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Chloe Harrison @chloeharrison.bsky.social · Aug 26

I explore how linguistic patterns shape 'containment' image schemas, mapping out some of the novel's container/content relationships.

There's also a short classroom activity, if anyone wants to road-test some stylistics 😎

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Chloe Harrison @chloeharrison.bsky.social · Aug 26

A nice surprise in the post today!

A copy of the September issue of emagazine (for A Level English teachers and students, published by the English and Media Centre) -- featuring my article on different types of imprisonment in The Handmaid’s Tale

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Marcello Giovanelli @mmgiovanelli.bsky.social · Aug 10

My chapter with @chloeharrison.bsky.social on Cognitive Grammar in literary analysis has now been published in this wonderful collection edited by Jan Alber and Ralf Schneider. An honour to be part of such a stellar line-up of authors. www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Cognitive Studies

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Cognitive Studies offers a comprehensive survey of cognitive approaches to literature, introducing the influential theoretical tools and latest developments i...

www.routledge.com

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Bloomsbury Linguistics @bloomsburyling.bsky.social · Jul 10

Book highlights at #PALA2025 include:

📖 the new edition of Cognitive Grammar in Stylistics by Marcello Giovanelli & @chloeharrison.bsky.social
📖 Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language, ed. J Culpeper
📖 new books in @michamahlberg.bsky.social Corpus and Discourse series

+ more at 35% off!

Display of Bloomsbury Linguistics books and flyers on a blue tablecloth

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Chloe Harrison @chloeharrison.bsky.social · Jun 29

One of the final panels on the final day, nappers welcome

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Conference Programme

Download the full programme Download Book of Abstracts Download the floor plan Wednesday 9th July Registration from 10.30am (Conference Reception, Main Building) 12-1pm: Lunch (G63) 1-1.30pm: Openi…

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Chloe Harrison @chloeharrison.bsky.social · Jun 29

Looking forward to presenting some ✨ new ✨ research at PALA 2025 on the unusual stylistic profile of app-based 'sleep stories', introduced by the meditation app Calm.

I'll be exploring how this new genre reduces cognitive load for listeners & facilitates sleep onset 😴

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PALA @palapoeticsling.bsky.social · Jun 26

PALA2025 is edging ever closer!! Looking forward to seeing you at Aston University, Birmingham, soon!!

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PALA @palapoeticsling.bsky.social · Jun 4

PALA is thrilled to finally be on Blue Sky!! Feel free to follow and/or suggest followees! 🥳🎉

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Chloe Harrison @chloeharrison.bsky.social · May 16

Early bird registration for PALA 2025 closes today!

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Chloe Harrison @chloeharrison.bsky.social · May 2

📣#PALA2025📣

Poetics and Linguistics Association 2025 conference, 7th - 12th July

A reminder that the early bird (/goose??) registration closes 2 weeks from today, on the 16th May!

Register here -- pala2025.com/registration/

Canada geese attending the PALA 2025 Digital Stylistics conference

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Chloe Harrison @chloeharrison.bsky.social · May 2

📣#PALA2025📣

Poetics and Linguistics Association 2025 conference, 7th - 12th July

A reminder that the early bird (/goose??) registration closes 2 weeks from today, on the 16th May!

Register here -- pala2025.com/registration/

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Chloe Harrison @chloeharrison.bsky.social · Apr 16

Interested in an MA in English?

The MA English at Aston offers the chance to explore English language, literature, and stylistics at postgraduate level—on campus or online, with full-time & part-time options.

Join our info webinar to find out more. All welcome!

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Joanna Gavins @joannagavins.bsky.social · Feb 12

#Ecolinguistics and #cognitivelinguistics followers: does anyone know of any Greek-speaking researchers working on or interested in (non-literary) language, cognition and the environment? I’d be grateful if you could point them in my direction for a potential funding/project opportunity.

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Chloe Harrison @chloeharrison.bsky.social · Feb 12

Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Poetry often deviates from schematic templates. In this paper, I will discuss...

