Registration for this year's BAAL Language, Gender and Sexuality event - 'Feeling, Meaning, Doing: Affect in Language, Gender and Sexuality studies' - is now open! This will take place at the University of Southampton, hosted by myself and Lexi Webster, on Friday 10th April. go.soton.ac.uk/hv8
Pleased to see the ebook publication of 'Discourse Approaches to Gendered Violence' with Brill. My chapter (no. 10) explores how users of the manosphere discursively downplay and justify violence against women and girls.
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
very red conference poster with black and white retro style octopus tentacles: Influence, Manipulation & Seduction 3 - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Persuasive Language, 19-20 November 2026, Tampere
🥁🥁🥁 ....and here is the final conference poster for #OctoConf3 🐙 in Tampere 🇫🇮 later this year (Nov 19-20) ❄️
events.tuni.fi/persuasion2026/
ping @coocho.bsky.social @domini.bsky.social
Excited for this event! Free tickets are here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crack-the-... #SOTSEF #WeAreUoS #BSW25
Our wonderful guests @lucyjones.bsky.social and Lexi Webster are introducing their work as editor. For info, check the Journal of Gender and Language (utppublishing.com/journal/gl) and the Bloomsbury series in Queer Linguistics (www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/bl...)
With more than 80 participants already registered, there is still a bit of time to sign up to join us on Wed for an event on publishing in language, gender and sexuality. @lucyjones.bsky.social and @lexiwebster.bsky.social will help us navigate the publishing process. There'll be time for questions
🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 We’re hosting the Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference in Edinburgh this year!
If you work on queer linguistics topics, please submit an abstract, we’d love to see you there!
Conference dates: 2nd-4th September
Submission deadline: 28th March
CfP: lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk?page_id=231
An update on #CADAAD2026
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Includes a chapter by the @mantrap.bsky.social team on using #corpus linguistics to address the effects of manosphere language
Don’t miss your chance to read the new Cambridge element, Doxxing Discourse, by Carmen Lee! Free access available until 16 February at
https://cup.org/4qYJMrg
#LangSky
Are you an early career researcher interested in communicating linguistics to broader audiences?
Consider applying for a @lingcomm.org grant!
Deadline April 30, via @lingthusiasm.com
lingcomm.org/grants/
I am genuinely so happy to announce that my latest article, co-authored with my PhD supervisor, @gavinbrookes.bsky.social, has now been published in Discourse, Context & Media 🎉🎉
The project was such a joy to work on! Check it out: 👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@ofcom.bsky.social has today published an "update" on its investigation into #Grok and the #ICO has announced it's opening one of its own. Here's our response on why both regulators need to up their game and why gaps in the #onlinesafetyact must be filled. www.onlinesafetyact.net/analysis/osa...
The octopus conference is back! 🐙
"Influence, Manipulation & Seduction 3: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Persuasive Language", Nov 19-20, 2026, Tampere University, Finland
#LanguageAndPersuasion #Linguistics #OctoConf
Registration for this year's Corpora and Discourse conference, at Lancaster University, is now live!
Solid editorial work from @bforchtner.bsky.social and @francozappettini.bsky.social
🔓 You can read the pre-print of my chapter 'Anything goes? Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Critical Discourse Studies' here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Today is the last day to send your nominations!
Applications for the free-to-attend 2026 CASS Summer Schools are now open!
Intensive, expert-led training in corpus linguistics. No course fees (travel and accommodation are self-funded) #LancsSS26
Apply via the CASS website: wp.lancs.ac.uk/corpussummer...
Are you a PhD student or ECR in language, gender & sexuality? Join me (an ed. of Bloomsbury Studies in Queer Linguistics book series) and Lexi Webster (an ed. of Gender & Language journal) for a FREE @lgas-baal.bsky.social online seminar on publishing (2pm 18 Feb) docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
We're hiring! Come join Nelya & I on the Autism in Affinity Spaces project - we're looking for a postdoc with expertise in working with multimodal datasets. Autistic researchers are highly encouraged to apply.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQC919/p...
