Video Gallery
To give you an idea of what it is like to come and study with us we have a selection of videos from our Undergraduate students and to give more of a sense of what we are like and our areas of interest we have some videos of members of staff talking about aspects of the Department's work.
Undergraduate Students
We would like to make it clear that the video-clips are all the students' own work. They have decided what to say and we have not edited or interfered with the recordings in any way.
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Rosie is a second year English Language and Sociolinguistics student.
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Ben is a final-year English Language and Literature (combined major) student at Lancaster University.
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Clive is a mature student, studying English Language and Linguistics.
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Ellie is a final-year Sociolinguistics student at Lancaster University.
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Hannah graduated in July 2010 with a First Class degree in English Language with Creative Writing.
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Members of Staff
To give more of a sense of what we are like and our areas of interest, here are some members of staff talking about aspects of the Department's work.
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Elena Semino, Professor of Linguistics and Verbal Art, looks at the novel 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time' and examines how language is used to give readers a realistic impression of a character who has an autistic spectrum disorder. |
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Mick Short, Professor of English Language and Literature, briefly analyses the language of part of a short poem, to illustrate his interest in 'how people get from the words on the page to the meanings in their heads, and how texts affect them'.
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Jonathan Culpeper, Professor of English Language and Linguistics, describes the range of aspects of language studied in the department, through a recent book, which was entirely written by Department staff.
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Andrew Hardie, Lecturer in Corpus Linguistics, talks about the problem of how to describe and define categories of words, like nouns and verbs and adjectives. For example, sorting out what puts words like 'destruction', 'freedom' and 'book' into the same category.
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