Corpus Linguistics 2027 @cl2027.info The 14th International Corpus Linguistics conference
12-16 July 2027 | Università Ca' Foscari, Venice, Italy
🌐 www.CL2027.info | 🔗 linktr.ee/CL2027 | #️⃣ #CL2027
Brian King @bwking1971.bsky.social University of Hong Kong, Deputy Director of the Centre for Humanities and Medicine
IGALA 14 @igala14.bsky.social IGALA 14 | York St John University, UK | 21–23 July 2027 | Researching Language, Gender & Sexuality in Times of Political Challenge | https://igala14.com/ | Follow for updates 📢
Phil (Pip) Freestone @philfreeshifei.bsky.social Researcher and teacher of sociolinguistics and discourse analysis. Interested in links between language, culture, ideology and identity. First gen SOAS alum. Global citizen & serial immigrant.
BAAL Corpus Linguistics SIG @corpus-sig.bsky.social Set up in 2003, the BAAL Corpus Lingusitics Special Interest Group provides linguists a space to discuss the use of corpora and corpus methodologies in applied linguistics research.
https://baal-clsig.weebly.com/
(Account managed by @linguistlawyer.com)
Vroni Zieglmeier @vzie.bsky.social (socio-)linguist and bubble tea aficionado
swimming, singing, and researching in berlin, heidelberg, and all over the place
Vee Lawson @lawsonvee.bsky.social they/them | assistant prof in professional writing | feminist, queer, and trans digital rhetorics + storytelling online | 🐈🧶⛺👟
veelawson.com
For better or worse, these are all my opinions.
Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social assistant prof in linguistics at swarthmore; phd in linguistics from u washington; sociosyntax; they/them or ey/em.
International Gender & Language Association @igala.bsky.social Website: igalaweb.wixsite.com/igala
Journal: utppublishing.com/journal/gl
Mo Moulton @momoulton.bsky.social Professor of Modern British & Irish History at the University of Birmingham (UK). he/him. Writing and researching to answer the timeless question: how do cooperatives and capitalism and trans theory and queer kinship fit together?
Laura Filardo-Llamas @laurafilardollamas.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics @Uva.es Interested in Cognitive Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2644-975X
Corpora & Discourse Conference 2026 @corporadiscourse.bsky.social Bluesky account for the Corpora & Discourse International Conference 2026, hosted by Lancaster University.
Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social Historian of photography, medicine and emotions. Leverhulme Research Fellow 25/26 & PI of the project The Ethics of Medical Photography Network https://empnetwork.our.dmu.ac.uk
My book! Picturing the Western Front (MUP 2021) http://bit.ly/3bzBSA5.
She/her
@dmuhistory.bsky.social @dmuhistory.bsky.social The account of the History team at De Montfort University, Leicester.
Scott Kiesling @pittprofdude.bsky.social Professor of Linguistics, University of Pittsburgh. Sociolinguist, Linguistic Anthropologist, Discourse Analyst. Language, GENDER, and Sexuality. Trying and failing to keep up with just about everything.
GENDER: Ambivalent masculine
Assigned male at birth
Centre for Language and Social Justice Research at York St John @lsjysj.bsky.social Official Bsky account of the Centre for Language and Social Justice Research @yorkstjohn.bsky.social. Follow for news, updates and events! https://www.yorksj.ac.uk/research/centre-for-language-and-social-justice-research/
Ryan Shaw-Hawkins @ryanshaw-hawkins.bsky.social ESRC funded PhD student at University of Glasgow. Specialised in Sociophonetics, Sex & Gender and Dialectology.
Also affiliated with Queen Margaret University and the university of Edinburgh.
they/them
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Salina Cuddy @salinacuddy.bsky.social Sociolinguist - part-time teacher at the University of York. I'm interested in gender, sexuality, sport, and language. she/her
https://sites.google.com/view/salinacuddy
The UCU branch at De Montfort University Leicester @ucudmu.bsky.social Defend DMU!
ucu@dmu.ac.uk
Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com Belfast writer. He/him. NUJ. I mostly moan about the media, politics & Arsenal. "Big beast transgender activist" [The Telegraph].
