Double congratulations are due to David Beauchamp, who has successfully defended his PhD, “Communicating Covid: variation in UK institutional crisis messages throughout the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic” (link coming soon; find out more about the project here) and had the corrections accepted. This was a really fascinating study …
We are delighted to welcome Yessy Hidajat and Kaiyu Huang to the university and to this group. Yessy and Kaiyu have just joined the Research Centre for Global Learning as part of a joint PhD programme with Deakin University. Yessy is based in Coventry and Kaiyu in Melbourne, and they …
CLaC is delighted to welcome visiting scholar Betül Bal-Gezegin, who is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language Teaching at Ondokuz Mayıs University, Turkey. Betül earned her Bachelor’s and PhD degrees in Foreign Language Education from Middle East Technical University. Additionally, she holds a Master’s degree in Applied …
Our recent PhD graduate, Yan Yan Yeung, is giving a talk about her fascinating PhD work as part of the Warwick University Applied Linguistics series Language. Culture. Matters today Weds 8 May. Details below… Place: Online MS Teams: Join the meeting now Meeting ID: 339 024 274 131 Passcode: tK5zsv Room S0.08, Social Sciences Building
CLaC members Sheena Gardner and Benet Vincent are happy to share that they have been invited to talk at the Air University Islamabad international conference ‘Unity in Diversity for National Cohesion‘ on Tuesday 30 April. They will be talking on the topic of ‘Coercion or persuasion: A corpus analysis of …
CLaC was delighted to welcome Mathias Russnes on 10 April to talk about his PhD research into ‘Semantic prosody, register and polysemy’. This was a very thought-provoking talk open to staff and students of the School of Humanities and associated research centres, the Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities and …
This talk, given by Benet Vincent and Sheena Gardner, was based on a paper (written with David Beauchamp) which they recently submitted to the volume Applying Systemic Functional Linguistics to Meet the Challenge of Change, edited by Vinh To, Eric Cheung and Jonathan Webster. In the talk, Benet and Sheena …
Chao Han and Sheena Gardner have recently had their third article based on transition markers in the Han CH-EN corpus accepted for publication in JEAP. The Han CH-EN corpus is a subset of the BAWE corpus in which each text by a Chinese speaking Chinese educated student is closely matched …
Professor Wasima Shehzad from the Corpus Research Centre at AIR university in Islamabad recently visited Coventry University as part of the PAK Mobility project. CLaC has longstanding links with this Corpus Centre, with members of CLaC having visited, examined and being on advisory boards there. Wasima (on the right) is …
CLaC is excited to issue a reminder about this call for abstracts for a Special Issue of the Journal of Methods in Applied Linguistics, guest edited by Aysel Şahin Kızıl (İzmir Bakırçay University – recently a visiting scholar with CLaC), Lee McCallum, and Benet Vincent. We are hoping to publish our …
