What do you get when you cross a duck and a linguist? A DuckLing of course!
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New online course on Pragmatics and Social Cognition
Dr Vittorio Tantucci (Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and Chinese Linguistics) has a new online course on Pragmatics and Social Cognition, which is available on the Massolit platform. Here’s a summary of what sounds like a fascinating course! In this course, Dr Vittorio Tantucci (University of Lancaster) explores how language is used to shape our social…
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Pets of LAEL – Humbug
Welcome back to pets of LAEL, this week we have the lovely Humbug. Humbug belongs to one of our phonetics PhD students, Pam. Pam and her husband Paul adopted Humbug from Cats Protection in October 2018 when he was just 12 weeks old! He was really small kitten but is now nearly 5 and weighs around…
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International Conference for PG students 2023
Last week, the department ran the 3rd International Conference for PG students (ICRI-HASS’23). This year, presenters from three partner universities ((Lancaster University, National University of Malaysia and Sunway University) and other universities around the world were invited. The conference was attended by undergraduate and postgraduate students, members of academic staff, and educational professionals from all over…
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Tartu meets Lancaster
Over the past couple of months, we’ve been fortunate to host two guests from the Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics, University of Tartu, Estonia! Dr Pärtel Lippus visited for three days in late March, and Dr Anton Malmi visited for two weeks in May. The purpose of their visits was to develop links between…
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Outreach event – Blackpool Sixth Form
On Tuesday 23rd of May, colleagues from Phonetics travelled to Blackpool Sixth Form to deliver two sessions. Dr Claire Nance, Maya Dewhurst, Lois Fairclough, and visiting researcher Dr Anton Malmi, headed to Blackpool bright and early to deliver a series of workshops for the year 12 and 13 students. Students from English Language, Criminology, Law,…
DuckLing
What do you get when you cross a duck with a linguist? A DuckLing!