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CLER conversation with Prof Alice Deignan and Dr Duygu Candarli "The transition from primary school to secondary school is known to be problematic for some students for a number of reasons: social, academic, and linguistic." We researched the third of these issues, the linguistic challenge, using data gathered in the north of England. We worked...
Fariha Salman Title to be confirmed To attend the talk, please register here MULTIMODALITY TALKS Series is a joint initiative for researchers across the world who are interested in multimodality. It aims to provide a platform for dialogue for advancing multimodal research across disciplines. Multimodality draws attention to how meaning is made through...
Registration is required - please click here to register for this event. Please email Louise Williams-Lewis at CLER.leeds.ac.uk to provide any dietary and access requirements. Developing ‘good’ practice in multilingual research ‘Researching multilingually’ refers to how researchers draw on their own, and others’ linguistic resources in the researching, reporting, and representation of all aspects of...
Variation in Brazilian Portuguese and its challenges for teaching Dr. Paul O’Neill (University of Sheffield) Abstract: One of the most deeply entrenched linguistic ideologies of modern times is that languages have stable and focussed grammars, both in the minds of individuals and the community and that, over time, people’s linguistic behaviour tends to become homogenous (Milroy...
Dr Sadiah Qureshi, University of Birmingham Please register at this link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/onlinevanished-narrating-extinction-from-the-dodo-to-extinction-rebellion-tickets-545090870467 to receive the Zoom details. Abstract: We are so familiar with extinction that it is hard to imagine a world where nothing was believed to be extinct. Yet, the science of extinction is modern. Up until the eighteenth century, well-known losses, such as the...
Dr Ian Cushing (Faculty of Education, Edge Hill University) Discussants: Prof. Cecile De Cat (Linguistics), Prof. Alice Deignan and Dr Paula Clarke (Education) Abstract: Educational linguists across England and the USA have long critiqued deficit-based language ideologies, yet since the early 2010s, these have seen a marked resurgence in England’s education policy in narratives and interventions related...
Prof. Adam Jaworski, University of Hong Kong Sculptural Place Names: Between Elitism and Egalitarianism in Gentrified Urban Spaces To attend the talk, please register here MULTIMODALITY TALKS Series is a joint initiative for researchers across the world who are interested in multimodality. It aims to provide a platform for dialogue for advancing multimodal research across disciplines....
Dr. Pei Soo Ang, University Malaya, Malaysia Advocating for inclusivity of people with disabilities through visual communication To attend the talk, please register here MULTIMODALITY TALKS Series is a joint initiative for researchers across the world who are interested in multimodality. It aims to provide a platform for dialogue for advancing multimodal research across disciplines. Multimodality...
Dr. Michele Zappavigna, University of New South Wales, Australia Picture characters and paralanguage: Modelling emoji-text relations in social media discourse To attend the talk, please register here MULTIMODALITY TALKS Series is a joint initiative for researchers across the world who are interested in multimodality. It aims to provide a platform for dialogue for advancing multimodal...
Dr Maria Papadopoulou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Multimodal communication in emergent multilingual contexts: analyzing tutor-students’ interactions To attend the talk, please register here MULTIMODALITY TALKS Series is a joint initiative for researchers across the world who are interested in multimodality. It aims to provide a platform for dialogue for advancing multimodal research across disciplines....