AHRC and Modern Languages
Professor Janice Carruthers
ML a strategic priority for the AHRC, ML are both vital and vulnerable.
Several projects.
Role: leadership fellow role.
Cambridge University, Edinburgh, Nottingham and Queen's.
Objective of project: how ML can address key issues.
Six research strands: multidisciplinary perspectives.
Which languages? Major European languages and Chinese. And less commonly taught: Breton, Occitan, Catalan, Ukrainian.
Sociolinguist perspectives on multilingualism at Queen's: 6 members of staff. Partners: Paris X, Toulouse II
Several questions: such as concept of national identity with multilangualism. Relationship between cultural and linguistic identity.
Language identity and social cohesion in the banlieue, Daniel McAuley PDRA.
Context of banlieue French. Language contact between several different migrant languages. Multiethnolect.
Corpus: such s narvalo: mad (Romani), seum: angry (Arabic), degun: noone (provencal), wesh: for godness sake (Arabic), crari: "like" (Romani)
Banlieue French: phonetics and phonology: heavy palatalization, accents coming sometimes from Arabic.
Complexity of Banlieue French characteristics and speaker identity.
Perception from the outside of Banlieue French. which linguistic features are perceived as 'banlieue' markers by non-users of the variety?
Regional languages: Breton, concept of neo-Breton, 4 different varieties.
Neo-Breton: new speaker of Breton. Tend to be younger, well-educated, middle-class, politically active. Yet not that simple.
Irish components of the strand: linguistic landscape, motivations for language learning amongst PUL (Protestants) and nationalist learners. Working with Co-operationn Ireland and former loyalist paramilitaries.
Whole-project methodological challenges: techniques autistic children, former paramilitaries, elderly citizens,
www.meits.org
ML a strategic priority for the AHRC, ML are both vital and vulnerable.
Several projects.
Role: leadership fellow role.
Cambridge University, Edinburgh, Nottingham and Queen's.
Objective of project: how ML can address key issues.
Six research strands: multidisciplinary perspectives.
Which languages? Major European languages and Chinese. And less commonly taught: Breton, Occitan, Catalan, Ukrainian.
Sociolinguist perspectives on multilingualism at Queen's: 6 members of staff. Partners: Paris X, Toulouse II
Several questions: such as concept of national identity with multilangualism. Relationship between cultural and linguistic identity.
Language identity and social cohesion in the banlieue, Daniel McAuley PDRA.
Context of banlieue French. Language contact between several different migrant languages. Multiethnolect.
Corpus: such s narvalo: mad (Romani), seum: angry (Arabic), degun: noone (provencal), wesh: for godness sake (Arabic), crari: "like" (Romani)
Banlieue French: phonetics and phonology: heavy palatalization, accents coming sometimes from Arabic.
Complexity of Banlieue French characteristics and speaker identity.
Perception from the outside of Banlieue French. which linguistic features are perceived as 'banlieue' markers by non-users of the variety?
Regional languages: Breton, concept of neo-Breton, 4 different varieties.
Neo-Breton: new speaker of Breton. Tend to be younger, well-educated, middle-class, politically active. Yet not that simple.
Irish components of the strand: linguistic landscape, motivations for language learning amongst PUL (Protestants) and nationalist learners. Working with Co-operationn Ireland and former loyalist paramilitaries.
Whole-project methodological challenges: techniques autistic children, former paramilitaries, elderly citizens,
www.meits.org
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