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ONLINE LAUNCH OF BOOK BY FORMER IMAES STUDENT Wednesday, 3 November at 7.30pm (Irish Time)// 8.30pm (Spanish Time)

To celebrate the release of Queer Whispers, author Jose Carregal and critically acclaimed fiction writer and poet, Mary Dorcey will be in conversation with novelist and scholar Eibhear Walshe, UCC.

All welcome for what will be a fascinating discussion.

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On behalf of the research network ENGLISH LINGUISTICS CIRCLE (ELC), we are pleased to announce the 33rd ELC Research Seminar (online). Details follow here:

Date and time: Tuesday 9 November, 5:00 – 6:30 pm, via Microsoft Teams  

Speaker:  Professor Dr Claudia Claridge

Title of talk: The pragmatics of intensifiers in the Late Modern English courtroom

Registration is free, but required. The registration form can be found at:

https://forms.gle/2W58udFv6myKpSPt6

Upon registration, a link will be sent to registered attendees the day before the seminar.

ELC seminars are intended for members of staff and MA and PhD students at Departments of English and, more generally, for anyone interested in linguistics.

Brief profile: 

Claudia Claridge holds an MA (1992) from the University of Bamberg and a PhD (1999) from the University of Chemnitz, with the thesis “Multi-word Verbs in Early Modern English”. In 2007 she obtained a position as Full Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Duisburg-Essen and in 2015 she moved to the University of Augsburg, where she is Professor and Chair.

She has published widely on phraseology, pragmatic markers, intensifiers, historical pragmatics, genre evolution, and the development of history writing. Some of her recent journal articles include “A little something goes a long way: LITTLE in the Old Bailey corpus” (Journal of English Linguistics 49, 2021), “Degree and related phenomena in the history of English: evidence of usage and pathways of change” (Journal of English Linguistics 49, 2021),  “Entirely innocent: a historical sociopragmatic analysis of maximizers in the Old Bailey Corpus” (English Language and Linguistics 24, 2020), and “NOW in the historical courtroom: users and functions” (Journal of Historical Pragmatics 19, 2018).

[Cada un dos tribunais propostos conta co preceptivo membro suplente, aínda que non se indica nesta relación.]

USC: UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA

1) Título: Videogames in English language Teaching and Learning: The Users’ Views

Autor: Antía Fandiño Bon

Titor: Ignacio Palacios Martínez

Tribunal:

Presidenta: Paloma Núñez Pertejo

Secretaria: Susana Mª Doval Suárez

Vocal: Mario Cal Varela

2) Título: A comparative analysis of the speech of individuals with fluent and non-fluent aphasia

Autora: Nerea Fernández Quiroga

Titor: J. Carlos Acuña Fariña

Tribunal:

Presidenta: Paloma Núñez Pertejo

Secretario: Mario Cal Varela

Vocal: Elsa Mª González Álvarez

Data, hora e lugar de defensa: mércores, 15 de setembro de 2021, ás 10:30, Aula B03

3) Título: (The teaching of) English as a Foreign Language at the 4th level of Primary Education: A course syllabus, with special reference to a cultural exchange between Galicia and the US

Autor: Gonzalo Filloy López

Titora: Paloma Núñez Pertejo

Tribunal:

Presidente: Ignacio Palacios Martínez

Secretaria: Susana Mª Doval Suárez

Vocal: Belén Méndez Naya

Data, hora e lugar de defensa: mércores, 15 de setembro de 2021, ás 17:00, Aula B03

4) Título: “She hadn’t realized how long it takes to become somebody else”: Race, Gender and Identity in Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half

Autora: María Victoria Fuentes Del Río

Titores: Jorge Sacido Romero e Laura Mª Lojo Rodríguez

Tribunal:

Presidente: Constante González Groba

Secretaria: Susana Mª Jiménez Placer

Vocal: Margarita Estévez Saá

Data, hora e lugar de defensa: mércores, 15 de setembro de 2021, ás 11:30, via MS Teams

5) Título: Changing Skins and Blurring Borders: Woman-Animal Metamorphosis and the Posthuman in Sarah Hall’s “Mrs Fox”

Autora: Lara Macías Alonso

Titora: Laura Mª Lojo Rodríguez

Tribunal:

Presidenta: Manuela Palacios González

Secretario: Jorge Sacido Romero

Vocal: Margarita Estévez Saá

Data, hora e lugar de defensa: venres, 17 de setembro de 2021, ás 11:30, Aula B13

6) Título: Her Horrible Body and Other Parties: The Female Body In Carmen María Machado’s Short Fiction

Autor: Olalla Rubines Chisca

Titora: Laura Mª Lojo Rodríguez

Tribunal:

Presidenta: Patricia Fra López

Secretario: Jorge Sacido Romero

Vocal: Margarita Estévez Saá

Data, hora e lugar de defensa: venres, 17 de setembro de 2021, ás 10:00, Aula B13

7) Título: Exploring Sexism with Corpora: Adjectives in Focus

Autor: Guillermo Santos Sánchez

Titora: Belén Méndez Naya

Tribunal:

Presidente: Ignacio Palacios Martínez

Secretaria: Elsa Mª González Álvarez

Vocal: Xabier Fernández Polo

Data, hora e lugar de defensa: xoves, 16 de setembro de 2021, ás 18:00, Aula B06

8) Título: A corpus-based study of conjunctive connectors: nevertheless and nonetheless

Autora: Adina Vladu

Titora: Belén Méndez Naya

Tribunal:

Presidente: J. Carlos Acuña Fariña

Secretaria: Susana Mª Doval Suárez

Vocal: Paloma Núñez Pertejo

Data, hora e lugar de defensa: xoves, 16 de setembro de 2021, ás 16:30, Aula B06

 UDC: UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA

1)Título: Studying the Impact of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in the Beginnings of Science Fiction and its Later Evolution.

