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Monday, 12 July 2021

Note: All times are British Summer Time (GMT+1); A Zoom link will be sent out to registered participants on the night before the event. 

 

11.30-12.00 Welcome and Registration

Johannes AngermullerMichael Kranert, Md Shajedur Rahman and Jaspal Naveel Singh

 

12.00-12.45 Live Talk

Quentin Williams, University of the Western Cape, South Africa

The hate they give Coloured English

 

13.00-14.30 Parallel Discussion Panels

Format of discussion panels: Presenters give 5 min overview of main points/argument +  Respondents give 5 min response + Audience discusses for 5 mins + Invited discussant gives 20 min commentary + Audience discusses for 10-30 mins.

 

1A: Counter-hegemonic discourses (Discussant: Quentin Williams)

Dripta Piplai (Mondal), Lekshmi RekhaSuma ChistiAbhijith N Arjunan The heterogeneity question in post-independence India (Respondent: Dimitris Trimithiotis)

Dimitris Trimithiotis Greek Cypriot dialect (Respondent: Ariella Lahav)

Ariella LahavA rhetoric of love as used by Israeli opposition leader aspiring to become Prime Minister (Respondent: Jaspal Naveel Singh)

Crispin Thurlow – Besides hegemonic multilingualism (Respondent: Dripta Piplai (Mondal))

 

1B: Populism (Discussant: Benno Herzog)

Michael Kranert Populist linguistic nationalism (Respondent: Carlos Ahuactzin)

Carlos Ahuactzin and Enrique MatrínezPolitical narrative and populism in Mexico (Respondent: Alexander Alekseev)

Alexander AlekseevLanguage of human rights and (changing) political discourse of the populist radical right (Respondent: Dani Heffernan)

Dani Heffernan Asking too much of ‘the people’  (Respondent: Michael Kranert)

 

1C: Minoritising languages (Discussant: Isabelle Léglise) 

Deepa Vanjani – The politics of language minoritisation (Respondent: Stuart Dunmore)

Stuart Dunmore Gaelic in North America (Respondent: Beatriz Hermida Ramos)

Beatriz Hermida RamosLanguage ideologies, Galician and the Spanish state in the context of late capitalism (Respondent: Anna Augustyniak)

Anna Augustyniak – Space, scale and identity among migrant learners of Basque (Respondent: Deepa Vanjani)

 

14.30-15.00 Break and Networking

A link to Wonder will be sent out to all registered participants on the night before the event. 

 

15.00-15.45 Live Talk

Isabelle Léglise, CNRS Paris, France

Geopolitics and circulation of knowledge in the fields of multilingualism and education

 

15.45-16.00 Networking

A link to Wonder will be sent out to all registered participants on the night before the event. 

 

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Tuesday, 13 July 2021

Note: All times are British Summer Time (GMT+1); A Zoom link will be sent out to registered participants on the night before the event. 

 

12.00-12.45 Live Talk

Johannes Angermuller, The Open University

Does English turn us into white nationalists?

 

13.00-14.30 Parallel Discussion Panels

Format of discussion panels: Presenters give 5 min overview of main points/argument +  Respondents give 5 min response + Audience discusses for 5 mins + Invited discussant gives 20 min commentary + Audience discusses for 10-30 mins.

 

2A: English as a neoliberal language (Discussant: Kristina Hultgren) 

Gonzalo Pérez Andrade“British English is much more prestigious. Everybody knows that!” (Respondent: Katy Highet)

Katy Highet“We are in English-medium right but still we are Indian” (Respondent: Yonatan Puón Castro)

Yonatan Puón CastroMexico’s foreign language policy (Respondent: Maybritt Woodcock)

Maybritt WoodcockLanguage policies, practices and their effects on human trafficking survivors in England (Respondent: Gonzalo Pérez Andrade)

 

2B: Political discourse online (Discussant: Jan Krasni)

Rashid Mustafin and Valery Shulginov Speech aggression and ideology in Internet communication (Respondent: Olivia Inwood)

Olivia InwoodAnalysing affiliation and legitimation in conspiratorial discourse (Respondent: Daniel Leisser)

Daniel Leisser Law, order and the Corona crisis in right-wing discourse (Respondent: Olga Malysheva)

Olga Malysheva, Natalia Ryabchenko and Gnedash AnnaNetworked populism (Respondent: Rashid Mustafin)

 

14.30-15.00 Networking

A link to Wonder will be sent out to all registered participants on the night before the event. 

 

 

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Wednesday, 14 July 2021

Note: All times are British Summer Time (GMT+1); A Zoom link will be sent out to registered participants on the night before the event. 

 

12.00-12.45 Live Talk

Kara Fleming, KIMEP University, Kazakhstan 

Language and nation building in Kazakhstan: Threat, power, desire

 

13.00-14.30 Parallel Discussion Panels

Format of discussion panels: Presenters give 5 min overview of main points/argument +  Respondents give 5 min response + Audience discusses for 5 mins + Invited discussant gives 20 min commentary + Audience discusses for 10-30 mins.

 

3A: Non-standard varieties (Discussant: Kara Fleming)

Yu-Xian (Claire) Huang – An examination of non-standard Mandarin varieties in Taiwan (Respondent: Büşra Can)

Büşra CanStandard accented Turkish speakers’ perception of Kurdish accented speakers (Respondent: Marina Zagidullina)

Marina ZagidullinaGrammar-Nazi: When culture becomes racism (Respondent: Yu-Xian (Claire) Huang)

 

3B: Political discourse (Discussant: Johannes Angermuller)

Lyubov Guervich – “Agonal” signs or pragmatic borrowings? (Respondent: Michalis Tastsoglou)

Michalis Tastsoglou Principles of neoliberalism in Memoranda discourse (Respondent: Yating Yu)

Dimitrii TolkachevPolicy evaluation of “non-traditional sexual relationships” regulation in Russia (Respondent: Lyubov Guervich)

Yating YuA critical metaphor analysis of the reportage of COVID-19 in China Daily (Respondent: Dimitrii Tolkachev)

 

3C: Education (Discussant: Adriana Patiño-Santos

Mirjam HauckLanguage use, identity and positioning in collaborative online international learning (Respondent: Diane de Saint Lége)

Diane de Saint LégerLegitimising a language reform on the occasion of a French language ideological debate (Respondent: Attallah Alanazi)

Tinghe JinBritish Government policy engagement with the teaching and learning of Chinese language (Respondent: Mirjam Hauck)

Attallah AlanaziViews of English as a Lingua Franca (Respondent: Tinghe Jin)

 

14.30-15.00 Break and Networking

A link to Wonder will be sent out to all registered participants on the night before the event. 

 

15.00-15.45 Live Talk

Adriana Patiño-Santos, University of Southampton, United Kingdom

English first: The shaping of a generation

 

15.45-16.00 Closing and Farewell

Johannes AngermullerMichael Kranert, Md Shajedur Rahman and Jaspal Naveel Singh

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