Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Events

LIP Event: Majid KhosraviNik, 27 February 2013

LRDG: Connections and disconnections on home and school literacy practices in Chile, 26 February 2013

SLLAT research group: talk by Jean Jimenez on 'Investigating the effects of immediate electronic corrective feedback on foreign language development', 25 February 2013

Walter Manoschek, 'If that's so then I'm a Murderer': Film and Discussion, 21 February 2013

UCREL Corpus Research Seminar: Using Life-Logging to Re-Imagine Representativeness in Corpus Design, 21 February 2013

Undergraduate Admissions Open Day, 20 February 2013

LIP Event: The Discursive Construction of Third-Country Nationals in European News: Perceptions and Practices from the Journalistic Field, 20 February 2013

LRDG: 'Points of View: reflections on a virtual world in a classroom (or was it a classroom in a virtual world)'?, 19 February 2013

SLLAT research group: talk by Morana Lukac on 'How word choice matters: an analysis of adjective + noun collocations in a corpus of learner essays', 18 February 2013

LAEL Society: Language evolution: the syntax rubicon is a mirage, 18 February 2013

UCREL Corpus Research Seminar: Creating Resources for Arabic Automatic Text Summarisation, 14 February 2013

LIP Event: Jannica de Prenter (KU Leuven), 13 February 2013

LRDG: Making sense of Twitter as professional practice: an exploratory case study, 12 February 2013

SLLAT: Alan Waters, Orwellian' discourse in ELT: a threat to professional diversity, 11 February 2013

Undergraduate Admissions Open Day, 9 February 2013

UCREL Corpus Research Seminar: Evidence Finder: a semantic search tool for the PMC Corpus of Biomedical Research Papers, 7 February 2013

LIP Event: Morana Lukač (Leiden University), 6 February 2014

LAEL Society talk: Kersti Börjars, 5 February 2013

UCREL Corpus Research Seminar: Manual annotation in a functional- typological grammar study, 31 January 2013

PaSTY talk by Mick Short: Listing and Impressionism in Charles Dickens's Description of Genoa in Pictures from Italy, 30 January 2013

LAEL Society talk: Professor Paul Kerswill, 24 January 2013

UCREL Corpus Research Seminar: What the brain can tell us about semantics: evidence using WordNet and latent semantic analysis, 24 January 2013

LRDG: Reading and discussion session "State literacies and inequality", 22 January 2013

UCREL Corpus Research Seminar: Keywords, Collocations and Concordances: Initial findings on differing lexical choices in three corpora on infertility, 17 January 2013

Linguistic circle talk: Prof. Gerlinde Mautner, 17 January 2013

LRDG: Narratives and Evaluation in 'The Murder of Stephen Lawrence' Wikipedia Article, 15 January 2013

UCREL Corpus Research Seminar: eMargin: A collaborative text annotation tool, 6 December 2012

LTRG talk: Karen Dunn: "Building an empirical model of word difficulty for L2 learners", 6 December 2012

PaSty talk - Exploring Stage Adaptations of Novels: how on earth to do it, and who is the author? - Jane Sunderland (Lancaster University), 5 December 2012

LRDG: Beyond Starbucks: the monolingual, multilingual and multimodal discourses of product packaging, 4 December 2012

Beyond politeness and deniability: Towards a multi-component analysis of indirect speech - Marina Terkourafi (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), 4 December 2012

LIP Event: New Directions in Mediated Political Communication, 29 November 2012

UCREL Corpus Research Seminar: Language Style Matching and Cooperation, 29 November 2012

SLLAT & LTRG: Revesz, Michel, & Gilabert "Measuring cognitive task demands", 28 November 2012

LRDG: Reading and discussion session, 27 November 2012

LIP Event: Constructing Contexts through Grammar: Cognitive Models and Conceptualisation in British Newspaper Reports of Political Protests, 22 November 2012

UCREL Corpus Research Seminar: Spatial Humanities: Texts, Geographic Information Systems and Places, 22 November 2012

Janina Iwaniec: The structural equation model of language learning motivation, 21 November 2012

LRDG: Imagining literacy: The politics of representation, 20 November 2012

UCREL Corpus Research Seminar: Wmatrix corpus analysis and comparison tool: a practical hands-on tutorial, 8 November 2012

