Programme Spring 2016

Seminars are Wednesdays, 12.10-1pm in room 2.48, John Percival Building.

Please click on the dates to view abstracts and information on speakers (where available).

3 February	Alison Gibbons (Sheffield Hallam University) Multimodality, Genre, and Consumer Culture: Reading Grady Hendrix’s Horrorstör
10 February	Rodney Jones (University of Reading) ‘Have you swiped your Nectar card’: Pretextuality and practices of surveillance
17 February	Beatriz Quiroz (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) Towards an Experimental Grammar for Discourse Analysis: descriptive and methodological issues in an SFL account of Spanish
9 March	Celia Roberts (King’s College London) ‘I had to spoon-feed him’: Linguistic penalties, migration and the job interview
16 March	Arianna Maiorani (Loughborough University) Working towards new horizons: FG interdisciplinary applications from visual dynamicity to movement meaning making processes video
13 April	Greg Myers (Lancaster University) The Doctrine of Correctness on Wikipedia: Debates on the Manual of Style
20 April	Ditte Kimps (KU Leuven) English variable tag questions: a typology of their interpersonal meanings abstract
27 April	Gordon Tucker (Cardiff University) Modelling lexical and phraseological phenomena in a Systemic Functional Grammar abstract
1 June time: 2.10pm place: Committee room 1, Glamorgan Building	Liz Morrish (Nottingham Trent University) The metric tide which sinks all boats: the discourse of performance management abstract <Cardiff University UCU, who are co-sponsoring this seminar, invite everyone to a complementary lunch buffet* before the presentation at 1.45pm (same venue)>*