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Research Seminars
English Language and Linguistics Research Seminars
Research in English Language & Linguistics spans historical and contemporary English linguistics (notably sociolinguistics and phonetics, discourse analysis, lexicology/semantics, corpus linguistics and applied linguistics), Scots and English in Scotland, and medieval English studies. The English Language & Linguistics Seminar provides an opportunity to hear and discuss research in a friendly and stimulating environment. The Research Seminar hosts invited talks from speakers outside Glasgow and also from Glasgow English Language & Linguistics staff members. It also gives our research postgraduates the chance to present at a formal research seminar. Talks range from topics as diverse as lexicography and discourse analysis to phonetics and medieval English.
Research Seminars are normally held on selected Thursdays. Postgraduates are strongly encouraged to attend. Details are sent by email to all staff and ELL PGs for each seminar; if you are not pursuing a degree in English Language & Linguistics but would like to join us for the seminar, please email Dr Louis Strange (louis.strange@glasgow.ac.uk).
Semester 1 2024-25
| 3 October |
Hanna Schmück (Lancaster University) Corpus linguistics Large Linguistic Networks: A case study on Lone-Wolf Terrorism in the British Press |
| 24 October |
Dr. Christian Ilbury (University of Edinburgh Sociolinguistics 'Gen Z language? Y'all mean AAVE': The appropriation of AAVE as an ‘internet vernacular’ |
| 7 November |
Prof. Hannah Gibson (University of Essex) Sociolinguistics Emerging dialect areas: contact, change and variation in Swahili |
| 28 November |
Holly Riach and Clodagh Murphy (Leiden University) Early modern literary texts 'faithful and silent scribe': Approaching Scribal Influence in Early Modern Manuscripts |
Semester 2 2024-25
| 16 January |
Lucy Jackson and Ryan Shaw-Hawkins (University of Glasgow) Sociophonetics |
| 13 February |
Dr. Matthew Hunt (University of Southampton) Sociolinguistics |
| 27 February |
Zeyu Yang and Zobair Masaoud (University of Glasgow) Semantics and systemic functional linguistics |
| 6 March |
Varshneyee Dutt and Kyle Gunn (University of Glasgow) Onomastics and semantics |
| 20 March |
Dr. Simon Statham (Queen’s University Belfast) and Dr. Louis Strange (University of Glasgow) Critical discourse analysis |
GULP Lab Lunch
The Glasgow University Laboratory of Phonetics (GULP) hosts a regular 'lab lunch' research meeting during semester time, and occasionally in the university vacations. The purpose of Lab Lunch is to provide an informal but focused environment for the presentation and discussion of research in Phonetics, Socio-phonetics and Sociolinguistics, carried out by members of the lab and associated colleagues across the University (eg. Psychology, Computing Science, Celtic and Gaelic) and research visitors. We enjoy listening and contributing to the discussion of research at all stages, from ideas, plans and outlines, to rehearsals for conference talks and finished papers.
All are welcome - if you are interested in attending, please email Jane Stuart-Smith (jane.stuart-smith@glasgow.ac.uk) to be added to the Lab Lunch Teams site, where Zoom links will be provided.
Past Seminars
Research Seminars, Semester 1, 2021-2022
Oct 21st
Dr Jie Liu (de Montfort University)
Adaptation from the IELTS to academic reading
Prof. Tom Bartlett
Nov 4th
Prof. Ad Putter (University of Bristol), Dr Joanna Kopaczyk (University of Glasgow) and Dr Venetia Bridges (Durham University)
Exploring medieval multilingualism: Harley MS 2253 and beyond
Prof. Andrew Prescott
Nov 11th
Dr Emma Franklin (University of Sheffield)
Corpus-lexicographical discourse analysis
Dr James Balfour
Nov 25th
Prof. Alison Wray (Cardiff University)
Using language to predict who will get Alzheimer’s disease: why would we imagine it would work?
Prof. Tom Bartlett
Dec 2nd
Dr Argyro Kanaki (University of Dundee)
An ethnographic approach exploring pupil language learning and teaching practices for Modern Foreign Language teaching in a Scottish primary school
Dr Piotr Wegorowski
Research Seminars, Semester 2, 2020-2021
Thursday, 21 January 2021: Professor Andrew Prescott and Dr Helen Lacey (University of Glasgow; Mansfield College, University of Oxford)
Representing the Voices of the People of 1381 (convenor: Andrew Prescott)
Thursday, 4 February 2021: Dr Judith Reynolds (Cardiff University)
Giving immigration legal advice: a case study of professional-lay intercultural communication (convenor: Piotr Wegorowski)
Thursday, 25 February 2021: Dr Joanna Kopaczyk, Professor Ad Putter and Dr Venetia Bridges (University of Glasgow; University of Bristol; Durham University)
Representing Medieval multilingualism on the page: From text tradition to mise-en-page (convenor: Jeremy Smith)
Thursday, 4 March 2021: Dr Stephen Kelly, Dr Ryan Perry and associates (Queen’s University, Belfast; University of Kent)
Whittington’s Gift: Reconstructing the Lost Common Library of London’s Guildhall (convenor: Alison Wiggins)
Thursday, 18 March 2021: ELL PGR students to present their work (University of Glasgow)
Titles/speakers tbc (convenor: Angela Gayton)
Research Seminars, Semester 1, 2020-2021
Organisers: Professor Elizabeth Robertson and Dr Angela Gayton (ELL)
Email: Elizabeth.Robertson@glasgow.ac.uk; Angela.Gayton@glasgow.ac.uk
Thursday, 8 October 2020: Professor Alastair Minnis and Professor Robert Pasnau (Yale University; University of Colorado, Boulder)
Hellish imaginations in the Middle Ages: Materiality versus metaphor, literal versus spiritual understanding (convenor: Elizabeth Robertson)
Thursday, 22 October 2020: Dr Itamar Kastner (University of Edinburgh)
Everywhere we checked talks like this (joint work with Benjamin Lowell Sluckin) (convenor: Clara Cohen)
***Please note that this talk will take place at the earlier time of 12:15***
Thursday, 5 November 2020: Dr Massimiliano Spotti (University of Tilburg)
On being enregistered into the online matrix of knowledge: An ethnographic exploration of an internet-based dismissal in an asylum seeking procedure (convenor: Tom Bartlett)
Thursday, 19 November 2020: Professor Meg Gebhard (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Implications of SFL pedagogy for refugee youth with interrupted formal schooling in the US (convenor: Tom Bartlett)