We are pleased to announce the 15th annual Lancaster Linguistics and English Language Postgraduate Conference which will take place on 23rd-24th July 2021 and will be online.

This conference is designed to give linguistics postgraduates from various areas in linguistics an opportunity to present and discuss their research in an informal and intellectually stimulating setting. The conference is organized by postgraduate students under the auspices of the Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University.

Keynote speakers

Professor Elena Semino and Professor Veronika Koller

Soldiers, firefighters and hedgehogs: Metaphors for Covid-19 and why they matter

Professor Paul Baker

The Language of Violent Jihad: a corpus analysis of online propaganda texts

Dr Johnny Unger

Digitally mediated critical discourse studies in an age of pandemics and polarisation: challenges and more challenges

Panels

Friday 23^rd July (BST Time)

 

09.00-09.30	OPENING of the conference Welcome from LAEL (Prof. Jonathan Culpeper) Virtual Room 1
	PANEL 1: Discourses of Health (Chairs: Chloe Humphreys & Poppy Plumb) Virtual Room 1	PANEL 2: Cognitive Linguistics (Chair: Maya Zara) Virtual Room 2
9.45-10.15	Analysing the use of metaphors in Spanish patients’ narrativesJennifer MorenoJaume I University	Language use during problem solving tasks: a cognitive discourse analysisAimun Noor Air University Islamabad
10.15-10.45	Genre as a resource to create credibility in alternative health information onlineDominick A. Boyle University of Basel	COVID19 and ‘Lockdown’: New Experience, New FramesMuseerah Nisar Air University Islamabad
10.45-11.15	BREAK – Social Breaktime in Virtual Room 1, hosted by William Dance
11.15-11.45	Writing for multiple addressees: Linguistic features of Swedish medical recordsAnna Smålander Lund University	How do route descriptions in spatial tasks inform us about the spatial schemas at work?Rabbia Noreen Air University Islamabad
11.45-12.15	A Corpus-Based Study on Modal Verbs in Medical InterpretationZhiwei WangUniversity of Science and Technology, Beijing	Imagining Ekphrasis in Margaret Atwood’s Cat’s EyePolina GavinAston University
12.15-12.45		Visual Metaphor and Metonymy as Means to Evade Censorship in Algerian Political Cartoons (1992-2002) Sabrina Toumi Cardiff University
12.45-13.45	LUNCH – Virtual rooms closed
13.45-14.45	PLENARY 1Prof. Paul BakerThe Language of Violent Jihad: a corpus analysis of online propaganda texts Virtual Room 1
	PANEL 3: Discourse & Social Media (Chairs: Jess Aiston & Christos Sagredos) Virtual Room 1	PANEL 4: Literacy as Social Practice (Chair: Emily Peach)Virtual Room 2
15.00-15.30	Twitter language practices of Saudi postgraduate scholarship academics in the UKBadryah Almesfer Newcastle University	Achieving course goals and responding to the learners: a comparison of four experienced teachers working in the same contextAndrew ScottLancaster University
15.30-16.00	Understanding Rape Culture through #HijaAko: A Multimodal Critical Discourse AnalysisAileen BautistaDe La Salle University	Visual rhetoric in internet memes Daniel Tamm Lancaster University
16.00-16.30	Between the ordinary and Extraordinary: Styling the Religious Life on InstagramAndre Joseph ThengThe University of Edinburgh	Writing practices across the lifespan: the transition from school to university   Soledad Montes Lancaster University
16.30-17.00	BREAK – Social Breaktime in Virtual Room 1, hosted by Prof. Paul Baker
17.00-17.30	Complimenting behaviour on Instagram: The case of BookstagramChara VlachakiUniversity of Brighton	Language Standards in an Unstandardised Language: The Orthographies and Ideologies of Scots users on TwitterHamish PottingerLancaster University
17.30-18.00	Saudis in the Eyes of the Other: A Corpus-driven critical discourse study of the representation of Saudis on TwitterFaizah AlanaziLancaster University	The Early Stages of the Multilingual College Email Corpus (MCEC): A Resource for Researchers and Language InstructorsDamian Romero, Wei Xu, Maria Laura Viale, Hui Wang, Peiwen Su,Hanyu Jia University of Arizona
18.15-19.15	PLENARY 2Dr. Johnny Unger Digitally mediated critical discourse studies in an age of pandemics and polarisation: challenges and more challenges Virtual Room 1
19.15-19.45	BREAK – Social Breaktime in Virtual Room 1, hosted by Dr. Johnny Unger
19.45-21.15	CONFERENCE SOCIAL The LAEL QUIZ! Virtual Room 1

 

 

Saturday 24^th July (BST Time)

 

