Producing and Evaluating Communication, Helsinki 2027

Billy Clark (Northumbria) and Siobhan Chapman (University of Liverpool) have organised a panel on Producing and Evaluating Communication which will be part of the 20th International Pragmatics Conference (IPC20), organised by the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA).

At the panel, Billy will present ideas and findings from his project on Producing and Evaluating Style which is supported by Leverhulme Trust (Major Fellowship MRF-2024-043). Other contributors qill be invited to comment on ideas from the project and related topics.

There is information on the conference here:

https://pragmatics.international/page/Conferences

The conference website has information on the call for papers and a list of accepted panel proposals. Here is ours:

IPC20 panel on Producing and Evaluating Communication

If you have any questions about the panel or the project, send an email to Billy:

billy.clark@northumbria.ac.uk

The Discourse of Plastic Packaging

The next speaker in our Institute of Humanities research seminar series is Professor Joanna Gavins from the University of Sheffield.

The talk’s title is Every little ‘help’: understanding the FAMILY frame in the discourse of plastic packaging

There’s an abstract below

Time: 4-5pm, Wednesday 4 June 2025

Place: Room 305, Northumberland Building, City Campus, Northumbria University

Also online: email Billy Clark to join online: billy.clark@northumbria.ac.uk

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Language and Intangible Cultural Heritage

The next speaker in our English Language and Linguistics research seminar series is Professor Natalie Braber from Nottingham Trent University

The talk’s title is ‘Is our language part of our heritage? Intangible cultural heritage in the UK‘. There’s an abstract below.

This is an online session. Email Billy Clark to join: billy.clark@northumbria.ac.uk

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Poems, Prose and Politics

The next seminar of the Northumbria Institute of Humanities Research Seminar Series will take place on Wednesday 28th February 2024 at 2pm in Lipman Building, room 121, on our City Campus.

The speaker is Professor Lesley Jeffries from Lancaster University and her talk will be on Poems, prose and politics: textual meaning in common‘ (there’s an abstract below).

The seminar will be delivered in a hybrid format so join us in person or online.

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