Why English has a ‘we’ problem: when we say ‘we’, who do ‘we’ mean?, Thursday 10 December 2015 23.26 GMT – Gavin Davis In his Redfern speech, Paul Keating said we need to open our hearts, but who are ‘we’? If the speech was given in Mandarin, Tok Pisin or Warlpiri, we’d know. “We committed the murders.” That was
Token: A Journal of English Linguistics (ISSN 2299-5900, e-ISSN 2392-2087) Editors John G. Newman, University of Texas Rio Grande, Valley Marina Dossena, University of Bergamo, Sylwester Łodej, Jan Kochanowski University of Kielce. Token: A Journal of English Linguistics is an open-access journal which focuses on English linguistics in a broad sense: it accepts both diachronic and synchronic
Date: September 13, 2016 Venue: Univ. of Potsdam, Griebnitzsee Campus Website: http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/comma2016/index.php?page=ws2.php Contact: comma2016-ws@uni-potsdam.de This is a workshop in conjunction with the 6th International Conference on Computational Argument. Participants can register either for the conference+workshops, or only for a workshop. Workshop organizers: Patrick Saint-Dizier (CNRS/IRIT, Univ. of Toulouse) and Manfred Stede (Univ. of Potsdam) Submission modalities: We
An EPSRC-funded project, investigating face-to-face dialogue from a cross-linguistic perspective, is looking for annotators for information structure and/or intonation for English and Bulgarian. The annotation will be performed in Praat. The data to be annotated consists of 1 hour recording of dialogue between 2 people (per language). Preferred skills: – Native level proficiency of Bulgarian