Recent and upcoming research talks

If you would like to attend any of these events, please contact us.

: : 31 October 2007
Alison Johnson, Leeds University
'Small is beautiful. Researching small corpora in forensic (con)texts: some lessons from recent research'
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: : 7 May 2008
Barbara Johnstone, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
'Stance, Style, and the Linguistic Individual'
Talk organised under Aston University's Distinguished Visitor Scheme
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: : 13 May 2008
Malcolm Coulthard, Aston University
Inaugural Lecture: 'The Linguist as Detective and Expert Witness'
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: : 14 May 2008
Larry Solan, Brooklyn Law School, USA
'False Consensus Bias in Contract Interpretation'
Talk organised under Aston University's Distinguished Visitor Scheme
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: : 21 May 2008
Jessica Woodhams, University of Gloucestershire, with Tim Grant, Aston University
'Rape as communicative interaction - an application of investigative linguistics'

: : 25 June 2008
Georgina Heydon, Monash University, Australia
'The risk to testimonial integrity of moral judgements in police interviews'
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