<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0px 0.0001pt;font-size:16px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-align:center;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial" align="center"><b style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Announcement: </span></b><b style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:rgb(56,118,29)">Linguistics in the pub in London (<span class="gmail-il">LIPIL</span>)</span></b><b style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:rgb(11,83,148)"> </span></b><b style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">Tuesday</span></b><b style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"> 1st November 2016 – </span></b><span style="font-size:18px"><b>Popular representations of linguistics</b></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt"> </span></p><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">Linguistics in the popular consciousness and popular media has a number of faces. This month's LIPIL discussion will be sharing and deconstructing some of the metaphors, images, topics, themes of linguistic research and how they are presented to the general public.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>Please bring examples of your encounters with popular representations of linguistics, be that Tom Wolfe's recent book about Chomsky, The<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://bloomsburyfestival.org.uk/events/event/lastwhispers/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Last Whispers</a><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>at the British Museum, Dan Everett's 'Don't sleep', the genre of books like 'Eats, Shoots and Leaves', David Crystal's various works, your favourite blogs and podcasts or your thoughts about the upcoming<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://davidadger.org/2016/09/23/how-alien-can-language-be/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Arrival</a><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>film.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>We will discuss both positive and problematic examples of linguistics in popular media. In doing so we will also discuss how linguists can get across important messages about languages and their study to combat poor information, and how while engaging the public can be done without spreading distortions or inaccuracies.<br><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><b>Suggested r̶e̶a̶d̶i̶n̶g̶  listening:</b><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://talkthetalkpodcast.com/265-universal-grammar-2/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">The most recent episode of Talk the Talk</a><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>is on the theme of Tom Wolfe's book on Chomsky, and features Dan Everett and Lynne Murphy discussing the response to the book.</div><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline;float:none">Date:             Tuesday 1st November 2016</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline;float:none">Time:             6:00 - 8:00 pm</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline;float:none">Venue:         <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.taylor-walker.co.uk/pub/marlborough-arms-bloomsbury/c7440/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">The Marlborough Arms</a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline;float:none">, 36 Torrington Place, London WC1E 7LY</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline;float:none">                     Food and drinks available at the venue</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline;float:none">Contact Lauren Gawne (<a href="mailto:lg21@soas.ac.uk">lg21@soas.ac.uk</a>) or Peter Austin (<a href="mailto:pa2@soas.ac.uk">pa2@soas.ac.uk</a>) with any questions.</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline;float:none">For future announcements and information about LIPIL check out our Facebook page at<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/LingPubLondon/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">https://www.facebook.com/LingPubLondon/</a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,s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