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Book review
A The Dictionary Story 🎨 by O. Jeffers & S. Winston (2024): In Babel The Language Magazine, 52, p. 49.
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Hey June!
Time for a wee update ~ In development: The new Bloomsbury Handbook of Pragmatics, Prosody, and Gesture Studies, co-edited with Mary Edward, explores the interconnection of pragmatics, prosody, and gesture across diverse communicative contexts, showcasing their joint role in (a)typical, signed, and multilingual interactions. We’re super excited to be working…
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Brisbane, here we come!
🐨 The 19th International Pragmatics Conference – IPrA 2025 will be held @ the University of Queensland, Brisbane, AU from 22 to 27 June 2025. Below are the details of our panel: Navigating Media Discourse: Communication, Cognition and Affect Authors: 1. Pauline Madella – University of Bedfordshire 2. Ryoko Sasamoto – Dublin City University 3. Julia…
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2025 is here!
An academic’s update Happy first full moon of 2025! Time for an update. 2025 is here, and with it come a number of exciting collective projects, initiated in 2024: ~ This includes the development of the new Bloomsbury Handbook of Pragmatics, Prosody, and Gesture Studies, co-edited with my dear friend,…
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What’s cooking!
We’re going down under @IPrA2025 – University of Queensland, Brisbane 22-27 June, 2025 Ryoko Sasamoto, Julia Langkau and myself have organised a panel on ‘Navigating Media Discourse: Communication, Cognition and Affect‘. If you are interested in contributing to the panel, we’d like to invite you to submit your presentation abstract.…
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June 2024 ✨
An exciting and abundant month ahead! Later this month, on the 25th of June, Beata Pienczykowski and myself will be presenting at the University of Bedfordshire’s Annual Research Conference on: “‘I was so afraid all you wanted from me was sex’: A corpus-assisted study in the pragmatics of manipulation in…
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2024 sneak peeks
… 🥁 My new research on the art of communicating sarcasm à la Chandler Bing, will be out in Babel The Language Magazine, the world’s premier popular outlet for research in Linguistics, in their August issue. In the meantime… You can subscribe to Babel The Language Magazine here: Subscribe to…
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Welcome to my blog!
This blog is dedicated to my research activities, publications and reflections in relation to my areas of special interest and expertise: language and cognition, pragmatics, prosody & nonverbal communication, interlanguage and instructional pragmatics, the pragmatics of sarcasm, and the pragmatics of manipulation (forensic linguistics & corpus pragmatics). See recent blog…
Pauline Madella, PhD 