The dates for the next English Language and Linguistics Research Seminars have been announced. This year’s programme (ELL Seminar Programme 2020-2021) features talks on a diverse and fascinating range of topics: from family language policy, to visual metaphors and the…
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Report By Harry Eagles (MA English Language and Linguistics) On Thursday 27th February, 2020 – in what can now feel like a strangely simpler time, before the lockdown in which we all find ourselves began – I and five other…
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French Creoles, Contact Languages: Homage to the Late Professor Philip Baker Date: 24 March 2020Time: 10:00 AM Finishes: 25 March 2020Time: 6:00 PM Venue: Room: Various venues: SOAS and Senate House Type of Event: Conference A two-day conference organised in collaboration with the Institute of Modern Languages…
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3rd University of Westminster International Linguistics Conference Language contact and change in an interconnected world Advances in modern transportation systems, communication technology and increase in migration has meant that speakers of different languages interact closely, hence it is typical for…
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Dear all, On the 13th December Dr Rebecca Lurie Starr from the National University of Singapore will be holding two guest lectures across the University of Westminster & Queen Mary University of London. For further details and the abstracts, please…
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The 2020 annual colloquium of the Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas will be held on Thursday 30 April at the University of Westminster, London. Papers are invited on any topic in the History of Linguistics and…
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We are delighted to announce this year’s English Language and Linguistics Research Seminars. The programme features talks on a diverse and fascinating range of topics: from Anglo-Italian language contact in the 15th century and urban multilingualism in 16th- and 17th century…
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The University of Westminster is hosting a one-day workshop on 9th September 2019, in which leading researchers in their respective fields will present their recent work on aspects of French and English in contact in the late medieval period. Linguistic…
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On 16–17 April 2019, Petros Karatsareas and Birgül Yılmaz of the School of Humanities were delighted to host a symposium on “Non-standard and minority varieties as community languages in the UK” in the Regent Campus of the University of Westminster….
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We are delighted to announce that the Bilingual Thesaurus of Everyday Life in Medieval England is now online and freely available. It is the outcome of a project that was funded by the Leverhulme Trust and initially based at Birmingham…
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