War and Peace in the Life of Language:
A Symposium on the Role of Extra- and Intralinguistic Conflicts in the Development of Language Theory and Practice
University of Nottingham (UK campus), 25-26 April 2014
Highfield House, University Park Campus
Programme
Friday, 25th April
10:00-11:00 Registration and coffee (Highfield House Foyer)
Morning session (room A01)
11:00-11:15 Introduction
11:15-12:15 KEYNOTE: The Shock of War: Interpreting the Interpreter (Prof Hilary Footitt, University of Reading, UK)
12:15-12:45 The Slovenian Tradition of Language Cultivation: History, Current Relevance and Potential (Kristof Savski, University of Lancaster, UK)
12:45-1:15 The Linguistic Legacy of WW I: the Rise of Language Rehabilitation Studies in Russia (Ekaterina Chown, University of Nottingham, UK)
13:15-14:15 Lunch
Afternoon session:
14:15-15:15 KEYNOTE: Elite Francophonie in Nineteenth-century Russia: a Casualty of War or of Romanticism? (Prof Derek Offord, University of Bristol, UK) (Room A01)
Panel 1: Language Change as a Solution of Conflict? (Room A01)
15:15-15:45 English Lexical and Semantic Loans in the Polish Language of Computer Users: War or Peaceful Coexistence? (Marcin Zabawa, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland)
15:45-16:15 The Urge to Keep One’s Mother Tongue ‘Pure’: Looking Back on a Heated Controversy in Brazil Over the Incorporation of ‘Foreignisms’ into the Nation’s Language (Kanavillil Rajagopalan, State University at Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil)
16:15-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-17:00 Conflicting Views on the Use of Neologisms in Two Translations of Romani’s Norma (Gabriela E. Dima, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi, Romania)
17:00-17:30 The Orthographic War on the Russian Internet: Results and Implications (Larisa Mokroborodova, Åbo Akademi University, Finland)
Panel 2: Conflicting Approaches to Language Teaching (Room A02)
15:15-15:45 When Wrong is Right: Understanding Why Learners Have to Follow the Rules When Native Speakers Don’t (Catherine Riley, University of Trento, Italy).
15:45-16:15 Linguistic Variation in the Digital Age and its Relevance to L2 Teaching and Learning (Anke Bohm, Sascha Stollhans and Alan Scott, University of Nottingham, UK)
16:15-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-17:00 Language Teaching Methodologies in Conflict? The Task-based Approach and its Challenge to Communicative Language Teaching (John Klapper, University of Birmingham, UK)
17:00-17:30 Japanese Educational Cultural Impact on Japanese Language Teaching at a British University to Students with Multicultural Backgrounds (Junko Winch, University of Southampton, UK)
17:30-18:00 The Changing Linguistic Profile of Central and Eastern Europe 25 Years after the Collapse of Communism with a Particular Focus on the Position of English and Russian in Hungary and the Former German Democratic Republic (GDR) (Vera Sheridan and Jennifer Bruen, Dublin City University, Ireland)
18:30-20:00 Conference meal (The Hemsley, University Staff Club)
Saturday, 26th April
9:30-10:00 arrival and coffee (Highfield House Foyer)
Morning session (room A01)
10:00 – 11:00 KEYNOTE: Indigenous Minorities of Siberia and Russian Sociolinguistics of the 1920s: A Life Apart (Prof Nikolai Vakhtin, European University, St. Petersburg, Russia)
Panel 3: Language policies as a source of conflict
11:00-11:30 Language Policies and Extra- and Intralinguistic Tensions: the Case of East-Timor and Eritrea (Francesco Goglia and Susana Afonso, University of Exeter, UK)
11:30-12:00 Linguistic Hegemony, Language Right and Language Policy: a People’s Perspective (Julia Maximiliane Becker, University of Frankfurt, Germany)
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-13:30 The Pluricentricity of German: Conflict Between Academic Ideal and Everyday Practice? (Wini Davies, Aberystwyth University, UK)
13:30-14:00 Geoengineering in the News: Metaphors We Live By or Metaphors We Die By? (Brigitte Nerlich, University of Nottingham, UK)
14:00-14:15 Coffee break
Afternoon session (Room A01/A02):
14:15-14:45 Round table.
(Correct as of 24 January 2014.)
