Linguistics Seminar Series 2011-12

The current programme for 2011-2012 is listed below. A downloadable programme is available on the right.

Semester 1

3 October 2011
Ivor Timmis (Leeds Metropolitan University)
'Tails' from a 1930s spoken corpus - an historical perspective on 'right dislocation'

17 October 2011
Jeannette Littlemore (Birmingham University)
Metaphor and the foreign language learner: Is it a problem? How is it used? Can it be taught?  

31 October 2011
Vyv Evans (Bangor University)
Temporal frames of reference

14 November 2011
Lynn Clark and Kevin Watson (Lancaster and Canterbury University)
Sociophonetics meets Scouse: explorations in the production and perception of Liverpool English

28 November 2011
Hania Salter-Dvorak (Northumbria University)
'But I have no idea with my dissertation topic': How social learning spaces can enable apprenticeship into the 'invisible practice' of academic writing in an L2

12 December 2011
Andrew Feeney and Magdalena Sztencel (Northumbria and Newcastle University)
Syntax and semantics in the Representational Hypothesis  

Semester 2 

30 January 2012
Chris Hart (Northumbria University)
Conceptualising violence in political protests: A comparative analysis of online press reports  

13 February 2012
Elena Lieven (Manchester University & Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) Developing a language: Variation between cultures, individuals and languages  

27 February 2012
Rob Drummond (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Dialect acquisition in a second language – towards a usage-based explanation of vowel variation

12 March 2012
Robert McKenzie (Northumbria University)
Old whine in new bottles? Social psychology, folk linguistics and language variation

23 April 2012
Regina Weinert (Northumbria University)
“if you could just pull the blind down a bit – cos I can’t see” Subordination and clause combining in spoken language

30 April 2012
Nick Riches (Newcastle University)
Sentence repetition in SLI; a window on the disorder

Linguistics Annual Lecture

21 May 2012
Alison Wray (Cardiff University)
Formulaic language in Alzheimer’s Disease communication: patterns and implications for quality of life

Please contact Dr Amanda Patten at amanda.patten@northumbia.ac.uk if you have any questions or would like to give a paper.