History, Memory, Biography, and Fiction, 7 November 2012

Samuel Beckett's Late Minimalist Style, Professor Ann Banfield, University of California, Berkeley, 7 November 2012

Generic vs. specific reference: definitely L1-related?, PaSTY talk by Carmen Ríos García, 7 November 2012

LEAL Soceity - Guest Lecture by Dr. John Olsson, 6 November 2012

LRDG: A tale of two contexts: A discussion of the school literacies of the Old Colony Mennonites, 6 November 2012

UCREL Corpus Research Seminar: Prerequisites to a corpus-based analysis of 900 million words of Early Modern English text, 1 November 2012

A corpus-based comparison between a simplified version of Romeo and Juliet and Shakespeare's original play, PaSTY talk by Elena Semino, 31 October 2012

LRDG: Vernacular literacies and Facebook: A case study of mobile multilingual resources in online writing, 30 October 2012

UCREL Corpus Research Seminar: Paul Baker, 25 October 2012

The pragmatics of Early Modern witchcraft: The Pendle witches, PaSTY talk by Jonathan Culpeper (Lancaster), 24 October 2012

LRDG: Constructing a Culture: the poetic response to the environment of an early-nineteenth-century Cumbrian dry-stone-waller, 23 October 2012

LRDG: #iamscience: Solidarity and boundaries on science twitter, 16 October 2012

UCREL Corpus Research Seminar: Adam Kilgarriff, 15 October 2012

Judit Kormos: A mixed method study of motivation and inter-cultural contact in a study abroad context, 10 October 2012

Sociology/CESAGen Seminar with Marina Levina, 9 October 2012

LRDG: Methodological challenges in analysing an online debate: the case of a planning application for a Gothic cathedral, 9 October 2012

7th Lancaster Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics and Language Teaching, 13 July 2012

Disentangling Crisis Discourse, 11 July 2012

UCREL Summer School in Corpus Linguistics 2012, 10 to 12 July 2012

9th Conference of the Researching and Applying Metaphor Association (RaAM), 4-7 July 2012

Parvaneh Tavakoli "TESOL Research and Practice: Teachers' and Teacher Educators' Perspectives", 27 June 2012

Department of Linguistics and English Language: Talk on language, gender and sexuality, 27 June 2012

LRDG - An auto-ethnographic account of social and cultural practices around cookery books: critical and transformative learning over time, 26 June 2012

Ruth invited for Academic Icon Lectures, University of Malaysia, 21 June 2012

Yvonne Prefontaine: Psycholinguistic processes involved in French as a second language speech production and perception, 20 June 2012

LRDG - The Academic Writing Zone in LUMS: our experience of introducing a faculty-based peer writing mentor scheme, 19 June 2012

LIP: Andrew Sayer presenting on economic discourse as mystification, 18 June 2012

Alan Waters: Theory and Practice in ELT Methodology - Retrospect and Prospect, 13 June 2012

LRDG - Harry Potter and Boys' Literacies, 12 June 2012

Sonja Altmuller: Formulaic language in the second language acquisition of Turkish-speaking children in a German kindergarten, 6 June 2012

Deborah Padfield: Can you see pain? Visual art as an intervention in medical communication, 31 May 2012

Nomi Olsthoorn: Determinants of success in native and non-native listening comprehension, 30 May 2012

Bryan Maddox: Desert Deviants: Ethnography, Camels, Fast Food, ANT, and Item Response Theory in the Mongolian Gobi, 29 May 2012

Kenneth Fordyce: The Differential Effects of Explicit and Implicit Instruction on the Learning of Epistemic Stance Forms by Japanese EFL Learners, 23 May 2012

Johnny Unger: Online activism practices - a critical approach, 22 May 2012

Adam Jaworski, Tourism Discourse: Languages and Banal Globalization, 15 May 2012

Seminar Series - The Politics of Representation: Constructing Public Narratives of Literacy through Image, Number & Voice, 9 May 2012

LRDG - Learning at the ends of life: Multimodality and identity in an intergenerational art program, 8 May 2012

Enriching early childhood literacy curricula and practice - a dialogue with Canada. One day conference., 7 May 2012

Bonny Norton: Researcher identity, narrative inquiry, and language teaching research, 4 May 2012

