Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Events

Sociophonetic and Allographic Variation of 'MeFi': A Case Study of Orthography as Social Practice

Date: 18 June 2013 Time: 1 - 2 pm

At the next Literacy Research Discussion Group meeting (Tuesday 18 June) we are pleased to welcome Kim Witten, University of York, who will be s ... Read more»

UCREL CRS: Presenting the new General Service List: Rationale, method, implications

Date: 20 June 2013 Time: 2.00-3:00 pm

UCREL Corpus Research SeminarPresenting the new General Service List: Rationale, method, implicationsVaclav Brezina and Dana GablasovaLearning vocabul ... 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»

Talk by Dr Karmen Pizorn (University of Ljubljana) on the European Indicator of Language Competence in Slovenia

Date: 4 July 2013 Time: 3.30-5.00 pm

Dr Karmen Pizorn (University of Ljubljana) will give a talk to the Language Testing Research Group on the Slovenian results of the European Indicator ... Read more»

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences: Sixth Form Conference

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

The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences: Sixth Form Conference is designed to provide an engaging and enjoyable insight into what it's like to s ... Read more»

An ontogenetic and multimodal analysis of Hong Kong textbooks

Date: 8 July 2013 Time: 4-5 pm

Nancy Guo, Department of English, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, will be speaking at the next Literacy Research Discussion Group meeting ... 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»

SLLAT presents: Nicole Ziegler (Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA) 'Synchronous Computer-Mediated Communication and Interaction: Methods, practices, and outcomes'

Date: 16 July 2013 Time: 11.00-12..00 am

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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»