Pragmatics and Stylistics Research Group (PaSTY)

Current Programme

Week Date & time Venue Details
3 Wednesday
24th October
4.00-5.00
Bowland North, Seminar Room 1 Jonathan Culpeper (Lancaster University)
‘The pragmatics of Early Modern witchcraft: The Pendle witches’
4 Wednesday
31st October
4.00-5.00
Bowland North, Seminar Room 5 Elena Semino (Lancaster University)
‘A corpus-based comparison between a simplified version of Romeo and Juliet and Shakespeare’s original play’
5 Wednesday
7th November
4.00-5.00
Bowland North, Seminar Room 9 Carmen Ríos García (Lancaster University)
‘Generic vs. specific reference: definitely L1-related?’
8 Wednesday
28th November
4.00-5.00
Bowland North, Seminar Room 11 Thilagavathi Shanmuganathan
(University of Malaya)
‘Public Apologies in the Malaysian Social Media’
9 Wednesday
5th December
4.00-5.00
Bowland North, Seminar Room 16 Jane Sunderland (Lancaster University)
'Stage adaptations of novels: why the gap in research, some ideas of what to do, and relevant concepts from applied linguistics'

Other possible speaker in term 1

Marina Terkourafi (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Likely speakers in term 2

Mick Short (Lancaster University)
Paola Trimarco (University Campus Suffolk)
Yanna Popova (Case Western Reserve University)

 

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