Costas Gabrielatos & Judit Kormos: Corpus-based analysis of the use of the present continuous construction in oral language proficiency exams, 2 May 2012

LRDG - Researching practices of recontextualization: Issues of register and voice, 1 May 2012

Guernica 75: Memories of the International Brigades and the Spanish Civil War, 28 April 2012

LRDG - Writer's stance and the interaction of practices, 24 April 2012

Knowledge and Context in the Cognitive Approach to Discourse Study, Professor Van Dijk, 21 March 2012

Crossing borders: an exploration of transnational 'readability' and 'comparability' of university qualifications, 20 March 2012

The Discursive Construction of Masculinity: Some Findings from Glasgow - Talk by Dr Robert Lawson from Birmingham City University, 14 March 2012

Looking at Picturebook Covers Multimodally: The Case of Two-Mum and Two-Dad Picturebooks, 13 March 2012

Lou Harvey, 'I have all my stories': A narrative approach to language learning motivation, 7 March 2012

"We use Facebook to chat in lectures, of course!" Exploring a Facebook group as a new space transforming higher education, 6 March 2012

Patrick Rebuschat: Implicit and explicit knowledge in second language acquisition, 29 February 2012

Paul Baker to give talk at Gender and Language Research Group, 29 February 2012

Literacy practices in everyday life and in second language education, 28 February 2012

LAEL Departmental Lecture by Alison Mackey, 27 February 2012

Angela Creese and Adrian Blackledge, "Heteroglossia as practice and pedagogy", 21 February 2012

Investigating the English language needs of CLIL teachers in Italian secondary school science classrooms, 15 February 2012

David Hanauer, "A genre analysis of representational wall space in a microbiology laboratory", 14 February 2012

Contesting/Contested Memories: The Holocaust in the Twenty-First Century, 9-11 February 2012

LAEL Society Guest Lecture by Professor Geoffrey Leech, 9 February 2012

Symposium: Contesting/Contested Memories, 9 February 2012

LRDG: Critical discourse analysis and ethnography: a good match?, 7 February 2012

UCREL Corpus Research Seminar, 2 February 2012

Multilingual students, academic texts, and the semiotic demands of recontextualizing knowledge, 1 February 2012

LRDG: The contextualisation of linguistic and textual analysis, 31 January 2012

LAEL raffle in aid of Oxfam, 25 January 2012

LRDG: The Unseen Editor: The Role of the Public in Dictionary Making, 24 January 2012

Interactional Alignment in Task-based L2 Performance: Evidence from Dutch, 18 January 2012

LRDG - 1001 images from Tahrir Square: Developing a quantitative approach to extract and analyse linguistic data from visual material, 13 December 2011

SLLAT Research Group Presentation, 30 November 2011

International Symposium on the Sociology of Words: Lexical Meaning, Combinatorial Potential and Computational Implementation, 30 November 2011

LRDG - Translating education policy into practice: using Actor-Network Theory to explore practitioners' literacy practices, 29 November 2011

LRDG - What can ethnomethodology do for academic literacies?, 22 November 2011

Elena Semino gives talks at the University of Göttingen, Germany, 16 November 2011

LRDG - Local literacies at the corner store: Catechism, cantaloupe and calico at Mennomex, 15 November 2011

LRDG: Internet forum as community of practice and as political voice: Researching Mumsnet, 8 November 2011

Memorial for Anna Siewierska, 4 November 2011

LRDG: How texts travel across space and time: African Readings of The Pilgrim's Progress, 1 November 2011

Literacy Research Discussion Group: Phonics or Fun?, 25 October 2011

Half day symposium - Critique meets Corpora: Implications for research on contentious issues, 24 October 2011

LIP Workshop: Martin Reisigl, 21 October 2011

LIP Talk: Martin Reisigl, 20 October 2011

LRDG: Commercial discourses, gentrification and citizens' protest: the linguistic landscape of Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin, 18 October 2011

UCREL Summer School in Corpus Linguistics, 13 to 15 July 2011

Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics and Language Teaching, 12 July 2011

Conference for Teachers of A Level English Language, 1 July 2011

Leo van Lier Research Workshop, 29 June 2011

LAEL Departmental Lecture by Leo van Lier, 29 June 2011

LRDG: The discursive performance of self in social network sites, 28 June 2011

LRDG: Negotiating discipline and politics: How students draw on diverse practices when 'doing a dissertation', 21 June 2011

