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Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2015 10:27:24
From: Christiana Themistocleous [C.Themistocleous at reading.ac.uk]
Subject: Multilingualism in the Digital Age

 
Multilingualism in the Digital Age 

Date: 19-Jun-2015 - 19-Jun-2015 
Location: Reading, United Kingdom 
Contact: Christiana Themistocleous 
Contact Email: C.Themistocleous at reading.ac.uk 
Meeting URL: http://www.reading.ac.uk/english-language-and-applied-linguistics/Research/elal-multilingualism-in-the-digital-age.aspx 

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

Meeting Description: 

Research on multilingualism has grown dramatically in recent years, in terms of quantity, quality and breadth. Studies on multilingualism are both theory-driven and practically-oriented and explore cognitive, educational and social aspects.  However, in an era when new technologies are becoming increasingly visible in our everyday lives, research focusing on multilingualism in digital media is still in its infancy.

Digital media have a considerable impact on communicative repertoires in that they promote new forms of literacies and provide alternative communicative dynamics and structures, involving monolingual and multilingual speakers alike. This means that the communicative practices and repertoires of people can potentially be transformed.

The aim of this conference is to explore how and to what extent multilingual people or communities use their various codes in digital environments and what kind of interactional patterns, communicative repertoires and digital literacies emerge.

Plenary Speakers:

- Professor Alexandra Georgakopoulou (King's College London)
- Professor Yaron Matras (University of Manchester) 

Program:

9.00-9.30
Registration & Welcome

9.30-10.30
Key Note Speaker: Yaron Matras (University of Manchester, UK)
Multilingual Repertoires, Social Media, and Ownership of Language

10.30-11.00 Coffee Break

11.00-11.30
Rachelle Vessey (University of Newcastle, UK)
Multilingualism and the Language Politics of Twitter in Canada

11.30-12.00
D.S. Giannoni (University of Bergamo, Italy)
One Country, One World, One Language? A Survey of Multilingual Content in British University Websites

12.00-12.30
Yan Liledantec (UCL Institute of Education, UK)
Indigenous Language Revitalisation Online

12.30-14.00 Lunch

14.00-15.00
Key Note Speech: Alexandra Georgakopoulou (King’s College London, UK)
'More Babel than Convivial Superdiversity?'  Contra-(multi)lingualism for the Dramatization of the Eurocrisis on YouTube

15.00-15.30
José Ramón Calvo-Ferrer (Universidad Católica de Murcia, Spain)
& José Ramón Belda Medina (Universidad de Alicante, Spain)
Learning in the Digital Age: The Effect of Technological Affinity on L2 Vocabulary Acquisition

15.30-16.00 Coffee Break

16.00-16.30
Elena Nichele (Lancaster University, UK)
How Can Multilingualism Convey a Foreign Culture? The Case of Barilla on Facebook

16.30-17.00
Tsai Chi-Cheng (SOAS, UK)
Writing Vernacular Languages Online: A Case Study of Writing Strategies of Taiwanese on Social Network Sites among Young Generation

17.00-17.30
Aivars Glaznieks & Jennifer-Carmen Frey (Institute of Specialized Communication and Multilingualism, Bolzano, Italy)
“Bitte deutsch schreiben!” Multilingual and Diglossic – A Linguistic Description of South Tyrolean Facebook Users

17.30-18.30
Closing Remarks & Wine Reception





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