International Conference, Languages, urbanisation and mobilities: What questions for Sociolinguistics today?
October 18, 2022
Book Presentation: “Claiming the Homeland: The Turkish Cypriot Opposition in the Period 1964-2004” by Nikos Moudouros
October 24, 2022
MAMM2022
Multidisciplinary Approaches to Migration and Multilingualism (MAMM2022) will be held in Nicosia, Cyprus on October 22-23, 2022. The conference is organized and funded by the Department of English Studies and the Department of French and European Studies, as part of the project MIGDISCY- Migration, Discourse, Cyprus, internally funded by the University of Cyprus.
The central theme of this conference is migration and multilingualism with a focus on language practices, migration discourses, language and identity, language policies and ideologies, language acquisition, bilingualism, bi(dia)lectalism, multilingualism, multiculturalism, equality, equity and diversity, heritage language use, maintenance and transmission, language loss, shift and attrition, family language policy, emotions, socialization practices and language management strategies of immigrant and minority families, home literacy environment, code-switching, code-mixing, translanguaging, and intercultural communication. The purpose of the conference is to bring together scholars working on these areas from different perspectives and with different populations, to exchange ideas and engage in a fruitful discussion.