Latest Past Events

The Manchester Centre for Research in Linguistics Book Launch

The Manchester Poetry Library Grosvenor East Building, Manchester

At this event, we will be launching two books by colleagues in linguistics: Autism in Interaction: (Un)masking and Impoliteness by Piotr Jagodziński, and Pragmatics in Contested Interpretation: Varied Audiences, Varied Implicatures, Varied Inferences by Samuel Bourgeois and Derek Bousfield. Please join us as for a discussion tinged with fresh perspectives, sharp analysis, and engaging debate, […]

Making Sense of the World through Language and Stories – a Digital Humanities Perspective with Prof. Michaela Mahlberg.

GE 3.02 Grosvenor East Building, Manchester

The AI boom has put language into the spotlight like never before. While linguistics is the scientific study of language, language has always been a topic that everyone has a view on simply because of its ubiquity (see also Cameron 1995). The latest ‘tech’ angle adds another dimension to popular attitudes and practices - from […]