Bliadhna mhath ùr dhuibh uile! 🙂

Through-provoking discussion on New Directions in Minority Language Sociolinguistics shorturl.at/rIOWY funded by The British Academy Hosted by IASH, Edinburgh Thanks to the contributors Éirinn Nic An Ultaigh Colin H Williams John Walsh @helenkellyholme Wilson McLeod Jennifer Smith

Getting ready for our Symposium on New Directions in Minority Language Sociolinguistics minoritylanguageplanning.gla.ac.uk/our-activities in collaboration with The University of Edinburgh University of Glasgow IASH, Edinburgh John Walsh UofG Modern Languages & Cultures Wilson McLeod @helenkellyholme Maite Puigdevall

Join us tomorrow on line for our final lecture of the year with Robert Blackwood the linguistic landscape of St-Pierre-et-Miquelon. Sing up below.

UofG Modern Languages & Cultures Erin McInerney

Excellent new book 'Language Policy and the New Speaker Challenge' by Colin H Williams
Launched online today at 4.30pm.

Hosted by IAITH cyf.

Joined by John Walsh Maite Puigdevall Dr S. Dunmore Wilson McLeod joan pujolar, kathryn jones & Rob Dunbar
UofG Modern Languages & Cultures COST New Speakers

Important #debate in #Spanish about #climatechange and #activism UofGARC

Go n-éirí leat amárach Éirinn Nic An Ultaigh hosting 10th Celtic Students Conference University of Glasgow

#multilingual event 60 papers #Irish #Welsh #Manx #Gaelic and #Cornish with simultaneous interpreting #sociolinguistics #Literature UofG English Lang & Ling UofG Modern Languages & Cultures UofGCelticGaelic

Delighted to be co-hosting this online event involving UofG Modern Languages & Cultures Erin McInerney - and our Language and Society Cluster with colleagues in UofG English Lang & Ling
Register below. First talk 8th March 2023 by Mirka Honkanen on Investing multilingualism in a Nigerian web forum.

A very welcome addition from Colin H Williams to work on the new speaker concept addressing the key question of how it can inform language policy scholarship and multilingualism

'stepping away from a focus on #language and toward the experiences of #speakers brings forth the question of the political–economic structuration of power'

Very insightful review essay on #NewSpeakers @nuachinteoir Noel Ó Murchadha Michael Hornsby 🇮🇱 @jpujolar
by @mireillemcl

Very insightful article by Colin H Williams ''Geography and place matter for language. Once a minority language is no longer spoken on the street, at school, or in social and community life, its resonance changes' theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Great discussion at first #SocioLang
shorturl.at/asQZ6 #ReadingGroup UofG English Lang & Ling
UofG Modern Languages & Cultures with Itxaso Rodriguez and Dr Jonathan Kasstan | @jrkasstan.bsky.social (in spirit!) discussing shorturl.at/bgJW4
Next session 7th Dec
Louis Strange Éirinn Nic An Ultaigh Jennifer Smith Prof Joanna Kopaczyk Piotr Węgorowski

Looking forward to hearing all about it Éirinn Nic An Ultaigh when you are back in UofG Modern Languages & Cultures

Unusually in a Festschrift, 'Language, Policy and Territory' includes a substantial essay by the honorand Colin H Williams, with insightful responses to the chapter contributions and thoughts for the future
Launch event on Thursday 29 September 1700 BST:
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Speakerness in Multilingual Contexts and Sociolinguistic Theory. Delighted to have been part of this project led by Itxaso Rodriguez Itxaso Rodriguez Dr Jonathan Kasstan | @jrkasstan.bsky.social with excellent papers on new speaker dynamics across a range of contexts

This is an excellent scheme. Delighted to be awarded a The Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship in 2021/22 to rethink language revitalisation and European minority language dynamics shorturl.at/BFRW7

Looking forward to this book launch tomorrow with John Walsh and to the broader discussion around what 100 years of language policy has achieved for Irish and the many lessons for other minoritized languages.

Thanks Unive Ca' Foscari for hosting this wonderful event in beautiful Venice and for inviting me to talk about my The Leverhulme Trust project on rethinking language revitalisation. It was a pleasure to hear such inspiring papers and to (re) connect in person Bilingualism Matters Kleanthes Grohmann

Honoured to have a chapter in this collection celebrating the work of Colin H Williams
Thanks The Leverhulme Trust for funding the research leading to the chapter and thanks Colin for your inspiration.
Book Launch Thurs 29th September 5pm us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist……

Half way through our panel at #SS24Ghent on Re-thinking geographies of language in minority language sociolinguistics