of over £1million DescriptionDr Winter is a Senior Lecturer in Cognitive Linguistics. His research will involve the construction and analysis of large multimodal corpora to explore ways of combating innumeracy, the numerical equivalent of illiteracyDate:Friday 16 October 2020 Displaying 1 to 8 of 265 Previous 1 2 3 4 5 … Next