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Prof. Arlene Archer, University of Cape Town, South Africa A multimodal approach to English for academic purposes in contexts of diversity 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…
Dr Lauran Doak, Nottingham Trent University, UK Rethinking play and ‘play deficits’ in autism through multimodal analysis of playground video data.                                     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…
Dr. William Feng, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HongKong Tradition, modernity, and Chinese masculinity: The multimodal construction of ideal manhood in a reality dating show 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…
Languaged in Place: People; Pēpēhā and the resources of Peace Professor Alison Phipps As a second decolonial turn is taken in the wake of #BlackLivesMatters, the reappraisal of the histories of the British Empire languages and their propagations are called to account. In this lecture I will consider the myriad ways in which the challenges…
Prof. Louise Ravelli, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia                                     Museums and Communication in the 21st Century                                     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…
Dr. Sara van Meerbergen, Stockholm University, Sweden Translation Studies meets Social Semiotics. Recontextualization of images and changing multimodal depictions of agency, gender and diversity in translated picture books and media for children.                                     To attend the talk, please register here MULTIMODALITY TALKS Series is a joint initiative for researchers across the world who are interested in multimodality….
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…