<div dir="ltr">Dear colleagues (with the usual apologies) <div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">The next SOAS Linguistics Department seminar will be on Tuesday 12th November, 3:30-5pm, in the Khalili Lecture Theatre, main building, SOAS, Thornhaugh St., Russell Sq, London (under the library). The title is "Sign Languages in Speaker Communities" and the speaker is Prof. Adam </span>Kendon<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">, University of Pennsylvania.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">An abstract is here: </span><a href="http://www.soas.ac.uk/linguistics/events/deptseminars/12nov2013-sign-languages-in-speaker-communities.html" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">http://www.soas.ac.uk/linguistics/events/deptseminars/12nov2013-sign-languages-in-speaker-communities.html</a><br>
<br><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">British Sign Language interpretation will be available at this seminar.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<br><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">The seminar is free and open to all.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br>
</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">Videos of recent seminars are available online: </span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br>
</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">Dr Cindy Schneider on "Literacy micro planning in a Papua New Guinean community: Which language is the right language?"  at </span><a href="http://t.co/bf0OmmyBq6" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">http://t.co/bf0OmmyBq6</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Prof Paul Newman's seminar on "The Law of Unintended Consequences: How the Endangered Languages Movement Undermines Field Linguistics as a Scientific Enterprise" is also available for viewing at </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xziE08ozQok&list=UUBCF-kxr1DRImsGKuz2XLgw" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xziE08ozQok&list=UUBCF-kxr1DRImsGKuz2XLgw</a><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> as well as at</span><a href="http://www.hrelp.org/events/seminars/paulnewman/index.html" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">http://www.hrelp.org/events/seminars/paulnewman/index.html</a><br>
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">See you there</div><div><br></div><div>Julia Sallabank</div><div>Endangered Languages Academic Programme</div><div>Linguistics Dept</div><div>SOAS, University of London<br>
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