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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...
Dr Lynne Duncan (University of Dundee) Socioeconomic status, language and executive function: what are the developmental links? Dr Lynne Duncan is a senior lecturer in Psychology at the University of Dundee. Her research work focusses on developmental dyslexia and early language development. Dr Duncan's current research takes a cross-linguistic perspective on language development in relation...
The Workshop on Computational Approaches to Morphologically Rich Languages (#CAMRL2017) is organised by the Leeds University Kartvelian Studies group. This one-day workshop aims to bring together established specialists and postgraduate research students working in the field of computational morphology and morphosyntax. The Workshop will feature plenary talks by Jost Gippert, Andrew Hardie and Marine Beridze,...
With Professor Gunther Kress and Professor Theo Van Leeuwen Open to PhD and PostDoc researchers The School of Languages, Cultures and Societies and the School of Media and Communication will be hosting Professor Gunther Kress (Institute of Education, University College London) and Professor Theo Van Leeuwen (University of Southern Denmark, Odense / University of Technology...