Professor Jo Angouri has been appointed as Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education and Internationalisation, at the University of Warwick with a focus on our international education offering.

Applied Linguistics Head of Department Professor Annamaria Pinter commented that "This is a tremendous achievement and huge congratulations to Jo!"

For further information see: https://warwick.ac.uk/insite/news/intnews2/professor_jo_angouri

Congratulations to Professor Jo Angouri who has been unanimously elected as the next Lonnoy Chair for Multilingualism of the Brussels Centre for Language Studies at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. The Chair is awarded every year to a researcher in Linguistics with a solid international reputation and whose research has affinity with the theme of multilingualism in the broad sense.

For further information see: https://warwick.ac.uk/global/news/professor_jo_angouri/

A recent article from the Coventry Telegraph highlights a map showing the most popular languages spoken in Coventry. The article includes a comment from Associate Professor in Linguistics at the University of Warwick, Dr Ellen Smith-Dennis, who said: "Changes in speaker numbers may reflect changes in migration patterns in and out of the city, but they may also reflect language shift, which is a process whereby speakers change from using one language as their primary language of communication to using another language."

"Coventry is one of the most linguistically diverse regions in England; if we exclude London, then Coventry is the ninth most linguistically diverse county in England. This is something to be celebrated: a person maintaining their first language is important for cultural identity, well-being, community cohesion and social inclusion, and language skills have significant value in education, business and other sectors, and are consequently vital to economic growth.”

Laughter and humour are potent tools that can significantly impact our wellbeing, according to research conducted by Professor Stephanie Schnurr and Yanyan Li, at the University of Warwick's Department of Applied Linguistics, who have shown how laughter and humour can be incorporated into our lives to achieve greater wellbeing.

Their research studies on laughter and humour in both the workplace and in health-related circumstances show that they possess remarkable properties that can alleviate worry, diminish feelings of isolation, and instil a sense of control over one's mental and emotional state, acting as a natural pressure value.

Read more here: https://warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/laughter_really_is

University of Warwick academics including Dr Kieran File, Associate Professor from the Department of Applied Linguistics and the Football Association of Wales announce project partnership to study communication during live matches.

Many congratulations to Professor Tony Liddicoat on becoming a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. The Academy’s Fellowship is made up of distinguished individuals from academic, public, private and third sectors, across the full spectrum of the social sciences. Through leadership, scholarship, applied research, policymaking, and practice, they have helped to deepen the understanding of, and address, some of the toughest challenges facing our society and the world.