Event
Lecture: Does spelling matter?
Posted: 2015/03/27 | Author: UOJO
Event
Professor Simon Horobin (Professor of English Language and Literature, and Fellow of Magdalen College)
Why is English spelling so difficult to master? Why don’t we simply reform it to make reading and writing easier to learn? Is correct spelling a thing of the past in a world of email, texting and Twitter? In this lecture Professor Horobin will examine the role of spelling today, its history, whether it should be reformed, and whether the electronic age signals the demise of correct spelling.
Simon Horobin is Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Magdalen College. He has written extensively on the history, structure, and uses of the English language. He is the author of Does Spelling Matter? (2013), Chaucer’s Language (2006, second edition 2012), Studying the History of Early English (2009) and The Language of the Chaucer Tradition (2003), which won the English Association’s Beatrice White Prize.
*Oxford University Press will be at the venue, and you will have the opportunity to purchase Professor Horobin’s book on the day with a special discount of 20%.
Thursday 25 June 2015
19:00 – 20:00 Lecture UF Hall Sanbancho UF Building 1F, 6-3 Sanbancho Chiyoda ku, Tokyo This lecture is free of charge and will be delivered in English
20:15 – 21:45 Reception Tanakaya La Mer Sanbancho 1F, 6-4 Sanbancho, Chiyoda ku, Tokyo ￥3,000 (payable on the door)
Related Links:
English at the University of Oxford
Magdalen College, Oxford
Professor Horobin’s blog “Spelling Trouble”
Oxford University Press Japan