TERM 2 – all talks Mondays 2-3pm via Microsoft Teams
| 25th January
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Alfonso del Percio (UCL)
Division and multiplication: Language, migration and the politics of labour |
| 1st February
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Shengnan Liu (Lancaster University)
“You’re so mean but I like it” – Metapragmatic evaluation of mock impoliteness in Danmaku comments |
| 8th February
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Matthew Voice (University of Sheffield)
Language, cognition and drone warfare |
| 15th February | Veronika Koller (Lancaster University)
Introducing MANTRaP |
| 22nd February | Daniel Altschuler (University of Oxford)
Coping with imaginative resistance |
| 1st March | Marcello Giovanelli (Aston University)
Words and worlds in Siegfried Sassoon’s retelling of war experience |
| 8th March | Pernille Bogo Jorgensen (Lancaster University)
Metaphor scenarios describing the experience of menopause in online women’s magazines and medical websites |
| 15th March | Hazel Price (University of Salford)
‘Suffering’ illnesses and ‘experiencing’ symptoms: Ways of talking about having mental illness in the MI 1984-2014 corpus |
TERM 1 – all talks Mondays 4-5pm via Microsoft Teams
| 19th October
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Chris Hart (Lancaster University)
Animals vs. Armies: Resistance to Extreme Metaphors in Immigration Discourse |
| 9th November
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Jonathan Culpeper (Lancaster University)
The Principle of Reciprocity in (Im)politeness |
| 30th November
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Elena Semino & Veronika Koller (Lancaster University)
Reframing Covid-19 |