by Nicola Bermingham Last Wednesday, 11th March, Nicola Bermingham held a seminar at the School of Celtic and Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh. The seminar, entitled “I can write it, I can understand it, but I’ve never spoken it”: challenges faced by immigrant “new speakers” in Galicia, formed part of the Soillse seminar […]
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2nd Year General Linguistics Poster Session: Bridging the gap between UG and PG research
by Nicola Bermingham and Sara Brennan A 2nd Year General Linguistics Poster Session took place on 18th and 19th February in LINCS. This was the first poster session for 2nd year General Linguistics students and the results were impressive, to say the least. This was part of the students’ assessment and the topics were chosen […]
Intensive Interpreting Practice – Easter Course 2015 !
In April this year Heriot-Watt University will be running an Intensive Interpreting Practice CPD course. The course is designed for: Interpreting students who are in the middle of their training and wish to improve both their English skills and their Interpreting skills. Professional interpreters who would like to improve their English, either with the intention of making it […]
3rd Edinburgh Interpreting Research Summer School!
The 3rd Edinburgh Interpreting Research Summer School (EIRSS) will take place from 22 – 26 June 2015 ! EIRSS 2015 offers intensive research training for existing and future scholars in any field of Interpreting and will include lectures from our Guest Speaker Claudia Monacelli as well as leading Heriot-Watt Speakers, including Professor Ian Mason. It will be […]
2015 call for PhD Scholarships in LINCS!
LINCS is now offering two School of Management and Languages (SML) Scholarships and one Professorial Scholarship for the next academic year, commencing September 2015! SML scholarships available: 2 The term of the Scholarships is three years. Successful candidates will be expected to make a contribution to activities in the Department in return for a fee-waiver, a maintenance […]
Upcoming EdSign Lectures
Tuesday, 3rd March 2015, 6.30pm – 8.00pm [Title to be confirmed] Frankie McLean Paterson’s Land LG34, Moray House, School of Education, University of Edinburgh Tuesday, 14th April 2015, 6.30pm – 8.00pm Toward Normative Ethics in Community Interpreting: Moral Reasoning and Moral Discourse Robyn Dean Paterson’s Land LG34, Moray House, School of Education, University of Edinburgh […]
IRC Seminars 2014/15 Semester 2
The Intercultural Research Centre seminar series for semester 2 has now be finalised! 17 February 2015 – 4.30 pm [MBG20] Dr Neringa Liubinienė Center of Social Anthropology, Vytautas Magnus University Kaunass, Lithuania Being a Transmigrant in the Contemporary World: Lithuanian Migrants’ Quests for Identity 18 February 2015 – 3.30 pm [EM336] Dr Kathryn Burnett School […]
Collaboration and innovation to explore sign language brokering experiences
by Jemina Napier Click here to see this post in British Sign Language Previous blogs have reported how I am conducting research on experiences of language brokering in the Deaf community, which looks at the communication support that both deaf and hearing PDFs (People from Deaf Families) give to their deaf parents to communicate with hearing […]
Call for Papers! 7th International Conference of Hispanic Linguistics @ Heriot-Watt
by Nicola Bermingham This year, Heriot-Watt will be holding the 7th International Conference of Hispanic Linguistics (27th – 29th March 2015). The title for this year’s conference is Spanish in Contact – new times, new spaces and new speakers. The conference will bring together scholars from around the world who are working with Spanish and […]
How do you teach note-taking for consecutive interpreting?
It’s one of those ‘how long is a piece of string’ questions. Consecutive interpreting involves listening to a speech delivered in one language in front of an international audience, taking notes and then giving the same speech in another language, making sure it is as close to the original as possible in terms of content, […]