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Colloquium: Paul McPherron (53A Olson Hall, from 2008-06-10 03:10 PM to 2008-06-10 04:30 PM)

Internationalizing teaching, localizing English: The "in-betweens" of global and local language practices at a Chinese university

Colloquium: Otto Santa Ana (Associate Professor, Chicana/o Studies, UCLA) (Olson 53A, from 2008-05-09 03:10 PM to 2008-05-09 04:30 PM)

Critical Social Semiotics & Cognitive Narration: Analyzing today's television news stories about Latinos

SGL Award Ceremony (912 Sproul Hall, from 2008-04-30 03:00 PM to 2008-04-30 04:00 PM)

Cynthia Goldberg will present the 2008 Steven G. Lapointe Award to doctoral candidates in Linguistics, Tammy Gales and Michael Grosvald. Refreshments will be served.

Language Day: Center for Mind and Brain (UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain, 267 Cousteau Place, from 2008-04-25 10:30 AM to 2008-04-25 08:00 PM)

The UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain in conjunction with Departments of Psychology and Linguistics presents: Language Day, 25 April 2008, featuring: William Marslen-Wilson (MRC CBU Cambridge) and Lorraine Tyler (University of Cambridge)

SLAI Colloquium: Ann Kelleher (53A Olson Hall, from 2008-04-17 03:30 PM to 2008-04-17 05:00 PM)

The Second Language Acquisition Institute presents: Ann Kelleher, Doctoral candidate in Linguistics and 2007-08 SLAI Mini-grant recipient; "Heritage" Language in the Here and Now: Perspectives from Cantonese-background Learners of Mandarin.

Colloquium: Ekkehard König (912 Sproul Hall, from 2008-04-10 03:00 PM to 2008-04-10 04:30 PM)

Ekkehard König of the Free University of Berlin will give a talk entitled "Towards a new Typology of Reflexivity: The role of Intensifiers."

Colloquium: Chaofen Sun (53A Olson Hall, from 2008-04-10 11:00 AM to 2008-04-10 12:15 PM)

Chinese Scripts: Simplification and Politics

Using Electronic Corpora to Profile Levels of Proficiency in Second Language Acquisition: the Cambridge English Profile Project (CMB Annex Conference Room, 202 Cousteau Place, suite 250, from 2008-03-27 02:00 PM to 2008-03-27 05:00 PM)

A joint presentation by John A. Hawkins (UC Davis & Cambridge University), Nick Saville (Cambridge Assessment), Paula Buttery (Cambridge University) and Mike McCarthy (Penn State University & Cambridge University Press). The initial presentation will be followed by a workshop given by Paula Buttery.

SLAI Colloquium: Patricia Duff (53A Olson Hall, from 2008-03-13 03:30 PM to 2008-03-13 05:00 PM)

Patricia Duff (University of British Columbia): "Issues in Second/Additional Language Socialization." Second Language Acquisition Institute Lecture Series.

Middle East/South Asia Studies Colloquium: Michael Shapiro (Memorial Union, East Conference Room, from 2008-03-13 12:00 PM to 2008-03-13 01:30 PM)

"Reading Hindi poetry: Some basic principles"

Colloquium: Kristina de Korsak (53A Olson Hall, from 2008-03-12 03:10 PM to 2008-03-12 04:30 PM)

Fuzzy Borders: Children's exploration of their languages and identities

Workshop: Mary J. Schleppegrell (53A Olson Hall, from 2008-02-15 09:00 AM to 2008-02-15 12:00 PM)

The language of “content”: the relevance of grammar

Colloquium: Mary J. Schleppegrell (53A Olson Hall, from 2008-02-14 03:00 PM to 2008-02-14 04:30 PM)

Professor Schleppegrell (University of Michigan) will give a talk entitled "Perspectives on academic language and their implications for classroom practice and research."

Colloquium: Douglas Biber (53A Olson Hall, from 2008-02-01 03:10 PM to 2008-02-01 04:30 PM)

Douglas Biber is Regents’ Professor of Applied Linguistics at Northern Arizona University. The title of his talk is "Merging Corpus Linguistic and Discourse Analytic Research Goals: Discourse Units in Biology Research Articles."

CMB Colloquium: John Hawkins (CMB Conference Room at 267 Cousteau Place, from 2007-12-07 12:10 PM to 2007-12-07 01:00 PM)

A talk by Professor of Linguistics, John Hawkins, in the Exploring the Mind colloquium series at the Center for Mind and Brain

SLAI Colloquium: Kenji Hakuta (53A Olson Hall, from 2007-12-04 03:30 PM to 2007-12-04 05:00 PM)

Reflections on the Role of the Language Specialist in the Present State of Education

Linguistics Fall Welcome Party (44934 N. El Macero Dr., El Macero (758-1470), from 2007-11-02 06:30 PM to 2007-11-02 09:00 PM)

Annual Fall potluck for the Graduate Group and Linguistics Department faculty and graduate students

Colloquium: Marianne Mithun (53A Olson Hall, from 2007-10-25 04:10 PM to 2007-10-25 05:30 PM)

Dr. Mithun, whose research interests include Native American languages, linguistic universals and typology, and interrelations between morphology, syntax, and discourse, is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara

EndNote Presentation & Tutorial (Shields Library Instruction Lab, Room 165, from 2007-10-19 09:00 AM to 2007-10-19 10:30 AM)

A special session of the Linguistics Pro-Seminar series devoted to a demonstration, especially for linguists, of EndNote

Linguistics Colloquium: Yasuko Kanno (53A Olson Hall, from 2007-10-10 02:10 PM to 2007-10-10 03:30 PM)

Dr. Kanno is an Assistant Professor of TESOL/Applied Linguistics in the Department of English, University of Washington