ACADEMIA: CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND LECTURES

 

Conference

Date

Paper / Poster

Personification across Disciplines

Durham University, 17-19 September

2018

Things Do Things to Things: Social calculus, agentive grammar and the beginnings of language

(Paper)

Forum on Language Learning and Motivation 3

University of Nottingham, 10 November

2017

Self Motivation: Who is motivating whom?

(Lecture)

Schools of Tomorrow

Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 4-6 May

2017

Making a Language: Pravlish as a teaching tool

(Lecture and practical session)

Ponying the Slovos: Art Languages and Translation Corpora in Literary Criticism

Coventry University, 18 March

2016

Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it you cannot use it. (The development of the Art Language, Pravic)

(Paper)

48th Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics

Aston University, Birmingham, 3-5 September

2015

The Smoke and Mirrors of Linguistics: Challenging the hidden metaphors

(Paper)

13th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference

Northumbria University, Newcastle, 20-25 July

2015

Pronoun Origins: Early or late, simple or complex?

(Paper)

Evolang 10

Vienna University, Austria, 14-17 April

2014

What were we talking about? Exchanging social models as a route to language

(Paper)

Reviewer Meets Reviewed

Royal Anthropological Institute, 19 November

2012

Summary of The Origins of Grammar: an anthropological perspective

By Martin Edwardes, Reviewed by Anthony Grant

(Presentation and discussion)

4th UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference (UK-CLC4)

King’s College London, 10-12 July

2012

Awareness of self and awareness of selfness: why the capacity to self-model represents a novel level of cognition in humans

(Paper)

Ninth conference of the Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM) Association

Lancaster University, 4-7 July

2012

SCHOOL IS FAMILY: a metaphor too far for Academies?

(Paper)

I'm not Feeling Myself Today: The strange metaphor of SELF IS OTHER

(Paper)

Applied Linguistics: Global and Local

Aberdeen University, 9-11 September

2010

Are Complex Tenses Really Real?

(Paper)

3rd UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference

University of Hertfordshire, 6-8 July

2010

From inner cognition to outer speech: An evolutionary perspective

(Poster)

Creating Second Lives: Reading and Writing Virtual Communities

Bangor University, 24-25 October

2008

Mythmaking: The Social Modelling that Made Us Human, and Why Second Lives are Third or Fourth Lives

(Paper)

Language, Communication & Cognition

Brighton, 4-7 August

2008

Us and Them: Group Identity as a Driver for the Origin of Language

(Paper)

Biolinguistics: Acquisition and Language Evolution

University of York, 2-4 July

2008

The Metaphor, THE GROUP IS AN ENTITY, and the Origins of Language

(Paper)

Radical Anthropology Group

London, 10 June

2008

Urđ, Skuld and Verđandi: Blood magic in the North of Europe

(Lecture)

Language Evolution and Computation Research Unit

University of Edinburgh, 7 September

2007

Oh Grammar, What Big I’s You Have

(Lecture)

New Directions in Cognitive Linguistics

Cardiff University, 27-30 August

2007

Why Me? Cognition at the Origins of Grammar

(Paper)

European Human Behaviour & Evolution

London, February

2007

I Am What I Am: the Origins of Grammar in Self-Modelling

(Poster)

British Association for Applied Linguistics

University of Cork, 7-9 September

2006

Using the World Wide Web as a Massive Corpus

(Paper)

Constructing Identities

Cardiff University, June

2006

Constructing Identity - The Source of Language?

(Paper)

Context, Fields, Positions: Situating Cultural Research

UEL, 25-26 May

2006

Academic Register: Hallowed Tradition or Hollow Ritual?

(Paper)

Radical Anthropology Group

London, UK, June

2005

The Origins of Grammar

(Lecture)

Systemic Functional Linguistics conference

London, July

2005

The Ideational Metafunction and Nonhuman Signalling

(Paper)

International Conference on Language, Culture and Mind

Portsmouth, July

2004

Theory of Mind, the Three Voices and Temporality in Language

(Paper)

Evolang 5

Leipzig, February

2004

The Role of Communication Structure in the Progressive Evolution of Grammar

(Poster)

CamLing

Cambridge, April

2003

I Like Both Myself and Me

(Paper)