	PANEL 5: Critical Discourse Studies & Multimodality (Chair: Jess Aiston) Virtual Room 1	PANEL 6: Digital Approaches to SLA (Chair: Noah Zhu) Virtual Room 2
10.00-10.30	COVID 19: Constructing a specialised sample corpus to test trends in deontic obligationThomas HammondUniversity of Sheffield	Corpus-based Multi-dimensional Analysis of Register Features for Translation and Interpreting Taking National Defense Discourse as an ExampleLi XinyuUniversity of Science and Technology Beijing
10.30-11.00	From Research Articles to Press Releases: Recontextualization of Researcher Accomplishments for Marketization in Higher EducationGuo XiaomengHong Kong Baptist University	Multilingual transfer. L1 morphosyntax in L3 FrenchChandeera Gunawardena University of York
11.00-11.30	A Multimodal Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis of Saudi Women Representations and Newsworthiness in the UK and Saudi News Media Pre- and Post-Driving Ban LiftDina SibaiUniversity of Reading	A Corpus-Based Analysis of the Conjunctive Adverb “However” in Academic Writing: Comparing Native and Non-Native Writers of English   Gizem Çırakoğlu Eastern Mediterranean University
11.30-12.00	BREAK – Social Breaktime in Virtual Room 1, hosted by Prof. Veronika Koller
12.00-12.30	The depoliticisation of feminist linguistic innovations? The case of English gendered neologisms   Océane Foubert The University of Lille	Digital Flashcards for Autonomous Learning: How acceptable are they among Japanese high school students?   Peter Clynes University of Leicester
12.30-13.00	From stars to avalanches: metaphorical representations of immigrants in Brazilian and American mediaCássio Morosini FilhoFederal University of Minas Gerais
13.00-14.00	LUNCH – Virtual rooms closed
	PANEL 7: Digital Approaches to Psycholinguistics (Chair: Hanna Schmück) Virtual Room 1	PANEL 8: Pragmatics & SLA (Chair: Afrah Ali) Virtual Room 2
14.00-14.30	Examining Grammatical Gender Transfer in the Bilingual MindArpita GargeshBangor University	In-group and Out-group Discourse in Peer Interaction during Online Collaborative WritingAzar TajabadiArak University
14.30-15.00	‘Like a rolling stone’: How similes differentiate from literal comparisons?Xinxin YanUniversity College London	Faculty Perceptions of Politeness in ESL College Students’ Requestive EmailsAfrah AliLancaster University
15.00-15.30	BREAK – Social Breaktime in Virtual Room 1, hosted by LAEL PG Conference Committee
15.30-16.00	Center-embedding in the acquisition of Mandarin relative clauses by Mandarin-speaking monolingual and heritage Mandarin-English bilingual childrenShijie ZhangLancaster University	ELT textbook development and use: Disagreement in Chinese College English textbooksYi ZhangUniversity of Warwick
16.00-16.30	The textual and psycholinguistic reality of collocation networksHanna SchmückLancaster University	The effects of explicit pragmatic instruction of conversational implicatures on developing appropriate language choices of non-native speakers: an experimental studyAlbandary AlhammadUniversity of Liverpool
16.30-17.00	BREAK – Social Breaktime in Virtual Room 2, hosted by Prof. Elena Semino
17.00-18.00	PLENARY 3Prof. Elena Semino & Prof. Veronika KollerSoldiers, firefighters and hedgehogs: Metaphors for Covid-19 and why they matter Virtual Room 2
18.00-18.15	CLOSING Virtual Room 2

 

POSTER PRESENTATIONS

1. Diana Abat, Nazarbayev University
   A Corpus-based Approach in ELT

 

2. Norah Al Fawaz, Lancaster University
   Multi-cultural comparative analysis of legitimization strategies in military discourse: The discursive construction of armed interventions in the Middle East

 

3. Dalia Asseel,University of Jeddah
   Seeing the unseen: Gendered Euphemism in Animated Films. A Multimodal and Critical Discourse Study

 

4. John Bandman, Lancaster University
   Comparative statistical analyses of the effect on ESL students’ written performances when repeating integrated listening-to-write tasks

 

5. Zhuomin Chen, University of Cambridge
   Tonal adaptation of English loanwords in contemporary Cantonese: A perception-based experiment

 

6. Xiang Huang, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
   Is obesity just a health issue? Metaphorical framings of obesity in Weibo

 

7. Yuxin Lu, Lancaster University
   The Automaticity of Reading: Evidence from a Chinese-English Bilingual Stroop Task

 

8. Beatriz Martín-Gascón, Universidad de Córdoba
   “Covidartmuseum”: Reframing COVID19

 

9. Nadine Nasef, Misr International University, Egypt
   Language Socialization: Are We Socially Staying Connected to Society?

 

10. Christina Sook Beng Ong, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman
    Analysis of MAKE Light Verb Constructions in Malaysian English

 

11. Ekaterina Privalikhina, Siberian Federal University
    Conceptualization of emotions in American and Russian sign languages: cognitive approach

 

12. Yuze Sha, Lancaster University

Linguistic representations of bitches & bastards in Spoken BNC2014