On behalf of the joint MA and PhD Programme in Advanced English Studies of the Universities of Valladolid and Salamanca, we are pleased to announce the 6th series of The USAL-UVA Linguistics Research Seminars, which will be held online between 21 November 2025 and 6 March 2026. The following speakers have confirmed their participation:
* 21 November 2025 (16:30-18:00 - CEST). "Extending bottom-up approaches to perceptual dialectology: The SLIC method in practice", Chris Montgomery (University of Sheffield)
12 December 2025 (16:30-18:00 - CEST) "Accounting for emerging features of Asian Englishes on three levels of scale", Edgar Schneider (University of Regensburg)”
13 February 2026 (16:30-18:00 - CEST) “Investigating English-medium education through the multilingual lens: Theoretical frameworks and research methodologies”, Emma Dafouz (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
6 March 2026 (10:00-11:30 - CEST)."Authenticity in the (Australian) media: Revisiting a multi-faceted phenomenon", Monika Bednarek (University of Sydney)
Registration is free, but required. Further details about the registration can be found at

Web: https://sites.google.com/view/usal-uva-linguist-researchsem/home

Upon registration, a link will be sent to registered attendees on the day of the talk, which will be held on Zoom.

Some videos about some of the contents covered in the seminar series on previous academic years can be also found in its YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@LinguisticsSeminarsUSALUVA/videos

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
Discourse Analysis
Linguistic Theories
Sociolinguistics
Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)