Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences News

State-of-the-art research equipment for the Lancaster Linguistics Research Lab

Date: 27 February 2013

State-of-the-art research equipment is being acquired for the Lancaster Linguistics Research Lab. Lancaster University is funding the acquisitio ... Read more»

Article by LAEL PhD student published in the Guardian online

Date: 26 February 2013

Danny Whitehead, a Linguistics and English Language PhD student, had the following article on language policy in Indonesia published in the Guardian ... Read more»

Paul Baker gives plenary at Washington DC

Date: 15 February 2013

Paul Baker gave a plenary talk at the 20th Anniversary of the Lavender Linguistics and Languages Conference, held at American University, Washington D ... Read more»

Professor Ruth Wodak giving Open Lecture at the University of Manchester

Date: 12 February 2013

Distinguished Professor Ruth Wodak is giving an Open Lecture at the University of Manchester on Tuesday 12 February 2013. Hosted by the Centre for ... Read more»

Ruth holds Research Seminar, Business School, Helsinki

Date: 7 February 2013

Ruth is invited to hold e research seminar in the Hanken Business School, on Applying CDA in the Analysis of Meetings! See http://www.hanken.fi/pub ... Read more»

Ruth at Workshop about the notions of 'critique' and 'critical'

Date: 7 February 2013

Ruth is invited to University Jyväskyla from 7-9 February, to participate at a workshop discussing the notions of critique and critical. See b ... Read more»

Paul Baker gives talk at University of Chester

Date: 6 February 2013

Paul Baker gave a talk to the English department at the University of Chester entitled: Do men all just want the same thing? A corpus linguistics appr ... Read more»

Charis Stefanou wins Language Learning Dissertation Grant

Date: 2 February 2013

LAEL PhD student Charis Stefanou has been awarded the "Language Learning Dissertation Grant" from the internationally renowned Journal of Language L ... Read more»

Yvonne Prefontaine wins best graduate student paper competition

Date: 31 January 2013

Yvonne Prefontaine, a PhD student in the Thesis and Coursework programme, has won the Canadian Modern Language Review Best Graduate Student Paper co ... Read more»

Funding to develop links between Lancaster and Georgetown University, Washington

Date: 24 January 2013

The Department of Linguistics and English Language has received funding from FASS to support the development of links between Lancaster and Georgeto ... Read more»

Study Start: New 2-week intensive study skills course

Date: 24 January 2013

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

Elena Semino gives an invited talk at London's Eastman Dental Hospital

Date: 23 January 2013

Elena Semino gives a talk entitled 'A Linguistic approach to the McGill pain questionnaire' at the Eastman Dental Hospital in London. The talk is part ... Read more»

Statement of Austrian Expertenrat on 'Acquisition of German Language'

Date: 14 January 2013

A statement about the best ways to teach and acquire necessary German proficiency for school children and pre-school children was drafted by Ruth Woda ... Read more»

Applications for PG scholarships open until 22 March 2013

Date: 17 January 2013

Applications for our postgraduate scholarships are open until 22 March 2013. For MA scholarships see http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/study/masters/fun ... Read more»

ESRC Centre on Corpus Approaches to Social Science

Date: 16 January 2013

We are delighted to announce that a group of Lancaster linguists led by Professor Tony McEnery have been awarded a £3.5 million ESRC Centre on ... Read more»

Ruth Wodak invited to Panel Discussion with Members of the European Parliament

Date: 17 December 2012

Ruth will participate in a panel discussion with MEPs from the Green Party and some prominent Austrian journalists, about the Nobel Peace Prize awared ... Read more»

Daniel Johnson interviewed for BBC Radio Merseyside

Date: 28 November 2012

Daniel Ezra Johnson was interviewed for BBC Radio Merseyside about the current interest in the French-accented interview of Liverpudlian and QPR ... Read more»

Elena Semino lectured at the University of Fuzhou, China, 19-22 November

Date: 27 November 2012

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Jane Sunderland awarded joint-winner of the IGALA book prize for 2012

Date: 27 November 2012

Jane Sunderland's research monograph, Language, Gender and Children's Fiction (Bloomsbury/Continuum, 2011) has been awarded joint-winner of the bian ... Read more»

