Convenors: Clay Becker, Yvette Wang, Ngoc Luu

When: Every Wednesday,16:00-17:00 (UK time) during term time

Where: Click here to join the meetingLink opens in a new window + the in-person site will mainly be A0.23; Only on 08 May, it will be S0.08.

01.05.2024, 16:00 - 17:00

From “Liebe…” to “lebwohl” – Exploring the opening and closing formulae of German 19th-century private letters

Laura Fischlhammer - Paris Lodron University of Salzburg

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08.05.2024,16:00 - 17:00

Technologies Chinese Students Use for Academic Purposes

Dr Yang Yeung - Coventry University

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15.05.2024, 16:00 - 17:00

A joke that bites: Prosody of Sarcasm in Turkish

Cagla Karatepe - University of Warwick

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22.05.2024, 16:00-17:00

Developing an Understanding of Culture via a CA-based Blended Pedagogy in a Virtual Exchange Programme

Winnie Wai Lan Shum - The Hong Kong Polytechnic University & University of Warwick

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29.05.2024, 16:00 - 17:00

Representations of History in Materials for TESOL Teacher Education: a Critical Review

Professor Tony Liddicoat & Professor Richard Smith - University of Warwick

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05.06.2024, 16:00 - 17:00

(Im)possibility of Ethical Encounters in Places of Separation: Aesthetics as a Quiet Applied Linguistics Praxis

Professor Maggie Kubanyiova - University of Leeds

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12.06.2024, 16:00 - 17:00

Donald Trump has Lowered THOUGHT for Five Decades: Lifespan Language Change and Stability in New York City English Vowels amid Shifting Public Personae

Dr. Christopher Strelluf, Ayman Alrajhi, Sophie Frankpitt, Xinran Gao, Cagla Karatepe, and Holly Taylor - the Warwick Sociophonetics Reading Group

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This project examines changes in the qualities of Donald Trump’s vowels from 1980 to 2023. Donald Trump’s lifelong navigation of national celebrity brings together research strands that explore (a) lifespan language change among public personalities and (b) politicians’ selection of variants to index political identities. Trump’s home dialect of New York City English (NYCE) provides resources for Trump to draw upon to construct personae—for instance to highlight “New Yorker” identity or project qualities of toughness. At the same time, Trump’s curated personal qualities of inflexibility might be indexed by resistance to language change, and NYCE may be sociolinguistically marked as incongruous with attainment of high social status. We argue that Trump’s participation in lifespan language change sheds light on relationships among persona-construction and participation in (and resistance to) lifespan language change.

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Christopher Strelluf, Ayman Alrajhi, Sophie Frankpitt, Xinran Gao, Cagla Karatepe, and Holly Taylor (the Warwick Sociophonetics Reading Group)

 The Warwick Sociophonetics Reading Group meets three times each term to read and discuss recent research in sociophonetics. Any interested staff, graduate, and undergraduate students are welcome to attend. This project was undertaken by reading group members to explore methods and issues that were inspired by their readings, and was supported by a Department of Applied Linguistics Research Activity grant.

19.06.2024, 16:00 - 17:00

"Nowadays girls want to hold up more than half of the sky" – Discovering Hegemonic Masculinities of Chinese International Students in the UK

Mingzhi Li, University of Warwick

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