Acquiring the social meaning of language variation

The final seminar of the Northumbria Language and Linguistics Research Seminar Series will take place online on Wednesday 14th December at 12.30pm UK time.

Laura Rosseel and Eline Zenner from Vrije Universiteit Brussels will talk to us about Acquiring the social meaning of language variation: two experimental studies on children’s evaluation of language variation in Belgium and Switzerland.

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Old Letters From America New Sounds From Europe

The next seminar in the Northumbria Institute of Humanities seminar series will take place on Wednesday 7th December at 4pm UK time online. The seminar will be delivered by Professor Karen Corrigan from Newcastle University. The talk is titled ‘ Old Letters from America and New Sounds from Europe: How Migration Reshapes the Linguistic Realities of Multilingual Societies’

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Making institutional sense of domestic abuse in police casework

The next seminar of the Northumbria Language and Linguistics Research Seminar Series will take place on Wednesday 23rd November at 12:00 in Lipman 121. The seminar will be delivered in a hybrid format so join us in person or online.  We are pleased to welcome our newest member of staff  Dr. Patricia Canning who will  be talking about ‘Making institutional sense of domestic abuse in police casework’

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