News in English Language and Linguistics European Research Council backs research into anti-slavery in Africa and sign languages DescriptionTwo researchers from the College of Arts and Law at the University of Birmingham have been awarded ERC Advanced Grants as part of €450 million (£400 million) funding for Europe's long-term frontier research.Date:Tuesday 31 March 2020 Dr Akira Murakami to launch a new project on research trends in second language acquisition DescriptionDr Murakami has received a Language Learning Early Career Research Grant for a new project on the quantitative examination of research trends in second language acquisition.Date:Friday 21 February 2020 "Statistics for Linguists" book published DescriptionBodo Winter has recently published a new book called "Statistics for Linguists: An Introduction Using R" with Routledge University Press.Date:Thursday 23 January 2020 ELAL project awarded AHRC-DFG grant DescriptionThe Department of English Language and Linguistics is delighted to announce that Dr Gerardo Ortega (ELAL) and Prof Pamela Perniss (University of Cologne) have successfully been awarded an AHRC-DFG grant for their projectDate:Thursday 9 January 2020 Publication of edited collection "Corpus Linguistics, Context and Culture" DescriptionThe collection Corpus Linguistics, Context and Culture, edited by ELAL academics Viola Wiegand and Michaela Mahlberg, has been published by De Gruyter.Date:Tuesday 17 December 2019 Why do we like Christmas adverts so much? DescriptionFigurative Tropes in the Excitable Edgar Video. The EMMA project team write for the Birmingham PerspectiveDate:Friday 6 December 2019 Local role models launch new campaign to change young people's life stories in Birmingham DescriptionThe university of Birmingham is now working with the National Literacy Trust to boost literacy levels in our city.Date:Friday 18 October 2019 Corpus of African American Writers 1892-1912 (AAW) added to the CLiC web app DescriptionThe corpus of African American Writers 1892-1912 is now available from the CLiC web app, with novels from Charles W. Chesnutt, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Sutton E. Griggs, Frances E.W. Harper & James Weldon Johnson.Date:Wednesday 16 October 2019 Displaying 1 to 8 of 268 Previous 1 2 3 4 5 … Next