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You’re invited to the following 2 research talks in multimodality, held on Tuesday 27th March, at 12pm and at 1pm, in Baines Wing SR G.40: 12-1pm: Hanem El-Farahaty “A Multimodal Analysis of Political Satire: Webcomics and GIFs in Post-Arab Spring Egypt” 1pm-2pm: Sara Magro Ramos Pinto “Multimodal Film, Monomodal subtitling: how lost do viewers get in-between? Discussion of the principles and structure...
Dear all, you are warmly invited to the third meeting of the Arabic PGR group. On this occasion, we are glad to host Dr. Abdallah Alshdaifat, professor of Arabic Linguistics at the University of Jordan. His talk will be about "The Formation of Nominal Derivatives in the Arabic Language": This seminar discusses nominal derivative formation in Arabic by...
This talk is part of the School of Psychology Research Seminar series Speaker: Prof. Beth Jeffries University of York Host: E. Klepousniotou For further information: [email protected] http://medhealth.leeds.ac.uk/info/1300/school_of_psychology
In this session Naomi Flynn will cover the features of effective practice for EAL learners, both in terms of what research tells us and what research findings look like when translated into practice. Drawing on her own research with teachers of Polish children, Naomi will also discuss how what teachers might provide in terms of...
‘what sorow is for them that be refugiate in a strange countrey, when they can not understand the language of that place in whiche they be exiled: and when they can not make them to be understood by speach to the inhabiters of that contrey, wherein they be retired’ – Jacques Bellot, 1586 The histories...
This talk will be presented by Dr Diane Nelson (Linguistics & Phonetics, University of Leeds) Abstract: Mari belongs to the Uralic language family, along with Finnish and Hungarian. It is spoken by about 300,000 people in the Mari El Republic of Russia and by a large diaspora in Bashkortostan and Tatarstan. The main dialects of...
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....