The Trans Agenda [on a break] reports on anti-trans media coverage in UK papers, subscribe here transagenda.info
DMU Archives and Rare Books @dmuspecialcolls.bsky.social De Montfort University Special Collections, part of Library and Student Services. Explore our collections on our catalogue: http://specialcollections.catalogue.dmu.ac.uk
Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social Activist, punk musician, event promoter, feminist academic. Illegal lesbian.
http://ruthpearce.net
Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social Co-Director of SUISS at the University of Edinburgh, where I also lecture and tutor in Trans and Queer Studies (Culture/Media). LGBT+ rep for UCU Edinburgh. Trustee of the Scottish Queer International Film Festival (SQIFF). She/Her. Cymraes.
emma machado @emmachados.bsky.social (she/her) wannabe PhD wrangler | Sociothings and discourse analysis enthusiast | Exploring queer linguistic identity at the University of Salamanca | Fueled by cats and cinema | ES/EN
CADAAD Network @cadaad.bsky.social Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines
An open community of researchers who critically engaged with discourse and society
University English @univeng.bsky.social Represents university and college English depts in the UK
Julia Snell @snelljulia.bsky.social Professor of Sociolinguists at the Uni. of Leeds, UK. Researching language, identity, education & inequality. 
Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social Assoc. Prof of Linguistics at Berkeley. Language, identity & prosody, esp. in politics & human-computer interaction. Trivia person and marathoner. LA & the Bay. No one is illegal on stolen land. Views are my own.
https://nicolerholliday.wordpress.com
Matthew Hunt @mchlinguistics.bsky.social Lecturer in Sociolinguistics in Southampton, with special interests in perception, accent bias, socio-semantics, language and the police.
Dominika Baran @kleonichka.bsky.social Linguistic anthropologist / sociolinguist at Duke University; beach lover, runner. Research focus on language & migration, narratives, memory; and critical analysis of anti-LGBTQ+ nationalist discourses. Enjoys art, food, travel, music, and photography.
Nikki Lane @thedoctorlane.bsky.social Black Queer Feminist Linguistic Anthropologist
Author: The Black Queer Work of Ratchet: Race, Gender, Sexuality and the (Anti) Politics of Respectability
I'm here to talk about Black 🏳️🌈. The 90s. Hip-hop. Black Feminism. Books. TV. Cocktails. SciFi. 🏀.
Journal of Language and Discrimination @jlangdiscrim.bsky.social The Journal of Language and Discrimination is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal addressing the relationship between language and discrimination.
https://utppublishing.com/toc/jld/current#sec_d4858e75
Louis Strange @louisstrange.bsky.social Lecturer in Sociolinguistics, English Language and Linguistics, University of Glasgow (he/him)
CADAAD Journal @cadaad-journal.bsky.social The official journal of the Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines (CADAAD) network. https://linktr.ee/cadaad_journal
Hongwei Bao (he/him) @queercomrades.bsky.social Queer Chinese writer and academic based in the UK; author of The Passion of the Rabbit God (Valley Press), Self-Portrait as a Banaba (Poetic Edge) and Queering the Asian Diaspora (Sage).
Eve Ng, scholar and sky lover @evecng.bsky.social Critical media studies, gender studies
Author of Mainstreaming Gays (2023), Cancel Culture: A Critical Analysis (2022), and other stuff:
https://evecng.wordpress.com
De Gruyter Brill Linguistics @dgb-linguistics.bsky.social Academic books, journals and news from the Linguistics department at De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social, including its imprint Mouton. Posts by our editors.
LIP Research Group @liprg.bsky.social Language, Ideology and Power Research Group, based at @lancslinguistics.bsky.social, Lancaster University. We hold regular CDS research talks during term time.
