Spring term
Research method seminars
- Rania Hadzidaki, 'Binomials in the Bank of English: the form and function of phraseology'
- Peter White, 'When too much data is barely enough'. Discussion of issues in data selection, representativeness, statistical adequacy and modes of analysis
- Malcolm Coulthard, ' Tips on getting published and conference paper presentation'
- Dr Rita Stoll (visiting Socrates scholar), 'How and Why Words Die'
- Michael Toolan 'New developments in linguistic approaches - the integrationist project'
- 'Language and the law'
- Charles Owen, 'Language studies and statistics workshop/clinic'
- Terry Shortall, 'Issues in language development/acquisition from a Chomskian perspective'
- Peter White, 'New developments in systemic grammar - evolving theories of textual organisation and the language of evaluation'
- Peter White, 'Functional grammar workshop/clinic'
Student seminars
- Jess Shapero, 'A Walk on the Wild side of the Web: the ELRPG web site'
- Sue Blackwell, 'Well, What did you think of Watts'
- Helen Sauntson, 'Approaches to the Use of Discourse Bands in Classroom Interaction'
- Satoko Takami, 'Statistics approaches to exploring media discourse'
- Janet Cotterill, 'Mapping the shift from monologue to dialogue in courtroom interaction'
- Chris Heffer
- Carol Bradshaw, 'I'm waving, not drowning - signalling in discourse'
- Hanako Hosaka, 'Accent and intonation patterns in 2nd language learners/speakers of English and Japanese'
- Francis Rock, 'The language of the police Caution'
- Melanie Pope, 'Experiences at a recent post graduate conference'
E L research seminars
- Richard Cauldwell, ' Stressed-out scientist ignores evidence'
- Alison Sealey, ' Linguistic Representation of Children in English'
- Richard Cauldwell, "Ripped": How attributes are not conveyed in speech
- Itesh Sachdev (Birkbeck College), Code-switching in Tunisia
- Deirdre Martin (School of Education)
- Adriana Bolivar
- Dr Rita Stoll (Augsburg Uni.), Types of Polysemy or how to distinguish the meaning of ambiguous words: the role of context
- Carmen Caldas-Coulthard and Theo van Leeuwen Toys
- Gordon Tucker
- Bill Louw, Semantic prosodies
- Tony Dudley-Evans, Occluded genres: the editorial summative letter
- Chris Kennedy, Teachers' views of curriculum innovation in Spain
- Prof Bernd Kortmann (Freiburg Uni.), Typology and Dialectology
- Lieselotte Pust (Freiburg Uni.), Non-standard English and typological principles: the case of negation
- Martin Hewings, Formal and informal in grammar teaching
- Corony Edwards, Motivating teachers
- Adriana Bolivar (Caracas Uni.), Dialogue in Venezuelan political discourse
- Jon Rees
MA seminars
- Rita Stoll (Augsburg Uni.), History and State of the Art of Machine Translation
Conferences
Autumn term
Research methods seminars
- Carmen-Rose Caldas Coulthard, Representations of Brazil in the British press
- Vicki Whittaker, Getting an article published
- Jonathan Rees, Statistical techniques for making comparisons
- David Woolls, Using computer software in text analysis
- Susan Hunston, Taxonomies
- Martin Hewings, The examination process: how to be a viva survivor
E L research seminars
- Dave Willis, The idiom principle: a pedagogical approach
- Norbert Schmidt (Notts Uni.), The acquisition of word class
- Susan Hunston, Patterns with nouns and adjectives
- Chris Gledhill (St.Andrews Uni.), Grammar and lexis in cancer research articles
- Cobuild (Rosamund, Jem, Liz & Stephen), Can the BoE corpus help solve linguistic problems?
MA seminars
- Roz Ivanic (Lancaster Uni.), Writing and Identity
Conferences
- September 25, 1998, at Westmere: The 1st (ever) Birmingham Uni. English Language Research Postgraduate conference.
