News in English Language and Linguistics 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 ELAL hosts UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference 2020 DescriptionELAL reports on hosting this year's UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference (UK-CLC), held 27 to 29 July 2020.Date:Wednesday 5 August 2020 Exploring and Exploiting Uncertainty DescriptionA new study by Dagmar Divjak and Petar Milin in the journal Cognitive Science.Date:Wednesday 10 June 2020 Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics DescriptionPetar Milin will be one of the four Editors-in-Chief for Elsevier's new edition (3rd).Date:Friday 5 June 2020 English Language and Linguistics recommends DescriptionFour simple steps to prepare for your undergraduate English Language degree at the University of BirminghamDate:Tuesday 26 May 2020 Displaying 1 to 8 of 261 Previous 1 2 3 4 5 … Next