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Important announcement: LEDS meetings cancelled

Posted on 19 March 2020 by Judith Reynolds

Due to the government advice on remote working and minimizing travel and social contact due to the COVID-19 situation, LEDS is suspending meetings from 16 March for the remainder of the semester. This includes our planned meeting on 25 March, which was to have been facilitated by Almut Koester. Please watch this space for further
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LEDS Session 6 – 4th March – CANCELLED

Posted on 21 February 2020 by Judith Reynolds

Hi all, please be aware that our next session of LEDS, scheduled for 4th March and facilitated by Rachel Stubley (of University of South Wales and Lancaster University), has been cancelled. This is due to the current industrial action. The session has been re-scheduled for Wednesday 29th April, after the Easter break. Rachel will be
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LEDS Session 7 – 25th March – Dr Almut Koester: Linguistic ethnography and corpus linguistics

Posted on 13 February 2020 by Judith Reynolds

We are delighted to announce that on 25th March, the LEDS group will be hosting a distinguished guest speaker, Dr Almut Koester, for a special session entitled Using ethnographic data in designing a small, specialized spoken corpus: The case of care home interactions. Dr Koester is Professor of English Business Communication at Vienna University of
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LEDS Session 5 – Weds 19th February – ethics in linguistic ethnographic fieldwork

Posted on 13 February 2020 by Judith Reynolds

Welcome back to LEDS! After a busy start to the new semester, we have three exciting LEDS meetings coming up during February and March. Next Session – Session 5 Our next meeting will be this coming Wednesday 19th February in Room 2.04 of the John Percival Building (a change from our usual venue). The topic
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