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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Our colleague Patricia Canning is one of the authors of an important report released today on the experiences of football fans before, during and after the 2022 Champions League Final in Paris
The findings of the report were referred to by the BBC team who put together the Panorama programme on this airing at 8pm UK time on Monday 17 October 2022
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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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The local organising committee of the British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL) created this page for attendees at the annual conference which we hosted online in September 2021 (postponed from 2020). The conference website is here:
https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/news-events/events/2021/09/baal-2020/
We were sorry not to be able to welcome attendees to Northumbria in person and to show them around our campus, around the toon (as locals call Newcastle), and around the north-east of England.
To make up for this a little bit, we shared here some links and some information about us and our local environment.
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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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