Professor Amalia Arvaniti has been awarded a grant of almost €2.5m to investigate the role of tone of voice in communication and ways it might … Read more
Category: Centre for Language and Linguistics
Walking simulations signal a new literary genre
Heidi Colthup, lecturer for the Department of English Language & Linguistics, has published an article exploring the narrative conventions of walking simulators – a new … Read more
Staff published in The Edinburgh Companion to the Short Story in English
Dr Jeremy Scott, Senior Lecturer in the department of English Language & Linguistics, and Dr Paul March-Russell, Lecturer in Comparative Literature, have recently published chapters … Read more
Amalia Arvaniti receives Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship
Professor Amalia Arvaniti, of the Department of English Language & Linguistics, is the recipient of a two-year Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship (2019-2021) for her project “Politics … Read more
Dr Tamara Rathcke awarded funding for linguistics project
Dr Tamara Rathcke, Senior Lecturer in Linguistics for the Department of English Language & Linguistics, is a member of a European team of researchers who … Read more
ELLsoc help organise talk on constructed languages
Dr Bettina Beinhoff (Anglia Ruskin University) recently delivered a fascinating talk on the topic of constructed languages (e.g. Klingon and Dothraki). This talk was organised … Read more
Chia-Yuan Lin wins BPS award
Dr Chia-Yuan Lin, Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of English Language & Linguistics, has won an award from the British Psychological Society (BPS), enabling … Read more
Amalia Arvaniti on the research of intonation
Amalia Arvaniti, Professor of Linguistics in the Department of English Language & Linguistics, will be giving a talk at the University of Leiden, entitled ‘Tackling … Read more
Laura Bailey on untranslatable words
Dr Laura Bailey, Lecturer in the Department of English & Linguistics, has contributed an article to The Conversation entitled ‘Language: “Untranslatable” Words Tell Us More about … Read more
Laura Bailey publishes article in Babel magazine
Dr Laura Bailey, Lecturer in the Department of English Language & Linguistics, has published an article on ‘The Mystery of the Missing Prepositions‘ in the … Read more