Info: NWCL Research Training Programme

From: Kevin Watson (watsonk@edgehill.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Feb 26 2003 - 16:26:02 GMT

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    ATTENTION POST-GRADUATE STUDENTS

    The deadline for registration on the 3rd NWCL Research Training Programme is Friday 28 February.

    The Course Abstracts are now online, see http://www.nwcl.salford.ac.uk/research.htm for more information.

    See below for further information.

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    The North West Centre for Linguistics is delighted to announce that the 3rd Research Training Programme will be held from the 7-11 April 2003, at the University of Manchester.

    ***One week of courses in theoretical and applied linguistics and research methdology for postgraduate students***

    Including week long courses on:

    - Logic and Meaning (Payne, Manchester),
    - Non-truth conditional semantics (Blakemore, Salford),
    - Sociolinguistics (team course, see website).

    Also includes afternoon sessions on:
    - Analysing spoken and written corpora (Corrigan, Newcastle),
    - Dealing with informants (Anderson, Manchester)
    - Conference Skills (team course)
    - Key terms in linguistics: modularity (Carston, UCL)
    - History of linguistics (Vincent, Manchester)

    There are also a number of other events planned during the course of the Programme:

    - The Programme will include a student poster session, which will be held on the Tuesday evening. There will be two prizes (of 50UKP) for the best posters.

    - There will be a Programme Dinner, in Manchester restaurant, on the Thursday evening.

    - The NWCL Annual lecture coincides with the first day of the course (the 7th April, at 5.30pm). The guest speaker is Professor Ralph Fasold (Univeristy of Georgetown) who will be giving a lecture entitled "There is only one language." The lecture is open to all, and is not restricted to those people attending the NWCL Research Training Workshop. See the NWCL website for further information (http://www.nwcl.salford.ac.uk, and follow the link to 'Annual Lecture')

    REGISTRATION
    Deadline for registration: FRIDAY 28 FEBRUARY 2003
    The Programme will be limited to 50 students, so do not miss the deadline for registration.

    FEES
    For students from NWCL institutions:
    Whole course (full week): 20UKP
    Afternoon session (per session): 3.50UKP

    For students from other institutions:
    Whole course (full week): 25UKP
    Afternoon session (per session): 5UKP

    See the website for details of how to register.

    MORE INFORMATION
    For more information, see the NWCL Website (http://www.nwcl.salford.ac.uk/research.htm)
    Or email nwcl-languages@salford.ac.uk



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