2017/18

LIP Programme

Term 2 2017/18

Unless otherwise indicated, sessions will be on Tuesdays, 11am-12pm, County South B89. Some sessions may have to be moved at short notice depending on attendance.

Week 12 – Tuesday, 23 January: Elizabeth Tso (University of Arizona), ‘Advocacy Through Awareness: An NGO’s Navigation of Language-in-Education Policies in Hong Kong’
Week 14 – Tuesday, 6 February: Federica Formato, talk and workshop, 11am-1pm (note change in the time), ‘A “terrible crime” for futile motives and/or unconditional love: a corpus-investigation of femminicidio in Italy’
Week 17 – Monday, 26 February: Leanne Bartley (University of Granada), ‘Can clever language use result in wrongful convictions?: Insights from an Appraisal analysis of courtroom discourse’, 11am-12pm, County South B89 (note change in the day).
Week 18 – Tuesday, 6 March: Eyal Clyne
Week 19 – Tuesday, 13 March: Huey Fen Cheong (Lancaster University), ‘Problematising Feminism: Doing Justice to Gendered Discourses across Cultures‘

Term 1 2017/18

Unless otherwise indicated, sessions will be on Wednesdays, 4-5pm, County South B89. Some sessions may have to be moved at short notice depending on attendance.

Week 1 – Wednesday, 11 October:  Open Meeting
Week 3 – Wednesday, 25 October: POSTPONED! Elizabeth Tso (University of Arizona), ‘Advocacy Through Awareness: An NGO’s Navigation of Language-in-Education Policies in Hong Kong’
Week 4 – Wednesday, 1 November: Jana Declercq (University of Ghent), ‘Writing about health in a women’s magazine: journalists’ discursive constructions of health, agency and science’
Week 6 – Wednesday, 15 November: POSTPONED! Leanne Bartley (University of Granada), ‘Can clever language use result in wrongful convictions?: Insights from an Appraisal analysis of courtroom discourse’
Week 7 – Wednesday, 22 November: POSTPONED! Huey Fen Cheong (Lancaster University), ‘Gender Performativity in ‘Marketing’ Male Grooming through Facebook Brand Pages of L’Oréal Men Expert: A Comparison between Malaysia and the UK’
Week 8 – Wednesday, 29 November: Annika Norlund Shaswar (Umeå University), ‘Monolingual and Multilingual Language Norms in Basic Literacy Education for Adult L2 Learners of Swedish’