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Julia Gillen writes for the Daily Mirror about Waterstone's
Date: 13 January 2012
Dr Julia Gillen, lecturer in Digital Literacies, writes about Waterstone's lost apostrophe in the Daily Mirror."End of an error: Why it's OK to follow ... Read more»
Ruth Wodak gives keynote in Salzburg
Date: 13 January 2012
Ruth is invited to give the keynote at the occasion of the opening of the new faculty building of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Paris-Lo ... Read more»
Ruth Wodak awarded the Grand Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria in Silver
Date: 19 December 2011
The Austrian Government has presented one of its highest awards to Distinguished Professor Ruth Wodak at a ceremony in Vienna. The Minister of Scien ... Read more»
Ruth Wodak gives public lecture in Luxembourg
Date: 7 December 2011
Ruth Wodak will be giving a public lecture at the University of Luxembourg, 7th December, as part of the lecture series 'The Future of Educational S ... Read more»
Starting October 2012: New MA in Digital Language and Literacies
Date: 1 December 2011
This exciting new MA scheme offers postgraduate students a valuable qualification in Digital Language and Literacies. The course builds on Lancaster ... Read more»
TBLT 2011, Auckland, New Zealand
Date: 18 November 2011
Andrea Révész presents a paper on methodological issues in task-based laboratory research as part of an invited symposium (convened by Lourdes Ortega) ... Read more»
Research on representation of Islam in the UK press cited by ENGAGE
Date: 17 November 2011
A press release summarising resaerch on the representation of Islam and Muslims in the UK press by Paul Baker, Costas Gabrielatos and Tony McEnery has ... Read more»
Academic opportunities in the Linguistics department
Date: 17 November 2011
We are pleased to announce the following academic opportunities in the department: Lecturer in Chinese Linguistics Lecturer in Sociopho ... Read more»
Keith Johnson at JALT National Conference, Tokyo
Date: 10 November 2011
Emeritus Professor Keith Johnson is running a featured Speaker Workshop at the Annual International Conference of the Japanese Association for Languag ... Read more»
Paul Kerswill interviewed on BBC Radio Scotland's Culture Cafe
Date: 8 November 2011
Paul was interviewed along with a Glasgow rapper Loki on the topic of youth language. ... Read more»
Elena Semino gives talk at University of East Anglia
Date: 7 November 2011
On 7th September 2011, Elena Semino will give a talk in the School of Language and Communication Studiesat the University of East Anglia on the topic: ... Read more»
Memorial for Anna Siewierska
Date: 4 November 2011
On 4th November, a memorial was held for Professor Anna Siewierska, who died tragically in an accident while on holiday in Vietnam over the summer ... Read more»
Departmental Lecture in Strathclyde, Glasgow
Date: 2 November 2011
Ruth is invited to lecture at Strathclyde University, Languages and Literatures Research Seminar Series, on "Right-wing Populist Rhetoric Across Europ ... Read more»
Becky Clark's medal success at World Championship karate!
Date: 31 October 2011
Becky Clark, who is currently the Part II coordinator in Linguistics and English Language Dept., (covering maternity leave for Vicki Haslam) is in the ... Read more»
Paul Kerswill writes for The Sun on TOWIE
Date: 21 October 2011
Paul has written a double-spread feature on the language of The Only Way is Essex, ITV's popular reality-soap set in Brentwood. ... Read more»
Mick Short gives invited plenary in Bangkok
Date: 18 October 2011
Mick Short will be giving an invited plenary paper at the International English Language and Literary Studies Conference in Bangkok. The title of the ... Read more»
J. Hillis Miller
Date: 13 October 2011
The Department of English and Creative Writing and the Department of English Language and Linguistics are delighted to announce that J.Hillis Miller i ... Read more»
Paul Baker gives plenary talk at American Association of Corpus Linguistics conference
Date: 7 October 2011
Paul Baker gave the opening plenary talk at the American Association of Corpus Linguistics conference in Atlanta, Georgia. The talk was called "Has Am ... Read more»
Martin Bygate gives keynote talk at TESOL Conference, Qatar
Date: 1 October 2011
Martin will be giving a talk at the TESOL Conference 'Putting research into practice' in Doha, Qatar. He will be reporting on an aspect of his researc ... Read more»
Ruth Wodak gives public lecture in Linz, Austria
Date: 27 September 2011
Ruth Wodak gave a public lecture in Linz, Austria, on 27th September entitled 'Wie Fremde zu "Fremden" gemacht werden: Reden und Schreiben über Migra ... Read more»