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Gender & Language Research Group

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Term Two Programme 2009-2010

The GaL research group meetings are held on Wednesdays 2-3:30 pm in BN SR 16.

 

Date
Activity
Week 1:
13 January 2010
Planning Meeting
Week 2:
20 January 2010
Reading and discussing five books reviews in the new (2009) issue of Gender and Language (3.1)
Week 3:
27 January 2010

Maryam Paknahad: The representation of the body in on-line romantic relations: Technology, gender, and body in Iranian love blogs

Week 4:
05 February 2010

Jane Demmen: Investigating the characterisation of female characters in Shakespeare’s play through word clusters (with PASTY and Corpus Research Groups)[This meeting will be held in BN SR 27, 1-2 pm]

Week 5:
10 February 2010

Justin Charlebois’s mock PhD viva: Constructions of Japanese femininities in discourse (some materials will be provided)

Week 6:
17 February 2010
Grace Bota: Constructing gender identities through blending and metonymies: evidence from Ghanaians in the UK Diaspora

Week 7:
24 February 2010

Ayako Tominati: Metaphor and masculinity in the Japanese newspaper coverage of baseball (Joint meeting with the PASTY Research Group)

Week 8:

TBA

Week 9:

TBA

Week 10:

TBA

 

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