594 search results for “pictorial language” in the Public website
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Interaction in language, language in interaction - Some exercises in the philosophy of linguistics
Lecture, Interactionality seminars
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Meet English Language and Culture in Barcelona
Conference, Meet us in your country
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Meet English Language and Culture in Thessaloniki
Conference, Meet us in your country
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Meet English Language and Culture in Athens
Conference, Meet us in your country
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Time and memory
A study concerning the collective memory in the region of the Bene lo Ya/ Ene lo I'ya, Sierra Norte, Oaxaca.
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Leiden Workshop on Creole Languages (WoCL)
Conference
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Adult language acquisition and syntactic change
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Tijmen Baarda
Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
t.c.baarda@library.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Female Spies or 'she-Intelligencers': Towards a Gendered History of Seventeenth-Century Espionage
By analysing neglected (continental) spy centres and integrating these groups of female intelligencers into the traditional, male-orientated historical narratives, this project will proceed towards a gendered history of early modern espionage.
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Counting and Accountability. The Politics of Numbers in the democracy of Classical Athens
We live in a data-drenched society awash with numbers. An inhabitant of the democratic polis of Athens (5th and 4th centuries B.C.E.) increasingly found himself surrounded by numerical data. This project aims to analyze the communicative functions and the political meaning(s) ascribed to these public…
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52nd Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics
Conference
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Looking back at the Junius Symposium and looking forward to the future of Old Germanic Studies
On Friday, the 24th of April 2015, the Junius Symposium voor Jonge Oudgermanisten, a symposium for junior researchers in the field of language, culture and history of the (early) medieval Germanic tribes, was organized by Peter Alexander Kerkhof (LUCL) and Thijs Porck (LUCAS).
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Introducing Lucien van Beek
Lucien van Beek studied Comparative Indo-European Linguistics at Leiden University, focusing on Ancient Greek. As of February 2015, Van Beek will be project manager at Ineke Sluiter’s Greek-Dutch dictionary project.
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The Proposed Languages in Education Policy for Botswana: Will it Make Local Languages a Social Development Resource?
Lecture, Applied African Linguistics
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Studying the historical roots of sign languages – methodological issues
Lecture
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The emergence of sign language in Côte d’Ivoire
Lecture
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Two Vrije Competitie Grants for LUCL researchers
LUCL is pleased to announce that two Vrije Competitie Grants have been awarded to LUCL researchers. Prof.dr. Lisa Cheng and dr. Jenny Doetjes have been awarded a grant for their project 'Understanding questions'. Prof.dr. Michael Kemper (UvA) and prof.dr. Jos Schaeken have been awarded a grant for the…
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‘My mother’, ‘Your father’: Suppletive kinship terms in African languages
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Language diversity, education, and activism in multilingual Mexico
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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The ‘evolution’ of the Innateness Hypothesis for language
Lecture, LACG Meetings
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Leiden University partner in research on handwriting and image recognition
The Leiden Centre of Data Science and the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science are part of a consortium that will carry out research on making illustrated and handwritten archives digitally accessible. The project is funded by NWO.
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Ewine van Dishoeck in children's book: 'Follow your heart and make sure you become very good at something'
Professor of Molecular Astrophysics Ewine van Dishoeck is portrayed as a heroine in a pictorial children's book. ‘It starts with a dream' tells the stories of twenty exceptional Dutch women who have had a positive impact on society. The book aims to give young girls role models and encourage them to…
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Producing affective language: experimental and corpus-based approaches
Lecture, LACG Meetings
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Language as shaped by and for social interaction
Lecture
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Student for a day English Language and Culture
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Student for a day English Language and Culture
Study information
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Veni grant Lucien van Beek
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research has awarded dr. Lucien van Beek a Veni grant. This grant offers young researchers the possibility to develop their innovative ideas for a period of three or four years. The awarded research proposal focuses on the Ancient Greek dialects' contribution…
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Exhibition on scripts at Oude UB: Pseudo or Don’t
What is writing? And what looks like writing, but isn’t? The Pseudo or Don’t pop-up exhibition explores the boundaries of scripts. The exhibition will run at Oude UB from 9 to 26 October.
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LLRC conference: curriculum and course design for language teaching
Conference
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African Languages as Medium of Instruction - the case of Nigeria
Lecture, Applied African Linguistics
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Opportunities for language revitalisation through digitization: the example of Ejagham
Lecture, Applied African Linguistics
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Student for a day English Language and Culture
Study information
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Student for a day English Language and Culture
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Student for a day English Language and Culture (full)
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Student for a day English Language and Culture
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Student for a day English Language and Culture
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An evolutionary and behavioral take on interactionality in language
Lecture, Interactionality seminars
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Research-Concert: Songs and Languages across hemispheres
Music concert
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A behavioral and evolutionary take on interactionality in language
Lecture, Interactionality seminars
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functionalist theory of language contact. With special reference to Romani, and with implications for the architecture of the language faculty
Lecture, Summer School evening lectures
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Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference : Breaking the Rules: Textual Reflections on Transgression
The Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference was founded in 2013 to publish a selection of the best papers presented at the biennial LUCAS Graduate Conference, an international and interdisciplinary humanities conference organized by the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS). The…
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Material Culture, Consumption and Social Change
New Approaches to Understanding the Eastern Mediterranean during Byzantine and Ottoman Times
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2012 Vrije Competitie Grants for two LUCL members
LUCL is glad to announce that two of its members have been awarded an NWO Vrije Competitie Grant.
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Male birds may sing, but females are faster at discriminating sounds
It may well be that only male zebra finches can sing, but the females are faster at learning to discriminate sounds. Leiden researchers publish their findings in the scientific journal Animal Behaviour.
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Ancient Worlds network
The Ancient Worlds Network brings together staff and graduate students in LIAS working on the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern world.
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Junius Symposium: exciting new research on Old Germanic studies
While Old Germanic studies might seem dated and, regrettably, occupies a less than secure position in various academic institutions, exciting new research presented by young researchers shows that the field is still vibrant and may have a bright future. On Thursday, the 7th of April, the ‘Junius Symposium…
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The Journey from Monolingual to Multilingual Language Policy in Ethiopia: Politics, challenges and opportunities
Lecture, This Time for Africa! Series
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Hidden patterns in space: What geography can tell us about language evolution.
Lecture, Language and the Human Past
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Family as a language policy regime: power, agency and negotiations at home
Lecture, Sociolinguistics series
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Language Policy in Africa - the why and how of a new journal
Lecture, This Time for Africa!