A Symposium on the Role of Extra- and Intralinguistic Conflicts in the Development of Language Theory and Practice
University of Nottingham (UK campus), 25-26 April 2014
Highfield House, University Park Campus
Programme
Friday, 25th April
10:00-11:00 Registration and coffee (Highfield House Foyer)
Morning session (room A01)
11:00-11:15 Introduction
11:15-12:15 KEYNOTE: The Shock of War: Interpreting the Interpreter (Prof Hilary Footitt, University of Reading, UK)
12:15-12:45 The Slovenian Tradition of Language Cultivation: History, Current Relevance and Potential (Kristof Savski, University of Lancaster, UK)
12:45-1:15 The Linguistic Legacy of WW I: the Rise of Language Rehabilitation Studies in Russia (Ekaterina Chown, University of Nottingham, UK)
13:15-14:15 Lunch
Afternoon session:
14:15-15:15 KEYNOTE: Elite Francophonie in Nineteenth-century Russia: a Casualty of War or of Romanticism? (Prof Derek Offord, University of Bristol, UK) (Room A01)
Panel 1: Language Change as a Solution of Conflict? (Room A01)
15:15-15:45 English Lexical and Semantic Loans in the Polish Language of Computer Users: War or Peaceful Coexistence? (Marcin Zabawa, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland)
15:45-16:15 The Urge to Keep One’s Mother Tongue ‘Pure’: Looking Back on a Heated Controversy in Brazil Over the Incorporation of ‘Foreignisms’ into the Nation’s Language (Kanavillil Rajagopalan, State University at Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil)
16:15-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-17:00 Conflicting Views on the Use of Neologisms in Two Translations of Romani’s Norma (Gabriela E. Dima, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi, Romania)
17:00-17:30 The Orthographic War on the Russian Internet: Results and Implications (Larisa Mokroborodova, Åbo Akademi University, Finland)
Panel 2: Conflicting Approaches to Language Teaching (Room A02)
15:15-15:45 When Wrong is Right: Understanding Why Learners Have to Follow the Rules When Native Speakers Don’t (Catherine Riley, University of Trento, Italy).
15:45-16:15 Linguistic Variation in the Digital Age and its Relevance to L2 Teaching and Learning (Anke Bohm, Sascha Stollhans and Alan Scott, University of Nottingham, UK)
16:15-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-17:00 Language Teaching Methodologies in Conflict? The Task-based Approach and its Challenge to Communicative Language Teaching (John Klapper, University of Birmingham, UK)
17:00-17:30 Japanese Educational Cultural Impact on Japanese Language Teaching at a British University to Students with Multicultural Backgrounds (Junko Winch, University of Southampton, UK)
17:30-18:00 The Changing Linguistic Profile of Central and Eastern Europe 25 Years after the Collapse of Communism with a Particular Focus on the Position of English and Russian in Hungary and the Former German Democratic Republic (GDR) (Vera Sheridan and Jennifer Bruen, Dublin City University, Ireland)
18:30-20:00 Conference meal (The Hemsley, University Staff Club)
Saturday, 26th April
9:30-10:00 arrival and coffee (Highfield House Foyer)
Morning session (room A01)
10:00 – 11:00 KEYNOTE: Indigenous Minorities of Siberia and Russian Sociolinguistics of the 1920s: A Life Apart (Prof Nikolai Vakhtin, European University, St. Petersburg, Russia)
Panel 3: Language policies as a source of conflict
11:00-11:30 Language Policies and Extra- and Intralinguistic Tensions: the Case of East-Timor and Eritrea (Francesco Goglia and Susana Afonso, University of Exeter, UK)
11:30-12:00 Linguistic Hegemony, Language Right and Language Policy: a People’s Perspective (Julia Maximiliane Becker, University of Frankfurt, Germany)
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-13:30 The Pluricentricity of German: Conflict Between Academic Ideal and Everyday Practice? (Wini Davies, Aberystwyth University, UK)
13:30-14:00 Geoengineering in the News: Metaphors We Live By or Metaphors We Die By? (Brigitte Nerlich, University of Nottingham, UK)
14:00-14:15 Coffee break
Afternoon session (Room A01/A02):
14:15-14:45 Round table.
(Correct as of 24 January 2014.)