Paper discussion session: From variation to heteroglossia in the study of computer-mediated discourse, 14 June 2011

Talk by Stephen Pihlaja (Open University) at Pragmatics and Stylistics Research Group: 'We listen to god': Metaphor, impoliteness, and dominance in a YouTube drama episode, 9 June 2011

Literacy Research Discussion Group: Competing Discourses Embedded in a Dyslexic Child's Story Writing, 31 May 2011

International workshop on referential hierarchies in three-participant constructions, 20 May 2011

Literacy Research Discussion Group: "You know, they're things with paper? They haven't got an off button." Reading, writing and risky literacies at home., 24 May 2011

Literacy Research Discussion Group: Catalan Research on Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 17 May 2011

Literacy Research Discussion Group: Visuals in cookbooks: Jamie Oliver and recent transformations, 10 May 2011

LVLT talk: 'The role of the retroflex in identity construction; a purposeful feature?' Maya Zara, 5 May 2011

"220 Fatal Accidents": Texts, Talk and Meaning in Adult Numeracy Classrooms. Helen Oughton, University of Bolton - Literacy Research Discussion Group, 3 May 2011

Discourse communities as catalysts for science and technology communication, 3 May 2011

Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics, 11-12 April 2011

LVLT talk: ''A town between dialects: accent levelling, psycho-social orientation and identity in Merseyside, 31 March 2011

Professor Sara Mills: 'Third wave feminism and the analysis of sexism', 21 March 2011

LAEL Society talk: Forensic Linguistics (Christin Kirchhuebel), 16 March 2011

Talk by Peter Robinson: Task Demands, Task Sequencing and Instructed Second Language Learning, 15 March 2011

LVLT talk: 'Sociolinguistics, salience and statistics: outlining some new directions in language attitude research' Kevin Watson & Lynn Clark, 10 March 2011

Early literacy development in today's world: a multimodal perspective. A talk to the Literacy Research Discussion Group by Rosie Flewitt, The Open University., 8 March 2011

Literacy History: Pushing the Disciplinary Boundaries, 7 March 2011

LAEL Society guest lecture: David Crystal, 3 March 2011

Barbara Johnstone (Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh) to give workshop entitled 'A Heuristic Approach to Discourse Analysis', 1 March 2011

Barbara Johnstone gives talk on 'Dialect Enregisterment in Performance', 1 March 2011

Invited talk: Accent and identity on the Scottish-English Border, 17 February 2011

Talk on '(Ir)relevance in Applied Linguistics for Language Teaching', 16 February 2011

Fleeing from an ash cloud: Languages, literacies and technologies as resources in a coach hurtling across Europe. Literacy Research Discussion Group, 15 February 2011

Sam Edwards, The Good War and the Cold War: American War Memory in Europe, 1945-2005, 9 February 2011

Revisiting speech vs. writing in the age of the Internet: Literacy Research Discussion Group, 8 February 2011

Texts, text-reader conversations, and institutional discourse (Dorothy Smith): Literacy Research Discussion Group, 1 February 2011

Discussion of the Government's plans for a new phonics test for 6-year-olds, 18 January 2011

LVLT talk: Dr Yoshiyuki Asahi 'Japanese and British contributions to sociolinguistic typology', 16 December 2010

LVLT workshop on using RBrul (Lynn Clark), 16 December 2010

LRDG - Discussion of recent papers and activities, 14 December 2010

LVLT talk: Jen Nycz (York) 'Testing phonological theory with second dialect data', 9 December 2010

When Diglossia Meets Digraphia: Reading Egyptian Arabic in Arabic Script and Latin Script - LRDG Seminar, 7 December 2010

LVLT talk: Heike Pichler (Salford) & Stephen Levey (Ottawa) 'Tracking grammaticalization in synchronic dialect data: General extenders in north-east England', 2 December 2010

Aganetha and Isaac go to school: A principal's reflections on the in- and out-of -school literacies of Mennonite children - LRDG seminar, 30 November 2010

Aganetha and Isaac go to school:  A principal's reflections on the in- and out-of -school literacies of Mennonite children, 30 November 2010

