A break from the Stylisticsmobile on the way home from the International Association of Literary Semantics conference in Canterbury

Five Go Off on the M25

So the IALS conference at Uni Kent has been excellent. Mostly very picturesque round here

My book about the Language & Religion in the Superdiverse City project is FREE for the next 2 weeks! RTs and shares are appreciated!

Guess where I am

Arrived in Whitstable. Bit worrying

Setting off for the IALS conference at the excellent English Language and Linguistics at Kent University of Kent - a Canterbury tale will follow - and my first ever International Association of Literary Semantics gig.

To the Stylisticsmobile!

This is straight out of a Philip K Dick dystopia. Clone an AI of a dumped or dead ex and carry on talking to them. For, you know, your own wellbeing.

MAK Halaliday- burgers with a systemic functional linguistics twist

(niche joke of the month award)

Saturday morning women’s hockey all the way over here in Hull

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This looks good - coming up soon

Fagans, for the Sheffield Folk Sessions festival

Good Friday to you all!

‘Good’ from Proto-Germanic ‘gudą’.
‘God’ from Proto-Germanic ‘gōdaz’.
Not related to each other (see Modern German ‘gut’ and ‘Gott’).

And in Old English it was also called ‘Long Friday’.

Happy Easter!
(Don’t get me started on ‘easter’)

Absolutely thrilled to share details about our inaugural Doctoral Summer School in Language Learning and Teaching at Nottingham - 24-27 June. Please share! Nottingham English nottingham.ac.uk/english/events…

It’s Spy Wednesday. Happy SW for all who celebrate / commiserate. A vodka martini is required, I think - especially after the week I’ve had.

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Oh we haven’t had one as good as this in a while. Fuzzed out background while managing to get the foreground out of focus. It’s a #laptopfail