IJCL @ijcl.bsky.social International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
https://benjamins.com/catalog/ijcl
Dr Laura Smith-Khan @lawandlanguage.org Senior Lecturer (UNE) lawandlanguage.org
Incoming CoEiC Aus J Human Rights (UNSW)
External CESSMIR (UGent) @languageonthemove.bsky.social member.
Asylum, migration, disability, human rights, legal ed/prac, access to justice
ENG, FR, ES, IT, اردو, پښتو
Raksangob Wijitsopon @raksawijit.bsky.social Associate Professor in English language and linguistics at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand ❤ Corpus linguistics ❤ Stylistics ❤ Discourse analysis ❤ Desserts
Innovations in Linguistics Education @innovations-ling.bsky.social Innovations in Linguistics Education is a diamond open access journal dedicated to teaching and learning in linguistics. We're accepting submissions from January 2026.
Cambridge University Press - Linguistics @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org The latest research in Language and Linguistics from @universitypress.cambridge.org
cambridge.org/linguistics
Dr Israel Noletto @israelnoletto.bsky.social /izhaˈɛw noˈletu/
Professor of English at the Federal Institute of Piauí, Brazil.
Conlanger
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.
Robbie Love @robbielove.org Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics, Department of Communication and Culture
Associate Dean Education and Student Experience, School of Law and Social Sciences
Aston University
https://robbielove.org/
PALA 2026 Uppsala @pala2026.bsky.social Official account of the 2026 Poetics and Linguistics Association Conference, 19-22 August (Summer School 17-18 August), Uppsala University, Sweden.
Rebecca Connor-Evans @rlconnorevans.bsky.social PhD candidate & Teaching Associate at Sheffield Hallam University. Cognitive stylistician. Children's Lit & YA Fiction for mental & emotional health. Fandom discourses.
Marcello Giovanelli @mmgiovanelli.bsky.social Professor of Stylistics at Aston University, UK. I research and teach cognitive stylistics, empirical literary studies, poetry, applied English. 34
The Biomimicry Institute @biomimicry.bsky.social We envision a nature-positive, inclusive, and regenerative world inspired and guided by nature's genius.
www.biomimicry.org | www.asknature.org
Lorena Pérez Hernández @lorenaph.bsky.social Lingüista Cognitiva en #unirioja #GRISSU y #GA_ICON t.ly/BtyUn
Consultora Lingüística para Lexicon Branding, Co.
Colaboradora en Naukas.
Escribo sobre el lenguaje en Principia, The Conversation y JotDown.
Ginny Battson @seasonalight.com Symialosopher, ecologist, neologist. Rivers. Interdisciplinary.
www.seasonalight.com
CEP: https://thinkingintheworld.com/members/ginny-battson/
Alt Txt: butterfly wing (vector design)
Ilir Isufi @ilirisufi.bsky.social Philosophy PhD candidate at the University of Cincinnati working on intersections between philosophy of cognitive science & linguistic relativity. From the most beautiful city in Germany (Giessen).
Katherine E. Russo @katherineeruss1.bsky.social Full Professor in English Linguistics, Critical Discourse studies, passionate supporter of difference, positive contamination, Freedom of movement and climate change. Director of the Interuniversity Research Centre Dis4change-researchcentre.eu
Sune Vork Steffensen @sunevork.bsky.social Ecological language scientist, who draws on radical embodied cognitive science and Marxist anthropology. Working @ University of Southern Denmark & Danish Institute for Advanced Study. Dad, husband, slow racing cyclist and ☭.
Gavin Lamb @gavinlamb.org sociolinguist: conservation, tourism, environmental communication, climate knowledge networks, sea turtles & seals🐢🦭| Associate Professor @NHH | Researcher @NORCE | PhD @uhmanoa | new book: multispecies discourse analysis
Robert Poole @repoole.bsky.social Associate professor of applied linguistics at the University of Alabama. Interests in ecolinguistics, corpus linguistics, language change, and discourse.
M. Cristina Caimotto PhD @criscaim8.bsky.social Ecolinguist (University of Turin, Italy), cycling advocate and incurable optimist.
She/her.
