Jack Wilson’s latest article ‘The foundational role of sound quality for understanding demonstratives’ is about to be published in Intercultural Pragmatics. Looking at the theme of demonstratives (words like ‘this’ and ‘that’) in language, Jack utilises a unique interdisciplinary approach, drawing not only on linguistics, but also philosophy and psychoacoustics. Jack hopes to help change […]
You are cordially invited to attend the UK launches of three new books authored and co-authored by Jack Wilson, Jade Munslow Ong and Judy Kendall. 6:30-9pm, Thursday 19th September 2024 Event Space at HOME Manchester (see venue info here) The event will include a drinks reception and Q&A with the authors hosted by Prof Ursula […]
Jack Wilson’s new book Pragmatics, Utterance Meaning, and Representational Gesture has just appeared from Cambridge University Press in the ‘Elements’ series. The publisher’s summary of the book is as follows: Humans produce utterances intentionally. Visible bodily action, or gesture, has long been acknowledged as part of the broader activity of speaking, but it is only […]
Jack Wilson On 26th April 2023 Dr Jack Wilson co-delivered a lecture by Zoom on ‘Language and Ecology in Southern and Eastern Arabia’ (with Profs Janet Watson and Dawn Chatty), an event jointly organised by the British Yemeni Society, the International Association for the Study of Arabia (IASA) and the Mohamed Bin Issa al Jaber […]
English Research Seminar: Judy Kendall and Jack Wilson Wednesday 9 March 2021 2-4pm on Teams Please write to S.Thurston@salford.ac.uk if you would like to join us! Judy Kendall ‘Extralingual Translation: the Paratextual, the Visual and the Thing’: Making the most of the sabbatical This paper will give a brief overview of my monograph Where Language Thickens which […]