Dear colleagues (and please circulate amongst others who might be interested)

The programme for this exciting workshop is below, and is also now available as a PDF from http://www.meits.org/events/event/european-experiences-of-good-language-bad-language - Please follow the link there for registration, which is a little cumbersome, I am sorry!

Cost as follows:

Reduced rate for ECRs & PhD students - Registration fee with 3 course dinner £35.00

Reduced rate for ECRs & PhD students - Registration fee without dinner -£10

Standard Registration fee- with 3 course dinner £50.00

Standard registration fee - without dinner £20.00

We look forward to welcoming you in Nottingham.

Best wishes

Nicola McLelland

 

 

The workshop is part of Strand 2 of the AHRC-funded project Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals, Transforming Societies, Strand 2: Standard languages, norms and variation: comparative perspectives in multilingual contexts.

http://www.meits.org/project-strands/strand/strand-two

 

Thursday, July 6, 2017

Highfields House, A11

12.00-12.45

ARRIVAL AND LUNCH

 

12.45-1.00

Wendy Ayres-Bennett, Nicola McLelland, An introduction to the MEITS project

 

1.00

Wini Davies (Aberystwyth), Linguistic norms and norm transmission in the classroom: theory and practice

 

1.30

Jing Huang (University of Birmingham): A heteroglossic language ecology in a Birmingham Chinese complementary school: past and present

 

2.00

Jonathan Kasstan (QMUL), Exploring standardisation and sociolinguistic authenticity among speakers of a contested language

 

2.30

Noel Ó Murchadha (Trinity College Dublin): Good and bad language in a minority language setting: Irish in bilingual Ireland

 

3.00

BREAK

 

3.30

Feargas Denman (Trinity College, Dublin): Collaboration, Calibration, Correction: Russian-speaking Identities and the Russian Language's Identity in Ireland

 

4.00

Natalia Kudriavtseva, Standard Ukrainian in the Multilingual Context: Language ideologies in the past and present

 

4.30

Katie Harrison (University of Nottingham): Language ideologies and practices in Ukrainian Complementary Schools in the United Kingdom

 

5.00

BREAK

 

5.30-6.15

Language Lives presentation by local multilingual Nottingham school pupils

 

7.00 for 7.15

DINNER (Orchard Hotel)

 

Friday, July 7, 2017

Highfields House, A11

9.00

Therese Ribbås, Stockholm University; Julia Forsberg and Johan Gross, University of Gothenburg: Self-assessment and standard language ideologies: Bilingual youths in Sweden reflect on their language proficiencies

 

9.30

John Bellamy (Cambridge): Reshaping the standard. Resistance to norms in the language practices of bilingual young people in Dortmund

 

10.00

Ann Wand (Oxford): Should we speak (good) German, dialect or Italian? German language preservation in a multilingual province

 

10.30

BREAK

 

11.00

Raphael Berthele (University of Fribourg, Swizterland): The Selective Celebration of Linguistic Diversity. Swiss Educational Policy Discourse between Romanticism and Rationalism

 

11.30

Naomi Wells (IMLR, University of London): Mediating Between Home and School: Migrant Cultural Associations in Bologna and the Teaching of the ‘Mother Language’

 

12.00

Jennifer Burns (University of Warwick): Arabising Italian? Migration literature as multilingual transaction

 

12.30-1.45

LUNCH

 

1.45-2.15

Round table discussion / podcast

 

2.15

Laia Darder : The acceptability of vernaculars: how Spanish- and Catalan-speaking audiences react to films dubbed using language diversity

 

2.45

Laiene Olabarrieta Landa: Testing verbal fluency in Basque, Catalan and Spanish

 

3.15

Darren Paffey (University of Southampton): Empowerment or control? Standard language ideology and multilingual migrants in London

 

3.45

Farewell tea, coffee and cake

 

Queries to:

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University of Nottingham, Trent Building, University Park UK NG7 2RD

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/clas/people/nicola.mclelland

Co-Investigator and Deputy Project-Leader, on the AHRC-funded MEITS project (2016-2020): www.meits.org

 

 

Prof. Nicola McLelland

Professor of German and History of Linguistics

Head of School

 

School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies

University of Nottingham

Room B6a, Tretn Building

University Park

Nottingham, NG7 2RD

 

+44 (0) 115 95 15822 [log in to unmask] .ac.uk

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/clas/people/nicola.mclelland

 

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