Past events in English

2013

21st May - Subtitling The Wire: the impact of hearing-impaired subtitles on characterisation

9th May - Primed for Violence? A corpus analysis of jihadist discourse

1st May - MA presentations

20th March - Introducing our postgraduate courses in Shakespeare and Creativity

12th March - Noticing and not noticing what's in a text: attention, depth of processing and text interpretation

5th March - Assessing the usability of raw machine translation output via eye tracking

26th February - The influence of age and aptitude on the development of a native-like second language lexicon

19th February - "Boring, pompous and arrogant" or "funny, interesting, and HOT!" What university students really think of their professors!

9th February - Unlocking the Private Library

5th February - Changing the bases for academic word lists: the Vocabulary for Academic Lecture Listening word list

29th January - Birmingham Visiting Writers' Programme Lecture 2013

29th January - The impact of textual enhancement on EFL learners' grammatical development of expression of future plans and intentions

22nd January - Probing probabilistic grammars in diachrony

16th January - Online chat: College of Arts and Law Scholarships 2013

15th January - Seventh symposium: Making of Modernity

15th January - Verb patterns in English for Academic Purposes: Towards a Corpus Pattern Analysis

2012

6th December - Sixth symposium: Making of Modernity

27th November - English Language Research Seminar

26th November - Impertinent, clowdy, and darksome speech, or how to do things with words in seventeenth-century natural philosophy

20th November - Taking corpus-assisted discourse analysis beyond our discipline

13th November - The social relations of 'participatory governance': a corpus-based critical discourse analysis of UK education policy

12th November - 1939 Revisited

6th November - Signs of the Times: A Discourse Perspective on Public Signage, Urban Space and the Law

30th October - Coffee Morning

23rd October - Spoken discourse in the international construction industry

16th October - English Language Research Seminar

15th October - The Fearfulness of Forgiveness in Christina Rossetti's Later Life: A Double Sonnet of Sonnets and John Donne's Holy Sonnets?

9th October - Community and audience on Facebook

8th October - Ezra Pound Goes to Venice: Modernism, Fascism, Tourism

2nd October - Corpus perspectives on turn-taking in university seminars

10th June - Cider

6th June - The Vernon Manuscript - An e-Reader on Parchment

15th May - Discovering the Vernon Manuscript: Secrets of a Literary Hoard Revealed

14th May - William Barnes "Dialect Poems"

9th May - An evening with Owen Jones

9th May - Sinclair Lecture 2012: Professor Ruth Wodak

27th April - How a novel evolves, and other stories

22nd March - Dennis Nurkse

21st March - Fourth symposium: The Making of Modernity

21st March - Fourth symposium: Making of Modernity

20th March - Formulaic language in Alzheimer's Disease: patterns and implications for quality of life

13th March - Formulaic language and English for Academic Purposes

12th March - The Literary Hand

6th March - Corpus Pattern Analysis: Phraseological Norms and Linguistic Creativity

5th March - 'Shakespeare in pieces: quotation and the creation of literary value

28th February - Local Grammar - A Swiss Army Knife?

27th February - Military Men of Feeling: Masculinity, Emotion and Tactility in the Crimea

21st February - Semantic Sequences in Humanities Writing

20th February - Word-Power: Talking Against Death in the Arabian Nights

20th February - Buried in the Archives: Recovering British Literary Annuals from an 'Unbawdy & Unmasculine Age'

6th February - Quilt Making for Beginners

1st February - Birmingham Visiting Writers' Programme

31st January - Collocation - past, present and yet to come

24th January - A Corpus of Idiolects? Developing historical sociolinguistic and stylistic corpora

23rd January - Fashioning Michael Field: Michael Field and Late Victorian Dress Culture

17th January - English in Montreal: love it, hate it, can't live without it?

2011

12th December - Corpora and language teaching

6th December - Learning to read in a digital age: a multimodal perspective on early literacy

29th November - Picture this: narrative and conceptual interpretation in visual discourse

28th November - The "Data deluge" and the Megamanuscript: Implications of the Vernon Manuscript Project

22nd November - What is multimodal discourse analysis?

15th November - Multi-modal genre analysis

14th November - Milton's Engagement with Islam

8th November - Writing systems at play in online Thai-English 'interactions'

9th March - Third symposium: The Making of Modernity

2010

27th October - Second symposium: The Making of Modernity

19th May - First symposium: The Making of Modernity