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Breaking point: is the writing on the wall for the paragraph? (The Guardian 22/5/2015)
If the statistics are to be believed, by the end of this sentence, I’ll have lost most of you. Because according to some estimates, the average time spent on a webpage is 15 seconds.
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Anaphora hot. Anaphora cold. Politicians’ rhetoric sounds tired and old (Mind your language, 21 April 2015)
The consequences of overestimating our own abilities can be grave.
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New publication: Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics 2014 (Springer)
Chapters by leading scholars in pragmatics and corpus linguistics, amongst others Jacob Mey, Jacques Moeschler, Cliff Goddard, Stefan Gries, etc. Click here for further information on the volume
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New issue of the Linguistics and Education Bulletin (20/6/2014)
Click here to access the new issue
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The rise of “selfie”
named Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2013
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Research funding emphasis on ‘impact’ spawns a new industry
In their bid to secure funding under the terms of the Research Excellence Framework, academics are drafting in writers and consultants to make them and their work more accessible Mrs Peabody was never expected to play such a key role in Swansea University’s languages department, especially as she is imaginary. Invented by Katharina Hall, associate […]