Author Archives: Erin Forward

SiS 2017: Language Ideologies in the Spanish-speaking world context

30 March 2017 – 1 April 2017 Avenue Campus, Faculty of Humanities, University of Southampton, SO17 1BF Beliefs about language and language uses play a central role in social life. As a well-established field of inquiry, the study of language ideologies has allowed researchers from different approaches and disciplines (discourse analysis, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, social psychology, […]

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EuroCALL 2017: Call for papers

The 25th EuroCALL conference will be held at the University of Southampton, in the United Kingdom, from 23rd -26th August 2017. DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 31st January 2017 Submit your abstract here: http://www.eurocall-languages.org/conf2017 The programme will include individual papers, symposia, workshops, presentations on EU-funded projects, and posters. EUROCALL conferences are hosted under the auspices of the […]

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MeXsu Seminar Friday 16th December: Dr Carlos Valdés Gonzales

When: Friday 16th December, 18:00 Where: B65, Room 1177, Avenue Campus Who: Dr Carlos ValdĂ©s Gonzales, General Director CENAPRED, National Centre for Disaster Prevention in Mexico Volcano activity and other possible natural hazards in Mexico and its impact on the surrounding rural communities and urban settlements Dr ValdĂ©s will explain how different natural hazards are monitored […]

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TNS Seminar Wednesday 14th December: Dr Eleanor Jones & Dr Scott Soo

‘Death: the end of our stories, or only the beginning?’ When: Wednesday 14th December, 5-6.30pm Where: Room 1177, Building 65, Avenue Campus Who: Dr Eleanor Jones –  ‘Death stories: encountering the corpse in narratives of Lusophone Africa’ From the earliest days of European maritime expansionism in the fifteenth century, when the unknowability of the territory […]

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CGE Seminar Wednesday 7th December: Dr Caroline Tagg

Please join us for the next Centre for Global Englishes (CGE) seminar. When: Wednesday 7th December, 5-6.30pm Where: LTC, Building 65, Avenue Campus Who: Dr Caroline Tagg, The Open University Communicating across online and offline spaces: a mobile-supported business model for migrant micro-entrepreneurs In this talk, I draw on data from a large ethnographic project to […]

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Symposium in honour of Professor Michael Kelly, University of Southampton

A symposium in honour of Professor Michael Kelly will be held Friday 20th January 2017 at Europe House, London. Mike has recently retired after a long and distinguished career as Professor of French at the University of Southampton. He has published widely in the area of French Studies and more recently in the field of languages […]

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TNS Seminar series 2016-17 ‘Moving Stories’

We shall dedicate the forthcoming series of TNS seminars to the theme of moving stories. This involves stories which move literally across borders and contexts, as well as stories which move us emotionally. As students of societies, histories and cultures we often engage stories in order to understand and analyse our subject. Stories come in […]

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CLLEAR Seminar Wednesday 16th November: Dr Sophie Holmes-Elliott

Please join us for the next Centre for Linguistics, Language Education and Acquisition Research (CLLEAR) seminar. When: Wednesday 16th November, 16:30-18:30 Where: Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus Who: Dr Sophie Holmes-Elliott, University of Southampton That’s what she said – a sociophonetic investigation of class and gender in southeast England Previous work on /s/ variation in […]

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CGE Seminar Wednesday 9th November 2016: Dr Nicola Galloway

Please join us for the next Centre for Global Englishes seminar. When: Wednesday 9th November, 5-6.30pm Where: Avenue Campus, Lecture Theatre C Who: Dr Nicola Galloway, University of Edinburgh Research to classroom practice: Global Englishes and ELT textbooks “the prevailing orientation in
..ELT materials still remains undoubtedly towards ENL” (Jenkins, 2012: 487). Theoretical and empirical work […]

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CLLEAR Seminar Wednesday 19th October: Dr Linnaea Stockall

Please join us for the next Centre for Linguistics, Language Education and Acquisition Research (CLLEAR) seminar. When: Wednesday 19th October 2016, 4-6pm Where: B65/LTC, Avenue Campus Who: Dr Linnaea Stockall, Queen Mary University of London Humpty-Dumpty’s Problem: how do we put morphologically complex words back together again? Over the past 15 years, considerable evidence from a […]

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