Call for Papers: International Colloquium on Multilingualism and Interpreting in Settings of Globalisation

[Philipp Sebastian Angermeyer]

Please see below for the Call for Papers for the Colloquium on Multilingualism
and Interpreting in Settings of Globalisation (MIAM 2015), which will be held
February 19 and 20 at Ghent University in Belgium.
The deadline for abstracts is September 1.

Best,
Philipp


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CALL FOR PAPERS
 
International Colloquium on Multilingualism and Interpreting in Settings of
Globalisation: Asylum and Migration (MIAM 2015)
19-20 February 2015 – Ghent University, Belgium
 
Conference URL: www.miam.ugent.be
Contact: katrijn.maryns at ugent.be
 
Central theme: Multilingualism and interpreting in institutional encounters of
globalisation
-  Language ideologies of translation and language choice
-  Institutional versus lay expectations of discourse
-  The monolingual entextualization of multilingual interaction
-  The tension between institutional deontology and practices of language use
 
Keynote speakers (in alphabetical order):
-  Jan Blommaert (Tilburg University)
-  Moira Inghilleri (UMass Amherst)
-  Stef Slembrouck (Gent University)
-  Cecilia Wadensjö (Stockholm University)
 
Submissions are invited on any aspect of the above themes.
Abstracts should be 250 words and should be submitted in PDF format.
Call deadline: 1 Sept 2014
 
Please send abstracts to: http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/MIAM2015







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Philipp Sebastian Angermeyer
Associate Professor
Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics
York University
549 South Ross Building
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M3J 1P3
tel: (416) 736-2100 extension 66288
fax: (416) 736-5483
pangerme at yorku.ca
http://www.yorku.ca/pangerme/philipp.htm