Lancs PG Linguistics

Lancaster University Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics and Language Teaching, 14 July 2014

[Lancs PG Linguistics @LAELPostgradCon]

@SondosHIbrahim thank you for attending! Hope to see you next year! You'll be much closer next time!

[Lancs PG Linguistics @LAELPostgradCon]

Special thanks to @LAEL_LU and @elenasemino for sponsoring the event, and to our wonderful plenary speakers @harding_luke and @j_culpeper

[Lancs PG Linguistics @LAELPostgradCon]

Thank you very much to all of you who contributed to making this event a fruitful instance for sharing what we research! Pics coming soon!

[Hsiao-yun Chan, PhD @hsiao_yun]

.@j_culpeper on politeness #laelconf

[Sondos Ibrahim @SondosHIbrahim]

Excellent! Jonathan Culpeper on British indirectness and politeness. #laelconf

[Sondos Ibrahim @SondosHIbrahim]

Super cartoon about cross cultural politeness - what's rude anyway? #laelconf

[Lancs PG Linguistics @LAELPostgradCon]

@j_culpeper to present his current work on politeness in British and other Englishes #laelconf

[Johnny Unger: BlueSky @johnnyunger.bsky.social @johnnyunger]

Unfortunately missing another of my students, Hilda Hidalgo speaking in another room on Writing in Mexican higher education @LAELPostgradCon

[Johnny Unger: BlueSky @johnnyunger.bsky.social @johnnyunger]

Now @laprofesposito on Trinidad and Tobago's elections - ethnicity, multimodailty and other interesting stuff! @LAELPostgradCon

[heather froehlich @heatherfro]

there's also #LAELpostgradcon and #DHOxSS and surely others ...

[Johnny Unger: BlueSky @johnnyunger.bsky.social @johnnyunger]

2nd: Rami Qawariq on Representation of events, 'self' and 'other' in Palestinian and Israeli news websites in the Gaza War. @LAELPostgradCon

[Johnny Unger: BlueSky @johnnyunger.bsky.social @johnnyunger]

1st up: José Manuel Ferreiro on 'The concepts of "stability" and "security"' (in policy in the UN mission in Haiti) @LAELPostgradCon

[Lancs PG Linguistics @LAELPostgradCon]

Jacqueline Cordell, "Cognitive processing in riddles: A text-world theory approach" #laelconf

[Johnny Unger: BlueSky @johnnyunger.bsky.social @johnnyunger]

Attending @LAELPostgradCon today - 5 of my PhD students are presenting :)

[Hsiao-yun Chan, PhD @hsiao_yun]

Experienced raters' tendency to use the internalised scales they've developed over the years. #laelconf

[Hsiao-yun Chan, PhD @hsiao_yun]

Rating speaking & writing not a straightforward process #laelconf

[Hsiao-yun Chan, PhD @hsiao_yun]

.@harding_luke on the ideologies surrounding accent & intelligibility #laelconf

[Sondos Ibrahim @SondosHIbrahim]

Problems when we conflate comprehensibility and foreignness. Fascinating opening lecture from Dr. Luke Harding. #LaelConf

[Hsiao-yun Chan, PhD @hsiao_yun]

#laelconf Shift from nativeness to intelligibility/comprehensibility in testing pronunciation.

[Lancs PG Linguistics @LAELPostgradCon]

@harding_luke presenting "assessing pronunciation: the comprehensibility challenge" #laelconf