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Christopher Hart @chrishartlinguist.bsky.social · 12d

Views from the Fairfield horseshoe on a lovely autumn day.

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Christopher Hart @chrishartlinguist.bsky.social · 12d

It’s been a while since I posted a pic of this fabulous boy so here he is today. Milo the cat.

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CADAAD Network @cadaad.bsky.social · 17d

The CfA for the @cadaad2026.bsky.social conference at @uva-es.bsky.social is now open!

The conference theme is "Beyond Physical and Symbolic Spaces: Methods and Challenges in Critical Discourse Studies."

Dates: 8-10 July

For more details on the conference: www.cadaad2026.com/138021/detai...

CADAAD 2026

Welcome to CADAAD 2026 We are delighted to announce that the 2026 edition of the Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines (CADAAD) conference will be hosted by the University of Va...

www.cadaad2026.com

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Christopher Hart @chrishartlinguist.bsky.social · 20d

Two reviews in two days! Language, Image, Gesture: The Cognitive Semiotics of Politics reviewed by Lili Gui and Shaohua Wang in the Journal of Language and Politics: www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

Review of Hart (2025): Language, Image, Gesture: The Cognitive Semiotics of Politics | John Benjamins

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Christopher Hart @chrishartlinguist.bsky.social · 21d

Thanks to Matthew Voice for this lovely review of Language, Image, Gesture just out in Discourse & Society. Captures perfectly what I was trying to achieve in the book. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Linguistic Discovery @linguisticdiscovery.com · 28d

Attention young linguists! @BabelZine.bsky.social is running their 11th-annual Young Writer’s Competition! If you’d like to get your writing published in Babel and win a free year’s subscription, consider submitting your work! Submission details below.

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Plushy Socks,-> MFF BAYBEEEEE ✡️ @rainbowsockscat.bsky.social · 28d

New linguistics meme dropped

Labubu with a Labubu and Lakiki with a spiky Labubu

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Christopher Hart @chrishartlinguist.bsky.social · 29d

If you're interested in sociolinguistics, mining communities, and can speak German, this will be fascinating and is a great opportunity: vacancies.ntu.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Research Fellow in Linguistics:City Campus

vacancies.ntu.ac.uk

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Christopher Hart @chrishartlinguist.bsky.social · Sep 6

Stunning colours on Place Fell today as autumn dawns.

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English and Media Centre @engmediacentre.bsky.social · Aug 12

Save the date!

We'll be hosting an A Level English Language Student Conference at Friends House, London, on 27th November! Booking opens 17th September, and keep an eye on our website for more details: buff.ly/Xka0Qu9

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Christopher Hart @chrishartlinguist.bsky.social · Jul 27

A summer roast! For the win.

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Charlotte Taylor @proftaylor.bsky.social · Jul 25

Which newspapers get talked about in UK parliament debates you (didn't) ask?

Well, these ones.

The Times is consistently top, Financial Times also quite consistently relevant. The Daily Mail decreasingly so.

Data from www.clarin.si/ske/#open

Graph showing frequency of mentions of newspapers in UK parliament. The Times is the most frequently mentioned overall. The Daily Mail shows a dip in mentions.

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Lucía Jiménez @luciajimenezuco.bsky.social · Jul 24

🚨 CfP open!
❓Are you a young researcher in Cognitive Linguistics?
➡️Present your work at the "4th International Conference for Young Researchers in Cognitive Linguistics", hosted by @uco.es online.
📝Deadline: Sept 1, 2025
🎤Four plenary speakers
🗓️Dec 10-12, 2025

eventos.uco.es/132298/detai...

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Christopher Hart @chrishartlinguist.bsky.social · Jul 23

Needed to take my daughter into work for a short time today so while there our amazing @phoneticslab.bsky.social let her ultrasound her tongue! She thought it was very, very cool.

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Christopher Hart @chrishartlinguist.bsky.social · Jul 18

Turned off the England-Sweden match last night around 65 minutes! What a terrible mistake! 🤦‍♂️

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Christopher Hart @chrishartlinguist.bsky.social · Jun 30

Loving the ‘catch box’ mic at #cl2025. Hoping to see some impressive lobs to back of the hall!

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Christopher Hart @chrishartlinguist.bsky.social · Jun 30

Made it to sunny Aston for #cl2025

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Christopher Hart @chrishartlinguist.bsky.social · Jun 30

On route to #cl2025 to talk about multimodal corpora and the representation of migration on tv news. Usual difficulties with the trains but looking forward to the conference when I get there!

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Christopher Hart @chrishartlinguist.bsky.social · Jun 17

The thesis presented a model of prognostic critique in CDS which in one specific incarnation combines aspects of cognitive linguistics and Contact Theory to identifying potentially prejudice-mitigating discourse features.

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Christopher Hart @chrishartlinguist.bsky.social · Jun 17

Huge congratulations to my amazing student Makarena Julios Costa who passed her viva today with just one correction to make. Thanks to her wonderful examiners @elenasemino.bsky.social and Sam Bennett for an engaging conversation.

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Christopher Hart @chrishartlinguist.bsky.social · Jun 11

Once a year we take our @lancslinguistics.bsky.social MA students for a trip to the Lakes that involves a little hiking, a little climbing, a little caving and a little ice cream. Once again we were incredibly lucky with the weather and everyone had a great day out and a day off from dissertations.

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Christopher Hart @chrishartlinguist.bsky.social · Jun 5

Atlantic City, Youngstown, The Rising, Thunder Road, Born to Run, Badlands … Played in Liverpool’s hallowed, sacred ground made for a euphoric, almost religious experience.

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Christopher Hart @chrishartlinguist.bsky.social · Jun 5

60,000 people in complete silence for an acoustic House of a Thousand Guitars followed by 60,000 people in chorus singing “come on, rise up” in My City of Ruins. The political interludes, the interaction with the crowd and the E-Street Band.

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Christopher Hart @chrishartlinguist.bsky.social · Jun 5

The Boss at Anfield last night was breathtaking. Three solid hours packed full of songs I’ve been played since a kid and have continued to love and play over and over again for 35 years. A set that moved between poignant and emotional and belting rock anthems.

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Christopher Hart @chrishartlinguist.bsky.social · May 23

What an incredible position! Well done! You’ll excel.

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