Our next English Language and Linguistics seminar is an online event at 12noon on Wednesday 18th of May 2022. The speaker is Professor Jane Setter from the University of Reading and she will be talking on Speech Prosody in South-East Asian Englishes
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We’re very much looking forward to our next English Language and Linguistics seminar at 12noon on Wednesday 27th of April 2022. The speaker is Dr. Tim Wharton, from the University of Brighton, and he will be talking about Pragmatics and Emotion
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We’re very much looking forward to our next English Language and Linguistics seminar at 12noon on Wednesday 9th of February 2022. The full title of the talk, by Dr. Ian Cushing from Edge Hill University, is ‘Word gaps’, raciolinguistic ideologies and the renormalisation of deficit discourses in England’s schools
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We’re delighted that Professor Jeanette Littlemore, from the University of Birmingham, will be joining us at 4.10pm on Wednesday 26th of January to give a research seminar entitled ‘The Role of (Creative) Metaphor in Expressing Emotion and Evaluation’
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We’re very much looking forward to our next English Language and Linguistics seminar at 2.30pm on Wednesday 26th of January. The full title of the talk, by Professor Jane Stuart-Smith from the University of Glasgow, is ‘When Glaswegian met ‘Mockney’: Social factors and language ideologies in the de-standardisation of a vernacular urban dialect‘
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Northumbria Englishes 