Learn about careers in speech and language therapy, 24 November 2010

Changing lifeworlds, changing writing: researching how adults take on new writing practices at times of change, 23 November 2010

Language Testing Forum 2010, 19 November 2010

Katy and the internet: some perspectives on the embededness of internet use in a particular family's literacy practices - LRDG seminar, 16 November 2010

Katy and the internet: some perspectives on the embeddedness of internet use in a particular family's literacy practices, 16 November 2010

Postcard Fair, 13 November 2010

On dialect spelling, social practice and sociolinguistic salience - LRDG seminar, 9 November 2010

On dialect spelling, social practice and sociolinguistic salience, 9 November 2010

Agata Fijalkowski, 'From Old Times to New Europe', DoM Seminar, 3 November 2010

Adolescents' linguistic practices in College-affiliated Bulletin Board Systems(BBSs) in Taiwan - LRDG seminar, 2 November 2010

LVLT & CRG joint meeting: Andrew Hardie 'Extending a corpus analysis tool to support the analysis of field data: Bodo and Dimasa data in the CQPweb system', 1 November 2010

LVLT meeting: Kevin Watson & Lynn Clark '/t/s and /r/s and t-to-r in Northern British English', 28 October 2010

Workshop by guest speaker Dr Devyani Sharma (Queen Mary, London) 'Sociolinguistic fieldwork in an urban contact context', 26 October 2010

Guest lecture by Dr Devyani Sharma (Queen Mary, London) 'Dialect and social change in London Asian English', 26 October 2010

LRDG - Discussion of recent papers and activities, 26 October 2010

Dialect and social change in London Asian English: Lecture by Devyani Sharma, 26 October 2010

Dialect and social change in London Asian English: Lecture by Devyani Sharma, 26 October 2010

Changing practices in museum interpretation - LRDG seminar, 19 October 2010

Lancaster University African Studies Group Research Seminar. Youth language in Africa and Europe: linguistic subversion or emerging vernaculars?, 19 October 2010

LVLT planning meeting, 14 October 2010

International Gender and Language Association conference (IGALA6), 14 September 2010

Migrations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Symposium), 1-3 July 2010

Symposium 'Migrations - Interdisciplinary Perspectives', 1 July 2010

International Summer School in Digital Literacies, 28 June - 1 July 2010

LVLT talk: "An investigation of rhythm in London English" Eivind Torgersen & Anita Szakay, 28 June 2010

Maria Lucia Castanheira: The changing relationship between local and global literacies: Tracing changes in literacy practices in a Brazilian metropolitan neighbourhood between 1988 and 2010, 22 June 2010

Diane Mavers: Redesign in copying, 15 June 2010

Brian Street: Bringing together the fields of multimodality and literacy studies, 8 June 2010

Symposium: Rightwing Populism, 3 June 2010

Charles Forceville: Researching multimodal metaphor in commercials and film, 1 June 2010

CeMoRe Workshop - Stranded: Lava, dust, people and aeroplanes, 27 May 2010

Carole Sedgwick: Crossing borders: the feasibility of harmonising academic literacy standards across Europe, 25 May 2010

Colin Adams: Graffiti and literacy practices in Roman Egypt, 18 May 2010

LRDG visit to the Hesketh Collection, 10 May 2010

Nigel Hall: Erasable writing technologies: a material history, 4 May 2010

Gunther Kress: Modes as cultural technologies of transcription, 27 April 2010

CANCELLED Adam Jaworski: Language as Spectacle: The Linguistic Landscape of Tourism: LRDG Multimodalities Seminar, 21 April 2010

Amy Burgess: I don't want to be a China buff, 20 April 2010

Revisiting the pains of imprisonment: Dr Ben Crewe, Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, 16 April 2010

Talk on 'Argumentation in Applied Linguistics for Language Teaching', 10 April 2010

Gender and Corpus Linguistics one day event (BAAL Gender and Language special interest group), 30 March 2010

Fourth International Conference on Bantu Languages - CANCELLED, 22-26 March 2010

The Rise of Right-Wing Extremism: The Politics of Memory in Europe and Beyond, 11 March 2010

LVLT meeting - Kevin Watson 'Lax articulation in Liverpool English?', 11 March 2010

Using a wiki to underpin research: an international project about children's everyday musical activity: LRDG Seminar, 9 March 2010

