Old Letters From America New Sounds From Europe

The next seminar in the Northumbria Institute of Humanities seminar series will take place on Wednesday 7th December at 4pm UK time online. The seminar will be delivered by Professor Karen Corrigan from Newcastle University. The talk is titled ‘ Old Letters from America and New Sounds from Europe: How Migration Reshapes the Linguistic Realities of Multilingual Societies’

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When Glaswegian Met Mockney

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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