The next seminar of the Northumbria Language and Linguistics Research Seminar Series will take place on Wednesday 26th April at 12:00 in Lipman 121.
The speaker is Professor Paul Simpson from the University of Liverpool and his talk will be on ‘Irony and its consequences in the public sphere‘ (there’s an abstract below)
The seminar will be delivered in a hybrid format so join us in person or online (more info on each below).
All welcome!
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A free online event for A Level students (of any subject)
Friday 20 January 2023 at 1-1.30 pm or 5-5.30pm (we are offering this session twice)
Continue reading “Meet A Linguist January 2023”A free online event for A Level students (of any subject)
Friday 16 December 2022 at 1-1.30 pm or 5-5.30pm (we are offering this session twice)
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As we mentioned before, our colleague Patricia Canning contributed to a very important report on the treatment of fans at the Champions League Final in Paris in 2022 which formed the basis of a BBC Panorama programme on this.
Here is a summary by Patricia of the report and its findings.
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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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