Talk About Language is a series of research presentations, informal discussions, screenings and other events organised by staff and students in English Language and Media, in partnership with the Language and Communication student society.
We have a fantastic line-up of speakers and other events again this year. We are still confirming some of the semester two information. Here is the information for the sessions confirmed so far.
Unless announced otherwise, sessions take place on Tuesdays at 1.30-3pm in room V103, Vine Building.
Malgorzata Drewniok (University of Southampton) will talk on:
'Changing identity on the small screen: transformations, vampires and language in Buffy the Vampire Slayer'
Marina Lambrou (Kingston University) will talk on:
'Disnarration in fact and fiction: tellability and characterisation in an analysis of Tobias Wolff’s short story Bullet in the Brain.'
Tuesday 9th December:
'Preparing and Giving Presentations: Informal discussion and sharing of ideas about giving presentations'
1.30-3pm, Vine VG07 (NOTE CHANGE OF ROOM AND TIME):
Bas Aarts (University College London) will talk on:
'Corpus Linguistics and the Englicious project'
Mai Zaki (American University of Sharjah) will talk on:
'"Like or else. . .!" The pragmatics of Arabic religious posts on facebook'
Thursday 12th February 2015, 3-5pm, Vine V104 (NOTE CHANGE OF ROOM AND TIME):
Geoff Lindsey (English Speech Services) will talk on:
'Producing and transcribing varieties of English''
Tuesday 10th March 2015:
A mini-stylistics workshop featuring presentations by Andrea Macrae (Oxford Brookes University) and Marcello Giovanelli (University of Nottingham)
Tuesday 24th March 2015:
'At least, at most, more than, fewer': evidence on quantifiers from acquisition, processing
and sign language'
Napoleon Katsos (University of Cambridge)
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All Welcome. For queries and further information, please contact Billy Clark: [email protected]
Directions and campus map available here: http://www.mdx.ac.uk/get-in-touch/directions-london