Dr Laura Wright will be a plenary speaker at the 3rd Southern Englishes Workshop at University College London on February 19-20 2016. Hosted by the Linguistics Department at UCL, the Workshop will explore historical and synchronic dialectology, historical and synchronic sociolinguistics, language contact, multilingualism, dialect in literature, and other areas relevant to English and varieties of English […]
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Dr Laura Wright Presents Radio 4’s Word of Mouth
Throughout March and April 2016, Dr Laura Wright co-hosts BBC Radio 4’s Word of Mouth, a series which explores the world of words and the ways in which we use them. Listen to Michael Rosen and Dr Wright discussing Shakespearean speech with Linguist David Crystal in a clip from the Radio 4 in Four podcast.
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