Language and Linguistic Science events

A voice for Ukraine

Please come and hear a personal account of the demanding job of a European Parliament interpreter at the difficult time when her country is at war.

Alternative assessment in linguistics: Combining teaching and research

In recent years, a growing body of work in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning has turned its attention to “alternative assessment”: varieties of coursework that reject many assumptions inherent in the traditional exam or essay.

Tertulia de Literatura y Cine: El regreso

This event is organised by the ‘Tertulia de Literatura y Cine’ series run by María Muradás-Taylor (Lecturer in Spanish) at the Department of Language and Linguistic Science. During the Tertulia, participants take part in a guided discussion in Spanish about social, historical and political aspects of the Spanish speaking world through literature and films, with the occasional guest speaker.

Serate Italiane Talk: Nel nome della Rosa di Umberto Eco: viaggio tra Medioevo e contemporaneità

Talk on “Il Medioevo e il capolavoro di Umberto Eco, Il nome della rosa”

The envelope of variation as a formal diagnostic

A key early stage of a variationist study is to identify the envelope of variation: for the variable under study, in which linguistic contexts do we see variation, and in which contexts does one of the variants simply occur categorically?