Bloomsbury Applied Linguistics Seminar, 12:00 noon Wednesday, 26 January 2011 Room G16, Main Building, Birkbeck College, London, Torrington Square FREE, ALL WELCOME Dr Chris Jenks City University of Hong Kong Doing being reprehensive: Some interactional features of English as a lingua franca Abstract Great diversity exists in the way English is being used in the world today. It is now […]
Read morehttp://www.economist.com/node/17723223 ON THE evening before All Saints’ Day in 1517, Martin Luther nailed 95 theses to the door of a church in Wittenberg. In those days a thesis was simply a position one wanted to argue. Luther, an Augustinian friar, asserted that Christians could not buy their way to heaven. Today a doctoral thesis is both an idea and an […]
Read moreCheck out: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/dec/16/google-tool-english-cultural-trends?INTCMP=SRCH Google creates a tool to probe ‘genome’ of English words for cultural trendsHarvard and Google say they have developed a way to identify cultural trends over the past 200 years using a database of 5m digitised books … How many words in the English language never make it into dictionaries? How has the nature of fame changed […]
Read moreAs mentioned eearlier in this discussion area of the Doctoral Community blog, the first ‘Narrativity-Reflexivity’ gathering back in October seemed to have been enjoyable and of value. Therefore, we have raised the possibility of a follow-up 2nd session involving as many of our travelling, part-time and fll-time members of our community as possible. The most promising dates seem to be in the 2nd half […]
Read moreHi All I have just received the following message which may be of interest to you also: SAGE is extending you a special invitation to be among the first to publish in SAGE Open – our new open access publication launching January 1, 2011. SAGE Open will publish peer-reviewed, original research and review articles in an interactive, open access format. […]
Read moreRoutledge are offering free access to a selection of journal articles, which include some linguistic papers which may be of interest … Routledge Modern Language Association Article Collection To coincide with the annual MLA convention due to take place next month in Los Angeles, we’ve put together a selection of journal articles and key books which tie in with the […]
Read moreWhen we began work – e.g. the Narrative Matters conference paper (May ’10) and the Durham exploratory seminar (July ’10) – on the theme of researchers’ experience of ‘doing research multilingually’ (DRM), we were approached by the MOSAIC team in Birmingham who were exploring to some extent the same theme under the larger topic of Researching Multilingualism. Their project is advancing […]
Read more… you might be interested in these two recent (one just published, one publishing this month) intercultural communication titles. Both are available on inspection to lecturers … Thanks for your time. I hope they’re of interest! Introducing Intercultural Communication: Global Cultures and Contexts Zala Volcic, Shuang Liu & Cindy Gallois Textbooks on intercultural communication are rarely written with an intercultural readership […]
Read moreFrancois Grosjean’s new blog on bilingualism Francois Grosjean, the author of Life with Two Languages, Studying Bilinguals, and Bilingual: Life and Reality, has started a new blog, “Life as a bilngual”, on the Psychology Today site. He has already uploaded the following posts: – Myths about bilingualism – Who is bilingual? – Bilingualism’s best kept secret: How extensive it is […]
Read moreThe SRMO beta is here! We’re delighted to announce the launch of the SAGE Research Methods Online (SRMO) Beta, and we’d like to offer you priority access for free until the end of the year! SRMO is a powerful research methods tool, linking SAGE’s renowned research methods content with sophisticated search tools to help researchers answer their research methods questions […]
Read moreHi All Richard W (a current MA onsite participant) writes: I have created a wiki with the idea that we can share definitions of terminology that we come across during the course. I don’t know about anyone else, but I keep having to investigate the meanings of various terms whenever I’m reading and sometimes that means messing around for few […]
Read moreTHE POSTINGS BELOW BEGAN IN THE REPORT ON THE EXPLORATORY NARRATIVITY-REFLEXIVITY SEMINAR …. Leah Davcheva on 30 Oct 2010 …. I feel privileged to be,occasionally, part of your discussions. Thank you for this tremedous opportunity. Right now I am at the stage of deciding what direction I want to take in furthering my research activities – whether I should […]
Read morePositioning our research and ourselves in our research: An exploration of the reflexive and narrative aspects of our research texts One idea I have had about the follow-up seminar – maybe timed for February when some of our more ‘distant’ colleagues can be here – is as follow – for each of us to: * provide a shortish extract from (any kind of ) research […]
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