Welcome to the 6th Sociolinguistics Summer School FB Page! This year's conference will take place in Trinity College Dublin from Aug 4th - 7th 2015.
The sociolinguistics summer school is the perfect opportunity for postgraduate students to network, showcase some of their original work, as well as attend workshops and talks by leading experts in the field. Traditionally each day of the summer school follows a specific ‘theme’ or topic of current relevance to sociolinguistic research, this theme often reflects the research of the invited plenary
Hi all, please like (and share) the SSS7 page where you will get all the updates about 2016's Sociolinguistics Summer School :)
Sociolinguistics Summer School 7 Welcome to the 7th edition of the Sociolinguistics Summer Schools. This year's conference will take place in Lyon, from June 21st - 24th 2016!
"[I]t is helpful to imagine that when bilinguals code-switch, they are in
fact using a twelve-string guitar, rather than limiting themselves to two
six-string instruments" (Valdés, 1988: 126, cited in Toribio 2004: 133).
18/08/2015
CALLING OUT ALL LINGUISTS IN DUBLIN!
Trinity is hosting yet another awesome linguistics event this September for Discover Research Night. Want to know more about this event? Check out the link below :)
Oh, and here's the page for the event: https://www.facebook.com/DublinLanguageGarden2014?fref=ts
14/08/2015
Hey all, in case you are wondering what other events are out there sociolinguistics-related (and other linguistics-related), check out LSA's (Linguistic Society of America) annual meeting this year in Washington, DC. The lineup so far looks incredible!
LSA 2016 Annual Meeting | Linguistic Society of America The American Dialect Society, the American Name Society, the North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences, the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, and The Association for Linguistic Evidence will mee…
Thanks to everyone who made it to the 6th Sociolinguistics Summer School. It was a trully unforgettable experience :)
Best of luck to the next year's Summer School organisers: Julie Villesseche and Michael Gauthier from the Lumiete University of Lyon 2!
Dr Eleanor Lawson's workshop
08/08/2015
Day 4, Dr Eleanor Lawson's plenary talk
06/08/2015
Day 3 of : Bettina Migge leads a fascinating discussion on linguistic variation, integration, and identity construction in migration/contact settings
05/08/2015
Day 2 of : Dr Jeffrey Kallen's discusses foodways in the International Corpus of English
05/08/2015
Day 1 of : Prof Li Wei's presents on translanguaging practices and linguistic creativity.
Day 1 of SSS6:
"Post-multilingualism - not about the co-existence or co-use of multiple languages, it is about the dilemma of protecting the identity and integrity of different individual languages whilst recognizing and promoting the fluidity of multilingualism." - Li Wei
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