Autor/a: María Asunción Alonso Lemus

Titor/a: David Clark

Tribunal: María Jesús Lorenzo Modia (Presidenta), Isabel Moskowich-Spiegel Fandiño (Vocal), José Miguel Alonso Giráldez (Secretario)

Data, hora e lugar de defensa: 23 de septiembre; 12:00h; on-line (plataforma Teams).

2) Título: The Twentieth Century Irish Peasant Play: Modernisation and Bourgeois «Respectability» in the Country Cottage Kitchen.

Autor/a:  Brendan Carr

Titor/a: David Clark

Tribunal: María Jesús Lorenzo Modia (Presidenta), Isabel Moskowich-Spiegel Fandiño (Vocal), José Miguel Alonso Giráldez (Secretari0)

3) Título: Uzbek students learning English as a foreign language: Error analysis using corpora.

Autor/a:  Barno Kutlimuratova

Titor/a: María Begoña Crespo García

Tribunal: María Jesús Lorenzo Modia (Presidenta), Isabel Moskowich-Spiegel Fandiño (Vocal), José Miguel Alonso Giráldez (Secretario)

On behalf of the research network ENGLISH LINGUISTICS CIRCLE (ELC), we are pleased to announce the 32nd ELC Research Seminar (online). Details follow here:

Date and time: Tuesday 28 September, 5:00 – 6:30 pm, via Microsoft Teams  

Speaker:  Dr. Raquel P. Romasanta

Title of talk: Contact-induced variation and change in World Englishes

Registration is free, but required. The registration form can be found at:

https://forms.gle/ysoVBiFQtwqrx7yH9

Upon registration, a link will be sent to registered attendees the day before the seminar.

ELC seminars are intended for members of staff and MA and PhD students at Departments of English and, more generally, for anyone interested in linguistics.

Brief profile: 

Raquel P. Romasanta is currently a full-time postdoctoral fellow at the University of Vigo, on a competitive one-year contract funded by the Spanish State Research Agency.

She defended her PhD in December 2020, on the topic “Variation in the clausal complementation system in World Englishes”; her PhD advisors were Elena Seoane(UVigo) and Manfred Krug (UBamberg, Germany).

Raquel’s publications have appeared in Alicante Journal of English Studies, Nordic Journal of English Studies and the eSeries Studies in Variation, Contacts and Change (Helsinki: University of Helsinki).

Her research has received international recognition at forums like the 8th Biennial Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (Bamberg, 2019; Best Junior Paper Award) and ISLE – International Society for the Linguistics of English (Richard M. Hogg Prize 2020, for her paper Negation as a predictor of clausal complement choice in World Englishes).

On behalf of the research network ENGLISH LINGUISTICS CIRCLE (ELC), we are pleased to announce the 30th ELC Research Seminar (online). Details follow here:

Date and time: Tuesday 18 May, 5:00 – 6:30 pm, via Microsoft Teams 

Speakers: Gema Alcaraz Mármol (University of Castilla-La Mancha) and Jorge Soto Almela (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)

Title of talk: “The discursive representation of migrants and refugees in the written press from a CADS perspective”

Convenor: Fátima Faya Cerqueiro 

Registration is free, but required. The registration form can be found at: 

https://forms.gle/A2xen9Px6PiMnFmF9 

Upon registration, a link will be sent to registered attendees the day before the seminar.

ELC seminars are intended for members of staff and MA and PhD students at Departments of English and, more generally, for anyone interested in linguistics.

Brief profiles: 

Gema Alcaraz Mármol holds a PhD (2011) in English Linguistics from the University of Murcia, with a dissertation on “Quantity and rate of vocabulary acquisition in the context of non-systematic input: Elementary students of English as a Foreign Language”. Since 2014 she has worked at the Department of Modern Philology of the University of Castilla-La Mancha, where she is an Associate Professor.

Jorge Soto Almela received his PhD (2014) in Translation and Interpreting from the University of Murcia, with a thesis on “Los términos culturales en el ámbito turístico español-inglés: traducción, manipulación y recepción real en usuarios anglófonos”. He has been a Lecturer in English at the Universidad Católica de San Antonio in Murcia (2012-2019) and is currently a Lecturer in English for Professional and Academic Communication at the Department of Applied Linguistics of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.

Recent publications on the seminar’s topic: 

2020. Gema Alcaraz Mármol & Jorge Soto Almela. Refugees’ dehumanization in the Spanish media: A corpus-assisted study within the semantic preference framework. Applied Linguistics Review. Published online: February 20, 2020.
2021. 2019. Jorge Soto Almela & Gema Alcaraz Mármol. Victims or non-humans: Exploring the semantic preference of refugees in Spanish news articles.

2018. Gema Alcaraz Mármol & Jorge Soto Almela. Refugees in the Spanish press: A corpus-assisted study of the semantic prosody of the term ‘refugiado’ from a diachronic perspective. Sintagma 30: 95-113.
2019. Jorge Soto Almela & Gema Alcaraz Mármol.Comparing the portrayal of immigration in two Spanish newspapers: Asemantic prosody analysis. Onomázein. Revista de lingüística, filología y traducción de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile 38: 147-168.