Events
Survey Seminar Series Autumn 2020
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.
Wednesday
31 October, 4.15pm, Darwin Building B15 |
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Billy Clark (Northumbria) |
Pragmatics and Literature |
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Biographical info: Billy Clark is Professor
of English Language and Linguistics at the University
of Northumbria. His interests span different areas of
research on linguistic and non-linguistic meaning, including
linguistic semantics, pragmatics, prosodic meaning,
stylistics, multimodal meaning and semantic change.
In this talk, he will consider some of the ways in which
work on pragmatic inference can be applied in accounting
for the production, interpretation and evaluation of
literary and other texts. He will go on to explore the
ways in which some texts cause interpretative problems
for audiences, varying responses to these texts, and
how this relates to the problematic notion of ‘literariness’.
Writing an abstract for this talk is a MAEL Research
Methods Assignment. |
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Wednesday
28 November, 4.15pm, Darwin Building B15 |
Lynda Mugglestone (Oxford) |
Rethinking history and historical principles:
Andrew Clark and the language of the First World War |
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Biographical info: Lynda Mugglestone is Professor
of the History of English at the University of Oxford.
She has published widely on the history of English,
and with particular reference to the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries, lexicography and lexical history,
and the history of spoken English. Publications include
Talking Proper: The Rise of Accent as Social Symbol
(new ed, 2007), Lost for Words: The Hidden History
of the Oxford English Dictionary (2005), and Dictionaries:
A Very Short Introduction (2011). She is editor
of The Oxford History of English (revised ed.
2012) and, with Freya Johnston, she edited Samuel
Johnson: The Arc of the Pendulum (OUP, 2012). Her
most recent book is Samuel Johnson and the Journey
into Words (2015) which has just come out in paperback.
Since 2014, she has been working on the English Words
in War-Time project, which is the subject of her
forthcoming book.
Writing an abstract for this talk is a MAEL Research
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All welcome! Drinks afterwards.
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