by Caroline Tagg (Open University) and Piotr Wegorowski (Cardiff University) For years you kept your accent in a box beneath the bed, the lock rusted shut by elocution … the teacher’s ruler across your legs (Liz Berry, ‘Homing’ in Black Country, Chatto and Windus 2014) Our four-year TLANG project culminated on 28th and 29th March… Read More TLANG’s Final Conference: Communication in the Multilingual City
7th December 2017, Pierhead building, Cardiff By Caroline Tagg, Open University The location of our second Network Assembly in Cardiff was, as Angela Creese pointed out in her welcome address, particularly apt given that it was in Wales that Cen Williams first introduced the concept of trawsieithu (‘translanguaging’). The Network Assembly focused on the sports… Read More Action in the Superdiverse City: a Network Assembly
Frances Rock, Cardiff University, concludes her report of the Belonging: Happiness in the city event Part one (preparation) is available here and part two (on the day) is available here. One of the most visually impactful parts of the day was an exhibit made entirely of felt. Helen had prepared pieces of felt by painting words onto them.… Read More Belonging: Happiness in the city, part three – on the day continued
Cardiff-based TLANG Co-Investigator Frances Rock reports back from the ‘Belonging: Happiness in the City’ event which took place as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science. I would defy anyone not to be moved to action after spending four months observing in a legal advice centre for those seeking asylum. The Cardiff team (Co-Investigator… Read More Belonging: Happiness in the city – part one, preparation
Jessica Bradley and Emilee Moore, University of Leeds Lang-scape Investigators, an educational engagement project The Leeds-based TLANG research team have been developing resources for schools based on the project research into the linguistic landscape, supported by funding from the Social Sciences Cluster in the Educational Engagement team. Working with postgraduates from across disciplines – Education… Read More Curating the Leeds lang-scape: Linguistic landscape research-led outreach and student education
By Caroline Tagg, Open University In June 2016, we discussed data collected in the sports phase of our project at a workshop organised by Zhu Hua at Birkbeck University, London and Janice Thompson from the University of Birmingham. Each city research team presented their data and discussed initial findings and ideas. I am responsible for… Read More Sports and social media as sites of embodied identity construction
By Caroline Tagg, Open University, and Daria Jankowicz-Pytel, Birkbeck On Friday 17th April, the BAAL ‘Language and New Media’ Special Interest Group held an event entitled: ‘Multimodality in social media and digital environments’. The event was run by Agnieszka Lyons (a former TLANG project member) and Colleen Cutter, at Queen Marys London. The event was attended… Read More From translanguaging to transmedia meaning-making
