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Are Europe’s smaller languages at risk in the digital age?

The Guardian has published an article discussing how the internet and its technologies are eroding many languages, in particular in the Baltic countries, and asks what can be done about it. It argues that the predominance of a few larger languages online has led to them becoming default domains for technology, software and business. As a result, it suggests, smaller languages are struggling to keep up to speed in the digital age. To read the article in full, visit the Guardian website. Continue reading →

Film Studies Research Seminar: ‘Transnational Latin American Art Cinema and New European Funding Landscapes: the Story behind the Credits’

A Film Studies Research Seminar entitled, ‘Transnational Latin American Art Cinema and New European Funding Landscapes: the Story behind the Credits’, will take place on Tuesday 25th March 2014 at 4pm in Lecture Theatre B, Avenue Campus. The seminar will be led by Dr Deborah Shaw from the University of Portsmouth. Continue reading →

Italian film showing today: L’uomo perfetto (Luca Lucini, 2005)

The Italian film, L’uomo perfetto (Luca Lucini, 2005), will be showing in Lecture Theatre A, at 6.30pm on Monday 24th March 2014. Review, introduction and discussion by Yasmin Ali. ************************************************* L’ultimo film di questa rassegna è ambientato a Milano. Racconta la storia di una giovane pubblicitaria chiamata Lucia (Francesca Inaudi) che è innamorata di Paolo, un suo amico d’infanzia. Lui però sta per sposare la sua migliore amica, Maria. Continue reading →

Reshaping Languages in Higher Education Conference 2014 – Call for papers deadline next week!

The deadline for submitting papers for the ‘Reshaping Languages in Higher Education Conference 2014’ has been extended to Friday 28th March 2014. This seventh biennial conference on languages in higher education, organised by the Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies (LLAS) at the University of Southampton, the University Council of Modern Languages (UCML) and the Association of University Language Centres (AULC), is taking place on 9 and 10 July 2014. Continue reading →

Project to help Multilingual Families

Parents, teachers or anyone involved or interested in multilingualism can help evaluate resources being created to help families, educators and stakeholders raise children multilingually. This EU-funded “Multilingual Families” project is targeted at preserving the languages and culture of immigrants and the many families with parents with more than one language. See Multilingual Families website at http://www.multilingual-families.eu/ and the project invitation at https://app.box. Continue reading →

CLLEAR seminar tomorrow – ‘Representational deficit or processing effect? An RT study of noun-noun compound processing by very advanced L2 speakers of English’

The next CLLEAR seminar of the semester will be taking place on Wednesday 19th March 2014 from 5.00-6.30pm in Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus, at the University of Southampton. The session is entitled ‘Representational deficit or processing effect? An RT study of noun-noun compound processing by very advanced L2 speakers of English’ and will be presented by Dr. Cecile De Cat from the University of Leeds. Continue reading →