Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences News

Ruth Wodak gives Keynote speech at ELDIA's closing conference

Date: 10 June 2013

Ruth Wodak gave a Keynote speech at ELDIA's Closing Conference hosted by the University of Vienna, June 10-11, 2013. "European Identities, Mul ... Read more»

Elena Semino visits China to explore collaboration with universities in Beijing and Guangzhou

Date: 9 June 2013

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Lancaster language testers will give plenary symposium talk in Seoul

Date: 7 June 2013

On Wednesday 3rd July, Luke Harding will present a plenary symposium paper, co-authored with Charles Alderson and Tineke Brunfaut, at the Internation ... Read more»

Former PhD student named Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority

Date: 4 June 2013

Professor Rami Hamdallah, President of the An-Najah University (Palestine - West Bank), has been installed as the new Prime Minister of the Palestin ... Read more»

Andrew Hardie awarded Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award

Date: 30 May 2013

Congratulations to Andrew Hardie who has been awarded this year's Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award in the student-led Lancaster Teaching Aw ... Read more»

Research by 'Metaphor in End of Life Care' team on European Association for Palliative Care blog

Date: 28 May 2013

The European Association for Palliative Care has published a blog post on 'Good and bad deaths in interviews with hospice managers', by Elena Semino, ... Read more»

Ruth Wodak at at Exploratory Workshop in Bucharest

Date: 23 May 2013

Ruth Wodak at Exploratory Workshop in Bucharest "Diasporic Identities and Transnational Experiences From Social Actors to Public Discourses.Her talk w ... Read more»

Research on Google by Paul Baker and Amanda Potts in the national press

Date: 20 May 2013

The findings of a paper published by Paul Baker and Amanda Potts on the implications of Google's auto-complete search function have been reported in ... Read more»

Richard Xiao appointed to the peer review panel of the University of Bologna

Date: 17 May 2013

Richard Xiao has recently been appointed to the peer review panel by the University of Bologna. The appointment letter says, "in recognition of your e ... Read more»

Richard Xiao awarded a new ESRC grant

Date: 16 May 2013

Richard Xiao has been successful in a bid to the ESRC for a project on'Comparable and Parallel Corpus Approaches to the Third Code: English and Chin ... Read more»

Ruth Wodak invited Keynote, VALS - ASLA Conference

Date: 13 May 2013

Ruth Wodak is invited keynote speaker at the VALS - ASLA Conference, May 13, 2013, University of Basel (Switzerland).The title of her keynote is ... Read more»

Our department rated 10th in the world!

Date: 8 May 2013

The Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University has been rated as 10th in the world in the QS 2013 rankings! This is up fro ... Read more»

Ruth Wodak panel discussion about 'lieux de memoire'

Date: 7 May 2013

Ruth Wodak will be participating in a public forum/panel this evening, 7pm (which will also be broadcast in TV, ORF III). The panel will discuss lieu ... Read more»

Ruth Wodak gives plenary at the i-Mean Identity and Language Conference

Date: 19 April 2013

Ruth Wodak gives plenary at the i-Mean Identity and Language Conference inBristol. See conference website for details. ... Read more»

Richard Xiao gave a talk at Beijing Foreign Studies University

Date: 9 April 2013

Richard Xiao gave an invited a talk at China's National Research Centre for Foreign Language Education, Beijing Foreign Studies University on 9th Apri ... Read more»

Elena Semino gives plenary lecture at Cognitive Futures of the Humanities Conference (Bangor)

Date: 4 April 2013

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Tineke Brunfaut awarded British Council Aptis Research Grant

Date: 27 March 2013

Tineke Brunfaut and Gareth McCray have been awarded a British Council Aptis Research Grant of £10,347 for a study called 'Looking into reading' ... Read more»

Prize for a recent PhD graduate

Date: 27 March 2013

Martin Boyne, who was recently awarded a PhD under Mick's supervision, has received a prize for excellence in teaching at his university in Canada. ... Read more»

Mick receives an 'Outstanding contribution award'

Date: 26 March 2013

Mick has received an 'Outstanding contribution award' from the university for his work with theFairfield Association, and particularly for his part ... Read more»

Ruth Wodak made an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences

Date: 18 March 2013

Distinguished Professor Ruth Wodak of the Department of Linguistics and English Language has been made an Academician of the Academy of Social Scien ... Read more»

Paul Baker gives talk at University of Portsmouth

Date: 12 March 2013

Paul Baker gave a talk on the representation of Islam in the UK press at the University of Portsmouth. ... Read more»

Ruth invited to Final European Conference, ACCEPT Project, Brussels

Date: 6 March 2013

As member of the 7th Framework EU project ACCEPT, Ruth is invited o participate at the final presentation at Brussels, 6/7 March 2013. Conference p ... Read more»

Postgraduate studentships available in the Department of Linguistics and English Language

Date: 1 March 2013

Postgraduate studentships available at Lancaster's Department of Linguistics and English Language The Department of Linguistics and English Langua ... Read more»

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»

Paul Baker gives talk at City University of Hong Kong

Date: 27 February 2013

Paul Baker gave a talk on the representation of Muslim women at City University Hong. ... 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»

Linguistics with Chinese degree praised in UK Trade & Investment North West award

Date: 26 February 2013

Our Linguistics with Chinese degree praised in UK Trade & Investment North West award. For full details see the BBC website ... 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»