9th Triangle Symposium, Saturday 27 September 2008
The Triangle of the title refers to our original geographical constituency: the universities of Leeds, Manchester and Sheffield, and also to our intended subject matter, English Language, Linguistics and Literature (and particularly the interfaces between these three areas). This is an interdisciplinary subject area in which those three universities have had a long and distinguished tradition. In 2000, a new inter-institutional tradition was inaugurated with the first of the annual Triangle Colloquia, a series of meetings which aim to minimise formality, expense and bureaucracy, and maximise the sociable exchange of views on work-in-progress. At the AGM following the meeting of 2006, it was decided to extend the geographical domain of Triangle, while retaining both its triangular subject-area and its domestic atmosphere. It was agreed therefore to invite just two additional institutions to join the original group, the University of Huddersfield and Sheffield Hallam University, both of which have active interdisciplinary groups in LLL.
Organisers for Triangle 2008 @ Manchester:
Nuria Yáñez-Bouza
David Denison
The following shortened URL (not case-sensitive) http://tinyurl.com/Triangle2008 will also find this page.
Programme
| 10-00-10.30 (doors open from 9:30am) |
Arrival & refreshments
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10.30-12.45
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Papers session 1
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| 10:30-11:00 | Stephen Laker (Manchester), 'Quantity changes and consonant doubling in Medieval English' |
| 11:00-11:30 | Stuart Rutten (Manchester), 'Compound formation for garment names in glosses' |
| 11:30-12:00 | Susan Burnes (Sheffield), 'Metaphor in conflict' |
| 12:00-12:45 | Anthea Fraser Gupta (Leeds), 'One world, one English' |
| 12:45-2:00 |
Lunch (at choice)
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2:00-3:30
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Papers session 2
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| 2:00-2:30 | Melanie Evans (Sheffield), '"We Old Foxes'": An investigation into the use of royal we in the correspondence of Queen Elizabeth I' |
| 2:30-3:00 | Julia Snell (Leeds), 'Dialect in discourse: the stylisation of possessive me' |
| 3:00-3:30 | Ann Thompson (Leeds), 'Making the voices heard' |
| 3:30-4:00 |
Coffee/Tea break
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4:00-5:15
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Papers session 3
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| 4:00-4:30 | Marije van Hattum (Manchester), 'Habitual do in Irish English' |
| 4:30-5:15 | Nuria Yáñez-Bouza (Manchester), 'Placing prepositions in early and late ModE texts: genre variation and idiolectal preferences' |
| 5.15-6:00 | Wine |
| 6.00-8ish | Meal in local restaurant |
Where an abstract is available, click on title of paper.
Last modified 23 Sept, 20:30.
Location, travel and refreshment
Triangle will be held in room S.1.5 in the Samuel Alexander Building (67 on the campus map, available at http://www.manchester.ac.uk/visitors/travel/maps/). For those who know the place of old, this used to be the Poetry Centre in the building formerly known as the Arts Building. There'll be a data projector, laptop, and OHP.
S.1.5 means South Wing first floor room 5. You enter by the south wing entrance, go up to first floor, turn right out of lift or stairs, and S.1.5 is the first room on the left. South wing entrance is - um - facing south (!), i.e. as far away as possible from where "67" is placed on the map, in fact just opposite "77" in adjacent building.
If you get a train that goes to Manchester Oxford Road Station (many do), then it's no more than 15 mins' walk south down Oxford Road. There are also many, many buses. (Ask for Manchester University Students' Union.) Or come to Manchester Piccadilly Station and then either walk through to Oxford Road (5-10 minutes, see map), or get a tram to Piccadilly Gardens (fare usually included in rail ticket) and get a bus to the University from there.
We'll provide tea, coffee, biscuits and - at the end - wine (and we might ask for £2 per person as a contribution towards this). If you haven't yet indicated your likely attendance, please (if possible) let us know in advance so that we can estimate numbers. Thanks.
At lunchtime there are several places close by, for example the KroBar just over the road. After the meeting is over we'll go for an early meal at a restaurant in Rusholme or (more probably) in the city centre, hoping that a good number of you can stay on and be sociable.