Tuesdays 4.05-5.30
MB553
October 5th
Carol Marley
Picture this: Narrative & conceptual interpretation in visual discourse
October 12th
Tim Grant
Duppying yoots in a dog eat dog world, kmt. - A discussion of methodological and legal problems in the radical translation of Internet Relay Chat into Standard English at the Old Bailey
October 26th
Nur Hooton
"... a bit of a ‘life changer’" Teacher and peer feedback as an instigator of learning and change
November 2nd
Nicci Macleod
"He quoth", "she heareth": Men, women and credibility in the 1641 Depositions
Sam Tomblin
"At the end of the day, when all is said and done, honesty is the best policy": Using formulaic language to detect deception
November 9th
Mike Scott and Reiner Grundmann
The Language of Climate Change
November 16th
Yvonne Fowler
Interpreting into the ether: a study of interpreter-mediated communication through prison video link in magistrates courts
Rui Souza
“Yer but no but yer but ok then”: Providing linguistic evidence in cases of academic plagiarism
November 23rd
Fiona Copland and Sue Garton
Teaching Young Learners Internationally: What teachers around the world report about their practices
November 30th
Ferdiye Ersoy
On the Periphery of Europe: An Introduction to the Investigation of the Construction
of Adolescent Identities in Northern Cyprus
Haleema Ebrahim
An exploration of female leadership language in Bahrain
December 7
th
Ramesh Krishnamurthy
Using Corpora for Autonomous Correction and Improvement of Academic Writing
This seminar has been postponed
December 14th
Kate Haworth
A case of mistaken identity? Identity, audience design and transcontextuality in police interviews
Teaching period 2
All seminars in room 404b unless stated otherwise
January 25th
Esther Asprey, Brian Dakin and Ajmal Hussain (InterLanD, Aston University)
Language and Ethnicity: the microlevel perspective
February 1st
Steve Mann and Keith Richards (University of Warwick)
The research interview in applied linguistics: taking a stance
February 8th
Ramesh Krishnamurthy (Acorn, Aston University)
Using Corpora for Autonomous Correction and Improvement of Academic Writing (title to be confirmed)
February 15th
Andy Boon (Toyo Gakuen University, Japan)
Instant Messenger Cooperative Development: Journeys of discovery
Neil Cowie (Okayama University, Japan) and Keiko Sakui (Kobe Shoin Women’s University, Japan)
EFL teachers’ perceptions of student motivation: theory and practice
February 22nd
Liz Carter (University of Essex)
Tape recording and the serious business of having a laugh: The effect of interactional behaviour in the police interview on the protection of suspects’ rights
March 1st
Room: MB758
Muna Morris-Adams (CLERA, Aston University)
Topic Management in native speaker non-native speaker conversations
March 8th
Helen Sauntson (University of Birmingham)
Using different discourse analysis approaches to examine discursive constructions of gender (title to be confirmed)
March 15th
Diane Davies (University of Leicester)
‘Talking for Harborough’: an investigation of 20th century south Leicestershire speech through archival oral history
March 22nd
Krzysztof Kredens (Centre for Forensic Linguistics, Aston University)
‘To me it’s like they want to beat him up’ – Pragmatic meanings in forensic contexts
April 5th
Jo Angouri (University of the West of England)
Language choice and negotiation in multilingual white collar workplace environments
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May 3rd
Janet Cotterill (Cardiff University)
Title to be confirmed
May 10th
Anne Burns (CLERA, Aston University)
Professional-client communication and non-English speaking background accountants: practice to pedagogy
May 17th
Steve Walsh (University of Newcastle)
Appropriate methodologies for investigating classroom discourse
May 24th
Gertrud Reershemius and Ramesh Krishnamurthy (CLERA, Aston University)
A corpus on offer – an invitation to all colleagues working with spoken language
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