LAEL40 Celebrating 40 Years of Linguistics at Lancaster The event will take place in the LICA Building (Nr 4 on the campus map), unless otherwise specified. Friday 11 July 2014 Welcome and Official Opening 9.00am to 9.30am Tony McEnery (Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences) Geoffrey Leech Elena Semino (Head of Department, LAEL) Pragmatics and Stylistics at Lancaster Chair: Veronika Koller 9.30am to 10.30am Geoffrey Leech Mick Short Followed by round table discussion with members of staff (Jonathan Culpeper, Claire Hardaker, Elena Semino) and audience Q&A 10.30am to 11.00am Coffee and tea break Discourse Studies at Lancaster Chair: Patrick Rebuschat 11.00am to 12.00pm Norman Fairclough Ruth Wodak Followed by round table discussion with members of staff (Chris Hart, Veronika Koller, Greg Myers, Johnny Unger) and audience Q&A 12.00pm to 1.00pm Lunch break Demonstration of Equipment for Language Research Chair: Patrick Rebuschat 1.00pm to 2.00pm A demonstration of research equipment and software used by staff of the Department of Linguistics and English Language and the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS) (Claire Hardaker, Sam Kirkham, Silke Brandt, Marije Michel, Claire Nance) Friday 11 July 2014 (continued) Language Learning and Teaching at Lancaster Chair: Elena Semino 2.00pm to 3.00pm Alan Waters Alison Mackey Followed by round table discussion with members of staff (Judit Kormos, Jenefer Philp, Diane Potts, Patrick Rebuschat) and audience Q&A 3.00pm to 3.30pm Coffee and tea break Language Testing at Lancaster Chair: Elena Semino 3.30pm to 4.30pm Charles Alderson Dianne Wall Followed by round table discussion with members of staff (Tineke Brunfaut, Luke Harding) and audience Q&A Public Lecture (Lancaster Town Hall) 6.00pm to 7.15pm David Crystal and Hilary Crystal: How to be an English language tourist Anniversary Dinner (Lancaster Town Hall) 7.45pm This event includes a performance by David and Hilary Crystal on Shakespeare’s Original Pronunciation, and musical entertainment by current members of staff (Dan Johnson, Luke Harding, Chris Hart, Sam Kirkham, Veronika Koller, Geoffrey Leech, Marije Michel, Johnny Unger, Daniël Van Olmen). Saturday 12 July 2014 Literacy Studies at Lancaster Chair: Patrick Rebuschat 9.30am to 10.30am David Barton Roz Ivanič Followed by round table discussion with members of staff (Julia Gillen, Uta Papen, Karin Tusting) and audience Q&A 10.30am to 11.00am Coffee and tea break Corpus Linguistics at Lancaster Chair: Veronika Koller 11.00am to 12.00pm Geoffrey Leech Tony McEnery Followed by round table discussion with members of staff (Paul Baker, Daniël Van Olmen, Richard Xiao [tbc]) and audience Q&A Panel and Audience Discussion : Linguistics in the Professions Chair: Veronika Koller 12.00pm to 12.45pm Panellists include current members of staff and alumni (Geoff Barton, Willem Hollmann, Robert Scott) Closing Statements 12.45pm to 1.00pm Elena Semino and Greg Myers .