Great NSM_Lab @Griffith_Uni, Brisbane, yesterday (Alena, Marie, Mason, Lauren, Ida, and invisible Cliff) #NSM_Semantics | cross-linguistic semantics, applied semantics, descriptive semantics | so much exciting work happening and what a great team!
Cake event for Dr. Rachel Thompson (left), newly conferred PhD from #Griffith_University. Her dissertation: "Ethnopragmatic perspectives on online political discourse in Ghana: invective and insults on Ghanaweb". There's nothing else like it! #NSM_Lab
NSM_Lab on Friday will talk about #Minimal_English and accessible communication, incl. even how to explain basic linguistic terms using simple cross-translatable words. #NSMSemantics
Today's NSM_Lab at Griffith University, Brisbane. Cliff, Alena, Mason, Jacob, Jan (plus Helen taking the pic). Welcome Alena! and thanks everyone for great feedback and input on explications-in-progress for "money words". #NSM_Semantics, #MinimalEnglish.
At tomorrow's NSM_Lab: work-in-progress on the semantics of 'money' and "money words" (pay, costs, buy, sell, price, fine, rent, ...): there are so many of them! #NSMSemantics Plus, can #Minimal_English be used to boost confidence and fellow-feeling in L2 classrooms?
NSM_Lab at Griffith University today: Reza Arab, Jan Hein (back row), Elita Machin, Katherine Dallaston, Helen Bromhead, Mason Reid (front row), Cliff Goddard (not in pic). #NSMSemantics