In January 2026, two Northumbria colleagues, Billy Clark and Tony Williams will take part in a special session on ‘Producing and Evaluating Style’ at the Modern Language Association (MLA) convention in Toronto
The session will explore ideas from Billy’s project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust (MRF-2024-043), which will develop an account of the pragmatic processes involved in producing, interpreting and evaluating communicative acts, as well as how all of these processes interact
You can read more about the MLA session on the MLA Humanities Commons site here:
https://producingandevaluatingstyle.mla.hcommons.org
There will also soon be more information on the project page:
https://northumbriaenglish.org/producing-and-evaluating-style/
Here are the slides for Billy’s talk:
https://northumbriaenglish.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/billyclark-mla2026-pragmaticsandstyle.pptx
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