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Talk by Fariha Salman on multimodality

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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...

CLER Conversation: Developing ‘good’ practice in multilingual research - Dr Sara Ganassin

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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, by Dr. Paul O’Neill

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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...

Vanished: Narrating Extinction from the Dodo to Extinction Rebellion

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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...

Raciolinguistic ideologies and narratives of deficit: how the ‘word gap’ came to be normalised in England’s schools

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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...

Sculptural Place Names: Between Elitism and Egalitarianism in Gentrified Urban Spaces

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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....

Advocating for inclusivity of people with disabilities through visual communication

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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...

Waste makes the frontier: Rethinking the mine, the dump, the launch site, and the asteroid in the contemporary space race

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Dr Julie Klinger, Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences at the University of Delaware Eventbrite registration here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-event-waste-makes-the-frontier-with-julie-klinger-tickets-531527361647 Abstract: This talk is an attempt to bring together sites often treated in isolation to spatialize their material and meaningful relationships in our contemporary world-historical moment. It is based on a work in progress that...

Picture characters and paralanguage: Modelling emoji-text relations in social media discourse

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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...

Multimodal communication in emergent multilingual contexts: analyzing tutor-students’ interactions

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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....