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"

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

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

. @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

Nimra Khorramrooz
The Sociopragmatics of protest and resistance: voices of the Iranian Green Movement

Lorenzo Zannini
Discourses of Climate Adaptation in The Conversation Australia

Kate Montgomery
Hopeful Ecologies: what linguists can learn from lichen

Kate's plans for an alternative approach to studying language of autistic people

Hollie Rochfort
Investigating Potential Linguistic Prejudice With Children in the Youth Justice System

This is Hollie's methodological approach and plan for her PhD research

Hamza Nurein
Endangered Languages: at a loss for words

Perceptions of Barawanis on their mother tongue Chimwiini

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

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

. @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

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.

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...