Westminster Forum for Language and Linguistics

Description

The Westminster Forum for Language and Linguistics aims to bring together people working on language and linguistics in order to exchange ideas and approaches within the faculty, across the University and out into a community of staff, students, prospective students and the general public who are interested in language.

The Forum encompasses all the language and linguistic work that goes on in the different departments of the faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at Westminster. Areas include:

• Cognitive linguistics
• Discourse analysis
• Figurative language and thought
• History of English
• History of linguistics
• Language and gender
• Language contact, including the study of codeswitching and creole languages
• Language variation and change
• Semantics and pragmatics
• Sociolinguistics of migration and mobility
• Sociolinguistics of multilingualism
• Stylistics
• Syntax
• TESOL, language teaching and learning pedagogy
• Translation and Interpreting Studies

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University of Westminster, London
London