Programme
| 8:30-9:00 | In-person registration and zoom (waiting) room opens |
| 9:00-9:15 | Welcome from the committee |
| 9:15-10:15 | Session 1 – Plenary Greg Woodin – How people talk and think about numbers: Insights from corpus and cognitive linguistics |
| 10:15-10:30 | Break |
| 10:30-12:00 | Session 2 – Presentations (3 x 20 mins + Q&A) Alicia Wickert – Impoliteness in Political Interviews: President Donald Trump’s 20-minute interview for CBS ‘60 Minutes’ Yiqing Chi – Bridging the function-form gap: A multidimensional move analysis of English research article introductions in applied linguistics by L1 and Chinese scholars (ONLINE) Sophia Butt – The Construction of Terrorism & Radicalisation Risks in UK Higher Education – A Multidisciplinary Approach |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00-14:30 | Session 3 – Presentations (3 x 20 mins + Q&A) Jie Liang – A corpus-based study of the grammatical patterns and meanings of multi-word verbs: a case of “look for” Eloise Parr – Using moving metaphor density to analyse discussions of pregnancy experience online Bashayer Baissa – Distinguishing False News Through Lexico-Grammatical Features: A Multi-dimensional Analysis (ONLINE) |
| 14:30-14:45 | Break |
| 14:45-15:45 | Session 4 – Presentations (2 x 10 mins + 1 x 20 mins + Q&A) Arina Rohmatika – Exploring the Use of Data-Driven Learning in the Context of Indonesian Higher Education Christina Christou – STORY WRITING FOR REFRAMING TRAUMA – Looking at metaphors people use in the narrative structure of their ‘story’. Liwen Bing – Developmental trajectory of Syntactic Complexity in Chinese ESL MA Students |
| 15:45-16:00 | Closing Remarks |
| 16:00-17:00 | Informal (non-alcoholic) drinks reception and networking |
For the full programme with abstracts, see the PDF below: