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CGE Seminar Wed 9th March 2016: Prof Li Wei

Please join us for the next Centre for Global Englishes (CGE) seminar. When: Wednesday 9th March 2016, 5-6.30pm Where: Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus Who: Professor Li Wei, UCL-IoE Post Multilingualism, Translanguaging and Linguistic Creativity This talk looks at examples of translanguaging practices in complementary schools for minority ethnic children in the UK, multi-modality linguistic practices by multilingual speakers, and New Chinglish from a Post-Multilingualism perspective. Continue reading →

Modern Languages’ Professor Mary Orr to present pre-show event at the Nuffield Theatre

Professor Mary Orr from Modern Languages at the University of Southampton will be presenting a pre-show event entitled ‘The Unfaithfulness of Adaptation’, before this evening’s performance of The Massive Tragedy of Madame Bovary at the Nuffield Theatre. The event will take place on Thursday 3rd March 2016 from 6:00-6:45pm at the Nuffield Theatre, CLS Lecture Room C (1083). Continue reading →

Modern Languages writer co-authors new book

Carmen Martín de León (writer) from Modern Languages at Southampton and Tilman Sánchez-Elsner (illustrator) from the Faculty of Medicine have co-authored “El papel higiénico y otros asuntos de suma importancia”, the first book of the series “El Mundo de Custodio”, Editorial Verbum. Custodio is an apothecary with a big family to feed, a challenge he undertakes during the Spanish “Transición” with a “velvet fist in an iron glove”. Continue reading →

Slides available from Prof Anna Mauranen’s seminar on 24th February

“How do we write in English as a Lingua Franca?” by Prof Anna Mauranen, Vice-Rector and Professor of English, University of Helsinki, Feb 24th, 2016 As ELF research has shown, communicating in English as a Lingua Franca is highly successful despite manifesting certain non-standard features, much along the lines of dialects and other non-standard varieties. Continue reading →

Next MeXsu seminar: ‘Racism, privilege and whiteness in Mexico’

The next Centre for Mexico-Southampton Collaboration (MeXsu) seminar will be taking place from 5:00-6:30pm on Wednesday 2nd March 2016, in Lecture Theatre C, Building 65, Avenue Campus. The seminar is entitled ‘Racism, privilege and whiteness in Mexico’ and will be presented by Dr Mónica Moreno Figueroa Fellow in Social Sciences, Downing College Sociology, University of Cambridge. Continue reading →