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If you're interested in AI and Linguistics, there's still time to register for @niallrcurry.bsky.social's MCRL seminar tomorrow (online and F2F) at 3pm where he will be talking about his @ukri.org metascience Fellowship on GenAI in the disciplines! Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/genai-in-t...
GenAI in the Disciplines
Join us for a hybrid seminar with Dr Nial Curry about Generative AI in the Social Sciences
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November 12, 2025 at 10:01 AM
If you're interested in AI and Linguistics, there's still time to register for @niallrcurry.bsky.social's MCRL seminar tomorrow (online and F2F) at 3pm where he will be talking about his @ukri.org metascience Fellowship on GenAI in the disciplines! Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/genai-in-t...
As @derekbousfield.bsky.social moves on to be the new Doctoral College Faculty Head, we are delighted to have @niallrcurry.bsky.social joining @khawlabadwan.bsky.social as our research group co-lead.
July 11, 2025 at 11:47 AM
As @derekbousfield.bsky.social moves on to be the new Doctoral College Faculty Head, we are delighted to have @niallrcurry.bsky.social joining @khawlabadwan.bsky.social as our research group co-lead.
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📃 new open access 🔓 paper with @perez-paredes.bsky.social & @carlosordonana.bsky.social on Critical AI Literacies for Applied Linguistics & Language Education, in the Journal of China CALL. Find the paper here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... & details in🧵⬇️ @um.es @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social
Critical AI literacy for applied linguistics and language education students
Following the generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) boom of the early 2020s, research in applied linguistics has become preoccupied with identifying how artificial intelligence (AI) and GenAI can...
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July 11, 2025 at 7:05 AM
📃 new open access 🔓 paper with @perez-paredes.bsky.social & @carlosordonana.bsky.social on Critical AI Literacies for Applied Linguistics & Language Education, in the Journal of China CALL. Find the paper here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... & details in🧵⬇️ @um.es @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social
Our closing panel @robdrummond.bsky.social Dawn Archer, @khawlabadwan.bsky.social discussed The Future of Linguistics Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
May 28, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Our closing panel @robdrummond.bsky.social Dawn Archer, @khawlabadwan.bsky.social discussed The Future of Linguistics Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
And rounding out our final session @derekbousfield.bsky.social Pragmatics in contested interpretation: varied audiences, implicatures, inferences
"Interpretation is a fickle beast"
"Interpretation is a fickle beast"
May 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
And rounding out our final session @derekbousfield.bsky.social Pragmatics in contested interpretation: varied audiences, implicatures, inferences
"Interpretation is a fickle beast"
"Interpretation is a fickle beast"
Rachel Hatchard Linguistic (usage-based) analyses of language in aphasia
...challenging a rule-based generative approach
Linguistic theory informs our understanding of language disorders
Studying language disorders can challenge our Linguistic theory
...challenging a rule-based generative approach
Linguistic theory informs our understanding of language disorders
Studying language disorders can challenge our Linguistic theory
May 28, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Rachel Hatchard Linguistic (usage-based) analyses of language in aphasia
...challenging a rule-based generative approach
Linguistic theory informs our understanding of language disorders
Studying language disorders can challenge our Linguistic theory
...challenging a rule-based generative approach
Linguistic theory informs our understanding of language disorders
Studying language disorders can challenge our Linguistic theory
Piotr Jagodzinski kicking off our final session - Autistic unmasking and (im)politeness on and off the TV screen
A pragmatic model of autistic (un)masking and facework - analysis on the TV series Herkules
A pragmatic model of autistic (un)masking and facework - analysis on the TV series Herkules
May 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Piotr Jagodzinski kicking off our final session - Autistic unmasking and (im)politeness on and off the TV screen
A pragmatic model of autistic (un)masking and facework - analysis on the TV series Herkules
A pragmatic model of autistic (un)masking and facework - analysis on the TV series Herkules
. @pjagodz kicking off our final session - Autistic unmasking and (im)politeness on and off the TV screen
A pragmatic model of autistic (un)masking and facework - analysis on the TV series Herkules
A pragmatic model of autistic (un)masking and facework - analysis on the TV series Herkules
May 28, 2025 at 2:12 PM
. @pjagodz kicking off our final session - Autistic unmasking and (im)politeness on and off the TV screen
A pragmatic model of autistic (un)masking and facework - analysis on the TV series Herkules
A pragmatic model of autistic (un)masking and facework - analysis on the TV series Herkules
We now have a session with a selection of our MA students, PhD students, and visiting scholars. Slightly shorter talks but we'll give some spotlights here
May 28, 2025 at 12:08 PM
We now have a session with a selection of our MA students, PhD students, and visiting scholars. Slightly shorter talks but we'll give some spotlights here
Please take your time, language in ruins, a ship that has experienced a catastrophic shipwreck @khawlabadwan.bsky.social
May 28, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Please take your time, language in ruins, a ship that has experienced a catastrophic shipwreck @khawlabadwan.bsky.social
continuing the variation theme, John Bellamy is documenting 'pit talk' across the UK - language as cultural heritage
May 28, 2025 at 10:34 AM
continuing the variation theme, John Bellamy is documenting 'pit talk' across the UK - language as cultural heritage
Age of speakers in Wigan & Bolton correlates with their attitude towards Greater Manchester (as opposed to Lancashire), which correspondingly affects their accent, specifically the vowel in words like MOUTH, SOUND, ROUND, HOUSE
@caitlin91.bsky.social
@caitlin91.bsky.social
May 28, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Age of speakers in Wigan & Bolton correlates with their attitude towards Greater Manchester (as opposed to Lancashire), which correspondingly affects their accent, specifically the vowel in words like MOUTH, SOUND, ROUND, HOUSE
@caitlin91.bsky.social
@caitlin91.bsky.social
. @niallrcurry.bsky.social on Generative AI in research...it's not a question of whether but how, the horse has bolted.