LAGB @lagbling.bsky.social Linguistics Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
https://www.lagb.org.uk/
Ksenija Bogetic @ksenijabogetic.bsky.social 
BAAL Health & Science SIG @baal-health-sig.bsky.social A British Association for Applied Linguistics special interest group (SIG), Health and Science Communication (HSC) provide a specialist forum for the development of research at the intersection of applied linguistics and health/science communication. 
The Journal of Language and Pop Culture (JLPop) @jlpopculture.bsky.social Brand new journal on linguistic approaches to the language of pop culture. First issue 2025.
Editors-in-Chief: Valentin Werner, Mie Hiramoto, and Dr Paul Flanagan.
Webpage: https://www.benjamins.com/catalog/jlpop. 
Jess Norledge @jessnorledge.bsky.social Stylistician @ Uni. Nottingham.
Literary Linguistics. Language & Feminism. Contemporary Lit. Dystopia.
Chloe Harrison @chloeharrison.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Stylistics.
Researcher in stylistics, reader response, contemporary fiction. Reading & re-reading.
Views my own.
Sylvia Shaw @sylviashaw.bsky.social Linguist, London
@nataliebraber.bsky.social @nataliebraber.bsky.social Professor of Linguistics at Nottingham Trent University
Emma Putland @emma-putland.bsky.social Applied Linguist at Lancaster University | Senior Research Associate on the Public Discourses of Dementia project.
Especially interested in health and environmental discourses, multimodality, critical discourse studies, corpus linguistics, metaphor, etc.
Cat-Tebaldi @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social Postdoc @ culture & computation lab | language & gender & far right |
Sofia Lampropoulou @sofialampro.bsky.social University of Liverpool. Storytelling and identity; story-critical (and story-abstinent); migration; language, power and social inequalities.
Paul Flanagan @drpaulflanagan.bsky.social Lecturer & linguist. Loves films, TV, indie music, animals and LFC. Husband, whippet-dad and cat-servant. Editor-in-chief: Journal of Language and Pop Culture (https://shorturl.at/cB9QR). Co-creator: www.learnoldenglish.com
Matteo Fuoli @matteofuoli.bsky.social Professor of Discourse Analysis @Uni of Birmingham researching trust, business communication, AI. He/him. Views my own.
Journal of Sociolinguistics @jslx.bsky.social Publishes leading research on language and society. Follow us for info on new articles, theme issues, dialogues and more. EIC: Lauren Hall-Lew, Jaspal Naveel Singh, and Andrew Wong
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14679841
Corpora journal @corpora.bsky.social 
BAAL Language, Gender & Sexuality SIG @lgas-baal.bsky.social We are the Language, Gender and Sexuality (LGaS) special interest group of the British Association of Applied Linguistics. Find more info here: https://baalgensex.wordpress.com/
Reading Concordances in the 21st Century (RC21) @rc21project.bsky.social Towards an innovative, systematic approach to concordance analysis.
Project team: @michamahlberg.bsky.social @schtepf.bsky.social @nfdykes.bsky.social @apiperski.bsky.social
Leigh Harrington @leighharrington.bsky.social Academic Skills Tutor at Nottingham Trent University. Applied linguist. Honorary Lecturer in Linguistics, University of Manchester. Honorary Member, Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics.
I-LanD Research Centre @i-land.bsky.social Interdisciplinary research centre for advanced study in linguistics, social studies and humanities w/ a specific focus on the concepts of diversity and identity
🔗 https://i-land-researchcentre.eu/
Evelin Nikolova @evelinnikolova.bsky.social Critical discourse analyst | Researching language, gender and sexuality, digital communication, sexual harassment and sex work
•Teaching fellow at the University of Salford
• Summer program coordinator at Lancaster University
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Dr Lucie Fremlova 🍉🌻🦋 @inclusivelucie.bsky.social linguist » social scientist » privacy pro| author of Queer Roma, Routledge 2021| applied social sciences PhD| queer intersectionality| CIPM| GAC chair|multilingual| opinions mine
🏳️🌈🇧🇲🇨🇿
•sex•gender•race•ethnicity•privacy
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7123-702X
Sebastián Córdoba @scordoban.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in (Queer) Psychology.
