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ISLS – Institute for the Study of Language and Society

ISLS

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Critical Link conference, 26-30 July 2010
Entitled 'Interpreting in a Changing Landscape', this event will explore various aspects of public service and community interpreting.

Applied Corpus Linguistics Summer Schools

  • Beginners: 2-6 August 2010
  • Advanced: 9-13 August 2010

Co-ordinator:

Christina Schäffner
E-Mail: c.schaeffner@aston.ac.uk

Steering Group at Aston:

Professor Malcolm Coulthard
Dr Pierre Larrivée
Professor Gertrud Reershemius

International Advisory Board

  • George Lakoff (University of California at Berkeley)
  • Randolph Quirk (University College, London)
  • Mary Snell-Hornby (University of Vienna)
  • Teun van Dijk (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
  • Ruth Wodak (Lancaster University)

Honorary Fellow

Gideon Toury (Tel Aviv University)

Mission

The Institute aims to broaden and deepen understanding of the relationship between language and society. The focus of its research is the study of language and discourse with respect to social processes and structures. ISLS seeks to accomplish its mission through research projects, publications, conferences, lectures, seminars, and visits by distinguished academics.

The Institute coordinates, encourages and promotes research specifically devoted to the following topics:

  • Linguistics & applied linguistics
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Foreign language teaching and learning
  • Language policy
  • Translation studies
  • (Critical) discourse analysis, political discourse analysis
  • Intercultural communication
  • Forensic linguistics
  • Corpus linguistics
  • Dialectology
  • Metaphor research
  • Language of business culture

Address for correspondence

Institute for the Study of Language and Society
School of Languages and Social Sciences
Aston University
Birmingham B4 7ET
United Kingdom

Telephone: +44-(0)121 204 3790
Fax: +44-(0)121 204 3766

E-Mail: isls@aston.ac.uk
Webpage: http://www.aston.ac.uk/lss/research/centres/isls