Here are links to pages for some of the projects we have been working on recently:
Producing and Evaluating Style
A project currently (2025-2027) being carried out by Billy Clark with support from the Leverhulme Trust (Major Research Fellowship MRF-2024-043), exploring the role of pragmatic processes in the production, interpretation and evaluation of communicative acts
26th of November is National Linguistics Day in the UK. It’s a day for celebrating linguistics in any way you think would be good. Organise activities, share thoughts, in classrooms, libraries, at events, anywhere you think would be good
This is a page where we will share information and resources produced by us and others on career paths for students who have studied English at school and university
A project involving staff and students at Northumbria and at the Islamic University of Gaza offering online sessions to support students in Gaza
A project on how creative writers can benefit from ideas in pragmatics and how pragmatics can benefit from looking at creative writing practice
Pragmatics and Language Evolution Workshop 2022
The page for a workshop organised by Andrew Feeney and Billy Clark which took place in Kanazawa, Japan in September 2022
Northumbria Linguistics and more
A page with information on Northumbria Linguistics, Newcastle and Northumberland created for the BAAL (British Association for Applied Linguistics) conference which we hosted online in 2021
Some questions and topics which Billy Clark (Northumbria) and Laura Bailey (Kent) prepared for Schools Day at the British Academy Summer Showcase in 2022
Northumbria Englishes 