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Imogen Marcus

@imogenmarcus

Senior Lecturer in English Language @English_EHU. https://xitter.gq/t.co/qwcc4Qmbsf

 Ormskirk, Lancs.
Joined September 2012
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Very excited to be a part of EHU's 2024 seminar series! Looking forward to some fantastic sessions as well as talking all things @Hamilton_Papers with @SMCoulombeau on 29 Feb 🙂
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The Mary Hamilton Papers online edition is now officially complete! 3201 items, half of them transcribed, including all her diaries. Do take a look at the edition (digitalcollections.mancheste…) and project website (maryhamiltonpapers.alc.manch…).
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Anyone who is interested in studying for a PhD in the department of English & Creative Arts @edgehill, please take a look at this funding opportunity - deadline in January: edgehill.ac.uk/departments/s… #Englishcreates @UnivEnglish @English_EHU
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Published this week, and arriving at my house this moment, is this beauty. I hope you’ll agree that, like the cover picture, this book reveals a Nan Shepherd we’ve not known before. Delighted with the classy cover and production courtesy of @EdinburghUP
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Kim Wiltshire@KKWiltshire9 Sep 2023
And to add to this Creative Writing keeps its 5th place in the country and English is 8th! Well done to us @drbeard79 @KymBrindle @VictorianMasc @congabonga @imogenmarcus @saraheschofield @Leethompson89 @AJAshworth @lovetruant @writing_EHU @EHUNineteen @edgehill @EHUShortStory
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Well this is excellent news!!
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We are very sad to pass along news of the passing of Johanna Green. Many here will know her as @Codicologist and she was a leading scholar of bringing together medieval manuscripts and digital humanities medievalists.net/2023/07/joh…
Johanna Green passes away - Medievalists.net

Johanna Green passes away - Medievalists.net

Medieval scholar Johanna Green has passed away at the age of 39, after a long fight with cancer. 

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Johanna Green, July 21st 1983-July 20th 2023. It is with heavy hearts we mourn the loss of an exceptional teacher, scholar, and friend. Johanna's legacy will forever live on in the hearts of those she touched.
Dr Johanna Green

ALT Dr Johanna Green

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The online launch of @Hamilton_Papers has ended successfully - Warmest congratulations to the team! See MDC page (digitalcollections.mancheste…), explore CQPweb (cqpweb.lancs.ac.uk/hamilton/) and go through the CFP for the edited volume (maryhamiltonpapers.alc.manch…)!
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Miranda Marcus@RooMarcus18 Apr 2022
uhh… fungi has language… up to 50 ‘words’ that can be arranged in ‘sentences’ derived from their electrical spiking activity. People thought fungi couldn’t get cooler AND IT JUST DID. Outrageous. royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
Language of fungi derived from their electrical spiking activity

Language of fungi derived from their electrical spiking activity

Abstract. Fungi exhibit oscillations of extracellular electrical potential recorded via differential electrodes inserted into a substrate colonized by myce

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At Edge Hill University today to speak to their English Language students about considering a career in Speech and Language Therapy 🤩 trying to fit our entire profession into a PowerPoint is pretty tricky but hopefully I can give them a good idea of what we do ☺️ #SLT2B @RCSLT
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On #HolocaustMemorialDay we remember all those murdered during the Holocaust, under Nazi persecution of other groups and in genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur. It is a day of commemoration and action, to build a better future. Join us as we #LightTheDarkness.

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Thomas H Bak@thbaketal29 Jun 2021
If you missed today's excellent BBC "Lost for words" programme on multilingualism, ageing & dementia, you can listen to it online: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000xf0…; & it will be on air again next Monday, 5 July, 9pm BST! @BrittNeuroPsych @D_Shariatmadari @guardian_carers @lingoflamingo1

BBC Radio 4 - Lost for Words

David Shariatmadari explores the science of language, dementia and ageing.

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Thomas H Bak (@thbaketal) profile pictureThomas H Bak@thbaketal29 Jun 2021
What happens to the languages of multilingual people when they grow old & develop dementia? Can we learn new languages in later live? Find out TODAY, Tue, 29 June, 11am, @BBCRadio4 "Lost for words" with @D_Shariatmadari, @lingoflamingo1, @BrittNeuroPsych bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000xf0…

BBC Radio 4 - Lost for Words

David Shariatmadari explores the science of language, dementia and ageing.

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English@EHU@English_EHU19 May 2021
We are very happy to see a glowing review of the Oxford Handbook of Language Contact, edited by Prof. Anthony P. Grant: linguistlist.org/issues/32/3… oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.… edgehill.ac.uk/englishhistor…
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Oh bother! We made a mistake. The corpus covers the 21st century too! It includes instant messaging. Thank you @imogenmarcus for flagging this up. This is the image we should have posted.
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Sketch Engine now hosts the Transhistorical Corpus of Written English by @imogenmarcus. This #opencorpus is available to anybody at app.sketchengine.eu/#open
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Today is #HolocaustMemorialDay. Together, we must stand against prejudice and hatred in the UK and around the world. Join us to #LightTheDarkness.

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amcedinburgh@AmcEdinburgh16 Sep 2020
Didn't we crack the origins of Standard English decades ago? Think again! say 18 brand new papers on "The Multilingual Origins of Standard English" #NewBook degruyter.com/view/title/573…

The Multilingual Origins of Standard English

Textbooks inform readers that the precursor of Standard English was supposedly an East or Central Midlands variety which became adopted in London; that monolingual fifteenth century English manuscr...

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It's open access, during the Covid-19 epidemic and can be found at journals.equinoxpub.com/GL/i…
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Delighted to see my article on #comingout published today in Gender and Language. So, if you are looking for a little light reading... 🤓
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Transforming Early English 'argues that formal features such as spelling, script and font, and punctuation - often neglected in critical engagement with past texts - relate closely to dynamic, shifting socio-cultural processes, imperatives and functions' ow.ly/Aklp50zzMAa
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ICAME41@icame4119 May 2020
ICAME 41 Digital Conference begins tomorrow Wednesday, May 20th. We look forward to seeing you then! #ICAME41, #CorpusLinguistics icame41.as.uni-heidelberg.de…
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