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Monday, February 4, 2019
Randall has a chapter, "On the reduction of /ʒ/ in a minority North American variety of French", appearing in the book, Contributions of Romance Languages to Current Linguistic Theory, edited by Deborah Arteaga, and appearing as volume 95 in the Springer series, Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic... More
Wednesday, January 23, 2019
The Discourse Studies Research Group meets biweekly throughout the semester. We invite participation of students (graduate and not), staff, and visitors who are interested in Discourse Studies, Critical Discourse Studies, Systemic Functional Linguistics or related areas of... More
Tuesday, December 4, 2018
Recent PhD Graduate Dr. Olga Makinina was awarded the Graduate Student Open Access Award, sponsored by the Graduate Students' Association (GSA), the Library, and the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs (FGPA), for her article "Factors Impacting Recognition of False Collocations by Speakers of English as L1 and L2" published in TESL Canada... More
In October, Dr. Jaffer Sheyholislami delivered an invited talk at an international colloquium held in Paris, France. The event “Linguistic Justice and Language Minorities: The Case of Kurdish” was organized by three institutions: The University of Paris II, the University of Rouen, and the Kurdish Institute of Paris. Jaffer's paper... More
Monday, December 3, 2018
(by Peggy Hartwick) Despite the early snow and cold, November 2018 was pretty good to me! I was proud to be hooded by Dr. Janna Fox at the Convocation ceremony on November 10th alongside fellow PhD cohort member, Poonam Anand. It was our honour to be among so many other MA and Bachelor grads from ALDS!... More
(by Mike Barker) There’s nothing like going to a conference to get a person inspired by all kinds of new ideas, alternate approaches, and different perspectives. WorldCALL 5 in Chile was a great experience for me. Not only did I get to meet CALL practitioners from all over the world, but I also got to... More
SLaLS alumnus and co-founder of charitable organization LiveWorkPlay, Keenan Wellar (MA/01) was recently awarded Honourary Membership to the Golden Key International Honour Society in a 16 November, 2018 ceremony at Carleton University. Wellar completed his MA in Applied Language Studies in 2001 with a focus on discourse studies and, although it... More
Dr. Guillaume Gentil’s article “Modern Languages, Bilingual Education, and Translation Studies: The Next Frontiers in WAC/WID Research and Instruction?” was published in a special issue of Across the Disciplines. The publication, “Rewriting Disciplines, Rewriting Boundaries: Transdisciplinary and Translingual Challenges for... More
In October 2018, Natasha Artemeva and her PhD student Chloë Fogarty-Bourget travelled to Viña del Mar, a suburb of Valparaiso, Chile, to take part in the Second International Workshop “Discourse, Multimodality and Experimental Methods” (DMEM-2018). DMEM-2018 included nine presentations by the leading international scholars in cognitive... More
Recent PhD graduate Dr. Saira Fitzgerald received Honourable Mention from the Graduate Student Open Access Awards initiative for her paper “Murderers, moonwalkers and markets: A corpus based critical discourse analysis of the International Baccalaureate (IB) in Canadian Newspapers” which appeared in the CADAAD Journal Volume 9 (1)... More
Monday, November 26, 2018
SLaLS congratulates Professor Emerita Dr. Aviva Freedman on winning the Founders Award. For more than four decades, Dr. Freedman has been known for her dedicated service to Carleton University and for her unwavering support to students. She first came to Carleton in 1975 as a sessional lecturer before becoming a Full Professor in the School... More
Thursday, November 22, 2018
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