Invited by the Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages, Zoltán Kövecses (Eötvös Loránd University Budapest) will give a talk in the lecture series Medieval Conflicts and Contrasts: Metaphors. The lecture Issues in diachronic study of metaphors will take place on Wednesday, 31 October, 17:30-19:00, room no. 104.
A guest lecturer of the KREAS project, prof. Jennifer Cole (Northwestern University) will give a talk titled The linguistic and social functions of prosody (abstract) on Wednesday, 24 October (10 am) at the Sweerts-Sporck Palace (3 Hybernská st., room H303).
On Tuesday, 5 Dec. prof. Hilde Hasselgård (invited by the Department of English and ELT Methodology) will give a talk entitled “Corpus-based contrastive analysis: some methodological issues and a talking case study”; 5:30 pm, room no. 300. (abstract)
On Thursday, 30 Nov, Dr R. Love (Lancaster University), invited by the Department of English and ELT Methodology, will give a lecture “The Spoken BNC2014: design, compilation and…bad language” (room 131, 3:50 pm) (abstract)
Invited by the Institute of Czech National Corpus, Michael Ramscar (Tübingen) will give two lectures in Prague: The discriminative nature of human communication (Monday, November 27th 2017, 6 pm) and The information structure of discriminative human communication systems (Tuesday, November 28th 2017, 1 pm) (flyer)
Linguistics Prague is a conference aimed at graduate students of linguistics and related fields. Successfully running since 2013, the conference will be opened to international audience for the second time in 2018 with English as the language of the conference. Date: 26–28 April 2018, Abstract submission deadline: TBA
