Editors of semantics journal resign, launch new journal after publisher ‘ultimatum’ – Retraction Watch share.google/7l0FgC2wdQbW...

If you live in Japan looking for home & business solar and battery solutions to reduce your costs as well as have more energy self-sufficiency, I just successfully used this national online service to help find local contractors in your area - Japan solar subsidies available too eco-ene.com/solor/

This bumper issue of Discourse & Society includes two articles by @lancslinguistics.bsky.social PhD students: among many other interesting contributions, Nurnadilla Jamil and Hikaru Suzuki both have papers in it. journals.sagepub.com/toc/dasa/37/...

This may be of interest to scholars of #disaster #risk #communication @samlmontano.bsky.social @chadmbriggs.bsky.social @danielaldrich.bsky.social @bjohansson.bsky.social @scatterazure.bsky.social @danielle-rivera.bsky.social @theffernan.bsky.social @itsandrewrusso.bsky.social #ica26

Article on changing immigration rules in Japan, and their impact on small restaurants run by foreign owners. Gift article. Sounds like this change results for a great loss for everyone involved. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/w...

At #ICAME47 @anteangaeile.bsky.social leads the celebrations for the 50th issue of the ICAME journal. You can find out all about it here icame.info/icame-journal/ and read #OpenAccess articles about all aspects of English and #CorpusLinguistics!

New thread for #JLeague financial disclosures, which cover 53 of 60 clubs (the remaining seven - Kashiwa, Shonan, Sapporo, Tottori, Sanuki, Kochi and Kitakyushu) have fiscal years that end in March or June. - Among 53 reporting, revenues up 12% from 2025, with 38 clubs reporting an increase

Call for Papers is still out on APCLC 2026 (#corpuslinguistics conference that is in Japan this year). The so-far announced plenaries look great @mrkm-a.bsky.social and Eric Friginal smartconf.jp/content/apcl...

This is a great read with a conclusion that rings like a fire alarm “an object lesson for other universities from the UK … Overseas markets may not yield the fruits expected … troubles in the home campuses … can damage perceptions and stakeholder approvals” open.substack.com/pub/drgeoffr...

30 Years of Keyness – in honour of Mike Scott - June 22 from 10 (GMT), free event online and in person. Don't miss this opportunity to learn about keyness from the best experts and to celebrate the wonderful Mike Scott www.ticketsource.com/school-of-th...

Honoured to be invitied to speak at a symposium at the JAECS #corpuslinguistics conference in Kita Kyushu in September. Call for papers is out until 3 July docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Full steam ahead: how ‘navy curry’ conquered hearts in Japan www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

The University presents this as 'Future Nottingham' but it absolutely guts the arts and humanities. They want to sack 40% of the Dept of English, for example. Languages will be cut entirely. If that's the future, it's shit (and very far from what a University should be)

Going around again. Still worth the watch.

It's not often that #linguistics gets a scandal reported on in the international press and, honestly, I find this one quite funny! https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/07/french-professor-florent-montaclair-accused-award-prize. Why not treat yourself to a gold medal and then award it to […]

AI overemphasing Farage/Reform is a direct reflection of the overemphasis in mainstream news. I mean, where does AI source the materials that it churns?

I've heard this affecting a few journals in the linguistics and discourse fields. The number of submissions has doubled or even tripled in the past year or two and it's overwhelming editors and everyone else involved. Pretty grim development. :/

Archaeology students at York founding a Restore Britain society is disappointing, but not surprising. There’s no shortage of nationalists looking to co-opt the past, and few narratives that misinterpret the past quite so egregiously as Restore’s racist and spiteful politics.

New Sydney Corpus Lab blog post on “Human rights in British parliamentary debates” sydneycorpuslab.com/human-rights...

‘A husband expects a yes’: how wife schools are shaping submissive Christian women

If you google, "manosphere" or "what is the manosphere," almost every resource you find is aimed at concerned parents worried about their children. Why are we acting like the majority of manosphere users aren't grown men? As if misogyny is just a matter of being a misguided teenage boy?

Save English Language & Linguistics at University of Hertfordshire. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

‘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'

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【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…