34th ELC Research Seminar (online). Date and time: Tuesday 14 December, 5:00 – 6:30 pm (CET), via Microsoft Teams Speaker: Dr Christian Ilbury Title of talk: What is Multicultural London English?   Registration is free, but required. The registration form can be found at: https://forms.gle/FcgHdhmQYBMccbBLA Upon registration, a link will be sent to registered attendees the day before the seminar. Certificates will be issued.   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.

A listaxe provisional de adxudicacións de prácticas externas para o curso 2021-2022 pode consultarse aquí.

Lecture: «We Are of the World: Introduction to Posthumanism», by Małgorzata Kowalcze (Department of English Studies, Pedagogical University of Cracow, Poland) Monday, November 22, 2021 10:00am Vía MS TEAMS   Register here: https://forms.gle/mRVoz6Mw47tC1Ww4A      

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.   The eventbrite link is here to sign up https://bit.ly/3bcCESZ A zoom link will be sent to all attendees on the day of the event.   ALL WELCOME RSVP ucdpress@ucd.ie The UCD Press team

Prof. Ignacio Palacios Martínez (USC) and Paloma Núñez Pertejo (USC)  would like to invite you to submit an abstract for the workshop entitled “Comparative research on youth language. New trends and challenges” that we will hopefully be convening at the 55th SLE Conference (https://societaslinguistica.eu/sle2022/) to be held at the University of Bucharest (in partnership with the “Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” Institute of Linguistics, the Romanian Academy) from 24 to 27 August 2022.  Abstracts should include a title and maximum of 300 words. The deadline for submission is 15 November 2021. If the proposal is accepted, it will be necessary to submit a revised version of the abstract of about…

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…

O venres 15 de outubro a través de MS Teams desenvolverase unha colaboración interdisciplinar que reúne a especialistas dos ámbitos da Xeografía, a Ética, o Dereito, a Bioloxía e a Filoloxía para falar da figura do lobo. Podedes inscribirvos na seguinte ligazón: https://forms.gle/pHE4P43xrSpJnJE4A Esta xornada está organizado por: Grupo de investigación Discurso e Identidade (ED431C 2019/01) Proxecto de investigación «O Tropo Animal: Unha Análise Ecofeminista da Cultura Contemporánea de Galicia e Irlanda» (PGC2018-093545-B-I00 MCIU/AEI/FEDER, UE) Proxecto de investigación «Interseccións: Xénero e Identidade na Narrativa Breve de Autoras Británicas Contemporáneas» (FEM2017, 83084P, AEI, FEDER) E coa colaboración do Instituto de Derecho de los Animales de la Asociación de Abogados de San Martín,Buenos Aires,…

[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  Data, hora e lugar de defensa: martes, 14 de setembro de 2021, ás 17:00, Aula B03   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…

LECTURE ‘Witness Trees: Postcolonial Landscapes in Irish Poetry’, by Lorna Shaughnessy (National University of Ireland, Galway) 27th Sept, 2021 10.00h via MS Teams REGISTRATION: https://forms.gle/XrTTZjJPW3qAUqGy6

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…

[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: A Contrastive Critical Discourse Analysis of Right-wing Populism: The cases of Donald Trump and Santiago Abascal Autora: Noelia Álvarez Alonso Titora: María de los Ángeles Gómez González Tribunal: Presidente: Luis Iglesias Rábade Secretaria: Laura Lojo Rodríguez Vocal: Teresa Sánchez Roura Data, hora e lugar de defensa: luns, 12 de xullo de 2021, ás 12:00, via MS Teams   2) Título: From lexis to grammar: a diachronic study of the modal verb will Autor: Hugo Álvarez Manso Titora: María Belén Méndez Naya Tribunal: Presidenta:…

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…

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A new ELC research seminar will be held online, via Microsoft Teams. Details follow here: Date and time: Tuesday 20 April, 5:00 – 6:30 pm, via Microsoft Teams Speaker:  Dr. Jerzy Norbert Nykiel (University of Bergen, Norway) Title of talk: “Grammaticalization, analogy, and linguistic cycles – insights from the development of (mainly) purpose subordinators in the history of English” Registration is free, but required. The registration form can be found at:https://forms.gle/8axRbPpAKDjyWESz5 Upon registration, a link will be sent to registered attendees a few days  ahead of 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…