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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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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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.
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Booking form now available here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/northumbria-a-level-english-language-day-tickets-365665273677
We are very happy to announce a new A Level (Year 12) English Language Taster Day, which will take place at our City Campus on 29 June 2022. The event is free and has limited spaces (we hope to accommodate all of you but bookings will have to be first come first served).
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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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