London (Online)
Vereinigtes Königreich
Please join us again in 2024-2025 for our monthly Friday lunchtime online English-language seminars from London, a collaboration of the School of Languages and Applied Linguistics at the Open University, UK and DiscourseNet.
To join our seminars, you will need to register:
- Go to https://discourseanalysis.net/DN/seminars/OpenDNLondon
- log into your discourseanalysis.net account (you may create one for free on the top right, which may well take two days) and then click 'Join Group' on the top left-hand side. You will then receive regular seminar announcements via email.
Note that we will video record all seminars. By joining our seminars, all participants agree that the recording can be made public.
The seminars are open to everybody and free of charge but participants are encouraged to become members of the DiscourseNet Association. All sessions are public, recorded and disseminated on social media. By joining our online session, all participants agree to being recorded. All recordings and the latest version of the programme will be posted on the group's page.
Programme for 2024-2025 Academic Year
25 October 2024 1-2 (London Time), Gerald Roche (La Trobe University): Language and the politics of death
29 November 2024 1-2 (London Time), Charlotte Taylor (University of Sussex): Emotion-talk in parliamentary debates on migration
31 January 2025 1-2 (London Time), Jo Angouri (University of Warwick): But is he unconscious?’ Risk negotiation in critical care dispatch
28 February 2025 1-2 (London Time), Gertrude Grumah (University of Essex): A Sociolinguistic Study of Mampuli-English Codeswitching in Nalerigu, Ghana.
28 March 2025 1-2 (London Time), Niru Perera (Curtin University, Australia): Accentism in the ambulance - the misperception of callers' competence, confidence, and emotional state in emergency medical calls.
30 May 2025 1-2 (London Time), Alessia Tranchese (University of Portsmouth): The Discourse of Online Misogyny