{"id":7237,"date":"2017-04-07T12:22:17","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T11:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=7237"},"modified":"2017-04-07T13:35:38","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T12:35:38","slug":"english-language-and-linguistics-society-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2017\/04\/07\/english-language-and-linguistics-society-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"English Language and Linguistics Society conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kentunion.co.uk\/organisation\/UKCELLSOC\/\">English Language &amp; Linguistics Society<\/a>\u00a0(ELLSoc) at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kentunion.co.uk\/\">Kent Union<\/a>\u00a0is hosting a student conference tomorrow, Saturday 8 April 2017, with invited speakers\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/ell\/staff\/mcmahon.html\">Professor April McMahon<\/a>\u00a0(University of Kent) and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.soas.ac.uk\/staff\/staff103173.php\">\u00a0Dr Lauren Gawne<\/a>\u00a0(School of Oriental and African Studies, London), to be held in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/timetabling\/rooms\/room.html?room=D.PETERBRO\">Peter Brown Room<\/a>\u00a0at Darw<\/p>\n<p>April McMahon is Deputy Vice-Chancellor Education and Professor of English Language &amp; Linguistics, she will be presenting on her linguistics research. Lauren Gawne runs the generalist linguistic website\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.superlinguo.com\/\">Superlinguo<\/a>. Her research focuses on gesture and evidentiality, and she will be talking about why and how we need linguistics communicated to the general public.<\/p>\n<p>The conference begins at 11am. For the full details of the conference programme, please see:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/ell\/events\/index.html?eid=25072\">www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/ell\/events\/index.html?eid=25072<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English Language &amp; Linguistics Society\u00a0(ELLSoc) at\u00a0Kent Union\u00a0is hosting a student conference tomorrow, Saturday 8 April 2017, with invited speakers\u00a0Professor April McMahon\u00a0(University of Kent) and\u00a0Dr Lauren &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2017\/04\/07\/english-language-and-linguistics-society-conference\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5829,"featured_media":7100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5829"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7237"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7245,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7237\/revisions\/7245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}