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Departmental lecture: The Dynamics of Metaphor and Empathy - Lynne Cameron (Open University), 20 May 2013
UCREL CRS: Social Web Sentiment Analysis, 16 May 2013
LRDG: Greek crisis and stance-taking on Facebook, 14 May 2013
Talk on 'Why Metaphor Matters in Communication' by Elena Semino, LU's Senior Learners Forum, 8 May 2013
LIP Talk: Andrew Sayer - Why We Can't Afford the Rich: Discourse and 'Class Warfare', 8 May 2013
LRDG: Bronwyn Williams: Finding a Way In: Literacy, Popular Culture, and Points of Participation, 7 May 2013
LIP Talk: David Pask-Hughes, 1 May 2013
UCREL CRS: Corpus methods and a questionnaire for the diagnosis of pain symptoms, 25 April 2013
SLLAT research group: talk by Dr. Almudena Fernandez Fontecha on 'Motivation, age and gender in L2 receptive and productive vocabulary', 22 April 2013
Twitter and Microblogging: Political, Professional and Personal Practices, 10-12 April 2013
6th BAAL Gender and Language Special Interest Group Event: Language, Gender and Sexuality, 10 April 2013
UCREL CRS: The Corpus of Historical Singapore English - Practical and Methodological Issues, 26 March 2013
UCREL CRS: Lexical profiling and text simplification for language learners, 21 March 2013
LRDG: Reading and discussion session "Writing as sociolinguistic object", 19 March 2013
Dalia Gavriely-Nuri, 'The normalization of war in Israeli discourse 1967-2008', 14 March 2013
PaSTY talk by Helen Thomas (Newcastle University): Is singing good for you?, 13 March 2013
LRDG: The discursive construction of communities in social media, 12 March 2013
Undergraduate Admissions Open Day, 9 March 2013
Right-Wing Populism, 8 March 2013
UCREL CRS: Wrangling large-scale data for specialised corpora, 7 March 2013
SLLAT research group: talk by Prof.Dr. Sabine Schmölzer-Eibinger: Language as a learning tool in subject learning, 7 March 2013
PaSTY talk - Characterising irony - Steven Pattison, 6 March 2013
LTRG & SLLAT talk by Talia Isaacs, Bristol University, Modelling comprehensibility in second language speaking scales, 4 March 2013
LIP Event: Majid KhosraviNik, 27 February 2013
LRDG: Connections and disconnections on home and school literacy practices in Chile, 26 February 2013
SLLAT research group: talk by Jean Jimenez on 'Investigating the effects of immediate electronic corrective feedback on foreign language development', 25 February 2013
Walter Manoschek, 'If that's so then I'm a Murderer': Film and Discussion, 21 February 2013
UCREL Corpus Research Seminar: Using Life-Logging to Re-Imagine Representativeness in Corpus Design, 21 February 2013
Undergraduate Admissions Open Day, 20 February 2013
LIP Event: The Discursive Construction of Third-Country Nationals in European News: Perceptions and Practices from the Journalistic Field, 20 February 2013
LRDG: 'Points of View: reflections on a virtual world in a classroom (or was it a classroom in a virtual world)'?, 19 February 2013
SLLAT research group: talk by Morana Lukac on 'How word choice matters: an analysis of adjective + noun collocations in a corpus of learner essays', 18 February 2013
LAEL Society: Language evolution: the syntax rubicon is a mirage, 18 February 2013
UCREL Corpus Research Seminar: Creating Resources for Arabic Automatic Text Summarisation, 14 February 2013
LIP Event: Jannica de Prenter (KU Leuven), 13 February 2013
LRDG: Making sense of Twitter as professional practice: an exploratory case study, 12 February 2013
SLLAT: Alan Waters, Orwellian' discourse in ELT: a threat to professional diversity, 11 February 2013
Undergraduate Admissions Open Day, 9 February 2013
UCREL Corpus Research Seminar: Evidence Finder: a semantic search tool for the PMC Corpus of Biomedical Research Papers, 7 February 2013
LIP Event: Morana Lukač (Leiden University), 6 February 2014
LAEL Society talk: Kersti Börjars, 5 February 2013
UCREL Corpus Research Seminar: Manual annotation in a functional- typological grammar study, 31 January 2013
PaSTY talk by Mick Short: Listing and Impressionism in Charles Dickens's Description of Genoa in Pictures from Italy, 30 January 2013
LAEL Society talk: Professor Paul Kerswill, 24 January 2013
UCREL Corpus Research Seminar: What the brain can tell us about semantics: evidence using WordNet and latent semantic analysis, 24 January 2013
LRDG: Reading and discussion session "State literacies and inequality", 22 January 2013