News New blog post by visiting CLiC advisory panel member Prof. Maristella Gatto DescriptionProf. Maristella Gatto (University of Bari), member of the CLiC advisory panel, visited the university this week and wrote a post for the CLiC Blog on "Enacting silence through punctuation in Heart of Darkness"Date:Saturday 19 January 2019 Liminality in David Copperfield DescriptionIn this guest post, Sophie Phelps explores 'liminal' Dickensian characters who are not quite children and not quite adults, as she shows with a case study of David Copperfield's "child-wife" Dora.Date:Friday 16 November 2018 College of Arts and Law confirmed as a focus for Fantastic Research DescriptionFour of the five films and podcasts launched this week by the University for its 'Fantastic Research' campaign feature academics from the College of Arts and Law.Date:Friday 16 November 2018 OutLiar DescriptionOlu Popoola, a PhD researcher at CCR, has launched OutLiar, a deception blog that showcases investigative linguistic techniques and explores instances of (alleged) duplicity, doublespeak and disinformation in global affairs past and present.Date:Wednesday 10 October 2018 Patterns and Constructions in Language Teaching and Lexicography DescriptionProfessor Susan Hunston will travel to Guangdong University of Guangzhou City to deliver a five day workshop.Date:Tuesday 2 October 2018 CLiC and the Cadbury Research Library: The start of a collaboration DescriptionRead more about the beginning of the collaboration between the CLiC and GLARE projects with the Cadbury Research Library. The collaboration was kicked off with a seminar for library staff, introducing the CLiC web app and the opportunities it can offer to students, staff and visitors.Date:Friday 28 September 2018 Analysis of billions of Twitter words reveals how American English develops DescriptionNew words in American English tend to develop in five regional linguistic 'hotspots' before spreading across the United States and beyond, a new study reveals.Date:Wednesday 26 September 2018 Pattern Grammar, Corpora and Applied Linguistics: Implications for theory and practice DescriptionProfessor Susan Hunston will deliver the 32nd SAAL Lecture on Thursday 11 October 2018 at the National University of Singapore.Date:Wednesday 26 September 2018 Displaying 1 to 8 of 111 Previous 1 2 3 4 5 … Next