Today's Linglunch with Torsten Leuschner!

🍔🍔🍔 Our very own PhD student Elliot bush has published a piece for In Conversation titled: 'Is a Veggie Burger Still a Burger? A linguist Explains' Read it here: theconversation.com/is-a-veggie-...

🚨 New Paper Alert 🚨 Matt Hunt Gardner has just published in the Journal of Sociolinguistics! Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/josl...

📣New Paper alert! Matt Hunt Gardner has just published "A Guide to Build (ING) Generalised Mixed Model Trees in Canadian Maritime English" in Language in Linguistics Compass! Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/lnc3...

🚨New Paper Alert!🚨 Our PhD student Caitlin Hogan has published, alongside her collaborators, a new paper on the discursive framing of trust. 📖 Read it here: www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

New podcast with our very own @davidadger.bsky.social #linguistics #gaelic #language

We are excited to announce the publication of a recent outstanding MA dissertations in our Queen Mary Occasional Papers in Linguistics series. www.qmul.ac.uk/sllf/linguis...

We are excited to announce the publication of a recent outstanding MA dissertations in our Queen Mary Occasional Papers in Linguistics series. www.qmul.ac.uk/sllf/linguis...

Do you #softblock (blocking and then immediately unblocking) QMUL Linguist Caitlin Hogan @caitlinhogan.bsky.social explores how it represents emerging norms of politeness on social media. Check out Caitlin's new article in Social Media + Society. doi.org/10.1177/2056...

Very Excited to have the wonderful @wmartina.bsky.social visiting us at Queen Mary Linguistics this week as this year's Quirk Fellow. Come along to her talks if you are in London www.qmul.ac.uk/sllf/linguis... @qmullinguistics.bsky.social

More info about our new MSc in Linguistics and AI with me waxing lyrical about it! #linguistics #ai

#Sociolinguists - check this great project out

Socio-syntax paper alert!

Want to know how language has changed in London? Devyani Sharma's Generations of London English Project, run at @qmullinguistics.bsky.social with the University of York at generationsoflondonenglish.org @samhellmuth.bsky.social @qmulhss.bsky.social @qmul.ac.uk #linguistics #london #langsky

Our current Head of Department @davidadger.bsky.social on @bbcradio4.bsky.social discussing constructed languages with @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social. David also teaches a course where our students create their own languages here @qmul.ac.uk! Tune in to learn about uvulars, and evidentiality!

Our current Head of Department tells all about @qmul.ac.uk's new MSc in Linguistics and AI. Applications open now.(www.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate...) youtube.com/shorts/dpzWO...

We have a new MSc in Linguistics and AI starting next September at Queen Mary, aimed at giving relevant skills to people from non-STEM backgrounds who are keen to work in the tech sector, integrating humanities/social science #linguistics with #ai. www.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate...

🚨New Paper Alert!🚨 PhD student Scott Kunkel has recently published an article entitled Longitudinal change in the adjective intensifier system of Hexagonal French. The article considers both social and grammatical drivers of change. Congratulations Scott! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🚨New Paper Alert!🚨 PhD student Célia Richy has recently published an article entitled Combinatorial Effects of Southern French Features on Perception. This is part of Célia’s unique research on coherence and co-occurrence in French. Congratulation’s Célia! repository.upenn.edu/entities/pub...

🚨New Paper Alert!🚨 PhD student Logan Simpson has recently published an article entitled From icons to identities: Analysing visual cultural elements in emerging scripts. journals.uc.edu/index.php/vl...

🚨 New publication in our Occasional Papers in Linguistics (QMOPAL) series! 🎓 Our BA student Isra Khan Afridi’s dissertation explores the impact of ADHD on narrative discourse amongst university students. 👀 Read here: www.qmul.ac.uk/sllf/linguis...

🤔 Is RP really dying out? 📝 Our own Sophie Holmes-Elliott and her collaborator Erez Levon have published a paper investigating modern Received Pronunciation! 🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🎉 Congratulations to our student Dave Kenneth Tayao Cayado who has been awarded a PhD in Linguistics! www.qmul.ac.uk/sllf/linguis...

🗞️ Read all about it! 📝 Our former postdoctoral researcher Johanna Gerwin has published a paper exploring Multicultural London English as discussed in English newspapers 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📢 We're excited to be holding our annual Jenny Cheshire Lecture today! We will be welcoming Prof Crispin Thurlow (Bern) who will giving a lecture entitled "Finding value in waste: Language, materiality, and the stuff of words" 🔗 For details and tickets: www.qmul.ac.uk/sllf/linguis...

🚨 New paper alert! 🧠 Our own Swarnendu and Linnaea, with their collaborator Dustin, present this MEG study of word length in Bangla 🔗 Read here: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Croeso i Gymru! We were excited to be in Cardiff this week for #BAAP2024 where we had no fewer than ✨TEN✨ Queen Mary posters and presentations. Here's a thread with what we got up to 🧵

👽 Take a look at the new out-of-this-world book chapter from our own Prof. Daniel Harbour 📖: “Writing systems and METI: Off-the-shelf encoding of human physiology, language, cognition, and culture” 📙: Xenolinguistics: Towards a Science of Extraterrestrial Language tinyurl.com/3398ms7x

🎉 We are excited to announce that our student Kerrilyn Jackson has been awarded a PhD in Linguistics. Thesis title: Them without the capital get the punishment”: A rhetorical move analysis of death row final statements and their structural, grammatical, and pragmatic features.

Check out this spiffing new paper from our own Dr Rhys Sandow and his collaborators… “Ultimately, our findings challenge the belief that allegedly U (upper-class) words are shibboleths of upper-classness.” benjamins.com/catalog/eww....

🚨 New publication in our Occasional Papers in Linguistics (QMOPAL) series! Our MA student Yunzhu Chen’s dissertation explores the metaphorical framings of women in the Women of China magazine. www.qmul.ac.uk/sllf/media/s...

Check out this *wicked* paper on semantic change from our own Dr Rhys Sandow and his collaborators! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Thinking about postgrad study in Linguistics? At the Department of Linguistics, we run MA, MRes and PhD programmes across a range of specialisms. Find out more about our postgraduate opportunities at: www.qmul.ac.uk/sllf/linguis...

A new working paper in QMOPAL (Occasional Papers Advancing Linguistics) from Philip Grant explores the semantics of possessive ordinal and superlative DPs in English. Read this paper and more on the QMOPALs Working Papers repository: www.qmul.ac.uk/sllf/linguis...

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