- Past talks
- March 18th — Eimi Watanabe: The Effect of Prior Knowledge on Attitudes towards Bilinguals
- April 15th — Najwa Alzahrani: The Representation of Liberalism in Saudi Press Abstract
- April 22nd — Hossein Rezaie Adriani: COMMODIFICATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION: CHANGE OF MISSION OR A MERE RE-ORGANIZATION OF EDUCATIONAL AFFAIRS?
- October 16th — Neil E.J.A. Bowen: Modelling systemic choice in writing in real-time (dynamic vs. synoptic descriptions)
- October 23rd — Boitshwarelo Rantsudu, Cardiff University
- November 6th — Dorottya Cserző, Cardiff University
- November 13th — Jaspal Naveel Singh: “Direct” indexicality and re-scaling in the internationalisation of hip hop culture
- November 27th — Susan Reichelt: Authenticity and authorship in fictional television series
- December 4th — Miriam P. Veneros
- January 15th — David Schönthal: Expert and non-expert sorting strategies for core and idiosyncratic examples of English of-NPs
- January 22nd — Argyro Kantara, Cardiff University: Hybridity in broadcast political news interviews
- January 29th — Zayneb Al Bundawi: Who am I? Defining oneself through narratives
- February 2nd — (*RM 3.58) Piotr Wegorowski: “They firefight. We do all the nitty gritty stuff”: Professional identity construction in neighbourhood policing
- February 12th — Nadia Elias: Marked Theme Role in Achieving Topical Coherence in Discourse in English
- February 19th — Zeen Al-Rasheed: Negative and positive evaluative language: A comparative study on British news reports of the ISIS conflict in Iraq and Syria using Appraisal theory
- February 26th — Jessi Fraser: The role of hypothetical speech in identity construction in closing arguments
- March 11th — Giulia Baker: Do you get it? An Investigation of Primary School Children’s Comprehension of Verbal Ambiguities in Joking Riddles
- April 29th — Emily Powell: A corpus stylistic analysis of agency in pre-crime narratives
- May 13th — Paul Kelly: Mediatisation and the dissemination of policy: Beginning at the beginning.
- May 13th — Lauren O’Hagan: ‘Book Inscriptions, Ownership and Reading Practices in Edwardian Britain.’
- May 20th — Xin Dai: Evaluations in Sentencing Remarks of Murder Cases in England and Wales
- May 27th — Yasser Altameemi: Representation of responses to a political crisis
- May 27th — Areej Dawood: Mitigation in Prime Minister’s Question Time of British Parliament