Programme

Lancaster town hall

The Anniversary Event will consist of a series of talks and round table discussions that focus on research areas to which the Department of Linguistics and English Language has made a substantial contribution over the past four decades.

Confirmed speakers include Charles Alderson, David Barton, Jonathan Culpeper, Norman Fairclough, Roz Ivanic, Geoffrey Leech, Alison Mackey, Tony McEnery, Elena Semino, Mick Short, Dianne Wall, Alan Waters, and Ruth Wodak.

The programme for Friday 11 July 2014 will include a public lecture by David and Hilary Crystal on ‘How to be an English Language Tourist’.

This will be followed by a dinner at Lancaster Town Hall, accompanied by a wide-ranging musical programme put on by our Department’s home-grown musicians. The evening will also include a performance by David and Hilary Crystal on Shakespeare’s Original Pronunciation.

And of course there will be ample opportunities to re-unite with former fellow students and colleagues and take a trip or two down memory lane.

To download the current version of the schedule, please click here. The final version will be uploaded to this website in early July 2014.

The event will take place in the LICA Building (Nr 4, on the campus map), with the exception the public lecture and the annivesary dinner, which will take place in the Town Hall, Lancaster.

Friday 11 July 2014

Welcome and Official Opening
9.00am to 9.30am Professor Tony McEnery (Dean, FASS)
Professor Geoffrey Leech
Professor Elena Semino (Head of Department, LAEL)
Pragmatics and Stylistics at Lancaster
9.30am to 10.30am Professor Geoffrey Leech
Professor Mick Short
  Followed by round table discussion with members of staff and audience Q&A
10.30am to 11.00am Coffee and tea break
Discourse Studies at Lancaster
11.00am to 12.00pm Professor Norman Fairclough
Professor Ruth Wodak
  Followed by round table discussion with members of staff and audience Q&A
12.00am to 1.00pm Lunch break
Demonstration of Lab Equipment
1.00pm to 2.00pm A demonstration of research equipment and software used by staff of the Department of Linguistics and English Language and the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS).
Language Learning and Teaching at Lancaster
2.00pm to 3.00pm Dr Alan Waters
Professor Alison Mackey
  Followed by round table discussion with members of staff and audience Q&A
3.00pm to 3.30pm Coffee and tea break
Language Testing at Lancaster
3.30pm to 4.30pm Professor Charles Alderson
Dr Dianne Wall
  Followed by round table discussion with members of staff and audience Q&A
Public Lecture (Town Hall, Lancaster)
6.00pm to 7.15pm Professor David Crystal and Hilary Crystal:
How to be an English language tourist
Anniversary Dinner (Town Hall, Lancaster)
7.45pm This event includes a performance by David and Hilary Crystal on Shakespeare’s Original Pronunciation, and musical entertainment by current members of staff.

 

Saturday 12 July 2014

Literacy Studies at Lancaster
9.30am to 10.30am Professor David Barton
Professor Roz Ivanic
  Followed by round table discussion with members of staff and audience Q&A
10.30am to 11.00am Coffee and tea break
Corpus Linguistics at Lancaster
11.00am to 12.00pm Professor Geoffrey Leech
Professor Tony McEnery
  Followed by round table discussion with members of staff and audience Q&A
Panel and Audience Discussion: Linguistics in the Professions
12.00am to 12.45pm Panellists include current members of staff and alumni
Closing Statements
12.45pm to 1.00pm Professor Elena Semino and Professor Greg Myers