A series of hybrid research talks open to staff and students. Please contact Dr Ranjan Sen if you have any questions about the talks or how to join them.
2025-26 Academic Year
Autumn 2025
All talks will take place between 12:00-12:50. Talks will be hybrid, in Diamond 309 - Classroom 1 (but please check for notices regarding larger rooms for some talks), and at the following Google Meet link: https://meet.google.com/ont-krrr-jsa. New talks will be added as the year progresses.
8th October 2025 - Andrea Nini (University of Manchester): The Language Model as a mathematical model of the lexicogrammar in Cognitive Linguistics
15th October 2025 - Melike Bulut Albaba (Sheffield Hallam University): Teachers of English as agents of multilingualism
5th November 2025 - Claire Hélie (Université de Lille, France): Towards a postdialect poetry (in Portobello Centre C02b)
Previous years:
2024-25 Academic Year
9th October 2024 - Christopher Strelluf (University of Warwick) Donald Trump has lowered THOUGHT for five decades: Lifespan language change and stability in New York City English vowels
16th October 2024 - Christine Wallis (University of Sheffield) Franks and Friendship: Postal Fraud and Pragmatics in The Mary Hamilton Papers
6th November 2024 - Tino Oudesluijs (University of Sheffield) Choosing the right corpus linguistics tools: creating and analysing a corpus of Kazuo Ishiguro's works (+ Q&A)
27th November 2024 - E Jamieson (University of York) Accommodation after migration: Combining variationist theory with principles of grammatical attrition