News in English Language and Applied Linguistics Back to 'English Language and Applied Linguistics' Latest storiesRSS FeedAtom Feed Towards One Thousand Constructions: rethinking the learner's understanding of lexis and grammar DescriptionProfessor Susan Hunston is giving a plenary talk at this year's Teaching and Language Corpora Conference (TaLC), which will take place on 18-21 July 2018 at the University of Cambridge.Date:11/07/2018 Death Before Birth: The use of metaphor to understand and communicate about pregnancy loss DescriptionJune is Sands (the Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society) awareness month and the University is currently undertaking vital research into descriptions of Death Before Birth and Lived Experiences of Miscarriage in order to better understand and improve the experiences of those affected by miscarriage.Date:29/06/2018 Death Before Birth: The use of metaphor to understand and communicate about pregnancy loss DescriptionJune is Sands (the Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society) awareness month and the University is currently undertaking vital research into descriptions of Death Before Birth and Lived Experiences of Miscarriage in order to better understand and improve the experiences of those affected by miscarriage.Date:29/06/2018 New free online course: Introduction to Linguistics DescriptionStarting on 2 July, the Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics is running a new Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), Introduction to Linguistics, hosted by FutureLearn.Date:29/06/2018 The Hermeneutic Cyborg DescriptionProfessor Stefan Evert (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) delivered the 2018 Sinclair Lecture.Date:26/06/2018 Koko: Gorilla death coverage rekindles language debate DescriptionAdam Schembri, Marcus Perlman and Gerardo Ortega quoted in BBC article.Date:26/06/2018 Birmingham Student Wins Prestigious British Council Award DescriptionELAL student Mathew Ellman won this year's British Council Masters Dissertation Award for English Language Teaching.Date:22/06/2018 DescriptionWe are pleased to announce that the 7th International Conference of the UK Cognitive Linguistics Association (UK-CLC 7) will take place at the University of Birmingham from 29 July to 1 August 2019.Date:20/06/2018 Linguists form college link in Singapore DescriptionJoe Bennett and Gareth Carrol visited Catholic Junior College in Singapore to promote the study of linguistics.Date:31/05/2018 CLiC on tour in China DescriptionIn June Professor Michaela Mahlberg, who has been leading the CLiC project, will give a keynote at the 4th Corpus Linguistics in China Conference and then speak at Beihang University (Beijing) and Southwest University (Chongqing).Date:25/05/2018 Displaying 1 to 10 of 233 Previous 1 2 3 4 5 … Next