Feb 11, 2026, 12:10 pm - Michaela Mahlberg a corpus linguist who studies language as a social phenomenon and the ways we use ...

This book presents a linguistic anthropological method for doing discourse analysis both within events and across pathways of linked events. Discourse analysis is a research method that provides ...

Discourse Studies is a field that has been developing dynamically at the intersection of language and society. While discourse analysis is an established subfield within linguistics, discourse ...

The aim of this paper is to introduce to the linguistic community some preliminary findings in the area of text planning which I hope will serve to lay the foundations of a computational theory of ...

Dr Stefan Manz, University of Aston, will speak on “Colonialism and Diaspora in Imperial Germany”. Dr Angus Nicholls, Queen Mary, University of London, will speak on Friedrich Max Müller. Professor ...

In the Middle Ages, philosophy was dubbed the handmaiden of theology. The servant rebelled during the 17th century, and most of the time since then, the two disciplines have gone their separate, ...

On November 16th, Professor Nancy Hedberg presented research, co-authored by SFU Linguistics PhD student Yifang Yuan, titled The Meaning of Non-Canonical Question Intonation in English. The research ...

Verbal violence, often described as hate speech with reference to its occurrence in social media, is an omnipresent phenomenon that has once again become accessible to a wider circle of recipients, ...

Linguistics is the science of language. It is the subject whose practitioners devote their energy to understanding why human language is the way it is. They study the history, acquisition, structure, ...