We’re very much looking forward to our next English Language and Linguistics seminar at 12noon on Wednesday 11th of May 2022. The speaker is Professor Michelle Sheehan from Newcastle University and she will be sharing findings from the Linguistics in Modern Foreign Languages project: https://linguisticsinmfl.co.uk
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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 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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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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Hi guys! We’re Eve Campbell, a recent English Literature graduate and Eden Palmer, a current English Language student, and this summer we’ve been working on an internship promoting and attracting submissions to the Mesh Journal, which publishes high-quality undergraduate work that makes interesting connections between two or more of the various strands of English, including literature, language/linguistics, creative writing, drama, media and film studies. We’d love to give you an insight into how the internship worked and what we got up to!
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