Billy Clark is talking at English Grammar Day today at the British Library
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/english/events/2025/jul/english-grammar-day-2025
Here are the slides for his talk:
https://northumbriaenglish.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2425-englishgrammarday-edit-c.pptx
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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The next speaker in our Language and Linguistics Research Seminar series is our colleague Dr. Bill Guariento.
The talk’s title is ‘Supporting English Language Teaching students online in Gaza’
Bill will be telling us about his project supporting students in Gaza with online teaching.
Continue reading “Supporting English Language Teaching”
Pragmatic Stylistics and Creative Practice: A workshop led by Billy Clark and Tony Williams
Wednesday 8 May. 2:45 – 3:45
You are invited to participate in this workshop developed by Billy Clark and Tony Williams in response to the call for expressions of interest and the current Gallery North exhibition programme, WHAT ARE WORDS WORTH?
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We have a great line-up of research seminars for semester one of 2023-2024. Here is the lineup:
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We offer a combination of in-person and online seminars. In-person seminars will also be streamed via Teams unless otherwise stated.
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18 October 2023
Dr Phillip Wallage (Northumbria University)
How to say NO in early German and early English: changing ways to agree and disagree
12:00-13:00, Sandyford 301
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1 November 2023
Dr Rachid Khoumikham (Northumbria University)
Exploring career progression for female engineers: insights into the influence of English medium education (EME) on career progression in the UK and Palestine
12:00-13:00, Sandyford 301
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22 November 2023
Prof. Louise Cummings (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Cognitive-linguistic difficulties in adults with Long COVID 12:00-13:00, online via Teams
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8 December 2023
Richie Greaves and Tony Evans (guest speakers and Hillsborough survivors)
Hillsborough: the truth
15:00-16:00, Lipman 0001
Followed by a poster exhibition and presentations from EL6052 Forensic Linguistics at 16:00-17:00
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13 December 2023
Dr Stefan Grondelaers (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Title to be confirmed
12:00-13:00, online via Teams
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All welcome. For further information, please contact Dr Mimi Huang, Research Group Lead and Postgraduate Research Lead for Language and Linguistics: mimi.huang@northumbria.ac.uk
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