The Association for Scottish
Literary Studies



ASLS Languages Conference 2009

Burns’ Language: Then and Now

February 28th 2009

Department of English Language, 12 University Gardens

University of Glasgow

To mark the 250th anniversary of the Birth of Robert Burns,
the ASLS Language Committee presents a seminar on
Burns’ language and its enduring legacy

Programme
10:30am Burns’ Bawdy Language
Pauline Gray
11:15 Burns’ Punctuation
Jeremy Smith
12:00 Ideas of Language in the Time of Burns
Dorian Grieve
12:45 Lunch
1:30 Burns and the Scottish Dictionaries
Christine Robinson
2:15 Burns in Modern Quotation
John Corbett

The Conference will cost £25 including a buffet lunch (£15 for ASLS members/students/unwaged)

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Conference Map

For further information please contact

 

Staff:

Duncan Jones

 

Address:

ASLS
c/o Department of Scottish Literature
University of Glasgow
7 University Gardens
Glasgow G12 8QH
Scotland

 

Phone/Fax:

+44 (0) 141 330 5309.

 

Email:

ASLS

 

Last updated 15 December 2008.