Programme

Tuesday 10^th July 2018          

8.30 – 9.20
welcome/ registration opens
Jubilee Building foyer

9.20 – 10.20 
Linguistics for everybody: Communicating with the public about language
Plenary talk by Lynne Murphy (University of Sussex)
Jubilee 144

10.20 – 10.40
coffee break

10.40 – 11.10
Whose Spanish? Ethnolinguistic repertoires, code-switching practices, and identities within an international, London-based Spanish language group
Hannah King (Birkbeck, University of London)
Jubilee 144

11.10 – 11.40
Sound Patterns in male and female First Names in Jordan
Bara’ah Alababneh (University of Sussex)
Jubilee 144

11.40 – 12.10
Adjectives as a distinct category in Thai
Woraprat Manowang (King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology)
Jubilee 144

12.10 – 1.10                
Lunch
Arts B B274

1.10 – 2.40                  
Blogging for linguists
Workshop run by Lynne Murphy (University of Sussex)
Jubilee G23

2.40 – 3.00   
break

3.00 – 3.30      
Identifying the substrate languages of Cameroon Pidgin English
Sarah FitzGerald (University of Sussex)
Jubilee 144

3.30 – 4.00      
Towards an appropriate cultural content of EFL Textbooks:  The case of Saudi secondary school EFL textbooks – a mixed method approach 
Maryam Alrashidi (University of Essex)
Jubilee 144

4.00 – 4.30
The 140 year journey of subtleties: tracing senses in idioms
Margarita Yagudaeva (University of Sussex)
Jubilee 144

4.30 – 5.00
Sociolinguistic patterns of lexical variation in the Anglo-Cornish dialect
Rhys Sandow (University of Sussex)
Jubilee 144

6.30 – 8.30
conference dinner
Bills Restaurant, 100 North Road, Brighton BN1 1YE

Wednesday 11^th July 2018    

9.00 – 9.20
coffee
Jubilee 144

9.20 – 10.20 
Methodology in corpus linguistics
Plenary talk by Bas Aarts (UCL)
Jubilee 144

10.20 – 10.40
coffee break

10.40 – 11.10
Using corpora to investigate information packaging in second language acquisition: Methodological challenges
Adam Stewart (University of Sussex)
Jubilee 144

11.10 – 11.40
Methodological challenges in studying identity and its construction in discourses of Erasmus exchange students
Dina Strong (Birkbeck, University of London)
Jubilee 144

11.40 – 12.10
Chinese borrowings in English before 1900: A study of orthographic changes
Zhen Wu (UCL)
Jubilee 144

12.10 – 1.10                
Lunch
Arts B B274

1.10 – 2.40                  
Methodology in corpus linguistics
Workshop run by Bas Aarts (UCL)
Jubilee G23

2.40 – 3.00   
break

3.00 – 3.30      
Saudi Women social identity: An exploration of Twitter discourse
Fatmah Alhejab Alhazmi (University of Sussex)
Jubilee 144

3.30 – 4.00      
Why did nobody reply to my post? A keyword analysis between lone posts and initiating posts in MOOC discussions
Shi Min Chua (Open University)
Jubilee 144

4.00 – 4.30
The perpetuation of rape myths in UK news media: a corpus-led discourse analysis
Harriet Massing (University of Sussex alum)
Jubilee 144