Speakers

Professor Jo Angouri University of Warwick Biography Jo Angouri is Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Applied Linguistics at the University of Warwick, UK and a Visiting Distinguished Professor at Aalto University, School of Business, Finland. Her research expertise is in sociolinguistics, pragmatics and discourse analysis. She has carried out research in a range…

Dr Peter J Keegan The University of Auckland Biography Peter was born and raised in Taranaki (West Coast, North Island, New Zealand). He has been living in Auckland (New Zealand) since December 2000. He pepeha (tribal proverb) Ko Pirongia te maunga Ko Waipa te awa Ko Waikato-Maniapoto te iwi Ko Ngati Apakura te hapū Ko…

Professor Miriam Locher University of Basel Biography Miriam A. Locher started her position as Professor of the Linguistics of English at the University of Basel in 2008. She teaches in the BA English, MA English and the MA Language and Communication and is a member of the eucor Hermann-Paul School of Linguistics for PhD students. Her research…

Associate Professor Rachel Mckee Victoria University of Wellington Biography Rachel is an Associate Professor and Programme Director of NZSL Studies in the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at Victoria University of Wellington. A professional background in sign language interpreting motivated an academic career in applied sign linguistics. Rachel has established academic programmes for…

Professor Natalie Schilling Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA “If we approach language not as grammarians – as guardians of proper usage–but as scientists–as linguists–then we need to study human language as it really is, not how we think it should be.” Biography Natalie Schilling is a Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University. She specializes in…