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2008-09 Language Institute Lecture Series Culture, Literature and Language: Power and Pedagogies

Lecture: Land of the Free, Home of the Phraselator: The Weaponization of Language
Mary Louise Pratt, New York University
12:00 pm, Thursday, November 6
Room TBD

The first in a series of public lectures sponsored by the Language Institute on Culture, Literature and Language: Power and Pedagogies. Learn more >

Lecture: On the Division of 'Prosodic' and 'Non-Prosodic' Resources in Talk-in-Interaction
Gareth Walker, University of Sheffield
4:00 pm, Monday, November 10
254 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive

A significant amount of work published over the last twenty five years or so has shown how the phonetic design of talk-in-interaction is bound up with its sequential organisation. However, it is the consideration of prosodic--rather than general phonetic--features which seem to dominate current thinking. In this talk, Walker will set out some reasons for dealing with the phonetic design of talk in its totality. Learn more >

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