The 5 minute Linguist

The Five-Minute Linguist – Bite-sized Essays on Language and Languages (Second edition) Edited by E.M. Rickerson and Barry Hilton HB 9781908049940 £50; PB 9781908049490 £13.99; 320pp The Five-Minute Linguist has been a popular introduction to the subject of language because it is succinct, clear, accurate, — and fun to read. Now in its second edition, updated and expanded, the book has […]

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Researching Multilingually

…. well, the first of our three two-day AHRC-funded seminars took place at Durham last week. For more information on what went on …. see the Abstracts and programme: http://researchingmultilingually.com/?page_id=1152   and the presentations themselves: http://researchingmultilingually.com/?page_id=1143   and some  seminar photos too: http://researchingmultilingually.com/?page_id=1169  

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Invitation for papers- narratives in/of translation-CNR

Please feel free to circulate this announcement. The Centre for Narrative Research, University of East London and the  NOVELLA ESRC Research Node, Institute of Education and UEL To Think is To Experiment Postgraduate Research Day 2012 Invitation for papers on ‘Narratives in/of Translation’ The Centre for Narrative Research organises the eleventh annual Research Day for graduate students on 25 April […]

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Storytelling in the news ….

Of interest to the narrativists amongst you maybe …. 1. An narrative approach to a key UK environmental disaster zone …. Davies, Hunter (2012). Sellafield Stories: Life In Britain’s First Nuclear Plant. Constable http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/mar/11/sellafield-stories-book-nuclear-accident http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sellafield-Stories-Britains-First-Nuclear/dp/1780332998/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1331465692&sr=1-1 (see bottom of page for more on this item). 2. An new oral history project: eavesdropping in our times http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/mar/11/conversation-mass-observation-recording-bbc?newsfeed=true “How the art of eavesdropping is […]

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Newsletter #4 March 2012

There has been a bit of a hiatus since the last newsletter, an indication of the busy-ness of this new semester, a busy-ness partly ‘encouraged’?since Julian retired, but also the consequence of?increasing PGR (doctoral) activity in the LTE Doctoral Community and beyond. The observant amongst you will have noticed that the numbers of profiles has increased in nearly all categories. […]

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Neoliberalism and Applied Linguistics – new book notice

Block, D., J. Gray & M. Holborow (2012) Neoliberalism and Applied Linguistics. London Routledge. Neoliberalism and Applied Linguistics argues that while applied linguistics has become more interdisciplinary in orientation, it has ignored or downplayed the role of political economy, namely the way in which social, political and economic factors relate to one another within the context of a capitalist economy. […]

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