9:00 – 9:30
9:30 – 9:50
9:50 – 10:50
Registration
Foyer
Opening speech by Greg Myers
Meeting Room 1
Plenary talk 1 by Paul Kerswill (Lancaster University)
Coffee Break
Foyer
10:50 – 11:20
Session 1:
Meeting Room 1
11:20 – 12:50 Parallel Sessions
Session 2:
Session 3:
Meeting Room 2
Meeting Room 3
Bang Lindegaard
Liao
Legitimating everyday transportation
practices in a rural village in
Denmark
Language needs analysis of
business workplace in China and its
implications for the curriculum
development for the business
language majors at the tertiary level
Gachigua
Shao
Should Public Officers Make Public
Declarations of their Wealth? Power
Elite Discourse in the Fight Against
Corruption in the Kenyan parliament
Exploring the vocabulary learning
strategies used by two advanced
learners of English from South
Korea and Iraq
Kilsby
Who is Wilberforce? Using corpus
stylistic techniques to reveal linguistic
indicators of characterization in two
sections of Paul Torday’s ‘The
Irresistible Inheritance of
Wilberforce’(2008).
Session 4
Meeting Room 4
Al-Lawati
Investigating the characteristics of
language test specifications and item
writer guidelines, and their effect on
item development
Hargreaves
Trklja
Accounting for viewpoint effects in le
Carré’s A Perfect Spy using Text World
Theory
Synonyms as translation equivalents,
translation equivalents as synonyms
Thiele
Al-Abdullah
Aljuaid
Cariola
Gender and ‘Bad Language’: A Case
Study of Kuwaiti
Language Learning Strategies Used
by a Group of Saudi Arabian EFL
Learners
Body boundary and primary process
language in discourse of religiousmystical and psychotic altered states of
consciousness
IT Metaphors in Spoken Academic
Discourse in English and German
Lunch and Poster Sessions
Foyer
12:50 – 13:50
Session 1:
Meeting Room 1
Mukherjee
Descriptive Analysis of Anaphors in
Bangla
Bauke
A cross-linguistic perspective on
nominal root compounding
Nurminen
Hill-Terms in the Place-Names of
North-East England
15:20 – 15:40
13:50 – 15:20 Parallel Sessions
Session 2:
Session 3:
Meeting Room 2
Meeting Room 3
Carrie
Varieties of English:
What Foreign Learners Believe,
Know and Practise
AlMohizea
A cognitive linguistic approach to
analysing L1 influence on the
performance of EFL learners
on idioms related to body parts.
Wang
A Comparative Study of Epistemic
Modality---a genre based approach
Session 4
Meeting Room 4
Anderson-Windsor
Huat
Ageing as a gendered process: how it
is constructed and expressed in
lifestyle media
Tracking second language writing
development through lexical
bundles: Possibilities and challenges
Uygur
Stefanou
Discourse markers in the right
periphery: (inter)subjectivity in text
messages
Lawson
Parachuting into the Périgord:
negative media representations of
British migrants in France
Coffee Break
Foyer
The use of the English article system
by Greek learners of English
Zhang
Medium of Instruction in the
Internationalization of Chinese
Higher Education: A Case Study of a
Sino-British University in the
Mainland
Session 1:
Meeting Room 1
Austin
The National Curriculum and the
Standard English Myth
Thistlethwaite
An investigation into the functions of
written Irish appearing on locallyproduced signs and texts in a nonGaeltacht Irish town in The Republic
of Ireland (ROI).
15:40 – 16:40 Parallel Sessions
Session 2:
Session 3:
Meeting Room 2
Meeting Room 3
Muroya
Interpreting morphological variability
in adolescent Japanese-English
interlanguage
Mazgutova
The effects of task complexity of the
development of academic writing
skills of EFL university students
Session 4
Meeting Room 4
Safwat
Ng
Noun-Based Collocations in Modern
Standard Arabic: Applying the model
of the Extended Lexical Unit to a
corpus of contemporary media
discourse
Hong Lu
Imaging Institutional Identity:
The Visual Branding of Singapore’s
Higher Education Institutions
Corpus Linguistics (CL) & Systemic
Functional Linguistics (SFL) in a
Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) of
the representation of Chinese women
in My Country and My People
Medical abstracts of poster
presentations: a diachronic analysis
Maci
16:50 – 17:50
Plenary talk 1 by Johnny Unger(Lancaster University)
17:50 – 18:00
Closing Remarks
Meeting Room 2