PhilSoc meetings
PhilSoc holds seven meetings each academic year, in October, November, January, February, March, May (AGM) and June. At each meeting, a full paper is read. Meetings start at 4.15pm, with tea served to members and their guests from 3.45pm. Unless indicated otherwise, meetings are held on Fridays, in room 116 at the School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H OXG. For a detailed map, please click here. The minutes of the most recent meeting are available for download from the panel on the left; the minutes of previous meetings are available for download from the bottom of this page.
PhilSoc welcomes proposals for papers to be read at meetings. Proposals should be forwarded to the Honorary Secretary (contact details on the Contact page). Papers may be on any topic falling within the scope of PhilSoc's interests, but speakers are asked to bear in mind that the audience will represent a wide range of linguistic interests, and papers should therefore be accessible to non-specialists.
2004--05 programme
15 October 2004
Prof. Anthony Lodge (University of St. Andrews)
Is historical sociolinguistics possible? The case of Parisian French
19 November 2004
Dr. Graeme Trousdale (University of Edinburgh)
The demise of impersonal constructions in English: a Cognitive Grammar account
14 January 2005
Dr. Henriette Hendriks (Research Centre of English and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge)
Caused and voluntary motion in adult L2 acquisition
11 February 2005
Prof. Louisa Sadler (University of Essex)
Agreement, co-ordination and resolution strategies
Saturday 19 March 2005
Prof. Peter Austin (School of Oriental and African Studies)
Documenting language
At St. John's College, Cambridge
6 May 2005
Annual General Meeting
Prof. Sally Johnson (University of Leeds)
Orthography, legitimation and the construction of publics: the 1996 reform of German
Saturday 11 June 2005
Dr. Robyn Carston (University College London)
The pragmatics of word meaning
In the Talbot Hall, at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.