This seminar series involves invited speakers, many from outside King's College. For a view of the range of issues falling within the horizons of this series see the account of previous seminars.
Forthcoming Seminars 2011/2
Friday 27th April 2012, 2pm - 4pm, Room 1/16, Waterloo Bridge Wing
Title: Degeneracy as Research Strategy
Speaker: Professor Rick Iedema (University of Technology, Sydney)
with tea/coffee and an informal discussion to follow.
For further information please see poster.
Friday 4 May 2012, 14.30-16.30, Rm 3/7 WBW
Title: Classroom codeswitching, translanguaging and multimodal classroom practices: Integrating old and new perspectives
Speaker: Dr Angel Lin (University of Hong Kong)
For furtehr information please see poster.
Past Seminars 2011/2
Wednesday 16th November, 5.30 - 7.30, G552 WBW FWB
Speaker: Professor David Block, Institute of Education Title: Social Class in Applied Linguistics. For further information please see poster, powerpoint and handout.
Wednesday 21st March 2012, 5.30-7.30pm, G552 WBW FWB Speaker: Prof. Charlyn Dyers (University of the Western Cape) Title: Languages and Literacy in Superdiversity: Lessons from One African Township. For further information please see poster.
Past Seminars 2010/11
Wednesday 22nd September, 2pm - 5pm. Speaker: Charles Briggs, Berkeley
Title: On Communicability: Language, Agency, and the Production of Failed Patients in News Coverage of Health
Wednesday 16th February, 5.30pm - 7.30pm. Speaker: Gerlinde Mautner, Vienna University of Economics and Business Title: Language & the Market Society
Tuesday 10 May 2011 5.30pm Speaker: Dr Emily Butterworth, KCL French Department Title: The Unbridled Tongue: Gossip and the Public Sphere in Late Renaissance France.
Past talks 2009/10
Monday 22nd February, 5.30pm - 7.30pm
Room: LG11, Waterloo Bridge Wing
Speaker: Gill Valentine, Leeds University
Title: Language on the move: sites of encounter, identities and belonging
Friday 29th November Speakers: Sandro Duranti (UCLA), Ben Rampton (KCL), Roxy Harris (KCL) and Janey Maybin (Open University)
Title: Sociolinguistics and Linguistic Anthropology: A transAtlantic Dialogue
Wednesday 14 October 2009, 5pm - 6.30pm
Room LG1, Waterloo Bridge Wing
Speaker: Ruth Page, University Birmingham City
Title: Trivia and Tellability: Storytelling in Status Updates
Past talks 2008/09
Thursday 25th June 2009
Reflections on a career in language & culture analysis
Professor Elinor Ochs (UCLA)
Wednesday 6th May 2009
Immigrant Youth as Family Translators Linking Home and School Language Practices
Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, UCLA
Wednesday 14th January 2009
Plant pots, ashtrays and traces: Some reflections on corpus linguistics and the theory of language
Dionysos Goutsos, University of Athens
Monday 19th January 2009
Historical Sociolinguistics
Nils Langer, Reader in German Linguistics, University of Bristol
Thursday 4th December 2008
Language change and the media in Glasgow: the stylistic dimension
Jane Stuart-Smith, Reader in English Language, University of Glasgow
Monday 8 December 2008
Frequency-based approaches to formulaic language in English: Extending the construct of lexical bundle.
Douglas Biber, Regents' Professor, Applied Linguistics
Northern Arizona University