Semester 2 (Spring 2014)
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- 4 February (Week 2) — Paul Drew, Loughborough University: Patients initiating talk about symptoms that concern them
- 18 February (Week 4) — James Murphy, University of Manchester: “I don’t think you sound sorry about that at all!”: Politicians and their apologies at Leveson and in news interviews
- 4 March (Week 6) — Graeme Trousdale, University of Edinburgh: Issues in formal approaches to constructionalization
- 18 March (Week 8) — Emma Moore & Paul Carter, University of Sheffield: The Scilly Voices project: Exploring dialect contact and distinctiveness in an island community
- 1 April (Week 10) — Susanne Wagner, University of Oxford: Modelling frequency in a chain shift – questions, suggestions, and (some) answers (presenting joint work with Matthias Hofmann, Chemnitz University of Technology)
- 6 May (Week 12) — Sara Pons-Sanz, University of Westminster: Working with Norse-Derived Terms in Early English Texts
Semester 1 (Autumn 2013)
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- 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
Organizers: Tine Breban, David Denison and Laurel MacKenzie.
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