TERM 2:
| Mon 30th January 4pm, County South C89 |
Chris Hart (Lancaster University) ‘Protests Engulfed the City’: An experimental approach to the legitimating functions of fire metaphors in discourse on protest |
| Thurs 16th February 4pm, County South B89 |
Marco Caracciolo (Ghent University) Working with a character: Readers, empathy, and implicit knowledge |
| Mon 27th February 4pm, County South C89 |
Greg Myers (Lancaster University) Stories and stance in research interviews: Closings, interpretations, and reorientationsJohnny Unger and George Green (Lancaster University) “Telling” the future: The discursive construction of national identity in creative writing |
| Mon 13th March 4pm, County South C89 |
Elisabeth Reber (University of Wuerzburg) Evidential practices in Prime Minister’s Questions |
Cancelled |
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| Mon 15th May 4pm, County South C89 |
Elena Semino (Lancaster University) Metaphor and narrative in the experience of illness |
| Mon 12th June 4pm, County South B89 |
Ben Rutter (Sheffield University) Title tba |
TERM 1:
| 24th October 4pm, County South B89 |
Matteo Fuoli (Lund University) Analyzing corporate trust-repair discourse using corpus and experimental techniques |
| 7th November 4pm, County South B89 |
Veronika Koller (Lancaster University) ‘You are managing the conversation’: Language awareness in consulting, communications and campaigning |
| 21st November 4pm, County South B89 |
Sam Kirkham (Lancaster University) Constructing multiculturalism at school: negotiating tensions in talk about ethnic diversity |
| 9th December 4pm, County South B89 |
Zohar Kampf (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Public speech acts: The cases of congratulating, greeting, and wishing well in political discourse |