Thanks to Tine Breban, David Denison and Laurel MacKenzie, this year’s organizers, we now have a full programme for this semester’s Langwidge Sandwidge! All meetings are from 1pm-2pm on Tuesdays; venue is Samuel Alexander A215.
- 1 October (Week 2) — Laurel MacKenzie & Danielle Turton, University of Manchester: Crossing the Pond: Extending Automatic Alignment Techniques to British English Dialect Data
- 15 October (Week 4) — Sophie Holmes-Elliott, University of Glasgow: Exogenous vs. endogenous change: how well does this distinction hold within a levelling variety?
- 5 November (Week 7) — Sarah Gormley, University of Manchester: Rapport Management, Identity and Positioning in Book Group Talk
- 12 November (Week 8) — Caitlin Light, University of York: The pragmatics of demonstratives in Germanic
- 26 November (Week 10) — Mary Begley, University of Manchester: Diachronic semantic change in the lexical field of insanity
- 10 December (Week 12) — Dawn Archer, University of Central Lancashire: Blending psychology and linguistics to study emotions
This programme will be updated with titles and links to abstracts as and when they become available.
Featured image: a sandwich.
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Posted on September 15, 2013 by manling