News in English Language and Linguistics 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 What's new in the world of creativity? The experts have spoken DescriptionCreative persuasion practices have officially moved past the notion of magazines, billboards, or TV commercials, and are engaging with audiences in new ways.Date:Friday 11 October 2019 EMMA ads for Umbrella Health launched across the city DescriptionThe purpose of the ads was to draw attention to the important work that the Umbrella Health Trust does in a light hearted and memorable way through the creative use of language.Date:Wednesday 9 October 2019 'How to write a female villain' creative writing competition winners visit campus DescriptionThe three winners of the GLARE competition visited campus today, where Pro-Vice Chancellor Professor Michael Whitby, presented them with a certificate and a set of signed books by author Robin Stevens.Date:Friday 5 July 2019 Look closer: insight and impact in corpus analysis of discourse DescriptionProfessor Paul Baker (Lancaster) delivered the 2019 Sinclair Lecture.Date:Tuesday 25 June 2019 Free online course - Introduction to Linguistics starting 1st July 2019 DescriptionStarting 1 July - You'll get an introduction to the main approaches used in linguistic research, including linguistic experiments and discourse analysis.Date:Friday 21 June 2019 Linguists found the weirdest languages – and English is one of them DescriptionAdam Schembri writes for The ConversationDate:Friday 12 April 2019 Displaying 1 to 8 of 268 Previous 1 2 3 4 5 … Next