Anaïs Augé @anaisauge.bsky.social FNRS researcher UCLouvain
Metaphor & Argumentation
Discourse & Politics
Climate & Social Justice
Feminism
https://www.routledge.com/Metaphor-and-Argumentation-in-Climate-Crisis-Discourse/Auge/p/book/9781032379791
Cinzia Bevitori @cibev.bsky.social associate professor in English language and linguistics @unibo. member of dis4 change, critical discourse studies, sfl, corpus linguistics, political and media discourse, ecolinguistics…and music🎶
Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social Metaphor hunter, linguist, social scientist, blogger
blog: https://makingsciencepublic.com/
also sorted into categories at https://wakelet.com/@bnerlich
https://bnerlich-lang.github.io/
ORCID: 0000-0001-6617-7827
Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano @iraideia.bsky.social Hizkuntzalaria/Linguist/Lingüista
Language & Cognition
Investigo, enseño y divulgo sobre el maravilloso mundo del lenguaje y las lenguas
#Psycholinguistics #SemanticTypology #CognitiveLinguistics #Ideophone #Senses #MinorityLanguages
Paula P Sobrino @paulapsobrino.bsky.social Cognitive linguist @unirioja. Interested in #metaphor #multimodality #methods // @accion_icon // www.paulapsobrino.com
Maite Moret Oliver @moretmaite.bsky.social Historiadora de la lengua(PhD),dialectóloga, #historiaLengua,#CognitiveLinguistics,#MinorityLanguages,#Franja
Reyes Llopis-García @rllopisg.bsky.social Cognitive Linguistics + L2 Pedagogy, profesora de ELE, Senior Lecturer @Columbia ⎮ Researcher at #GA_ICON✨ (Cognición en Acción🧠🗣). Own views. She/her/ella
Inés Olza @inesolza.bsky.social Senior Researcher in Language & Cognition | University of Navarra
Director, Multimodal Pragmatics Lab: bit.ly/MuPraLab
Also, proud member of @redhenlab.bsky.social and @accionicon.bsky.social
Personal website: sites.google.com/site/inesolza
Laura Suárez-Campos @laurisca.bsky.social
Alberto Hijazo-Gascón @alberhache.bsky.social
Andrea Ariño Bizarro @andrearino.bsky.social Profesora Ayudante Doctora en Universidad de Zaragoza.
Doctora en Lingüística Hispánica
@psylex_lab @ZaragozaLing @Accion_ICON
Un día más... recuerdo lo que es más importante. 🧡
Barbara De Cock @barbaradecock.bsky.social Professor in Spanish linguistics at UCLouvain
I'm interested in pragmatics and discourse analysis on politics, healthcare, and everyday life.
Circle U. chair for democracy
Avid reader who likes to go hiking
(Views expressed on this profile are my own.)
Schuyler Laparle @schuylerlaparle.bsky.social Lecturer in Communication and Cognition | Researching metaphor and gesture | Caring about prefigurative politics and emancipatory education | Wanting secretly to be a woodworker
PALA @palapoeticsling.bsky.social Poetics and Linguistics Association
Naomi Adam @naomiadam.bsky.social
Dr Paula Ghintuiala @paulaghintuiala.bsky.social Teaching Fellow in English @ Aston 🌈 PhD in Telecinematic Stylistics 🎥 Adores film studies, art, anime & manga, and really strange books // she/her
University of Birmingham @unibirmingham.bsky.social Official account for the University of Birmingham.
Changing how the world works.
www.birmingham.ac.uk
Pete Harvey @peterharveydigital.bsky.social Literary Linguist, exploring narrative, memory and climate fiction.
Digital Producer, specialising in adult education and public engagement.
Worried human, trying to navigate the Climate Emergency.
Gavin Brookes @gavinbrookes.bsky.social Reader in Linguistics at Lancaster University|UKRI Future Leader Fellow|Fulbright @ NAU|Associate Editor of IJCL|Co-Editor of Corpus & Discourse, Elements in CDS|FRSA
LeonieBJackson @leoniebjackson.bsky.social - S Sara Whiteley @sarawhiteley.bsky.social Stylistician at University of Sheffield.
