Michael Stubbs    The Ivory Tower of Babel

Pastiches, in-jokes, total academic nonsense, etc, designed for
linguistic and literary types who are tired of watching cat videos.

 

Karl Marx: A Manifesto for Corpus Linguistics

Bayeux Tapestry: New historical evidence

Borge Luis Jorges: Of Exactitude in Linguistics

British Council: A professor is briefed on a trip abroad

Corona 2021: Before the Shop

Corona 2022: Christmas Letter

Charles Marlow: Examiner's Report

Corpus Linguistics Association: Conference opening anthem

Corpus Linguistics Association: Conference closing anthem

Corpus Linguistics Association: Coat of Arms

British Union of Resarch Phoneticians: Conference Anthem

Constantia Fraktur ... reviews "The Name of the Name"

Edgar Allan Poe ... reviews a book on semantic prosody

The Guardian theatre critic ... reviews a star linguistics lecture

Anon ... reviews Bram Stoker's "Dracula"

Anon ... reviews Jorge of Burgos' "How to Write a Thesis"

Jane L Austen: How to Do Things with Words

Linguist List: Second-hand theories

Mrs Saussure's Diary: L'arbitraire du signe

Noam Chomsky: Translations of Aspects of the Theory of Syntax

Samuel Johnson: Supplement to the Dictionary of 1755

Sherlock Holmes ... and the curious incident of the stolen hat

Sherlock Holmes ... solves a literary case

Sherlock Holmes ... and the fairy folk

Sherlock Holmes ... and lexical statistics

BBC News Feed: Problems with Icelandic

Times Pedagogical Supplement: They made me hate books

Software ad: The concordance tool for discerning corpus linguists!

Scots traditional: Three profs sat upon a wa'

Traditional: The lament of the literary critic

Wackypedia: Marcel MacGhonaichaill (1908 - 1948)

A scam telephone call ... the rules of the game

A professor of linguistics ... gives a speech at his 65th birthday party

 


Originally published in a limited private edition by Catspaw Print, Trier, 2013-23.