Bloomsbury Applied Linguistics Seminars - spring term 2009

Bloomsbury Applied Linguistics Seminars. All seminars will take place 12:00-13:00 in Room B03, 43 Gordon Square, Department of Applied Linguistics & Communication, Birkbeck College, University of London 20 January 2009 i'm lovin' it? Global marketing and sociolinguistics Helen Kelly Holmes, Limerick University 27 January 2009 The sociolinguistics of fleeting relationships: Language, globalization and the tourist encounter Adam Jaworski, Cardiff University 3 February 2009 Multiple languages, memory and regression: an examination of Ribot's Law Marjorie Lorch, Birkbeck College 10 February 2009 The branding of English and the culture of the new capitalism - representations of the world of work in ELT textbooks John Gray, University of East London 24 February 2009 Speaking from the Margins: The Pragmatics of Parody and Locality in Toraja (Indonesia) Auroa Donzelli, SOAS 10 March 2009 Preliminary Investigation of Argumentational Discourse Units in Diplomatic Negotiation Lisa J. McEntee-Atalianis, Reading University 17 March 2009 Language alternation studies: Where to from here? Joseph Gafaranga, University of Edinburgh