English Language and Linguistics Society conference

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English Language & Linguistics Society (ELLSoc) at Kent Union is hosting a student conference tomorrow, 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 Darw

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.

The conference begins at 11am. For the full details of the conference programme, please see: www.kent.ac.uk/secl/ell/events/index.html?eid=25072

 

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