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‘I feel like I’m losing her’: the families torn apart by older relatives going far right

A study is planned to analyze the impact of bear appearances on the daily lives and mental health of older residents in Akita Prefecture, which had the largest number of bear attack victims in Japan in fiscal 2025.

Latest issue Critical Discourse Studies, Volume 23, Issue 2 (2026) www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcds20/c...

For decades, cinema has told powerful stories of migration. The Migration Movies Database brings these stories together to support teaching, learning, and public discussions through a searchable archive of migration-related films. migrationpolicycentre.eu/project/migr...

A depressing but important read. So sad what has become of UK academia.

📢New article published!! 🟦K. Pilyarchuk & E.M. Graf explore how tradwife identity is performed. 🟦They analysed 60 Instagram Reels posted on 11 accounts. 🟦They found 3 types of Reels, 9 dominant themes & 3 major repertoires. 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We will be organising the annual Corpus Linguistics Summer School from 6 to 9 July this year. The event will return in an entirely online format. Please see our website for details: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/corpu... #ccrss26

The most inspiring and joy-filled exhibition I have been to this year, in the basement of Japan House on Ken High St, dedicated to the work of over 100 of the country's active craftspeople. Free entry.

Japan was home to a record 4.12 million foreign residents as the end of 2025, an increase of 9.5% from a year earlier.

Foreign residents in Japan holding the country's specified skilled worker status totaled a record 390,296 at the end of 2025, the Immigration Services Agency said Friday.

🥁New issue published!! 🤓Interested on #MediatedDiscourse? Here are the contents! 1️⃣ Zhuyuan Han et al. look at the construction of the "ideal scholar-self" in academic vlogs. 2️⃣ Elisabetta Adami studies the construction of an influencer's identity throughout time.

New entry in the Int. Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics with @jtauber.com: Regular Expressions for Corpus Queries. We introduce regex with actual corpus linguistics examples instead of making everything look like \]\[ Happy to send anyone a copy! doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-95504-1.01539-8

#OpenAcess Research Article Markus Rheindorf: From hegemonic consensus to polarisation: Austrian public discourse on Israel’s war in Gaza www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The updated Dictogloss in Action textbooks look fabulous in full color, if I do say so myself. New explainer videos, too: English: youtu.be/_uzKL5_gt2E?... Japanese: youtu.be/sa7j4OuexQI?...

'My language course helped me launch my life in the UK'

ブラウブリッツ頑張ろう!!!

【J2・J3百年構想 EAST-A 第6節】秋田x栃木SC ソユースタジアム (13:00KO) 主審：佐々木慎哉 副審：松本康之／桜井大介 四審：高橋悠 監督：【秋田】吉田謙 【栃木SC】米山篤志 中継：秋田テレビ DAZN：【実況】竹島知郁【解説】手倉森誠 #秋田栃木SC https://www.jleague.jp/match/j2j3/2026/031504/live

Jürgen Habermas, German philosopher and sociologist, dies aged 96

@retirejapan.com Just look what you've done! ;) 😅

@veronikakoller.bsky.social Dr. Koller, I've been doing some research on metaphors in political speeches and would really appreciate a copy of your recent chapter on metaphor and discourse. Thank you very much! Martin

📚 New publication for the International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics: Corpus Linguistics and Discourse Analysis, co-authored with the amazing @proftaylor.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/B978...

Olivia @olivia.science hits it out of the park again with a post on cheating and why you shouldn't rob yourself of learning opportunities olivia.science/cheating/

Check out this blog post, co-authored with Monika Bednarek @corpusling.bsky.social in which we reflect on our collaboration, between @corpussocialsci.bsky.social and the Sydney Corpus Lab, addressing obesity discourse in the UK and Australia >> sydneycorpuslab.com/representati...

Absolutely bang on by @jonathanliew.bsky.social The Mail calls out racism on its back page, while promoting unsubstantiated, outright racism on its front page. 🎯

We've got a new episode coming very soon and it's a really special one that has been kicked off and then carried out by two A level Eng Lang students. It's all about the language of & about neurodiversity, especially autism, and it features an interview with @jessaiston.bsky.social Coming soon!