Now we can reflect on what we've learned so far and how to go forward
Now we can reflect on what we've learned so far and how to go forward
May 28, 2025 at 9:14 AM
. @niallrcurry.bsky.social on Generative AI in research...it's not a question of whether but how, the horse has bolted.
Now we can reflect on what we've learned so far and how to go forward
Now we can reflect on what we've learned so far and how to go forward
. @k8ebrown.bsky.social asking how we define mainstream
Who would you answer with if asked for a mainstream music artist? (not a rhetorical question)
Who would you answer with if asked for a mainstream music artist? (not a rhetorical question)
May 28, 2025 at 9:03 AM
. @k8ebrown.bsky.social asking how we define mainstream
Who would you answer with if asked for a mainstream music artist? (not a rhetorical question)
Who would you answer with if asked for a mainstream music artist? (not a rhetorical question)
We are go...
...huge thanks to @niallrcurry.bsky.social (1) and @k8ebrown.bsky.social (2) for setting this all up and @khawlabadwan.bsky.social for keeping us all both in line practically and looking at the big picture of looking after language
@caitlin91.bsky.social on skeeting duty today.
...huge thanks to @niallrcurry.bsky.social (1) and @k8ebrown.bsky.social (2) for setting this all up and @khawlabadwan.bsky.social for keeping us all both in line practically and looking at the big picture of looking after language
@caitlin91.bsky.social on skeeting duty today.
May 28, 2025 at 8:37 AM
We are go...
...huge thanks to @niallrcurry.bsky.social (1) and @k8ebrown.bsky.social (2) for setting this all up and @khawlabadwan.bsky.social for keeping us all both in line practically and looking at the big picture of looking after language
@caitlin91.bsky.social on skeeting duty today.
...huge thanks to @niallrcurry.bsky.social (1) and @k8ebrown.bsky.social (2) for setting this all up and @khawlabadwan.bsky.social for keeping us all both in line practically and looking at the big picture of looking after language
@caitlin91.bsky.social on skeeting duty today.
Today is the day! We're excited to share what our members have been up to this year.
MCRL Symposium 2025: want to know what @manmetuni.bsky.social's #linguistics researchers have been up to over the last year? Register to come and join us on 28th May at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/linguistic...
May 28, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Today is the day! We're excited to share what our members have been up to this year.
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🚨Following the Curriculum and Assessment Review Interim Report, we share thoughts on how a languages curriculum enriched with #linguistics can address challenges for languages study in schools theconversation.com/linguistics-... #edusky #langsky @languageonthemove.bsky.social @ucflangs.bsky.social
Linguistics could make language learning more relevant – and attractive – for school pupils
A languages curriculum enriched with linguistics is appealing to students and teachers.
theconversation.com
May 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
🚨Following the Curriculum and Assessment Review Interim Report, we share thoughts on how a languages curriculum enriched with #linguistics can address challenges for languages study in schools theconversation.com/linguistics-... #edusky #langsky @languageonthemove.bsky.social @ucflangs.bsky.social
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Enjoying @khawlabadwan.bsky.social's talk on unthinking language and decentering traditional views of 'mastery' in language learning contexts @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social
May 17, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Enjoying @khawlabadwan.bsky.social's talk on unthinking language and decentering traditional views of 'mastery' in language learning contexts @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social
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Having a great time at the annual NATESOL conference and honoured to have given the opening plenary. I talked about corpus linguistics and language learners with a focus on developments in AI and critical AI and corpus literacies! @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social
May 17, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Having a great time at the annual NATESOL conference and honoured to have given the opening plenary. I talked about corpus linguistics and language learners with a focus on developments in AI and critical AI and corpus literacies! @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social
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Come join us in Manchester @manmetuni.bsky.social @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social for a day of linguistics research on May 28th! The event is free, lunch is provided, and there are still a few days left to register!
MCRL Symposium 2025: want to know what @manmetuni.bsky.social's #linguistics researchers have been up to over the last year? Register to come and join us on 28th May at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/linguistic...
May 14, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Come join us in Manchester @manmetuni.bsky.social @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social for a day of linguistics research on May 28th! The event is free, lunch is provided, and there are still a few days left to register!
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A day full of #Linguistics in #Action. Please join us and explore the exciting breadth and possibilities that linguistics research enables
MCRL Symposium 2025: want to know what @manmetuni.bsky.social's #linguistics researchers have been up to over the last year? Register to come and join us on 28th May at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/linguistic...
May 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
A day full of #Linguistics in #Action. Please join us and explore the exciting breadth and possibilities that linguistics research enables
MCRL Symposium 2025: want to know what @manmetuni.bsky.social's #linguistics researchers have been up to over the last year? Register to come and join us on 28th May at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/linguistic...
May 14, 2025 at 9:42 AM
MCRL Symposium 2025: want to know what @manmetuni.bsky.social's #linguistics researchers have been up to over the last year? Register to come and join us on 28th May at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/linguistic...