Linguistic and Literary Sciences

Workshops on Transferable Skills

5th February 2013

Amanda Murphy: Transferable skills in a postgraduate research context

12 February 2013

Tim Quinn: Approaches to Structuring Research Methodology

19 February 2013

Tim Quinn: Drafting and Polishing. The Nuts and Bolts of the Writing Process

4th March 2013

Maggie Charles: Adverbial Connection in Student Writing. Patterns and Functions

5th March 2013

Maggie Charles: Do I have to use the passive? Reporting Clauses and Stance in Academic Writing

14 and 21 March 2013

Marisa Verna: Research and Academic Writing

Seminars on Literature or Linguistics topics

31 January 2013

Stefano Manferlotti (University of Naples Federico II)

I am the pale Danish prince. Hamlet parodies

7 February 2013

Guido Milanese: Automatic processing of the bibliography

14 February 2013

Guido Milanese: Barriers and passages. From San Paolo to Montale
Attention! This seminar has been replaced by an in-depth study of the topics covered during the seminar of 7 February concerning the "Automatic processing of bibliography".

28 February 2013

Robert Barsky (Vanderbild University)

From the promises of a 'scientific' linguistics to the follies of experimental literature (William S. Burroughs). Divergent approaches towards language in the USA of the 1950s

 1 and 2 March 2013

Conference: On the run

The final program will be sent as soon as it is available.

12 March 2013

Dirk Speelman - Dirk Geeraerts (University of Leuven);  Jack Grieve (Aston University, Birmingham)

Aggregation in Linguistic Analysis. Some Examples from Register Analysis, Dialectometry and Authorship Attribution

4th April 2013

Philippe Desan (University of Chicago)

The Wealth of Words. Linguistic Mercantilism in the Renaissance

16 April 2013

Giovanni Gobber: Languages and categorization

7 May 2013 - N.B.: THE SEMINAR IS SUSPENDED DUE TO THE UNAVAILABILITY OF THE SPEAKER

Stefano Arduini (University of Urbino)

Translating metaphors

14 May 2013

Vladimir Plungyan (Russian Academy of Sciences - Moscow State University "Lomonosov")

Aspect in Slavic Languages. A typological perspective  

16 May 2013

Giovanni Gobber: National borders and linguistic spaces in Europe

 For information on the seminars of the Doctoral School, please contact the Department of Linguistic Sciences and Foreign Literatures, dip.linguestraniere@unicatt.it