LVLT meeting - Lauren Hall-Lew, University of Oxford 'Style and Indexicality...', 4 March 2010

Multimodality Data Session - LRDG Research Seminar, 23 February 2010

Multimodality Data Session - LRDG Research Seminar, 23 February 2010

Language Variation talk 'Testing models of dialect innovation' Paul Kerswill & Eivind Torgersen, 18 February 2010

Mandated literacy assessment and the reorganisation of teachers' work: An institutional ethnography : LRDG seminar, 16 February 2010

LVLT meeting - discussion of Port (2010) 'Rich memory and distributed phonology', 11 February 2010

Farmers Facing Traceability: A case-study approach from Burgundy, France LRDG Seminar, 9 February 2010

LVLT meeting - Lynn Clark 'Exploring sociolinguistic variation and change from a usage-based perspective', 4 February 2010

Launch of Multimodality Theme for Lancaster Literacy Reseach Centre seminars., 2 February 2010

Launch of Literacy Research Centre Multimodalities Seminar Series, 2 February 2010

LVLT meeting - Eva van Lier 'Referential hierarchies in morpho-syntax, with special attention on three-argument constructions', 28 January 2010

Carbon literacy practices: textual footprints between school and home: an LRDG seminar, 26 January 2010

Argumentation Workshop, 27 January 2010

Introduction to Second Life, 13 January 2010

Adult Literacy and empowerment - from stocktaking to power-sharing: LRDG seminar, 12 January 2010

Société de linguistique de Paris- Sorbone, 12 December 2009

Phonetics, Phonology, Variation presentation, 10 December 2009

Phonetics, Phonology, Variation presentation, 3 December 2009

Paperwork in the workplace: responses to 'imposed' literacy practices: a Literacy Research Discussion Group Seminar, 1 December 2009

Phonetics, Phonology, Variation presentation, 26 November 2009

Language and Religion: departmental lecture by Professor Tony Mcenery, 25 November 2009

Discourses in transit: LRDG seminar, 24 November 2009

Writing in Fula in North Senegal : two graphic systems and some questions for the study of digraphia and multiscriptal situations : LRDG seminar, 17 November 2009

'The Politicisation of ELT Pedagogy' - Alan Waters, 14 November 2009

Phonetics, Phonology, Variation presentation, 12 November 2009

How Academics Write - LRDG seminar, 10 November 2009

Academics Writing in a Changing World : LRDG seminar, 10 November 2009

Phonetics, Phonology, Variation presentation, 5 November 2009

Ethnography as method, methodology, and 'deep theorizing': Discussion of Paper by Theresa Lillis - LRDG session, 3 November 2009

Analysing the language of interviews, 30 October 2009

Phonetics, Phonology, Variation presentation, 29 October 2009

The value of literacy in a rural community in Mali: An ethnographic account of one man's writing practices - LRDG Seminar, 20 October 2009

Learning, Literacy and Mobility: LRDG seminar, 13 October 2009

Tasks in Textbooks: Barking up the Wrong Tree?, 14 September 2009

3rd Biennial International Conference on Task-Based Language Teaching, 13-16 September 2009

Linguistic Impoliteness And Rudeness II Conference, 30 June - 2 July 2009

Conference for Teachers of A Level English Language, 26 June 2009

Researching virtual worlds in school settings - LRDG Seminar, 23 June 2009

Digital Literature as a Tool for (Foreign) Language Learning: Collaboration, Creativity, Transliteracy - LRDG Seminar, 16 June 2009

Designing for digital literacies - LRDG seminar, 9 June 2009

Online Ethnography - LRDG Seminar, 2 June 2009

Playing X-factor in the literacy classroom: on the prospects and problems of discourse genre interpenetration - LRDG seminar, 26 May 2009

Facilitating EFL Teacher Learning: Trends and Issues, 25 May 2009

Online ethnography: using screen-based observation in Web 2 research - LRDG seminar, 19 May 2009

Memory and Justice, 15 May 2009

Workshop: Jim Lantolf, Sociocultural Theory of Praxis in the L2 Classroom, 13 May 2009

Jim Lantolf, Penn State University - LAEL Departmental Lecture Series, 12 May 2009

