Derek Bousfield
@DrWordy
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Father, Husband, Linguist, Former HoD. Reader in Pragmatics at Manchester Metropolitan University. Currently researching The Language of Gaslighting.
Joined October 2013
It’s been a long and exciting decade, but since founding the Linguistics subject area at @ManMetUni I’ve been honoured to work with excellent colleagues and am delighted by this result.
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@WWnka990612 @ReinardSchmuli1 @RejoinP No. We don’t need to wait that long. That’s the beauty of democracy.
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@ReinardSchmuli1 @RejoinP Don’t worry. There will be another general election, probably on the first Thursday of May 2029. So that one’s sorted. Now, about this referendum on joining the EU…
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RT @CambUP_LangLing: New Cambridge Element Social Group Representation in a Diachronic News Corpus, by Irene Elmerot, out now! Read Open Ac…
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@beckyamygc @stoicglare @Imagin3x @TheGlobal_Index @HustleBitch_ This is untrue. Ivermectin from 1975 was veterinarian usage only until 1987 when it was approved for use in humans.
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RT @CambUP_LangLing: Don’t miss your chance to read new Cambridge Element Clinical Communication by Peter Salmon Free access available unti…
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RT @CambUP_LangLing: Learner Language, Discourse and Interaction by Tony McEnery, Isobelle Clarke, Gavin Brookes The first large scale, c…
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RT @SimonScarrow: Fellow authors and other creatives. There is a government consultation taking place with respect to protecting copyright…
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RT @carollambertmsw: In the year ending December 2023, the police recorded a domestic abuse offense approximately every 40 seconds (ONS, 20…
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RT @linguistlist: Jobs: Syntax: Postdoc in Syntax, University of Pennsylvania: Description: The Department of Linguistics at the University…
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RT @CambUP_LangLing: Don’t miss your chance to read new Cambridge Element Psycholinguistics and Phonology by Naiyan Du and Karthik Durvasul…
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@TheYootopian @darkwingfella @mylesyaksich @PaulWoo70785206 @cturnbull1968 @catturd2 @Canada Explain what they have done, except sell you crude oil at a significant discount, that you would consider them not acting fairly.
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@Cecilia26251499 @tomwatson Odd definition of “subsidize” when you mean the transfer of monies in receipt of fair priced goods and services.
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RT @Palgrave_Ling: #NewBook alert: 'The Stylistics of Embodiment: Language and Sensory Memory in Lyric Texts' by Anne Holm has been #Publis…
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Boom! Done. Submitting tomorrow. Watch this space for publication, when out.
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RT @CambUP_LangLing: Preprint submissions have risen by 102% over the last 5 years. Join the movement and upload your paper to Cambridge Op…
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RT @CambUP_LangLing: 🎉 The full archives of Signs and Society are now available on Cambridge Core - explore every issue of the journal! htt…
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RT @EMCA_News: Fully-funded 4-year PhD at VU Amsterdam with dr. Elliott Hoey on 'Recording in social interactions'. Deadline 1-Mar-2025,htt…
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@AdamCSchembri To be fair, Adam, it sounds like a great read. Perhaps you could contact Lucas, and Sutton-Spence and ask them if they want to co-author it with you?
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