36.916, Confs: Multilingualism and Translanguaging in Australian Cities (Australia)

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Subject: 36.916, Confs: Multilingualism and Translanguaging in Australian Cities (Australia)

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Date: 14-Mar-2025
From: Joshua Brown [joshua.j.brown at uwa.edu.au]
Subject: Multilingualism and Translanguaging in Australian Cities


Multilingualism and Translanguaging in Australian Cities
Theme: Multilingualism; Translanguaging; Australian Cities; Languages
Other than English

Date: 24-Nov-2025 - 24-Nov-2025
Location: Perth, Australia
Contact: Josh Brown
Contact Email: joshua.j.brown at uwa.edu.au
Meeting URL: https://multilingualcities.blogspot.com/

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Sociolinguistics;
Translation
Subject Language(s): Multiple languages (mul)

Multilingualism and Translanguaging in Australian Cities, UWA, 24
November 2025
This project aims to investigate the presence of writing in languages
other than English (LOTEs) in Australian cities. Taking the ‘city’ and
urban areas as a locus of communication, it looks at multilingualism
and translingual writing in major urban centres. While research in
LOTEs in Australia has focused on migrant and missionary writing, much
extant literature that was not written in English has been largely
ignored. These texts include works of literature but also materials
such as personal letters, diaries, and newspapers. Using tools from
digital humanities and archival and heritage studies, this project
seeks to reveal the “hidden” multilingualism of different writers in
and around Australian cities, from their founding up until the
present. What are the literary and non-literary spaces that languages
other than English have occupied in Australian cities? What can a
comparison between different cities around Australia tell us about
translingual writing? What role does multilingualism play in
Australian writing today?



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