Centre for Applied Language Studies Visiting Research Fellow Lecture
In association with the School of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics Annual Research Day
“I still call it home yet although I have lived longer here than in old Ireland”: A corpus pragmatic analysis of home in nineteenth-century Irish correspondence
Nancy Avila, Universidad Autónoma Madrid.
Thursday 15th December, 14.30 in the Pavilion
Nancy Avila is on a three month visiting research fellowship at CALS, funded by the Universidad Autónoma Madrid. Nancy is a third year PhD student supervised by CALS Associate Member, Dr. Carolina Amador, and Dr. Jesús Romero. Her research interests cover migration and mobility and corpus approaches to studying emotions and pragmatics and gender studies, and she teaches academic writing in English at the UAM.
