{"id":27,"date":"2012-11-12T11:24:20","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T11:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/?page_id=27"},"modified":"2015-12-03T16:26:43","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T16:26:43","slug":"research-stories","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/research-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Research stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

Click the links below to read stories from our researchers.<\/p>\n

\"DSC00043\"<\/a>Berlin Lives: Multilingual Metropolis<\/a> by Patrick Stevenson<\/a><\/p>\n

We know a great deal about multilingualism \u2013 but not as much as we might think.\u00a0 Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Jenkins<\/a>The \u2018international university\u2019 and English Medium Instruction<\/a> by Jennifer Jenkins<\/a><\/p>\n

Universities around the world are increasingly identifying themselves as international. This involves, among other things, recruiting large numbers of students and, to a lesser extent, staff, from outside their own national borders, and using English as their primary lingua franca on campus, particularly as their medium of instruction. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"lavery<\/a>The art of Ana Clavel<\/a> by Jane Lavery<\/a><\/p>\n

Ever since my undergraduate years at Cambridge University (1994-97), I have been fascinated by the representations of women and questions of gender in the fiction of Spanish American writing by female writers and in particular the writing of Mexican boom femenino<\/i> writers (1970 -). Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"mary<\/a>Mapping Knowledge in Culture and Science, past, present and back to the future<\/a> by Mary Orr<\/a><\/p>\n

Mapping \u2013 cartographical, cultural, linguistic, scientific \u2013 has been central to development of European networks of knowledge and exchanges with other cultures, but saw a period of particularly important development in the early nineteenth century. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Race and Place in Mexico<\/a> by Laura A. Lewis<\/a><\/p>\n

Until the early 18th<\/sup> century, Mexico and Peru had the highest number of African and African descent people in the Americas. Today, the coastal belt of Mexico\u2019s southern Pacific Coast \u00a0\u2013 the \u201cCosta Chica<\/em>\u201d or \u201cthe small coast\u201d — contains many historically black communities. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

Mons<\/a>\"\"<\/a>trous Flowers: Literature, Women and Botany<\/a> by Aude Campmas<\/a><\/p>\n

It all started in the great greenhouses of the Mus\u00e9um d\u2019histoire naturelle<\/em> in Paris, beneath the shade of the palm trees. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Languages and cultures through English as a lingua franca<\/a> by Will Baker<\/a><\/p>\n

The link between languages and cultures has long been of interest to researchers.\u00a0 Do languages reflect, or even contain, the cultures and thoughts of nations and peoples?\u00a0 Can there be such a thing as a culturally neutral language? Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

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It’s all <\/a>\"\"<\/a>in the name: road signs and language memory in Brittany<\/a> by Dick Vigers<\/a><\/p>\n

Discarded in the hedgerow on a minor road in western Brittany, France was a signpost to Goulitquer; three metres away by the road, upright and mounted on a shiny new pole, emblazoned with a tiny coat of arms a sign to Goulitk\u00ear.\u00a0Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Global Wine Drinking Cultures\u2026Translating Terroir<\/em>?<\/a> by Marion Demossier<\/a><\/p>\n

Despite the diversity of contemporary societies, global citizens have increasingly demonstrated an interest for local foodstuffs and products or for highly territorialised items that they could identify precisely in their imagination.\u00a0 Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Languages at War<\/a> by Michael Kelly<\/a><\/p>\n

Language is an issue in almost every aspect of conflict: in training and preparation for action, in intelligence work, in talking to people on the ground and in different military units communicating with each other.\u00a0 Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Click the links below to read stories from our researchers. Berlin Lives: Multilingual Metropolis by Patrick Stevenson We know a great deal about multilingualism \u2013 but not as much as we might think.\u00a0 Read more…   The \u2018international university\u2019 and English Medium Instruction by Jennifer Jenkins Universities around the world are increasingly identifying themselves as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72618,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-27","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P6Sp7t-r","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72618"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1107,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions\/1107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}