7 February 2018<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n Inmaculada Senra Silva\u00a0<\/strong><\/b>(Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia, Madrid)<\/p>\n Grammar Checker for the development of ESL writing skills<\/strong><\/b><\/em><\/i><\/p>\n For abstract and bio, please click\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n 14 February 2018<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n Gabrielle Hogan-Brun\u00a0<\/strong><\/b>(University of Bristol)<\/p>\n What is the market potential of multilingualism?<\/strong><\/b><\/em><\/i><\/p>\n For abstract and bio, please click\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n 21 February 2018<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n Jo Angouri<\/strong><\/b>\u00a0(Warwick University)<\/p>\n Researching\u00a0workplace discourse:<\/em><\/i>\u00a0a political act?<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n For abstract and bio, please click\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n 26\u00a0February 2018 \u2013\u00a0CANCELLED<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n Josep Maria Cots\u00a0<\/strong><\/b>(University of Lleida)<\/p>\n Researching and teaching intercultural learning: some methodological issues<\/strong><\/b><\/em><\/i><\/p>\n For abstract and bio, please click\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n 25 April 2018 (NB: change of room, 3.62) \u2013\u00a0CANCELLED<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n Sylvia Jaworska<\/strong><\/b>\u00a0(University of Reading)<\/p>\n \u201cHave you tried our Alkaline #SUPERBOOST blend?\u201d \u2013 semi-science and emotion work in\u00a0new healthism discourse in food blogs and on twitter<\/strong><\/b><\/em><\/i><\/p>\n For abstract and bio, please click\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n 2 May 2018<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n Marcus Perlman\u00a0<\/strong><\/b>(University of Birmingham)<\/p>\n How people use iconicity to create words from scratch<\/strong><\/b><\/em><\/i><\/p>\n For abstract and bio, please click\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n 25 October 2017<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n Cristina Suarez Gomez\u00a0<\/strong><\/b>\u00a0(Universitat de les Illes Balears, Majorca)<\/p>\n Language contact and grammatical complexity in the structural nativization of relative clauses in Asian Englishes<\/em><\/i><\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n For abstract and bio, please click\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n 1 November 2017<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n Esther-Miriam Wagner<\/strong><\/b>\u00a0(Woolf Institute, Cambridge University)<\/p>\n Social transformation and language change in medieval Jewish Arabic<\/em><\/i><\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n For abstract and bio, please click\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n 22 November 2017<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n Arianna Maiorani\u00a0<\/strong><\/b>(Loughborough University)<\/p>\n Multimodality and Interdisciplinarity:\u00a0<\/em>theoretical issues and promising<\/em>\u00a0results<\/em><\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n For abstract and bio, please click\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n 29 November 2017<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n Holly Branigan\u00a0<\/strong><\/b>(University of Edinburgh)<\/p>\n Learning as we talk: Syntactic priming effects as evidence for syntactic representation and processing in children\u2019s language development<\/em><\/i><\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n For abstract and bio, please click\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n 6 December 2017<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n Eva Cod\u00f3\u00a0<\/strong><\/b>(Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona)<\/p>\n Englishization policies and contemporary regimes of precarization: What educational ethnographies reveal<\/em><\/i><\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n For abstract and bio, please click\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n 10 January 2018<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n Erich Steiner\u00a0<\/strong><\/b>(Universit\u00e4t des Saarlandes)<\/p>\n Models \u2013 predictions \u2013 data: an (un)problematic relationship? The Example of Systemic \u00a0Functional Linguistics (SFL)<\/strong><\/b><\/em><\/i><\/p>\nAUTUMN<\/h2>\n