It seems like a good day to gather front pages and apply some critical discourse analysis. Agency springs to mind...

There were 705,809 babies born in Japan last year, including foreign nationals. That's a decline of 2.1% from the previous year, and the tenth consecutive year of declines. 2017 was the last time the total was over the 1 million mark. www.asahi.com/articles/ASV...

9,600 redundancies at just 24 universities. Imagine what the picture is for the sector as a whole. This is the other half of the student loan scandal picture, which has been national news lately. Nothing at all from the government on a key sector effectively in freefall…

📢New chapter: Emotion talk in UK parliamentary debates on migration I look at the rhetorical use of explicit references to pride & gratitude, shame & regret, fear & tolerance Free to download: www.peterlang.com/document/147...

Three men were knocked unconscious & at the famous Naked Festival in Okayama Prefecture yesterday as they attempted to compete with the crowd of their nude fellows for the two lucky sticks that Shinto priests throw into the crowd. Six people in total were taken to the hospital.

【秋田】 GK 1山田元気 DF 2岡﨑亮平 5長井一真 13才藤龍治 22高橋秀典 MF 10佐藤大樹 25藤山智史 32長谷川巧 66土井紅貴 FW 8梅田魁人 11佐川洸介 (Sub) 23矢田貝壮貴 71畑橋拓輝 14大石竜平 31石田凌太郎 7水谷拓磨 77中野嘉大 34鈴木翔大 52西村真祈

秋田・保戸野に「あきた～ふどうさん」　空き家・空き店舗の活用提案 akita.keizai.biz/headline/4037/ #秋田市 #秋田

The print versions of Lexical Priming: Evolution, Evaluation and Applications to English and Japanese are here 🎉

How does cinema shape how we think about migration? In my new article I analyse 410 films, documentaries & TV series from 1940–2024 to explain how migration is represented on screen. 🧵 1/3 academic.oup.com/migration/ar...

The moment I knew: as soon we parted I realised Hitomi was the one. I waited years to see her again

New episode - number 80!

Soft xenophobia: Japanese govt. not proactive about foreigners learning Japanese language bit.ly/4alTcGb #夜間中学校 #外国人のための日本語教育

Out now! Special issue of @registerstudies.bsky.social, edited with @shelleystaples.bsky.social on Register and Professional Discourse. Papers address register in a range of contexts, inc. architecture, business, higher education, journalism, legal practice & virtual workspaces. Read more below!

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/...

Out now: 'What is good care, and who is it good for? A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of UK care home websites'. Chapter led by @emma-putland.bsky.social with Kevin Harvey in the Handbook on Critical Discourse Studies: www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/han.... Accepted version in original post below!

In this chapter, I map the field of linguistically informed critical studies of #power and #governance, identify key trends, and point to future avenues of research www.researchgate.net/publication/...

‘Fascists threatened us but we always took them on’: the anarchic Bradford club still fighting after 45 years

The Fukushima towns frozen in time: nature has thrived since the nuclear disaster but what happens if humans return?

🙏 Please help us out. We can’t do this with you! ☺️

In Japan, entering a PhD program can be a big gamble. Ryo Konishi and Stefan Aichholzer explain how the current state of graduate education and research funding is leading to steady declines in Japan's research workforce.

In these times of trouble, something a bit niche but also a bit soothing - a post where I dug out some old roots of #metaphor theory that we have largely forgotten makingsciencepublic.com/2026/01/23/f... #histling

It’s 22 Jan which means it’s the day that Constructing Brexit Britain comes out in paperback!! It’s only £27 if you buy online: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/construct... ☺️

𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗱𝗶𝘂𝗺 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 🇯🇵 Football-loving guests at the hotel in the new Peace Stadium of promoted J-League club V-Varen Nagasaki can look forward to a treat. They can follow the action from swimming pools, public baths, a sauna and even an onsen, a Japanese natural hot spring.