Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Events

LTRG & SLLAT talk by Talia Isaacs, Bristol University, Modelling comprehensibility in second language speaking scales

Date: 4 March 2013 Time: 04.00-05.30pm

The visitor Talia Isaacs from Bristol University will give a talk during a joint session or LTRG and SLLAT on Modelling comprehensibility in second la ... Read more»

LRDG: Critical ethnographic research of literacy practices used in youth community-based organisations in Québec: what ethical concerns?

Date: 5 March 2013 Time: 1 - 2 pm

Virginie Thériault, Lancaster University, will be speaking on:General ethical principles such as informed consent, confidentiality, participants' ph ... Read more»

UCREL CRS: Wrangling large-scale data for specialised corpora

Date: 7 March 2013 Time: 2.00-3:00 pm

UCREL Corpus Research SeminarWrangling large-scale data for specialised corporaAndrew Hardie (LAEL, Lancaster University)With vast amounts of text now ... Read more»

Right-Wing Populism

Date: 8 March 2013 Time: 14:00-16:00

Benjamin De Cleen (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Erasmushogeschool Brussel) "The Rhetoric of the Flemish Populist Radical Right Party Vlaams Blo ... Read more»

Undergraduate Admissions Open Day

Date: 9 March 2013 Time: 13:00 - 16:30

The Department of Linguistics and English Language will be holding an Open Day for UCAS applicants holding offers from the department, and for their p ... Read more»

LRDG: The discursive construction of communities in social media

Date: 12 March 2013 Time: 1 - 2 pm

Caroline Tagg, University of Birmingham, will be speaking on: On social media, which is predicated on notions of connectedness and the establishment ... Read more»

Dalia Gavriely-Nuri, 'The normalization of war in Israeli discourse 1967-2008'

Date: 14 March 2013 Time: 17:00-18:00

My first motivation in this lecture is to describe life in reality of repetitive wars from the perspective of Israeli citizen. I would like to expl ... Read more»

LRDG: Reading and discussion session "Writing as sociolinguistic object"

Date: 19 March 2013 Time: 1 - 2 pm

This week's session is a reading and discussion session, led by Tony Capstick, Lancaster University. The reading is: Blommaert, J. (2012). Writing ... Read more»

Twitter and Microblogging: Political, Professional and Personal Practices

Date: 10-12 April 2013 Time:

This conference brings together a range of researchers doing detailed analyses of the discourse, practices, and social interactions of micro ... Read more»

LRDG: Bronwyn Williams: Finding a Way In: Literacy, Popular Culture, and Points of Participation

Date: 7 May 2013 Time: 1 - 2 pm

Bronwyn Williams, Professor of English, Director, University Writing Center University of Louisville/Kentucky:Whether on computers or mobile device ... Read more»

A-level English Language teachers day conference

Date: 21 June 2013 Time: 9.30 am - 4.30 pm

We are delighted to announce that the next conference for teachers of A Level English Language will take place on Friday 21st June 2013 at Lancaster U ... Read more»

Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences Sixth Form Conference

Date: 5 July 2013 Time: 9.30am - 3.30pm

On Friday 5th July, the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (FASS) will be holding a Sixth-Form Conference (at Lancaster University). This eve ... Read more»

Lancaster Pragmatics Summer School: 30 Years of Pragmatics at Lancaster

Date: 13-14 July 2013 Time: 9.30am-5.00pm

Thirty years ago saw the publication of Geoffrey Leech's Principles of Pragmatics. To mark that event and the subsequent flowering of pragmatics at ... Read more»

8th Lancaster University Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics and Language Teaching

Date: 15 July 2013 Time: 9.30am-5.00pm

The 8th Lancaster University International Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics and Language Teaching which will take place at Lancaster Unive ... Read more»

WACL-2 -- Second Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics

Date: 22 July 2013 Time: 9.00 am- 5.00 p.m.

The Second Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics isto be held in conjunction with the Corpus Linguistics 2013 conference.The aim of this series of wor ... Read more»

Corpus Linguistics 2013

Date: 22 July 2013 Time:

The seventh international Corpus Linguistics conference (CL2013) will be held at Lancaster University from Tuesday 23rd July 2013 to Friday 26th July ... Read more»

Study Start: 2-week intensive study skills course

Date: 16-27th September 2013 Time: 9.00 am - 4.00 pm

Study Start is a 2-week intensive study skills course designed to help international students get the best possible start for their degree a ... Read more»