News and Announcements

UK-CLC4 Call for papers announced

UK-CLC4 Call for papers has now been announced at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/sspp/education/events/ukclc4.  The conference will take place at Kings College London, 10-12 July 2012.  The following plenary speakers are confirmed:

• Professor Stephen Levinson (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)
• Professor George Lakoff (University of California - Berkely)
• Professor Gilles Fauconnier (University of California - San Diego)
• Professor Elena Lieven (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)
• Professor Martin Pickering (University of Edinburgh)
• Professor Lawrence Barsalou (Emory University)

Published 26/02/2011

UCGAL Newsletter no 1

The first newsletter from the University Council of General and Applied Linguistics can be downloaded here.

Contents:

• Introduction
• What is UCGAL?
• UK Linguistics Olympiad
• Linguistics and the law: an „impact‟ story
• Linguistics in schools: taking stock 

Published 19/10/2010