New year, new book! Out now: 'Applications of Corpus Linguistics: Established and Emergent Contexts', edited with @niallrcurry.bsky.social and @robbielove.org and published by @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org. More info in thread ⬇️ www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
The CfPs for LavLang32 at Edinburgh is now OPEN! A reminder of our stellar lineup:
• Dr. Nikki Lane (Duke)
• Dr. Kevin Guyan (UoE)
• Prof. Erez Levon (Bern)
• Dr. Stamatina Katsiveli (American College of Greece)
• Dr. Eddie Ungless (UoE)
Submit a paper here: lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk?page_id=231
Image shows a banner advertising the book, titled Navigating Dementia and Society: Exploring How People Affected by Dementia Negotiate and Reshape Popular Discourses. It is open access as an e-book.
Review: ‘This brilliant, insightful book showcases people with dementia as creators of their own identities. By re-interpreting tired tropes and dehumanising discourses, this work creates space for hope. If we want a better future for dementia care, these are the voices we need to listen to.’ - Cheyann Heap, University of York, UK
Review: ‘Navigating Dementia and Society is a fresh exploration of the experience of dementia that problematises prevailing dichotomous discourses of “tragedy” or “living well”. In her creative multimodal investigation, Emma Putland illuminates the complexity with which individuals affected by dementia engage with media stereotypes. Kudos for this innovative and hopeful study!’ - Heidi E. Hamilton, Georgetown University, USA
Review: ‘This book offers a unique perspective on the way that dementia is described and understood and makes visible the power of language and images in influencing discourse. The author unpacks dementia discourse drawing on the lived experiences of people with dementia – and those closely connected – and challenges us to engage with a much more nuanced set of understandings. She manages to explore the territory in an engaging, thoughtful, intelligent and, at times, amusing way.’ – Alisoun Milne, University of Kent, UK
I'm delighted to share that my book is out and available to read online for free! Thank you to the many people who either participated in my research or supported me to do it 😊
Book page: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/navigatin...
Free online access: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...
New Cambridge Element, Trust, Discourse, and Corporate Corruption, by Matteo Fuoli @MatteoFuoli, Adam Nix, Alicia Wickert and Annina Van Riper, out now! Read Open Access at
https://cup.org/4adpaWK
#openaccess #languageandlinguistics #LangSky
In this and the following pictures, we share information about the judith baxter award!
Please find below all information to nominate wonderful researchers in language, gender and sexuality.
Image shows the front page of our new article, entitled: “We No Longer Recognized Her as a Human Being”: A Critical Discourse Analysis of AI-Generated Character Descriptions of Men and Women With Dementia. ABSTRACT: Motivated by the gender inequalities observed in relation both to dementia and generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), this article takes a critical discourse analysis approach to explore how gender and dementia intersect in 52 AI-generated character descriptions of men and women with dementia. Using “woman/man”as entry points through which to explore discursive constructions masculinities and femininities in the data, we find gendered distinctions in how characters’ bodies are evaluated, social roles attributed, and violence presented. We also find that a deficit approach to dementia dominates, emphasizing suffering, loss, and hopelessness. Characters with dementia are stereotyped as older and frail, either near death or already dead in body and/or mind. Overall, the AI-generated texts recycle (and potentially amplify) pervasive discourses regarding both dementia and gender. Our findings therefore reinforce the need for further critical engagement with GenAI, from design to use, to interrogate and challenge its capacity to perpetuate inequalities.
Out now: 'A Critical Discourse Analysis of AI-Generated Character Descriptions of Men and Women With Dementia', with Chris Chikodzore-Paterson and @gavinbrookes.bsky.social:
📑Journal article: utppublishing.com/doi/epdf/10....
📝Author copy (open access): eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/22...
We have just published the info about the Judith Baxter Award 2026. Deadline 30 Jan 2026.
Info here: baalgensex.wordpress.com/judith-baxte...
For the application form, please do contact us and we'll send it to you!
My book is out today! Big huge thanks to my co-authors Andrine and Xiuwei, the wonderful team at @routledgebooks.bsky.social and everyone who supported me in this process. I hope many students will find the book very helpful as they conduct their research projects!
www.routledge.com/Researching-...
Mine a few weeks ago hadn't seen The Matrix! 😮
✨ An opportunity to join our team @manmetuni.bsky.social with a focus on TESOL and Applied Linguistics. Fixed-term until June 2027, with a specialism that cuts across corpus linguistics and TESOL! It's a great place to work! So come work with us :D
manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy...
