Multilingual Manchester

Last month we met with officials at the Office for National Statistics to make suggestions for improvement of the question on languages ahead of the 2021 Census. But the officials are reluctant to act, and it seems that to get results, researchers will have to engage...

Abstracts are invited for an event on 'University Public Engagement with Urban Multilingualism', which will take place on 20-22 February 2019 at the University of Manchester. The three-day event will offer an opportunity for an exchange of ideas and experience among...

Am 12 Juni 2018 hielten Leonie Gaiser und Yaron Matras einen Vortrag über die ‘Sprachlandschaften’ (Sprache im öffentlichen Raum) von Manchester im Rahmen einer Vorlesung über Mehrsprachigkeit unter der Leitung von Prof. Dr. Jannis Androutsopoulos an der Universität...

Increasing numbers of researchers are engaging in studies involving complex contexts of ‘superdiversity’ and participants who have a broad range of linguistic repertoires and communication needs. Yet there are often limited opportunities for scholars to exchange...

Students and citizens in Saint Petersburg will now have access to a Russian version of LinguaSnapp - The University of Manchester’s mobile app for documenting language landscapes. The app allows users to collect and upload images of signs in different languages to a...

On 21-22 May 2018, Multilingual Manchester will host a two-day workshop on 'Multilingual Landscapes: Planning, Policy, and Contact Linguistic Perspectives'. The workshop programme is available to view here. Participation in the workshop is by invitation. If you are...

The Multilingual Communities strand of the AHRC-OWRI consortium ‘Cross-language Dynamics: Re-shaping community’ is offering two grants at a value of up to £11,500 each (at 80%, in line with AHRC funding rules) for projects that are devoted to university engagement...

Member of the German Bundestag Johann Saathoff (SPD, Norden in East Frisia) held a speech at the German parliament on 2 March denouncing a motion by the right-wing Alternative for Germany party to amend the constitution to make German the only national language....

A group of linguists have asked the UK Statistics Authority to consider re-drafting the question on languages other than Welsh and Gaelic ahead of the next national census planned for 2021. They say that the question ‘What is your main language?’, which was used in...

International Mother Language Day is held every year on 21 February to promote awareness of language diversity and multilingualism. Led by UNESCO, it has been observed across the world since 2000, inspired by events surrounding the Bengali language movement in...