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Details of the forthcoming Bloomsbury Round Table on Communication, Cognition & Culture (at Birkbeck in London), on the theme of 'The multiple faces of multilingualism'
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Bloomsbury Round Table on Communication, Cognition & Culture
24th-25th June, 2010
Room B04, Birkbeck Main Building, Torrington Square, London WC1
Birkbeck College, University of London
Theme: The multiple faces of multilingualism
The Bloomsbury Round Table on Communication, Cognition & Culture is an annual, international event, jointly hosted by adjacent colleges of the University of London, led by Birkbeck College, where researchers at different stages of their career are invited to present the latest work in the broad fields of Language, Communication and Cognition. This year the event will be co-organised by the International Association of Multilingualism, the AILA Research network "Multilingualism: Acquisition and Use" and Birkbeck's Centre for Multilingual & Multicultural Research. The Thematic Focus will be on The multiple faces of multilingualism.
The Round Table will consist of 9 invited presentations and a limited number of paper presentations and posters. If you wish to present a paper or poster at the Round Table, please submit an abstract at: https://www2.bbk.ac.uk/linguistics/abstract.html; deadline 30 April 2010
The total number of participants will not exceed 60.
The 9 invited presentations at the 2010 Bloomsbury Round Table are:
Dr Larissa Aronin (Oranim Academic College/University of Haifa, Israel) and Dr Muiris Ó Laoire, (Institute of Technology, Tralee, Ireland) The Multiple Faces of Multilingualism: Language Nominations
Professor Raphaele Berthele (University of Fribourg, Switzerland): Simple heuristics and abduction in receptive multilingualism
Dr Gessica De Angelis (University of Bolzano, Italy) and Professor Ulrike Jessner (University of Innsbruck, Austria) Writing across languages
Professor Britta Hufeisen (University of Darmstadt, Germany) L2-transfer in L3-text competencies
Professor Li Wei (Birkbeck College, University of London) Creativity, criticality and multilingual practices of minority ethnic children
Dr John O'Regan (Institute of Education, University of London) The discourse of intercultural communication: Aporias of praxis in the intercultural public sphere
Professor Anne Pauwels (SOAS, University of London)'Being cool': Gender and language practices in multilingual settings
Dr Sian Preece (Institute of Education, University of London) Imagining English-medium universities as multilingual spaces
Dr Adam C. Schembri (University College London) The sociolinguistics of sign bilingualism/multilingualism
The registration fee for the 2010 Bloomsbury Round Table is £ 55 (fifty five pounds) per person. A reduced fee of £ 35 (thirty five pounds) is charged to students and the unemployed, subject to proof of status.
Online registration form is available at: http:// www2.bbk.ac.uk/linguistics/
A highly selective number of papers presented at the Round Table, together with other articles, will be published in Applied Linguistics Review in 2011 by Mouton de Gruyter.
Further information can be obtained by contacting Professor Jean-Marc Dewaele at [log in to unmask]
Department of Applied Linguistics & Communication, Birkbeck
College, University of London.
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