Lectures on Multilingual Practices

The University of Oulu research network of Social Interaction and Involvement warmly invites you to guest lectures on contemporary language contacts:

Mon 6 November 2017

10.30 – 11.30 Johanna Vaattovaara: Ideological construct of ‘Helsinki s’ as a case in multilingual society:  the emergence and growth of an indexical value over a hundred years

Tue 7 November 2017

9.30 – 10.30 Ad Backus: Language contact phenomena

12.30 – 13.30 Ad Backus: Structural versus usage-based accounts

13.30 – 14.30 Anna Verschik: Language contacts and metalinguistic awareness

There will also be three datasessions on Tuesday 7 November:

10.50 – 11.30 Requests in a simulated shopping task (data session)

15.00 – 15.45 Conversations among a Finnish family and Spanish aupair (data session)

15.45 – 16.30 Constructing Common Ground: The effects of familiarity and meta-communicative strategies in Estonian-Russian-English interaction (data session)  

Wed 8 November 2017

9.30 – 10.30 Ad Backus: Some empirical recent usage-based studies

10.30 – 11.30 Anna Verschik: Some examples of language contacts in the Baltic countries

12.30 – 13.30 Ad Backus: Linguistics and beyond

The event takes place at Lasaretti, Kasarmitie 13B, Rossi Cabinet. The lectures are part of a doctoral course on Multilingual practices.

Welcome!