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Manchet is pleased to announce another successful viva in LEL. Rachel Kirkwood has defended her thesis titled “Stand Still in the Light: metaphorical conceptualisation of religious experience, with particular reference to the writings of 17th-century Quakers”. The work combines conceptual metaphor theory with corpus linguistics in the study of religious discourse. Rachel was supervised by […]
October 14, 2022 by manling
Comments Off on Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen at LEL seminar
Next week’s LEL seminar will feature LEL’s own Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen, who will talk about the importance of distinguishing hearer and speaker meaning. The title and abstract are below. The talk will take place next Tuesday 18th October Simon Building 1.34, starting at 4.30 which is a bit later than usual. All are welcome! A […]
December 17, 2021 by manling
Comments Off on Successful viva for Juliette Angot
Congratulations to Juliette Angot on passing her viva! Juliette’s dissertation, supervised by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and Martina Faller, is on “Epistemic and subjective expressions in French: the case of ‘je pense’, ‘je crois’, and ‘je trouve’.” The examiners were LEL’s Eva Schultze-Berndt and Kate Beeching (UWE, via Zoom). Pictured below is Juliette with her committee. […]
March 17, 2021 by manling
Comments Off on Special issue of “Journal of Historical Pragmatics” edited by Mosegaard Hansen
LEL’s Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen has served as a guest editor for a special issue on “The role of pragmatics in cyclic language change”, which is out now in Journal of Historical Pragmatics. The issue brings together an introduction by Maj-Britt and six articles on the topic of cyclic change. The link to the special issue […]
March 11, 2021 by manling
Comments Off on CIDRAL Public Lecture by James Murphy
Manchet is delighted to announce that the next CIDRAL Public Lecture will be given by an LEL alumnus, James Murphy. James received a PhD from Manchester in 2014, and he has since worked at UWE Bristol. He is now Acting Director of the Bristol Centre for Linguistics, joint Associate Head of Department for Linguistics & Writing and […]
October 16, 2020 by manling
Comments Off on AHRC grant for Mosegaard Hansen
Congratulations to Maj-Britt for winning a prestigious AHRC Research Networking Grant! The project will focus on The Role of Pragmatics in Cyclic Language Change. The Co-I is Prof Richard Waltereit (Humboldt U, Berlin), and the network consists of 22 senior and junior colleagues from Europe, North America, the Middle East and the Far East.
August 13, 2019 by manling
Comments Off on Postcard from Núria
This postcard is from Núria Barrios Jurado, an MA student at LEL. Núria is in Berlin, attending the DGfS/xPRAG.de Summer School on “Experimental Pragmatics: Theory, Methods, Interfaces”, along with fellow MA students: Colleen, Eve, Kat and Xinyu. The fabulous five are pictured above with a famous Berlin landmark in the background.
December 5, 2018 by manling
Comments Off on CIDRAL book launch with Mosegaard Hansen
Today’s CIDRAL book launch is featuring LEL’s own Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen, who will present an edited volume, joint with Rosina Márquez Reiter, on “The Pragmatics of Sensitive Activies in Institutional Discourse”. The volume was published by John Benjamins earlier this year, and you can read more about it here. The book launch will take place […]
April 18, 2018 by manling
Comments Off on Marina Terkourafi @ LEL Seminar
Next week, on Tuesday 24th April, we welcome Marina Terkourafi at the LEL Research Seminar. Marina specialises in pragmatics and sociolinguistics at the University of Leiden. Her primary research areas concern “issues of pragmatic variation and experimental pragmatics”. She has been conducting fieldwork in Cyprus, with “extensive research on the use of politeness markers, the […]
February 1, 2018 by manling
Comments Off on Jean-Marc Dewaele @ LEL Research Seminar
Next Tuesday (Feb 6, 2018) LEL welcomes Jean-Marc Dewaele, Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of London Birkbeck). Dewaele’s research talk will focus on the language of emotion and foreign language acquisition. Here’s the abstract: Abstract In this lecture I will present an overview of the recent surge of interest in the field of […]
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November 9, 2022 by manling
Comments Off on Successful viva for Rachel Kirkwood