{"id":7795,"date":"2015-05-30T14:58:25","date_gmt":"2015-05-30T14:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/?p=7795"},"modified":"2015-05-30T14:58:25","modified_gmt":"2015-05-30T14:58:25","slug":"one-day-conference-multilingualism-in-the-digital-age-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/?p=7795","title":{"rendered":"One day conference: Multilingualism in the digital age, Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0Department of English Language an Applied Linguistics at the University of Reading will be hosting a one day conference on\u00a0Multilingualism in the Digital Age<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The conference will take place on the\u00a019th<\/sup>\u00a0of June<\/strong>\u00a0and the plenary speakers are\u00a0Professor Alexandra Georgakopoulou (King\u2019s College London)<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Professor Yaron Matras (University of Manchester)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The event is free, but due to a limited amount of spaces, booking is required by\u00a012 June 2015<\/span><\/strong>.\u00a0Participants will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis.\u00a0If you would like to register, please email Dr Christiana Themistocleous at\u00a0c.themistocleous@reading.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n

Venue: Room 103,\u00a0Building 22, London Road campus, University of Reading, RG1 5AQ<\/p>\n

Maps and information about the campus, the local area and relevant transport links\u00a0can be found here:\u00a0\u00a0http:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/about\/find\/about-findmap.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n

Provisional Programme:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
9.00-9.30<\/strong><\/td>\nRegistration & Welcome<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9.30-10.30<\/strong><\/td>\nKey note speaker: Yaron Matras (University of Manchester, UK)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Multilingual repertoires, social media, and ownership of language<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

10.30-11.00<\/strong><\/td>\nCoffee break<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11.00-11.30<\/strong><\/td>\nRachelle Vessey (<\/strong>University of Newcastle, UK)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Multilingualism and the language politics of Twitter in Canada<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

11.30-12.00<\/strong><\/td>\nD.S. Giannoni (<\/strong>University of Bergamo, Italy)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

One country, one world, one language? A survey of multilingual content in British university websites<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

12.00-12.30<\/strong><\/td>\nYan Liledantec (<\/strong>UCL Institute of Education, UK)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Indigenous language revitalisation online<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

12.30-14.00<\/strong><\/td>\nLunch<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14.00-15.00<\/strong><\/td>\nKey note speech:<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0Alexandra Georgakopoulou (King\u2019s College London, UK)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

‘More Babel than convivial superdiversity?’\u00a0 Contra-(multi)lingualism for the dramatization of the Eurocrisis on YouTube<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

15.00-15.30<\/strong><\/td>\nJos\u00e9 Ram\u00f3n Calvo-Ferrer\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0& Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00f3n Belda Medina<\/strong>\u00a0(<\/strong>UCAM Universidad Cat\u00f3lica de Murcia, Spain)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Learning in the digital age: The effect of technological affinity on L2 vocabulary acquisition<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

15.30-16.00<\/strong><\/td>\nCoffee break<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16.00-16.30<\/strong><\/td>\nElena Nichele (<\/strong>Lancaster University, UK)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

How can multilingualism convey a foreign culture? The case of Barilla on Facebook<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

16.30-17.00<\/strong><\/td>\nTsai Chi-Cheng (<\/strong>SOAS, UK)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Writing vernacular languages online: A case study of writing strategies of Taiwanese on social network sites among young generation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

17.00-17.30<\/strong><\/td>\nAivars Glaznieks & Jennifer-Carmen Frey (<\/strong>Institute of Specialized Communication and Multilingualism, Bolzano, Italy) Senior Research<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBitte deutsch schreiben!\u201d Multilingual and diglossic \u2013 A linguistic description of South Tyrolean Facebook users<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

17.30-18.30<\/strong><\/td>\nClosing remarks & wine reception<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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