Gender, sexuality, language, and identity | Bogotá - LA - NYC - London | Research with queer Latin Americans in London | sebastian-cordoba.com | él/he
Beth Malory @bethmalory.bsky.social Lecturer in English Linguistics at UCL. Researcher of reproductive health communication @uclenglishusage.bsky.social.
DiscourseNet @discoursenet.bsky.social DiscourseNet offers an open, multilingual, inclusive and non-hierarchical space for anyone active in the field of Discourse Studies.
https://discourseanalysis.net/
Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social Associate professor of linguistics at University of Bologna, editor-in-chief JCaDs @jcads.bsky.social, research in #corpuslinguistics, #discourse, #journalism, #nostalgia. Website: https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/anna.marchi/en
@justjen1977.bsky.social @justjen1977.bsky.social 
Helen Ringrow @helenringrow.bsky.social Associate Professor in Contemporary Discourse • Swiftie • Own views • She/her
Barbara Bleiman @barbarableiman.bsky.social Education consultant, writer of fiction & children's poetry; passionately committed to English as a subject, to education, and to the idea that learning is founded on dialogue. Poems on Dirigible Balloon & Northern Gravy.
English and Media Centre @engmediacentre.bsky.social Award-winning charity supporting English and Media teachers with publications, CPD, consultancy + conferences. Putting curiosity + pleasure at the heart of learning.
www.englishandmedia.co.uk
https://www.instagram.com/engmediacentre/
Gemma Edwards @gemmaedwards.bsky.social Lecturer in English Literature at Birmingham City University, UK. Researching class, race & nation in post-war English theatre. Wrote a book on performance & rurality. Sporadic user of social media...
Kate Barber @katebarber.bsky.social Lecturer in Criminal Law @UniRDG_Law. Research interests: forensic linguistics, sexual violence/offences, online extremism and hate speech
Emma Moore @scillym.bsky.social State school-educated Professor of Sociolinguistics, Sheffield, UK.
Linguistics, ethnography, style, socio-syntax, young people, neurodivergence, affect, old school regional dialectology.
(2023) Socio-syntax: Exploring the Social Meaning of Grammar.
Alice Haines @alicehaines.bsky.social Stylistician
Ella Wydrzynska @ellawyd96.bsky.social Educational Developer at University of Nottingham | Visiting Research Fellow at Aston University | PhD in stylistics, children's literature & metafiction 📚
Viola Wiegand @violawiegand.bsky.social corpus & applied linguistics, TESOL, discourse analysis, surveillance discourses
Coordinator MSc TESOL (Online) University of Stirling (@stirtesol.bsky.social)
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StefMaci @stefmaci.bsky.social I’m the master of my soul
PhD, Full Professor of English linguistics. UniBg. CDA, CL, ESP (tourism & medical discourses), discourse analysis· #RestInPower • she/her
Sumin Zhao @suminzhao.bsky.social 🙄🫣🫠😮💨
Dr Alexandra Krendel @alexiconartist.bsky.social Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of Southampton | CDA/CDS, corpus linguistics online discourse, (anti)feminism, hate speech
Marc Alexander @mga.is Professor of English Linguistics (University of Glasgow), Director of the Historical Thesaurus of English, made the Hansard Corpus 1803–, likes cake. He/him.
Johnny Unger @johnnyunger.bsky.social he/him, linguist, critical discourse analyst, tea anarchist extraordinaire, dadcore, vegan, foodie, ❄️, dad, intersectional feminist, D&D nerd (not necessarily in that order)
Latest publication: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2023.101825
Tony McEnery @tonymcenery.bsky.social Professor at Hong Kong PolyU and Lancaster University. Advisory Chair Shanghai ISU. Adjunct chair Xi’an JTU. All views are my own.
