WELCOME TO THE CENTRE FOR LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTIC STUDIES

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• WELCOME TO THE CENTRE FOR LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTIC
  STUDIES

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LOGO

• What are we here for? - 1
• To give teaching and research in language and
  linguistics at UoK an identifiable home, identity
  and research base,
• To bring together those with interests in the
  study of language, be it modern or classical,
  philosophical, pure or applied,
• To act as a focus and locus for research
  collaboration and cross-fertilisation in
  linguistic matters across the whole institution.
• To forge research links at national and
  international level.

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• What are we here for? - 2
• To provide a co-ordination point for
  collaborative grant applications. (Linguistics
  and language studies is an area ring-fenced for
  support by the AHRC.)
• To provide a focus for recruitment at
  undergraduate and graduate levels

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• What are we here for? 3
• Proactively and reactively
• To centre linguistic research activities,
• To encourage ideas and proposals
• To support collaboration and funding proposals,
  both nationally and internationally

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LOGO

• What do we cover? - 1
• Anthropological linguistics
• Computer modelling of neural and linguistic
  processes
• Contrastive linguistics
• Corpus linguistics
• Dialectology and sociolinguistic variation
• Discourse analysis
• Endangered and minority languages
• Forensic linguistics
• Historical linguistics
• Information Technology for language purposes
• Language acquisition
• Lexicology
• Natural language processing
• Philosophy of language
• Pragmatics and semantics
• Psycholinguistics
• Semiotics

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• What do we cover? 2
• Linguistic investigation of a variety of
  languages including
• Catalan
• Celtic
• Cornish
• Danish
• English
• French
• German
• Greek, classical and modern
• Italian
• Latin
• Old English/Latin interface
• Russian
• Spanish

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• The Medway project Language(s) and Cultures in
  Medway
• Rationale
• Growing interest in and awareness of Thames
  Gateway expansion stocktaking and projection
  wide basis for potential interdisciplinary
  research
• Establish linguistics and connected disciplines
  as part of UoK in Medway
• Fieldwork for final years project data gathering
  and handling
• Cooperation linguistics with Anthropology,
  CLS/English, Social Psychology, Sociology, THRS,
  Urban Studies? Any more?
• Possible Themes
• The English(es?) of Medway
• Languages and Language communities of Medway
• Racial communities in Medway their cultures and
  languages and interactions
• Religious communities in Medway their cultures
  and languages and interactions
• Mutual effect of these on each other and Medway
  English
• Trades, employment, history and language
• Considerations from syntactic, phonological,
  lexical, pragmatic, sociological and
  sociolinguistic perspectives.
• Consequences and applications of insights gained,
  e.g. business, residential and industrial
  accommodation, environmental and community
  plannin

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• WELCOME TO THE CENTRE FOR LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTIC
  STUDIES

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LOGO

• Steering Committee
• Who are we?
• Management Structure and responsibilities
• John Partridge (Director) jgp_at_kent.ac.uk
• Nicola Schmidt-Renfree (Events Organisation)
  ns2_at_kent.ac.uk
• Jon Mills (Projects organisation)
  jm349_at_kent.ac.uk
• Peter Read (Publication and grant applications)
  pfr_at_kent.ac.uk
• Montserrat Roser-i-Puig (Coordination with other
  depts., faculties, institutions) mr_at_kent.ac.uk
• David Hornsby (Publicity) dch_at_kent.ac.uk
• Diane Peretti (Secretary) dp60_at_kent.ac.uk