Literacy Landmarks: Seven Historical Programs that Helped Shape (and Marginalize) the Adult Literacy Field - LRDG Seminar, 12 May 2009

Natesol Debate on 'The spread of English - a global force for good.', 7 May 2009

Spiralling through Change: Literacies and Technologies across the Lifespan - LRDG Seminar, 5 May 2009

The Performativity of Writing in a Public Space: An Ethnography of Paris Subway Signage - LRDG Seminar, 28 April 2009

Using Mobile Phones for Field Research - LRDG Seminar, 21 April 2009

TLRP-TEL digital literacies workshop, 12 March 2009

LAEL Departmental Lecture Series: Elena Semino, 11 March 2009

LRDG Seminar: Dyslexia, digitality and deconstruction, 10 March 2009

LAEL Departmental Lecture Series: Martin Bygate, 25 February 2009

LRDG Seminar: Remembering Ron Scollon, 24 February 2009

Reciprocal Gazes on Catalonia, 10 February 2009

Qualitative Methods Workshops: Discourse studies- the Application of Linguistics Techniques in Management Research, 5 February 2009

LAEL Departmental Lecture Series: Graeme Trousdale, University of Edinburgh, 28 January 2009

LRDG Seminar: Hidden dialogicality: the past and present in Soviet/Russian teacher training text-books, 13 January 2009

Various talks and lectures, 1 January 2009

LRDG seminar: Online ethnography: A view from language-focused CMC research, 2 December 2008

Dynamics of Memories, 28 - 29 November

LAEL Departmental Lecture Series: David Barton, 26 November 2008

LRDG seminar: The Stresses and Thrills of Fieldwork in Literacies, Language, and Education, 25 November 2008

LRDG seminar: Changing discourses: literacy and development in Nepal, 18 November 2008

LRDG seminar: "Who do you think wrote that?" : The Discoursal Construction of Writer Identity by Three Adult Literacy Students, 11 November 2008

LRDG seminar: 'Saint Jamie' or 'A normal bloke': celebrity language in public debate, a study of the Jamie Oliver intervention.., 4 November 2008

Joint meeting of the Corpus Research Group and the Language, Ideology & Power Research Group, 3 November 2008

LAEL Departmental Lecture Series: Jay Lemke - CANCELLED, 29 October 2008

LRDG seminar: Digital Literacies: young children learning to use new technologies at home, 28 October 2008

LAEL Society Guest Lecture - Mick Short, 23 October 2008

LRDG seminar: Literacy and the Victorian local paper in Preston, 21 October 2008

LRDG seminar: Interrupted Education, Interrupted Life, 14 October 2008

LRDG seminar: Literacy practices, text/s and meaning making across space and time, 7 October 2008

Corpus Research Group meeting, 6 October 2008

Commemoration: Staging the Past or Critical Event?, 25 September 2008

Workshop: Introduction to CQPweb, 18 September 2008

The 3rd Lancaster University Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics and Language Teaching, 3 July 2008

Interdisciplinary Symposium on 'European Memories', 26 June - 1 July 2008

LRDG seminar - Candice Satchwell - Working and learning with people who are homeless, 17 June 2008

LRDG seminar -- Awena Carter - Making invisible processes visible: the dynamic between taking an ethnographic stance as teacher and taking an ethnographic stance as a researcher., 3 June 2008

LRDG seminar -- Amy Burgess -- Making time and space for learning: the use of timespace to construct identity in two adult literacy classrooms., 20 May 2008

LRDG seminar: Stella Kachiwanda -- Reading and writing among members of the Ciyawo Speaking Community: Do public information texts constitute their everyday reading?, 12 May 2008

BAAL Linguistic Ethnography Forum: 'ethnographies of literacy: an Anglo-French dialogue', 8 May 2008

North West SfL Research Forum Seminar: Practitioner Research - can it support professional development?, 28 April 2008

Chris Sinha - Language as a biocultural niche and social institution, 24 April 2008

LRDG Seminar: Threads of Knowledge: the rabbi's wife, the Hebrew mourning-embroidery, and transmission of Jewish identity, 22 April 2008

Introduction to Second Life for educators (demonstration & discussion), 1 April 2008

LRDG seminar: Revisiting the New Literacy Studies language of description: some questions about literacy events, practices and domains, 18 March 2008

