Events
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CLER Conversation: The challenge of the primary-secondary school transition: The language of mathematics and science
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…
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
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….
Museums and Communication in the 21st Century
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…
Distinguished Speaker 2023: Prof Alison Phipps
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…
Tradition, modernity, and Chinese masculinity: The multimodal construction of ideal manhood in a reality dating show
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…
Rethinking play and ‘play deficits’ in autism through multimodal analysis of playground video data.
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…
A multimodal approach to English for academic purposes in contexts of diversity
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…
Symposium – Language education in the (post-)digital era – lessons learnt from the pandemic
What did we learn during the enforced move to online teaching and learning during the pandemic? What skills did we develop? What worked well and what didn’t work so well? What might the future of digital/hybrid language education look like? This one-day symposium will bring together staff working in HE language departments to reflect on…
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Linguistic/Cultural Diversity in Teaching and Learning: Why it matters
Linguistic/Cultural Diversity in Teaching and Learning: Why it matters This is the first in a series of events discussing the role of linguistic and cultural diversity in teaching and learning. In this event, we are delighted to welcome five speakers from diverse disciplinary areas whose work intersects with this topic: Standardised English and linguistic diversity in teaching: Challenging myths,…
New approaches to (digital) social networks
‘New approaches to (digital) social networks’ Prof Mikko Laitinen (University of Eastern Finland) To view the recording, please click here. Social networks play a considerable role in language variation and change, and social network theory has offered a powerful tool in modeling how linguistic innovations spread into communities (Milroy 1987). However, existing work on…
Arguing with numbers in digital multimodal dialogue
Speaker: Dr. Sumin Zhao & Chris Cummins, University of Edinburgh, UK To attend the talk, please register here
Chatting with computers
Leah Henrickson (School of Media and Communication) This talk will explain what natural language generation (NLG) systems are, and how they’re currently being used. Examples from news articles, pieces of creative writing, and chatbots will be discussed with the audience to elucidate the potential positive/negative implications of these systems.
The problem with problems: new methods for analysing problem-solving talk in the Clinton Email Corpus
‘The problem with problems: new methods for analysing problem-solving talk in the Clinton Email Corpus’ Dr Rachele de Felice (Open University) In this talk, I present a corpus-based approach to detecting problem-solving talk in workplace emails. In particular, I will address the following two questions: 1) Can we automatically identify discussion of ‘problems’ in a…
Multimodality and mathematisation: Different communicational resources in relation to mathematisations within and outside the mathematics classroom
Speaker: Prof. Lisa Björlund Boistrup, Malmö University, Sweden To attend the talk please register here:
Using Corpus Linguistics to investigate nostalgia in migration discourses
‘Using CL to investigate nostalgia in migration discourses’ Dr Charlotte Taylor (University of Sussex) The recording of this talk is available through this link.
CLER conversation: A new approach to understanding the rise of English as a Medium of Instruction in European higher education
Professor Kristina Hultgren Since the turn of the millennium, most of Europe’s non-English-dominant nation states have seen a remarkable rise in English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI). To date, this rise has been attributed mainly to supranational drivers, such as internationalization, the Bologna Process and increased cross-border competition and collaboration. What has received less…
Digital Media in Foreign Language Education
Speaker: Prof Bessie Mitsikopoulou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece To attend the talk, please register here
Deaf community ownership of endangered sign language revitalisation
Deaf community ownership of endangered sign language revitalisation Jill Jones, obo Deaf Experience Ltd (DEX) – formerly Deaf Ex-Mainstreamers Ltd. Abstract Sign languages are well researched visuospacial languages highly suited to deaf people for meaning and symbolic value: deaf people are in their natural element when they sign, just as hearing people are when they…