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UCREL CRS: Heads and adjuncts in the recent history of English: syntax and processing on the move
Thursday 19 January 2017, 15:00 -
ELT symposium in honour of Alan Waters
Friday 24 February 2017, 09:00 -
Culture, Society and Medicine seminar series: Shame and the Phenomenology of Voice-hearing
Wednesday 22 March 2017, 13:00 -
Culture, Society and Medicine seminar series: Ages and Stages: from research to public performance and beyond
Friday 05 May 2017, 13:00 -
AMLaP (Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing)
Thursday 07 September 2017, 09:00
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How did #PostTruth become Word of the Year?
How did #PostTruth become Word of the Year? Claire Hardaker talked linguistics on Sky News today. See Claire's article - Oxford Dictionary’s Word of the Year is “post-truth”, but what makes a newly coined word survive?
Populist politics and universities
Times Higher Education feature article "The problems of populism: tactics for Western universities" with comments from Professor Ruth Wodak.
Cael Rooney receives Geoffrey Leech Outstanding MA Student Award
Congratulations to MA in Language and Linguistics graduate Cael Rooney who receives the Geoffrey Leech Outstanding MA Student Award in Linguistics and English Language.
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LAEL Internships
We are offering several paid internships to 2nd-year undergraduates in Linguistics and the details are now online. Deadline for applications is Friday 16th December 2016.