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’
All welcome!
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As we mentioned before, our colleague Patricia Canning contributed to a very important report on the treatment of fans at the Champions League Final in Paris in 2022 which formed the basis of a BBC Panorama programme on this.
Here is a summary by Patricia of the report and its findings.
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Our next Linguistics Research Seminar features Greg Woodin from the University of Birmingham on ‘The Spatial Representation of Abstract Concepts’
The talk takes place in person and online at 5pm UK time on Monday 17th October 2022
There is more information below. All welcome!
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Our colleague Patricia Canning is one of the authors of an important report released today on the experiences of football fans before, during and after the 2022 Champions League Final in Paris
The findings of the report were referred to by the BBC team who put together the Panorama programme on this airing at 8pm UK time on Monday 17 October 2022
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Here is information on our first Linguistics Research Seminar of the new academic year.
Our speakers are Billy Clark and Tony Williams, both from Northumbria. Billy and Tony have been discussing how pragmatic theories can be developed by looking at the work of creative writers (including how they talk about their work) and at how ideas from pragmatics might help writers to understand and develop their practice.
There is more information below. All welcome!
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