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1st BAAL Corpus Linguistics SIG event 2021: Core Corpus Skills for Academic Purposes

Date: 14 January 2021Time: 10:00-16:30Venue: Online (registered participants will receive Zoom link to join) There is little or no mention of corpora in much of the guidance for EAP…

‘Reflections from Black History Month Event with British Council’ [Dr Saba Hussain with Emmanuel Johnson and Prof. Katherine Wimpenny]

BA Sociology / BA Sociology and Criminology / What our staff are up to 3 Dec 2020 Emma S.

PhD candidate Emmanuel Johnson (pictured above), Professor Katherine Wimpenny and School of Humanities Sociology Lecturer, Dr Saba Hussain reflect on their recent discussions at a British Council organised for this…

Sociology Lecturer, Dr Ryan Scoats, interviewed for Justin Lehmiller’s Sex and Psychology podcast!

BA Sociology / What our staff are up to 3 Dec 2020 Emma S.

Click the link below to listen to Ryan discuss 'Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Threesomes' with Dr Justin Lehmiller: https://www.lehmiller.com/podcast/2020/11/30/episode-14-everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-threesomes

‘Bulgarian national radio chief hits out at media interference from state’ – Interview with Dr James Dawson, Politics

BA Politics / BA Politics and History / What our staff are up to 27 Nov 2020 Emma S.

James Dawson (Lecturer in Politics) was interviewed and quoted in an article about the decline in Bulgarian media freedom by Euronews. The context of this interview is that mostly young…

Top Five Reads by Historian Dr Kristopher Lovell!

“Totalitarianism by Consent”: The British Press during the People’s War, 1939-45 [Dr Kris Lovell, Research Seminar Series]

BA History / Events / What our staff are up to 28 Oct 2020 Emma S.

Weds 21 October, 16:00 This paper explores the political role of the British popular press during the Second World War. By drawing on quantitative and qualitative research, this paper explores…

Question illocutionary force indicating devices in academic writing [Niall Curry, Research Seminar Series, 7/10]

Events / What our staff are up to / What's on 5 Oct 2020 Emma S.

A corpus-pragmatic and contrastive approach to identifying and analysing direct and indirect questions in English, French, and Spanish Corpus research on questions as reader engagement markers in academic writing typically…

School of Humanities Research Talks schedule, Semester 1 2020-2021

Events / What our staff are up to / What's on 5 Oct 2020 Emma S.

All talks run from 16:00-17:00 and will be accessible via this Zoom link: https://coventry-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4496245002 Date Speaker Oct 7 Niall Curry (CAW, CAMC) Question illocutionary force indicating devices in academic writing:…

Meaning, metaphor, and argument structure [Tim Nisbet, Course Director, English]

BA English / What our staff are up to 8 Sep 2020 Emma S.

Assistant Professor, Tim Nisbet's, new article for Journal of Linguistics, Cambridge University Press This paper challenges what it calls the semantic determinist hypothesis (SDH) of argument licensing, according to which the syntactic…

Migrant ethnic minority women in academia during the twin pandemics of COVID-19 and racism [Sociology Lecturer Saba Hussain with Nazia Hussein]

BA Sociology / BA Sociology and Criminology / What our staff are up to 17 Aug 2020 Emma S.

Originally published in Transforming Society, July 31 2020 http://www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2020/07/31/migrant-ethnic-minority-women-in-academia-during-the-twin-pandemics-of-covid-19-and-racism/ In the last few months of the global pandemic and associated lockdown, we have had several conversations with ethnic minority women…