WELCOME TO THE CENTRE FOR LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTIC STUDIES

1. WELCOME TO THE CENTRE FOR LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTIC STUDIES

2. LOGO What are we here for? - 1 • To give teaching and research in language and linguistics at UoK an identifiable home, identity and research base, • To bring together those with interests in the study of language, be it modern or classical, philosophical, pure or applied, • To act as a focus and locus for research collaboration and cross-fertilisation in linguistic matters across the whole institution. • To forge research links at national and international level.

3. What are we here for? - 2 • To provide a co-ordination point for collaborative grant applications. (Linguistics and language studies is an area ring-fenced for support by the AHRC.) • To provide a focus for recruitment at undergraduate and graduate levels

4. What are we here for? – 3 Proactively and reactively • To centre linguistic research activities, • To encourage ideas and proposals • To support collaboration and funding proposals, both nationally and internationally

5. LOGO What do we cover? - 1 • Anthropological linguistics • Computer modelling of neural and linguistic processes • Contrastive linguistics • Corpus linguistics • Dialectology and sociolinguistic variation • Discourse analysis • Endangered and minority languages • Forensic linguistics • Historical linguistics • Information Technology for language purposes • Language acquisition • Lexicology • Natural language processing • Philosophy of language • Pragmatics and semantics • Psycholinguistics • Semiotics • Stylistics • Syntax • Translation Theory

6. What do we cover? – 2 • Linguistic investigation of a variety of languages including: • Catalan • Celtic • Cornish • Danish • English • French • German • Greek, classical: and modern • Italian • Latin • Old English/Latin interface • Russian • Spanish

7. TheMedway project: Language(s) and Cultures in Medway Rationale: • Growing interest in and awareness of Thames Gateway expansion: stocktaking and projection – wide basis for potential interdisciplinary research • Establish linguistics and connected disciplines as part of UoK in Medway • Fieldwork for final years project; data gathering and handling • Cooperation: linguistics with Anthropology, CLS/English, Social Psychology, Sociology, THRS, Urban Studies? Any more? Possible Themes: • The English(es?) of Medway • Languages and Language communities of Medway • Racial communities in Medway: their cultures and languages and interactions • Religious communities in Medway: their cultures and languages and interactions • Mutual effect of these on each other and Medway English • Trades, employment, history and language • Considerations from syntactic, phonological, lexical, pragmatic, sociological and sociolinguistic perspectives. • Consequences and applications of insights gained, e.g. business, residential and industrial accommodation, environmental and community plannin

8. WELCOME TO THE CENTRE FOR LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTIC STUDIES

9. LOGO Steering Committee Who are we? Management Structure and responsibilities • John Partridge (Director) jgp@kent.ac.uk • Nicola Schmidt-Renfree (Events Organisation) ns2@kent.ac.uk • Jon Mills (Projects organisation) jm349@kent.ac.uk • Peter Read (Publication and grant applications) pfr@kent.ac.uk • Montserrat Roser-i-Puig (Coordination with other depts., faculties, institutions) mr@kent.ac.uk • David Hornsby (Publicity) dch@kent.ac.uk • Diane Peretti (Secretary) dp60@kent.ac.uk