3rd Linguistics Research Student Conference @ SOAS 3rd-4th June 2016
We are pleased to announce that registration for LRSC3 is now open at http://bit.ly/1WA9IIS.
The fee for the conference is as follows and includes lunch, tea/coffee and a drinks reception on Friday evening:
Friday only £5
Saturday only £5
Both days £8
Please register by the 27th May so that we can arrange catering for the day. Unfortunately, it will not be possible to register on the door.
For more information on the conference go to: http://www.soas.ac.uk/linguistics/events/3rd-linguistics-research-student-conference-and-workshop-soas/. The final programme for the two-day conference and workshop is below.
Looking forward to seeing you there,
LRSC@SOAS Organising Committee
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Friday 3rd June 2016
9.00-9.20 am Registration in V122
9.20-9.30 am Welcome Address in V121
Workshop on ‘Methodology, Methods and Data Collection in Language Documentation and Description’
Session A. Language Documentation and Description (LDD), V121 Chair: Charlotte Hemmings
9.30 – 10 am Karolina Grzech (SOAS): Creating a Corpus of Tena Kichwa: With ‘the community’ but for whom?
10 – 10.30 am Eleanor Ridge (SOAS): Quantitative Analysis of Loan Verb Usage in Southeast Ambrym (Vanuatu) using FLEx and R
10.30 – 11 am Coffee Break in V122
11 – 12.30 pm Session B. Round Table Discussion on Corpus Creation and Analysis in LDD, V121 Chair: Sophie Mu Facilitated by Dr Alex King
12.30 - 1.30 pm Lunch Break in V122
3rd SOAS Linguistics Research Student Conference
Session C. Morphosyntax, V121 Chair: Robert Laub
1.30 - 2 pm Joey Lovestrand (Oxford): Historical development of a dual pronoun in Barayin (Chadic)
2 - 2.30 pm Andrew Harvey (SOAS): Gender or noun class? Gorwaa as an intermediate case
2.30 - 3 pm Eleanor Ridge (SOAS): Auxiliary verbs in Southeast Ambrym, Vanuatu
3 – 3.30 pm Coffee Break in V122
Session D. Corpus Linguistics and Historical Linguistics, V121 Chair: Harry Willoughby
3.30 - 4 pm Sadiq Altamimi Almaged (Swansea): Getting the Gist: Preparing Analytical Data from Large Corpora
4 - 4.30 pm Joanna Nolan (SOAS): Lingua Franca on the Barbary Coast: a foreshadowing of 21st century Superdiversity and Metrolingualism
4.30-6.00 pm Drinks Reception in V122
Saturday 4th June 2016
9.30 - 10.30 am Plenary Address by Dr Alex King, L67 Political Ethnopoetics in Language Documentation
10.30 – 11 am Coffee Break in G51
Session E. Language Pedagogy, L67 Chair: Kamaal Ahsan Majeed
11 - 11.30 am Ling Fan (Polytechnic University, Hong Kong): Teaching Chinese language to foreigners by weichat
11.30 – 12 pm Hui Sun (Birkbeck): Role of Learning Context in the L2 Motivational Orientation: A Comparative study of Chinese Learners of English in EFL and ESL Contexts
12-12.30 pm Daniel Pun (Polytechnic University, Hong Kong): Learners' desire and investment under neoliberalism: a case of L2 learners of English in Hong Kong
12.30–2 pm Lunch Break in G51
Session F. Sociolinguistics, L67 Chair: Zeina Eid
2-2.30 pm Khadija Chennoufi-Gilkes (SOAS): An analysis of Amazigh identity claiming in a corpus of Facebook representations
2.30-3 pm Sarah Croome (SOAS): Dominant themes in the discursive construction of present day Cornish
3 – 3.30 pm Coffee Break in G51
Session G. Language Policy, L67 Chair: JoJo Zhou
3.30 – 4 pm Fiona Victory (UCL): A comparative analysis of the factors explaining variation in medium of instruction policy choice for state school systems
4 – 4.30 pm Ellen Foote (SOAS): Language policy at the Mary Chapman School for the Deaf, Yangon, Myanmar
4.30 – 5 pm Closing Remarks: Peter Austin, L67
