We had an excellent line-up of speakers for our research seminar series in academic year 2021-2022. Here are the speakers and titles.
We will be announcing more great speakers for 2022-2023.
Some of the talks were in person and some online. Unless otherwise indicated, all talks took place at 12 noon to 1pm on Wednesdays.
For on-campus events, you can find directions to the campus and a campus map here:
https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-campuses/newcastle-city-campus/
We will also be streaming the in-person seminars so you can join them online.
For the link to online events, please email Billy Clark: billy.clark@northumbria.ac.uk
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SEMESTER ONE
Wednesday 3 November, in-person:
Rachael Bailes, Newcastle University
‘Information uniformity in linguistic planning: form and function for noise resistance’
Wednesday 17 November, online:
Veronika Koller, Lancaster University (with Jess Aiston, Alexandra Krendel and Mark McGlashan)
‘Introducing Mantrap: Misogyny and the red pill’
Content Warning: this talk will deal with difficult topics which some audience members may find disturbing
Wednesday 24 November, in-person, starts at 11am:
Alex Leung, Northumbria University
title TBC
Wednesday 8 December, online:
Mel Evans, University of Leeds
‘When Oroonoko is not enough: computational stylistics and Aphra Behn’s prose fiction’
SEMESTER TWO
Thursday 20 January, online, 2.30-3.30pm:
Hannah Gibson, University of Essex
‘An incremental account of the light verb piga in Swahili’
****PLEASE NOTE: THERE ARE TWO TALKS ON THE 26TH OF JANUARY****
Wednesday 26 January November, on campus, room to be confirmed, 12-1pm,:
Jane Stuart-Smith, University of Glasgow
‘When Glaswegian met ‘Mockney’: Social factors and language ideologies in the de-standardisation of a vernacular urban dialect’
Wednesday 26 January, Institute of Humanities Research Seminar,
in Lipman Building room 121, 4.10-5.10pm:
Jeanette Littlemore, University of Birmingham
‘The Role of (Creative) Metaphor in Expressing Emotion and Evaluation’
Wednesday 9 February, online, 12-1pm:
Ian Cushing, Edge Hill University
‘”Word gaps”, raciolinguistic ideologies and the re-normalisation of deficit discourses in England’s schools’
THE FOLLOWING TWO TALKS ARE POSTPONED DUE TO INDUSTRIAL ACTION:
POSTPONED: Wednesday 2 March, Institute of Humanities Research Seminar, online 4.10-5.15pm
Karen Corrigan, Newcastle University
‘Old letters from America and new sounds from Europe: how migration reshapes the linguistic realities of multilingual societies’
POSTPONED: Wednesday 23 March, in person, room TBC:
Michelle Sheehan, Newcastle University
‘A place for linguistics in the UK languages curriculum? Feedback from a co-creation project’
POSTPONED: Wednesday 30 March, online, 12-1pm:
Jane Setter, University of Reading
‘Prosody in global Englishes’
Wednesday 11 May, in person and online, 12-1pm
Michelle Sheehan, Newcastle University
‘A place for linguistics in the UK languages curriculum? Feedback from a co-creation project’
Wednesday 18 May, online 12-1pm
Jane Setter, University of Reading
‘Prosody in Global Englishes’
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For any queries, please contact Billy Clark: billy.clark@northumbria.ac.uk
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