Katy Brown @k8ebrown.bsky.social Research Fellow in Language and Social Justice at Manchester Met, researching far-right mainstreaming, media and discourse. She/her
https://www.drkatybrown.com
Louisa Semlyen @lousem.bsky.social Senior Publisher of English Language, Linguistics, Literature & Translation studies books @Routledge. Brighton based.
Chloé Diskin-Holdaway @chloediskinh.bsky.social Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics, University of Melbourne
Bernhard Forchtner @bforchtner.bsky.social 
Robin Sudanan Turner @rsudananturner.bsky.social Transdisciplinary PhD candidate working with queerness, discourse & Montreal.
ลูกครึ่ง // สายกิน // ทาสแมว // นักเรียน
Paul Rayson @perayson.bsky.social Prof of #NLP in School of Computing and Communications @LancasterUni, word boffin, ex-CLARIN Ambassador, Director of @ucrelnlp.bsky.social #NLProc #CorpusLinguistics #DigitalHumanities, Doctor Who & stuff. Ravenclaw.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/perayson/
Jessi Grieser @jessgrieser.com Sociolinguist, novelist, photographer, quilter, saxophonist and Boglehead. Associate Professor of Linguistics at UMich.
Carmen Lee @carmen-lee.bsky.social Professor, Dept of English, Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Co-Editor-in-Chief, Discourse, Context & Media
Lingthusiasm @lingthusiasm.com A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics! By @gretchenmcculloch.com and @superlinguo.bsky.social
"Fascinating" -NYT
"Joyously nerdy" -Buzzfeed
lingthusiasm.com
Not sure where to start? Try our silly personality quiz: bit.ly/lingthusiasmquiz
Melissa Yoong @melissayoong.bsky.social Associate Professor in Sociolinguistics, University of Nottingham Malaysia. President-elect, International Gender and Language Association. Researching language, gender & sexuality with a focus on work, family, social movements & resistance. All views mine
Lauren Hall-Lew @lhlew.bsky.social Professor of Sociolinguistics at the University of Edinburgh. Anti-racist, pro-trans, pro-housing, adoption-critical, Gàidhlig learner, BSL learner, musician, Trekkie, dysthymic, bleeding-heart cynic. She/her.
Joanna Gavins @joannagavins.bsky.social 🪴 gardener • professor 📚
Researching and teaching cognitive linguistics and ecolinguistics @sheffielduni.bsky.social. Mainly posting about language and ecology. Occasional music and plants. Writing a book about Ian Hamilton Finlay.
Isobelle Clarke @issyclarke.bsky.social Lecturer in Security and Protection Science in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University | FRSA
Elvis Coimbra-Gomes @elviscoimbragomes.bsky.social PhD in Linguistics. English Teacher @unil.bsky.social. Research: language, gender & sexuality, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), health communication, corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis, constructive grading practices
www.elviscoimbragomes.com
Poppy Plumb @poppyplumb.bsky.social 
Marlene Miglbauer @miglmarl.bsky.social Associate Professor in English Applied Linguistics and Virtual Learning Environments @haup.ac.at | researching political and social media discourse, extramural English and AI in tertiary education
based in Vienna/Austria
Giorgia Riboni @giorgia-riboni.bsky.social Antifascist, antifascist, antifascist in no particular order.
Critical discourse analyst at the University of Turin. She/her
#CDA #SM-CDS #metaphor studies #corpus linguistics+
#identity construction #authenticity #parenthood #gender #medicalization
Charlotte Taylor @proftaylor.bsky.social Professor of Discourse & Persuasion
Rhetorics of nostalgia | migration discourses & memory | metaphor | WATER metaphors | mythopoesis | corpus linguistics | (critical) discourse analysis
Posting in a personal capacity
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9516-207