Programme 2017-2018
Seminars normally take place in room 3.58, 12.10-13.00
SPRING
7 February 2018
Inmaculada Senra Silva (Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia, Madrid)
Grammar Checker for the development of ESL writing skills
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14 February 2018
Gabrielle Hogan-Brun (University of Bristol)
What is the market potential of multilingualism?
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21 February 2018
Jo Angouri (Warwick University)
Researching workplace discourse: a political act?
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26 February 2018 – CANCELLED
Josep Maria Cots (University of Lleida)
Researching and teaching intercultural learning: some methodological issues
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25 April 2018 (NB: change of room, 3.62) – CANCELLED
Sylvia Jaworska (University of Reading)
“Have you tried our Alkaline #SUPERBOOST blend?” – semi-science and emotion work in new healthism discourse in food blogs and on twitter
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2 May 2018
Marcus Perlman (University of Birmingham)
How people use iconicity to create words from scratch
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AUTUMN
25 October 2017
Cristina Suarez Gomez (Universitat de les Illes Balears, Majorca)
Language contact and grammatical complexity in the structural nativization of relative clauses in Asian Englishes
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1 November 2017
Esther-Miriam Wagner (Woolf Institute, Cambridge University)
Social transformation and language change in medieval Jewish Arabic
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22 November 2017
Arianna Maiorani (Loughborough University)
Multimodality and Interdisciplinarity: theoretical issues and promising results
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29 November 2017
Holly Branigan (University of Edinburgh)
Learning as we talk: Syntactic priming effects as evidence for syntactic representation and processing in children’s language development
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6 December 2017
Eva Codó (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Englishization policies and contemporary regimes of precarization: What educational ethnographies reveal
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10 January 2018
Erich Steiner (Universität des Saarlandes)
Models – predictions – data: an (un)problematic relationship? The Example of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL)
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