Invited Speaker Series
LAEL Departmental Lecture Series
This series of public lectures is promoted by the Department of Linguistics and English Language at the University of Lancaster.
Contact person: Ruth Wodak
| Date | Time | Speaker | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 November 2009 | 4.30-6.00pm | Language and Religion: departmental lecture by Professor Tony Mcenery | Cavendish Lecture Theatre |
Past Speakers
If you would like to access materials from past department lectures such as PowerPoint slides, papers and in some cases streaming video, view the Department Lectures Resource (you will need to be on campus or using a virtual private network connection).
We are proud to have welcomed the following distinguished scholars to Lancaster recently (click on the title of the talk for more details):
| Date | Lecture / Event Details |
|---|---|
| 13 May 2009 | Sociocultural Theory of Praxis in the L2 Classroom Jim Lantolf (Penn State University) |
| 11 March 2009 | Metaphor, metonymy and multimodality in the communication of chronic pain Elena Semino (LAEL) |
| 25 February 2009 | Language, mind and society: trying to resolve some tensions in the triangle in educational applied linguistics Martin Bygate (LAEL) |
| 28 January 2009 | Sociolinguistics and the emergence of constructions in English Graeme Trousdale (University of Edinburgh) |
| 26 November 2008 | David Barton (LAEL) |
| 24 April 2008 | Language as a biocultural niche and social institution Chris Sinha |
| 26 June 2007 | Age
Effects in Second Language Learning Robert DeKeyser (University of Maryland) |
| 7 March 2007 | A
Discussion of 'The Bucket and the Rope' by T. F. Powys (PDF)
Mick Short (Linguistics & English Language, Lancaster University) |
| 7 March 2007 |
Learning Strings: A Shortcut to Grammar? Elena Lieven (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology & University of Manchester) |
| 21 February 2007 | Argumentation's
Black Box Igor Z. Zagar (Educational Research Institute & University of Primorska, Slovenia) |
| 24 January 2007 | Media
Interaction as Representation: Primetime Authority and Expertise Mary Talbot (University of Sunderland) |
| 14 December 2006 | Proofs
of identity: some social and political functions of language tests
Tim McNamara (University of Melbourne) |
| 06 December 2006 | Politeness:
Is There An East-West Divide? Geoff Leech (Linguistics & English Language, Lancaster University) |
| 22 November 2006 | Corpus
linguistics and conventional categories of meaning Professor Michael Hoey (University of Liverpool). |
| 27 October 2006 |
Dynamic
Systems, Multilingualism and Second Language Development Kees de Bot, Department of Applied Linguistics, University of Groningen |
| 11 March 2006 | Style in Fiction Symposium (SIFS) , Lancaster University |