The English Language & Linguistics Society (ELLSoc) at Kent Union will be hosting a student conference on Saturday 8 April 2017, with invited speakers Professor April McMahon (University of Kent) and Dr Lauren Gawne (School of Oriental and African Studies, London), to be held in the Peter Brown Room at Darwin College.
April McMahon is Deputy Vice-Chancellor Education and Professor of English Language & Linguistics, she will be presenting on her linguistics research. Lauren Gawne runs the generalist linguistic website Superlinguo. Her research focuses on gesture and evidentiality, and she will be talking about why and how we need linguistics communicated to the general public.
Abstracts are currently invited for presentations of 15 minutes in length, following by a five-minute Q&A. All areas of linguistics will be appropriate, including psycholinguistics, philosophy of language, stylistics, syntax, morphology, phonetics, phonology, language acquisition, sociolinguistics, etc.
Abstracts should be 300-500 words to give as a brief understanding of your topic. Applications for posters can be done in the same way but remember to click poster instead of presentation on the form, accessible here.
The deadline for submission is 11pm on Friday 17 March 2017. If you have any questions, please email Lizzy Aumônier at: sea29@kent.ac.uk
ELLSoc at Kent is open to students with a common interest in language, whether students of English Language & Linguistics, or those who simply find words and meaning wonderful. The society hosts discussions over libations, guest speakers, and plenty of socials.
You can find more about the society on their Facebook page here:
www.facebook.com/ellsoc