Events
Survey Seminar Series Autumn 2017
The Survey of English Usage organises a number of seminars each
year for staff and students from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities
and beyond. They are generously sponsored by the English Department.
The following research seminars took place during the Autumn term.
Both seminars were in Foster Court 239.
Thursday
16 November, 4.15pm, Foster Court 239 |
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Chloe Harrison (Coventry) |
Action chains, grounding and 'narrative
urgency' in Enduring Love |
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Biographical info: Chloe Harrison is a Lecturer
in Stylistics at Coventry University. Her research interests
include Cognitive Grammar for stylistic application,
cognitive poetics, reader response and contemporary
and postmodern fiction. Her monograph Cognitive Grammar
in Contemporary Fiction (2017) has recently been published
with John Benjamins, and she is currently writing a
textbook on Cognitive Grammar with Dr Marcello Giovanelli
(Aston University). Alongside other projects, Chloe
is also collaborating on an empirical reader response
study of re-reading with Dr Louise Nuttall (University
of Huddersfield).
Writing an abstract for this talk is a MAEL Research
Methods Assignment. |
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Tuesday
12 December 4.30pm, Foster Court 239 |
Sylvia Shaw (Westminster) |
Representing political speech in writing -
from Official Reports to linguistic transcripts |
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Biographical info: Sylvia Shaw is a Senior
Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at Westminster
University. She is a sociolinguist who conducts research
in the field of language and gender, and is particularly
interested in language, gender and politics. Her work
has included research projects in the House of Commons
and an ESRC funded project investigating gender, language
and participation in the devolved political institutions
of the UK. Recently, she published research on mediatised
political discourse (particularly televised political
debates and political interviews), including analyses
of the language of political leaders in the 2015 UK
General Election. Currently she is writing a monograph
entitled 'Women, Language and Politics' for Cambridge
University Press.
Writing an abstract for this talk is a MAEL Research
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All welcome! Drinks afterwards.
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