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
Aletta G. (Lettie) Dorst @agdorst.bsky.social Associate Professor of Translation and Human-Centred AI @LeidenHumanities (NL). Loves metaphor, stylistics and (machine) translation. PI of NWO-Vidi project "Metaphors in Machine Translation: Reactions, Responses, Repercussions" (2025-2030).
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
Journal of Languages, Texts and Society @ltsjournal.bsky.social The Journal of Languages, Texts and Society is a PGR-led academic journal with a focus on how communication, languages, & texts are shaped by and shape society.
Read our latest issue: tinyurl.com/ltsissue7
Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social English Language & Literature. Quondam Prof. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
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.
Paul Crossley @paulthatjazz.bsky.social CS PhD Student & Fellow at @sussex.ac.uk
Fondness for birds, dogs, and cricket.
Virginie Iché @virginieiche.bsky.social Associate Professor of English Linguistics (Univ. Paul-Valéry Montpellier, France). Currently working on failed repair in mockumentary sitcoms & cringe humor.
Research interests: pragmatics, stylistics, multimodality, miscommunication & humor
María José Marín UMU (she/her) @mjmarin-umu.bsky.social PhD in Corpus Linguistics. Currently working as an associate professor at the University of Murcia (Spain). Interested in CL, CADS and DDL. Professional website: https://webs.um.es/mariajose.marin1/miwiki/doku.php?id=scientific_production
Amélie Doche @ladoche.bsky.social PhD'ing: Discourses of Value in Contemporary Book Culture at Birmingham City University | Beaujolaise at heart 🍇
Hanna Schmück @hannaschmueck.bsky.social Computational Linguist
👩🏻💻🇩🇪| RA (Comp Ling) at the University of Augsburg
🦆🇬🇧| PhD/ MA (Linguistics) from Lancaster University
🌉🇩🇪| BA (English) from Bamberg University
🔗 |hannaschmueck.github.io
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
Christiana Gregoriou @cgregoriou.bsky.social Professor of Stylistics and Author @ Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction; English Literary Stylistics; Language, Ideology & Identity in Serial Killer Narratives; Crime Fiction Migration: Crossing Languages, Cultures, Media
Ella Wydrzynska @ellawyd96.bsky.social Educational Developer at University of Nottingham | Visiting Research Fellow at Aston University | PhD in stylistics, children's literature & metafiction 📚
Dr Kimberley Pager-McClymont @kpager1.bsky.social Academic English Skills Coordinator and Research in Linguistics - University of Aberdeen's ISC.
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
Sara Bartl @sbartl.bsky.social PhD student @ University of Birmingham
researching metaphor and cognitive semantics through computational models of language
Chloe Harrison @chloeharrison.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Stylistics.
Researcher in stylistics, reader response, contemporary fiction. Reading & re-reading.
Views my own.
@andreamacrae.bsky.social @andreamacrae.bsky.social
Rebecca Woods @languagetales.bsky.social Linguist, storyteller, fretter, writer.
Jane Setter @janesetter.bsky.social Professor of Phonetics at the University of Reading, UK. NTF, SFHEA, FRSA. Rock singer. Accents & speech, language & prejudice, pronunciation, sci-fi, cats. She/her/hers
Viola Wiegand @violawiegand.bsky.social corpus & applied linguistics, TESOL, discourse analysis, surveillance discourses
Coordinator MSc TESOL (Online) University of Stirling (@stirtesol.bsky.social)
Knitter
Personal account
Dominic Watt @domwatt.bsky.social Senior Forensic Consultant, J P French International / Honorary Professor of Linguistics, University of York, UK. Now based in Berlin. Rides bikes and runs a bit.
Rob Drummond @robdrummond.bsky.social Professor and author.
Sociolinguistics.
Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social Always in the Corner
Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social 📚 The quarterly linguistics magazine for all language lovers
📖 Available in print and digital 🖥️
🔗 babelzine.co.uk
Adam Thomas @adammerrivale.bsky.social Writes about Jesus, books, mental health and pork pies. Pastor of Litchard Mission, Bridgend
Dan James @danjames.bsky.social Christian, Husband to Jay, Dad of Aoife, Welsh exile, Pastor of Eyres Monsell Community Church in Leicester (ForTheMonsell.co.uk)
Alice Haines @alicehaines.bsky.social Stylistician
Prof. Dr. Astrid Ensslin @astridensslin.bsky.social Professor for the Dynamics of Virtual Communication Spaces at University of Regensburg
University English @univeng.bsky.social Represents university and college English depts in the UK
M Green @narrprof.bsky.social Communication researcher and social psychologist studying how stories change minds (narrative persuasion).
Personal account.
Sven Strasen @svenstrasen.bsky.social apl. Prof. Cognitive Literary Studies; Dean of Studies Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences; RWTH Aachen
Biografie übersetzen
Mel Evans @melevans.bsky.social Lecturer, lover of language, early modern history, sociolinguistics and digital/tech. Trail runner and occasional duathlete. Vegan. Parent-in-training (7yrs and ongoing, needs work)
Elena Semino @elenasemino.bsky.social Professor in Linguistics & English Language, Lancaster University; ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science.
Metaphor, narrative | corpora | cancer, pain, Covid, vaccines
https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/about/people/elena-semino
alicebellposts.bsky.social @alicebellposts.bsky.social Professor of English Language and Literature. I research digital fiction (AI, XR, apps, hypertext), cognitive poetics, narratology, empirical methods, preservation.
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.
Alie Lassche @alielassche.bsky.social NWO Rubicon postdoc fellow at University of Antwerp | vice-president CHR
computational humanities scholar | historical information dynamics | literary history | early modern Low Countries | #computationalhumanities | 🚴🏻♀️
Timofei Protasov @timprotasov.bsky.social PhD-alike
TESOL, studying linguistics, sci-fi & deixis
Rolf Zwaan @rolfzwaan.eurosky.social Professor of cognitive psychology, podcaster, author, guitarist, skier. Follow my Substack newsletter Craving Coherence: https://rolfzwaan.substack.com/. Listen to my podcast Research as it Happens: https://shows.acast.com/research-as-it-happens.
Yoïn van Spijk @yvanspijk.bsky.social /'dʑowɪn/
• taalkundige | linguist
• schrijver van 'Die goeie ouwe taal' en 'Woord voor woord' | author
• all graphics and videos: http://tumblr.com/yvanspijk
• Patreon: patreon.com/yvanspijk
• photo by Dirk-Jan van Dijk
Joshua Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com sociocultural linguist working in trans and queer linguistics and conversation analysis. posts about yiddish, cooking, adhd, cats, professor stuff. (they/זײ) [ˈɹæ.klɔ] מיר װעלן זײ איבערלעבן
Michael Pleyer @symbolicstorage.bsky.social nerd. cognitive/evolutionary linguist. Assistant Prof at Center for Language Evolution Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland
(he/him)
www.michaelpleyer.com
@symbolicstorage@scholar.social
@symbolicstorage
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
Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social Linguistic diversity in social life
By Ingrid Piller, author of "Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice" "Intercultural Communication" and "Life in a New Language"
https://www.languageonthemove.org/
@billylinguist.bsky.social @billylinguist.bsky.social
Patricia Canning Pask @patriciacanning.bsky.social Trees and bees, innit. And @fearghas_the_whippet
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.
Jai Mackenzie @jaimackenzie.bsky.social Senior research fellow at the University of Warwick. Researching language, gender and digital media. She/her, vegan, trans ally 🏳️⚧️
Justin Lo @justinjhlo.bsky.social Sociophonetician & forensic speech scientist @ Lancaster University. All about voice and identity.
I talk about trains a lot. You have been warned.
justinjhlo.github.io
Omnia Ibrahim @omniaibrahim.bsky.social 👩💼Postdoctoral researcher at Saarland University |👩🎓Ph.D.
Computational linguistics and phonetic, university of Zürich, Switzerland | 📝General coordinator ISCA-SAC
Stephen Pihlaja @stephenpihlaja.bsky.social Language Linguistics Religion Education Aston University Birmingham Community Organising Running Immigration Veganism bit.ly/m/SPihlaja
Kevin Ball @zbnet.bsky.social