Author: Graham H. Turner Fewer than 100 days remain until Scotland makes a weighty decision – to remain ‘United’ with the rest of the Kingdom’, or to strike out as an independent nation http://www.scotreferendum.com/. In the background of the democratic process lurk many questions about language. Scots, Americans, Australians and others routinely experience the dissonance […]
Month: June 2014
NEW SPEAKERS IN A MULTILINGUAL EUROPE: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES
CALL FOR PAPERS 2nd International Symposium NEW SPEAKERS IN A MULTILINGUAL EUROPE: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES ISCH EU COST Action IS1306 Bernadette O’Rourke, Network Chair, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh Joan Pujolar, Network Vice-Chair, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya 20‒22 November 2014 Barcelona Global social changes are transforming the linguistic ecologies of contemporary societies. They change […]