LRDG seminar: The literacy practices of developing a professional portfolio, 11 March 2008

LRDG seminar: Lending Ears to the Visual in Writing, 4 March 2008

LRDG seminar: 'I wouldn't do without her' - the role of literacy mediators in relation to patients' health literacy, 26 February 2008

LRDG seminar: The Romani approach to literacy, 19 February 2008

LRDG seminar: Mowo, an everyday story of country folk (and their literacies), 12 February 2008

LRDG seminar: A revolutionary moment in informal, near-synchronous, multimodal writing practices: the Edwardian postcard, 5 February 2008

Corpus Research Group, 4 February 2008

Language Learning Pedagogy Research Group Meeting, 31 January 2008

LRDG seminar: Literacy network analyses of a Chinese migrant child's multiliteracy practices in Britain, 29 January 2008

LRDG seminar: Simplification, 22 January 2008

LRDG seminar - Bookcrossing.com, 15 January 2008

Speech RG: Eivind Torgersen - How to do resynthesis and make perception tests in Praat, 13 December 2007

LRDG seminar: Cultural Articulations of the North: Carers Cruising Cumbria and Meals on The Mile. Sondra Cuban and Corinne Fowler, Lancaster University, 11 December 2007

LRDG seminar: Two research studies from Spain, 4 December 2007

Guest Lecture: Anne Wichman 'Prosody and Discourse Markers in English', 29 November 2007

Pragmatics and Stylistics Research Group, 28 November 2007

Guest Lecture: Terttu Nevalainen - 'Class and style? Social and register variation in the transmission of linguistic changes in the past', 28 November 2007

LRDG seminar: What Happens to Diaries? Irving Finkel, British Museum, 27 November 2007

Pragmatics and Stylistics Research Group, 21 November 2007

LRDG seminar: I am not a 'good' teacher; I don't do all their paperwork. Teachers' resistance to changing accountability demands. Karin Tusting, Lancaster University, 20 November 2007

LRDG seminar: 'You want to know about literacy? Then look, listen, and think about something else' : Alternative approaches, (in)appropriate methods and unexpected outcomes in ethnographic research. Anita Wilson, Lancaster University, 13 November 2007

Chinese Studies Research Group seminar (2), 5 November 2007

GaL talk: Doing gender phonetically: indexical information in phonology (Kevin Watson), 8 November 2007

Speech RG talk: Francis Katamba, 8 November 2007

Pragmatics and Stylistics Research Group, 7 November 2007

LRDG seminar: David Barton - Writing on Web2, 6 November 2007

Corpus Research Group, 5 November 2007

LRDG Seminar - Orthography as social practice: spelling and the new literacy studies. Mark Sebba, Lancaster University, 30 October 2007

LRDG Seminar: Exploring Textually Mediated Institutional Space: Gate keeping, Docility, Ceremonies and Signs. Lee James Tipton, Lancaster University, 23 October 2007

LRDG seminar: The discourses of a virtual island: the Schome-NAGTY 'Teen Second Life' project. Julia Gillen, Lancaster University, 16 October 2007

New Directions in Contemporary China, 20 September 2007

The 6th UK Language Variation and Change Conference, 11 -13 September 2007

English Language Conference For A Level Teachers, 29 June 2007

Age Effects in Second Language Learning, 26 June 2007

Corporate self-presentation and self-centredness: a case for cognitive Critical Discourse Analysis, 30 May 2007

Learning Strings: A Shortcut to Grammar?, 7 March 2007

Argumentation's Black Box, 21 February 2007

LRDG Seminar, 6 February 2007

Media Interaction as Representation: Primetime Authority and Expertise, 24 January 2007

Sign Language Typology - The Cross-linguistic Study of Sign Languages, 16 January 2007

Proofs of identity: some social and political functions of language tests, 14 December 2006

Politeness: Is There An East-West Divide?, 6 December 2006

Corpus linguistics and conventional categories of meaning, 22 November 2006

Dynamic Systems, Multilingualism and Second Language Development, 27 October 2006

Syntax of the World's Languages Conference (LAEL), 14-17 September 2006

Widening Participation at Lancaster: appearance and reality (Francis Katamba, LAEL), 8 May 2006

Forensic Linguistics Lecture (LAEL Departmental Lecture Series), 28 April 2006