7.200, FYI: Jean Aitchison's Reith Lectures

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Subject: 7.200, FYI: Jean Aitchison's Reith Lectures
 
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Date:  Wed, 07 Feb 1996 12:04:11 GMT
From:  Paul.Foulkes at newcastle.ac.uk ("Paul Foulkes")
Subject:        Reith lectures
 
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Date:  07 Feb 1996 16:47:00
From:  P.A.Rowlett at mod-lang.salford.ac.uk
Subject:  Jean Aitchison's Reith Lectures
 
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Date:  Wed, 07 Feb 1996 12:04:11 GMT
From:  Paul.Foulkes at newcastle.ac.uk ("Paul Foulkes")
Subject:        Reith lectures
 
Condensed versions of Aitchison's Reith lectures are being published
every Wednesday in the Independent newspaper.
 
Paul Foulkes
Department of Speech
University of Newcastle
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
 
tel: 0191-222 5210
fax: 0191-222 6518
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Date:  07 Feb 1996 16:47:00
From:  P.A.Rowlett at mod-lang.salford.ac.uk
Subject:  Jean Aitchison's Reith Lectures
 
 
LINGUIST subscribers unable to record Jean Aitchison's 1996 Reith
Lectures `The Language Web' directly from BBC Radio 4 may find the
following information useful:
 
1 Tapes of the lectures are NOT available from the BBC.
 
2 Extracts/summaries of each (Tuesday evening) lecture appear the
following day in The Independent newspaper.
 
3 Full transcripts of each lecture are available from the BBC.  They
cost GBP3.50 each or GBP15.00 for all five.  These can be ordered by
sending a cheque for the relevant amount made payable to the British
Broadcasting Corporation to: Room 8054, BBC Broadcasting House, London
W1A 1AA, United Kingdom.
 
4 The lectures are being `reworked' for publication as a book later in
1996.
 
NB The lectures are broadcast of BBC Radio 4 Tuesday evenings from
8.30pm- 9.00pm GMT.
 
Paul Rowlett
Department of Modern Languages
University of Salford
Salford M5 4WT
UK
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