Council Room, New Hall 2006-11-02 20:30: Pour une approche rhétorique et interactive du discours politique: l'éthos de Nicolas Sarkozy (Catherine Kerbrat-Orecchioni (Lyon 2)) 2006-11-06 20:30: 'Slang/Argot: The Making of a Dictionary. Franco-British Obsessions Observed Through Non-standard Language Variations (Declan Mc Cavana (Ecole Polytechnique)) 2007-01-24 20:30: Is French a language without accents after all? (Brechtje Post (University of Cambridge)) 2007-02-07 20:30: ‘French theories of language in 18th-century Berlin: reception and transformation’ (Avi Lifschitz (Brasenose, Oxford)) 2007-02-21 20:30: The evolution of "constructions" from Latin to French: the evolution of valency patterns and valency reorganisation (Lene Schøsler (Copenhagen)) 2007-03-07 20:30: Francais d'ailleurs, the pluricentricity of French identities (Edith Esch (University Cambridge))