11th Triangle Symposium, Saturday 18 September 2010
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 2010 @ Manchester:
Nuria Yáñez-Bouza
David Denison
The following shortened URL (not case-sensitive) http://tinyurl.com/Triangle2010 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 |
Papers session 1 |
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| 10:30-11:00 | Marije van Hattum (Manchester) | "I may tell you": Strategies for spreading the news in nineteenth-century Irish English emigrant letters |
| 11:00-11:30 | Jennifer McManus (Liverpool) | On the distinction between maximizers and emphasizers: Some issues arising from the investigation of absolutely |
| 11:30-12:00 | Christiana Gregoriou (Leeds) | Comic Hell: A critical linguistic and multimodal analysis of Moore and Campbell's (2000) 'From Hell' graphic novel |
| 12:00-12:30 | Ayumi Miura (Manchester) | Exploring the presence, absence and spread of impersonal usage with Middle English verbs of emotion: Problems and explanations |
| 12:30-2:15 |
Lunch (at choice) |
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2:15-3:45 |
Papers session 2 |
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| 2:15-2:45 | Paul Cooper (Sheffield) | "For, what i'th' ward hes t' bracken o' breeod to do wi't' Lords supper?" Definite article reduction in nineteenth-century Yorkshire dialect literature |
| 2:45-3:15 | Kate Burland (Sheffield) |
From pride to prejudice: Speakers' perceptions of their vernacular identity |
| 3:15-3:30 |
Coffee/Tea break |
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3:30-5:00 |
Papers session 3 |
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| 3:30-4:00 | Karen Grainger & Peter Jones (Sheffield Hallam) | "The daily grunt": The resurgence of the deficit model of language competence in young children |
| 4:00-4:30 | Alison Johnson (Leeds) | "Is that what you're saying?" Reporting, recording and 'fixing' the facts in police interviews with suspects |
| 4:30-5:00 | Sam Browse (Sheffield) | Complexity and causality in the ECONOMY: A closer look at the conceptual metaphor, ECONOMIC PROBLEMS ARE NATURAL DISASTERS |
| 5:00-5:30 | Drinks |
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| 6:00-7:30ish | Meal in local restaurant |
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Click on title of paper for abstract where available.
Where the actual title is still awaited, a preliminary indication of subject area is given.
Last modified 16 September 2010.
Location, travel and refreshment
Triangle will be held in room A.4 in the Samuel Alexander Building (67 on the campus map, available at http://www.manchester.ac.uk/visitors/travel/maps/) [Please note change of room.] There'll be a data projector, laptop, and OHP.
You enter by the south wing entrance, which 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. Go through the glass corridor just to the left of the lifts, after the double doors at the end make a short L-R zigzag and continue up the corridor. Room A.4 is in the corner on the right.
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.