P. s. You have until 14th Feb to submit an abstract for #PALA2025
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pala2025.com/cfp/

Call for Papers

Call for Papers PALA 2025 Aston University, Birmingham, UK Digital Stylistics The conference theme is Digital Stylistics. We invite proposals for twenty-minute papers that explore the relationship …

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Helen Ringrow @helenringrow.bsky.social · Feb 7

We launched some of the materials from our British Academy funded project on Wednesday night on Young Women & Body Image @c19thceleb.bsky.social @stephenpihlaja.bsky.social

Toolkit launched to support young women with body image

A toolkit designed to promote a positive body image among young people in Portsmouth has been launched.

www.port.ac.uk

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Calle Börstell @cborstell.bsky.social · Dec 12

Stockholm University 🇸🇪 looking for an Associate Professor of General #Linguistics.

Typology and neurolinguistics are current themes in their group; dept also works in phonetics, lang acquisition and sign language.

Application deadline: January 2025

su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Senior Lecturer in General Linguistics

The Department of Linguistics offers courses and programmes in two main areas: linguistics and sign language. Our researchers are active in areas such as child language development, computational ling

su.varbi.com

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Chloe Harrison @chloeharrison.bsky.social · Dec 16

A very late contender for favourite book read this year💛
This was so. so. good.

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Randy Allen Harris @randyallenharris.bsky.social · Dec 14

To paraphrase Haj Ross, #linguist folks, to study language with its aesthetics drained away is ultimately pointless. So get some aesthetics with @chloeharrison.bsky.social’s link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

The Language of Margaret Atwood

This book explores Margaret Atwood’s use of language and style across a selection of her prose texts, through reader-centred, cognitive stylistic analyses.

link.springer.com

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Prof David Bailey @dgbailey.bsky.social · Dec 12

Yet more cuts at Coventry University. They’re cutting the English literature and language BA, & by the looks of it most if not all of the modern languages staff. Dismal. @ucu.org.uk

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Chloe Harrison @chloeharrison.bsky.social · Dec 12

We’ve had two spaces open up for our FREE ‘Contemporary Cognitive Stylistics for Teachers’ day CPD event on Friday 10th January 2025 at Aston.

Come hear about the latest research in stylistics and how to integrate it into your teaching. Includes lunch!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/contempora...

Contemporary Cognitive Stylistics for Teachers

A FREE 1 day event with Aston's English team. Learn about concepts and tools from cognitive stylistics and how to use them in your teaching

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Charlotte Boyce @c19thceleb.bsky.social · Dec 4

Had a great time this morning speaking to girls at Portsmouth High School about body image, drawing on examples from historical magazines.

Part of a project I’m working on with the brilliant @helenringrow.bsky.social and @stephenpihlaja.bsky.social

Presentation title slide that reads: Young Women and Body Image Workshop. Project team: Dr Helen Ringrow and Dr Charlotte Boyce (University of Portsmouth) and Dr Stephen Pihlaja (Aston University)

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · Dec 5

"University should be concerned with encouraging rational inquiry and the free play of the intellect; it is not about the creation of useful drones and it’s unfortunate that tuition fees have made the experience to some degree transactional."

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Dec 5

The Guardian view on humanities in universities: closing English Literature courses signals a crisis

With degrees disappearing and reading rates plummeting, the arts face a critical moment in education and culture The announcement that Canterbury Christ Church University in Kent is to stop offering English literature degrees has set several hares…

www.theguardian.com

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Chloe Harrison @chloeharrison.bsky.social · Dec 6

I hadn't realised what a challenge it is to find a home for interdisciplinary papers 🙃

How many rejections/ pushbacks would you accept before throwing in the towel on the project?! (Asking for me...)

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Chloe Harrison @chloeharrison.bsky.social · Nov 29

*Showing my niece my book over FaceTime*

Her: That's a lot of words. How many words?
Me: Um, about 90,000 I think.
Her: Oh. I write 150,000 words every day at school.

Getting trolled by a 5 yr old

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Chloe Harrison @chloeharrison.bsky.social · Nov 27

Hi Barbara! Of course -- just followed back

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Beth Malory @bethmalory.bsky.social · Nov 23

Celebrating joining the Xodus with my first post; this week Louise Nuttall and I published a new report on attitudes to diagnostic language for pregnancy loss, which was picked up by the @theguardian.com

Report here: www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usag...

Article here: amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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