English Linguistics Seminar Series

SPRING 2024

Lexical richness in Spanish as a foreign language: State of the art and future challenges

When: 16 February 2024, 10.15-12.00  
Where:  12B 545
Presenter: Marco Berton, KAU
The seminar is open to everyone.

Changing language attitudes in Australia

When: 3 May 2024, 10.15-12.00  
Where:  12B 545
Presenter: Louisa Willoughby (Monash University, Australia)
The seminar is open to everyone.

FALL 2023

MID-SEMINARIUM LILIANN BYMAN FRISÉN - ASSESSMENT OF L2 SPEAKING

When: October 3rd 2023,13:15-15:00.
Where: 12A 225
Opponent: Professor Olcay Sert, School of Education, Culture and Communication, Mälardalen University.
The seminar is open to everyone.

THE SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS OF THE DOUBLE-FACED PREPOSITIONS 'BESIDES' AND 'BEYOND'

When: October 13th 2023, 10:15-12:00.
Where:  12B 545
Presenter: Solveig Granath, KAU.
The seminar is open to everyone.

Building Semantic Structures for Language Technology: The Case of Protest Events

When: November 10th 2023, 10:15-12:00.
Where:  12B 545
Presenter: Milena Slavcheva, Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
The seminar is open to everyone.

SPRING 2023

Recent dissertations in linguistics - a critical reading

When: January 20th 2023, 10:15-12:00.  
Where:  12B 545
Presenter: Rickard Nilsson and Tim Roberts, KAU.
The seminar is open to everyone.

PhD defense Tim Roberts – Language Practices in Swedish-English Families

When: January 31 2023,10:15.
Where: Sjöströmsalen
Opponent: Professor Emerita Elizabeth Lanza, Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan, University of Oslo.
The seminar is open to everyone.

“Bring that goat home” and “fly them over the river”: Directed caused accompanied motion in Australian English speech (and gesture)

When: May 5th 2023, 10:15-12:00.
Where: Zoom https://kau-se.zoom.us/j/68113257106
Presenter: Anna Margetts (Monash University), Isabelle Burke (Monash University), Eleanor Jorgensen (University of Melbourne), Harriet Sheppard (University of Queensland).
The seminar is open to everyone.

FALL 2022

PhD 90% seminar / mock defense Tim Roberts - Family Language Policy in Swedish-English Bilingual Families

When: September 14th 2022,10:15.
Where: Zoom
Opponent: Professor Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen, Professor of Applied Linguistics in Education, University of Bath.

Implicit linguistic bias in Northern and Southern England ("Speaking of Prejudice" project)

When: September 16th 2022, 10:15-12:00.  
Where: Zoom https://kau-se.zoom.us/j/68113257106
Presenter: Robert McKenzie, Northumbria University, UK.
The seminar is open to everyone.

Language anxiety experienced by German and French heritage speakers in Denmark

When: October 21st 2022, 10:15-12:00.  
Where:  12B 545
Presenter: Annika Schimpff, Copenhagen University, Denmark.
The seminar is open to everyone.

Confronting the coronavirus pandemic in talk-in-interaction in the sitcom

When: November 18th 2022, 10:15-12:00.  
Where:  12B 545
Presenter: Kristy Beers Fägersten, Professor in English Linguistics, Södertörns University (presenting joint work with Cornelia Gerhardt, Saarland University, Germany)
The seminar is open to everyone.

PhD defense Sebastian Malinowski - English Philology is just a Bubble' – Unconventional Metaphors in English as a Lingua Franca

When: December 2nd 2022, 13:15.
Where: Nyquistsalen 9C 203 and Zoom https://kau-se.zoom.us/j/69546201220
Opponent: Hans-Jörg Schmid, Professor of Modern English Linguistics and Dean of the Faculty of Linguistics and Literature Studies, University of Munich.
The seminar is open to everyone.

CANCELLED!
Gender categories in assessments of a #MeToo-related public apology: The case of Andrew Cuomo

When: December 9th 2022, 13:15-15:00.  
Where:  12B 545
Presenter: Peter Wikström and Erica Sandlund, KAU.
The seminar is open to everyone.

SPRING 2022

Virtual worlds and semantic modelling (RJ application)

When: January 28th, 2022, kl. 10:15-12:00.  
Where: Zoom https://kau-se.zoom.us/j/68113257106
Presenters: Andrea Schalley, Anton Benz, Torgrim Solstad, Oliver Bott (KAU, ZAS Berlin, Bielefeld University).
The seminar is open to everyone.

Exploring register differences in learner writing: A multi-dimensional approach (joint work with Doug Biber and Magali Paquot)

When: February 25th 2022, 15:15-17:00.  
Where: Zoom https://kau-se.zoom.us/j/68113257106
Presenter: Tove Larsson, Northern Arizona University, USA.
The seminar is open to everyone.

Forensic transcription: how misconceptions about language contribute to injustice in the legal process - and how linguistics can help

When: April 1st 2022, 10:15-12:00.  
Where: Zoom https://kau-se.zoom.us/j/68113257106
Presenter: Helen Fraser, University of Melbourne, Australia.
The seminar is open to everyone.

CANCELLED!
Gender categories and membership categorization in rejections of #MeToo-related public apologies: Work-in-progress and data session

When: April 29th 2022, 10:15-12:00.  
Where: 12B 545
Presenters: Peter Wikström and Erica Sandlund, Karlstad University.
The seminar is open to everyone.

PhD defense Sophia Liu Fei - English teaching in China: EFL teacher motivation and demotivation at the university level

When: May 13th 2022, 13:15.
Where: Zoom (see https://www.kau.se/kalenderhandelser/disputation-i-engelska-4 for access)
Opponent: Professor Maria Kuteeva, Professor in English Linguistics, Stockholm University.

Instructed and out-of-class English and the impact on implicit and explicit knowledge: The case of Austrian and Swedish ESL learners

When: May 18th 2022, 13:15-15:00.  
Where: 12B 545
Presenter: Alexandra Schurz, University of Vienna, Austria.
The seminar is open to everyone.

PhD 90% seminar / mock defense Sebastian Malinowski - Unconventional metaphors in English as a Lingua franca (ELF)

When: June 8th 2022,10:15.
Where: 12A 225 (Humlan)
Opponent: Professor Marlene Johansson Falck, Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Professor in English Linguistics, Umeå University.

FALL 2021

Tension-filled English at the multilingual university: A Bakhtinian perspective

When: October 15th 2021, 10.15-12.00.  
Where: 12B 545
Presenter: Maria Kuteeva, University of Stockholm.
The seminar is open to everyone.

Accounting and accountability in public apologies

When: October 22th 2021, 10.15-12.00.  
Where: 12B 545
Presenters: Peter Wikström and Erica Sandlund, Karlstad University.
The seminar is open to everyone.

Affordances and challenges in using simulated teacher learning environments for educating teachers of emerging bilinguals

When: November 29th 2021, 10.15-12.00.  
Where: 12B 545
Presenter: Sultan Turkan, Queen's University Belfast.
The seminar is open to everyone.

For information on seminars held before the Fall 2021 semester, please contact the seminar organiser, Professor Andrea Schalley, on andrea.schalley@kau.se.