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The talk is by Silke Brandt from the University of Lancaster. There is coffee/tea and cake in the Linguistics foyer with the speaker after the talk. Abstract: When children start to talk about the mind, they need to learn both the semantics of mental verbs, such as know and think, and the syntax of complement...
You are warmly invited to the first meeting of this semester of the Arabic PGR group. In this session, students (Roberta Morano and Hamood Alrumhi) and supervisors (James Dickins and Janet Watson) will talk about the first year transfer. Some of you will have the upgrade in March/April, some others probably in the summer. This is a...
The Vice-Chancellor, Sir Alan Langlands, will formally open the proceedings at 16.00. This showcase will promote the Research Satellite approach to interdisciplinary exchanges, and reflect the breadth of language-related research in a poster session at which scholars from across the University are invited to present their work. This is a unique opportunity to promote language-related...
This is one of a series of talks under the Multimodality Satellite Speakers: Alessio Mattana (University of Leeds) and Giacomo Savani (University of Leicester) Abstract: Contemporary critical studies on the culture of the long eighteenth century have tended, across different disciplines, to overlook the function and impact of images for the readers of the age....
All are welcome to our upcoming discussion jointly organised with the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies We are joined by Michael Gratzke, Professor of German & Comparative Literature at the University of Hull, Associate Dean for Research and current Chair of UCML. Michael will present a number of questions about the future of modern...
The Multimodality Satellite of Language@Leeds will be hosting this research talk by Maria Grazia Sindoni, University of Messina The analysis of spontaneous interaction is a research priority within social and linguistic sciences (cf. Bezemer and Jewitt 2010: 181), such as conversation analysis (Sacks, Schegloff, and Jefferson 1974; Sacks 1992), interactional sociology (Goffman 1981), interactional sociolinguistics...
The Multimodality Satellite of Language@Leeds invites you to the following talk by visiting fellow Ilaria Moschini (University of Florence, Italy)Speaker Ilaria Moschini, University of Florence, Italy. The talk stems out of my research on the hybridization of US political and institutional discourse with the language of the web (e.g. Moschini 2016, 2017), where I have...
This is a meeting of the Machine learning/Deep learning @ Leeds Forum Registration link (Only name and email id required)https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf_c2iIomlePkzyN8QMJ7DfVAK8Isx6gkrmWA9wx7ApIlYXsg/viewform Dr.Serge Sharoff is a Senior Lecturer in Translation Studie. His research focuses on natural language processing and computer-assisted language learning, including automated methods for collecting corpora from the web, their analysis in terms of domains...
Evaluating the impact of oral language training on pupils reading comprehension: Key findings and reflections from previous studies and potential directions for future research. Speaker Dr Paula Clarke (University of Leeds) The importance of oral language skills for successful reading comprehension is well known and there is evidence from longitudinal and intervention research to support...
You are invited to take part in our first seminar of Centre for Language Education Research (CLER) Seminar Series in 2017/18 How to get there: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/campusmap Deaf people participate in theatre to a lesser extent than might be expected. This paper presents early findings from a practice-based research project designed to explore ways of making...