26.1327, Calls: Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistics, Text/Corpus Linguistics/UK

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Subject: 26.1327, Calls:  	Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistics, Text/Corpus Linguistics/UK

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Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2015 17:43:06
From: Christiana Themistocleous [C.Themistocleous at reading.ac.uk]
Subject: Multilingualism in the Digital Age

 
Full Title: Multilingualism in the Digital Age 

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

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

Call Deadline: 02-Apr-2015 

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)

This conference will offer an interdisciplinary forum for discussion, bringing together scholars who are interested in the area of multilingualism in the digital age. 

We invite papers on all aspects of multilingualism in digital media, including (but not limited to) the following themes:

- Migration, online communities, social networks
- Language contact,  language choice and code-switching
- Digital literacy practices
- Emerging urban varieties
- Minority or endangered languages
- Attitudes and identities

Abstracts should be submitted to c.themistocleous at reading.ac.uk

Please send two copies of the abstract; one anonymous and one which includes the author(s), affiliation and contact details. 

Format:

- Text 400 words maximum (including references, if any)
- Font: Times New Roman 12
- Single space
- Do not add tables, photos, or diagrams to your abstract

Participation is limited to one abstract per first author. Each paper will last for 30 minutes: 20 minutes for presentation; 10 minutes for discussion. 

The language of the conference is English.




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