[lg policy] Reminder: Free wine! Right after a seminar from Paul Kerswill. Sheffield, Mon 22 Feb, 3-5pm

[Dave Sayers]

Hello assorted linguisticky folks,

In true academic tradition, we'll be lining them up and knocking them back... just as 
soon we've finished enjoying the inaugural seminar of the 2015-2018 Visiting 
Professor of the Humanities Research Centre at Sheffield Hallam University, Prof. 
Paul Kerswill. It's entitled "The media engaging linguists: a two-way street?", and 
the abstract is:

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Dealing with the media is a challenge for linguists. Linguists are called upon as 
experts, yet it is the expertise of the public that seems to win out. In my 
presentation, I'll deconstruct this position. I'll begin by presenting some 
relatively high-profile media stories about language, ranging from The One Show, via 
Newsnight, to Channel 4 News. I will continue by presenting my own research on the 
representation of Multicultural London English in the print media, from its first 
mention in 2006, through to its association with Jihadi John in August 2014 and his 
'replacement', who broadcast threats in January this year. Motivated by this 
experience, I carried out an online survey of sociolinguists who had had contacts 
with the media, in which they responded to a range of questions. I was surprised by 
the results, and I will suggest ways in which these should inform what we do in our 
continued media contacts.
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The talk is free, the wine is free... I wish we could afford to bring all of you 
here, but at the very least it's free to get from the train station to the talk 
because the Stoddart building is just a couple of minutes' walk from Sheffield 
central train station. Google street view of the building: 
https://goo.gl/maps/eVa8PKkGApv. And the walk overall: https://goo.gl/maps/UCvRyiiuC442.

PLEASE REGISTER: https://kerswillhallamseminar.eventbrite.co.uk. (No need to bring 
the printed ticket, even if it tells you to.)

See you there/here!

Dave

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Dr. Dave Sayers
Senior Lecturer, Dept Humanities, Sheffield Hallam University | www.shu.ac.uk
Honorary Research Fellow, Cardiff University & WISERD | www.wiserd.ac.uk
dave.sayers at cantab.net | http://shu.academia.edu/DaveSayers


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