Research on Representation of Islam in the British press rated outstanding

Date: 19 November 2012

An ESRC funded research project on the representation of Islam and Muslims in the British press has been rated as "outstanding" by the ESRC's internal ... Read more»

Tony McEnery and Paul Baker present at House of Commons

Date: 12 November 2012

Tony McEnery and Paul Baker presented research from their forthcoming book (co-authored with Costas Gabrielatos) Discourse Analysis and Media Bias: Th ... Read more»

Ruth Wodak ainvited as keynote speaker at ILINC, Belfast

Date: 9 November 2012

Ruth is invited as keynote speaker at the PG Conference in Belfast, University Belfast. See http://blogs.qub.ac.uk/ilinc2012/plenary-speakers/for m ... Read more»

Laura Cariola quoted in Psychologies Magazine

Date: 8 November 2012

Laura Cariola, PhD student in Linguistics and English Language, is quoted in this week's Psychologies Magazine talking about how the language we use ... Read more»

Paul Baker gives talk at Northumbria University

Date: 7 November 2012

Paul Baker gave a talk on the representation of Islam in the UK press at Northumbria University, based on his forthcoming CUP book co-authored with To ... Read more»

Sam Kirkham plenary speaker at NRFIL conference

Date: 2 November 2012

Sam Kirkham is plenary speaker at the New Researchers Forum in Linguistics at the University of Manchester, 2-3 November 2012. His talk is titled ... Read more»

New Journal: Language and Psychoanalysis

Date: 1 November 2012

We are pleased to announce the launch of a new Journal: Language and Psychoanalysis, edited by Laura Cariola and Andrew WilsonThe first volume of the ... Read more»

Ruth distinguished visitor of Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Carleton University, Canada

Date: 30 October 2012

Ruth is invited as distinguished visitor at Carelton University, Linguistics Department. She will be giving a departmental lecture and a public lectur ... Read more»

Ruth gives annual Jakob Grimm Lecture, Waterloo University

Date: 23 October 2012

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Paul Baker interviewed for ABC Radio National, Australia

Date: 9 October 2012

Paul Baker was interviewed about Polari for Australian Radio. ... Read more»

Lancaster Linguistics comes top in the National Student Survey

Date: 2 October 2012

The National Student Survey results have now been released in the form of rankings by subject.In the Linguistics ranking, we come top out of 28 dep ... Read more»

Judit Kormos promoted to a Readership

Date: 1 October 2012

Congratulations to Judit Kormos who has been promoted to a Readership, with effect from 1st October. She has chosen to be called 'Reader in Seco ... Read more»

MA student receives the 2012 Caroline Clapham IELTS Masters Award

Date: 27 September 2012

We are pleased to announce that Veronika Timpe, a student on the MA in Language Testing, has been awarded the 2012 Caroline Clapham IELTS Masters ... Read more»

CICCOM- Communication, Cognition and Media: Political and Economic Discourse

Date: 19 September 2012

Ruth is invited as keynote speaker to the conference on Political and Economic Discourse, in Braga, Portugal, 19-22 September 2012. Her lecture is ... Read more»

Polari exhibition at the John Rylands Library, Manchester uses Paul Baker's research

Date: 19 September 2012

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Paul Baker gives keynote speech at CADS International Conference, Bologna

Date: 14 September 2012

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Study Chinese in your first year

Date: 13 September 2012

Study Chinese in your first year Mandarin Chinese (intensive) is available as a first year part 1 option. The course will take learners to th ... Read more»

Greg Myers elected Chair of BAAL

Date: 11 September 2012

Greg Myers has been elected Chair of BAAL (British Association for Applied Linguistics) for the next three years. ... Read more»

Symposium: Integration und Bildung/ Integration and Education

Date: 11 September 2012

As members of the expert advisory board (Expertenrat) of the MInistry for Interior Affairs, Ilan Knapp and Ruth Wodak organised an expert workshop for ... Read more»

Department in the top 50 Linguistics departments in the world

Date: 10 September 2012

The Department of Linguistics and English Language is once again in the top 50 Linguistics departments in the world (49th to be precise), according t ... Read more»

National Student Satisfaction Survey 2012

Date: 9 September 2012

In the 2012 National Student Survey, 96% of our students say they are satisfied with their experience of studying with us. ... Read more»