AIFL Thursday Seminars are Back!

Join us fortnightly 4-5pm for our new seminar series!

TOMMOROW! Constructing Idiolect: Using Construction Grammar for cross-genre authorship

Speakers: Dr. Lucia Busso & Dr. Daniela Schneevogt

More info below 👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/constructi...

The Derek Bentley Case 👇

In a gripping two-part series, the Writing Wrongs podcast investigates one of the UK’s most infamous miscarriages of justice: the tragic story of Derek Bentley, who was sentenced to death in 1953.

New @aifl.bsky.social blog alert! In the latest in his ‘Meet the Researchers’ series @robbie-davies.bsky.social talks to AIFL and Cardiff University researcher David Griffin @linguistlawyer.com about his work and the role of power and persuasion in legal language. Link: aifl-blog.com/meet-the-res...

youtu.be/ioC6ovexy2k?... another nice one found during a not entirely successful attempt to put a linguistics themed playlist together

youtu.be/j6xpObYYhYE?... straight to the top of my list of favourite songs about (semi) memorable guest lectures

Been enjoying working on this aifl-blog.com with the ever-talented @aifl.bsky.social team. ICYMI the first four posts - interviews with Jim Fitzgerald and Nicci MacLeod, and pieces on the manosphere and applying for a PhD in FL - are up now. Lots more exciting forensic linguist content on the way! 🙂

🚨NEW EPISODE OUT TODAY🚨

🎙️Writing Wrongs podcast🎙️

A true crime forensic linguistics podcast from @aifl.bsky.social
- Every word leaves a trace

Season1️⃣ Episode7️⃣: "They Said, She Said: The Ayia Napa Rape Case"

👉 Listen 🎧 aston.ac.uk/writing-wrongs 🎧

#truecrime
#podcast
#academicsky
#linguistics

Check out the work happening at @aifl.bsky.social looking at escalation online.