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 …
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 …
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 …
CLaC is excited to announce that member Benet Vincent has a new chapter out (co-written with Jim Clarke) – ‘The Colours of the Real World Only Seem Really Real When You Viddy Them on the Screen’: The Adaptation of Nadsat in Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange in the collection Anthony …
Congratulations to our CLaC colleagues Hilary Nesi and Siân Alsop, who have a new article out in the Journal of English for Academic Purposes.Until 16 August you can access the article to read and/or download via this link: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1dJDV5FQOReRBR Abstract A number of studies have examined the occurrence of stories …
