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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Meet A Linguist
A free online event for A Level students (of any subject)
Friday 21 January 2022 at 1-1.30 pm or 5-5.30pm (we are offering this session twice)
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The first speaker in our English Language and Linguistics research seminar series this semester is Hannah Gibson from the University of Essex.
The talk takes place online at 2.30-3.30pm UK time on Thursday 20th of January. Please email me for a link: Billy Clark, billy.clark@northumbria.ac.uk
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The next speaker in our English Language and Linguistics research seminar series is Mel Evans from the University of Leeds.
The talk takes place online at 12-1pm UK time on Wednesday 8th of December. Please email me for a link: Billy Clark, billy.clark@northumbria.ac.uk
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Northumbria Englishes 