On July 6, travel and info guide Atlas Obscura published an interview with historical linguist Lauren Fonteyn on the wondrous world of demonyms. A demonym is a word used to describe a person from or a property of a certain place. For instance, Londoner is the demonym of London, and Belgian is the demonym of Belgium. As aptly noted by Dan […]
December 19, 2016 by manling
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Every year, LEL sends a representative to China to talk to our partner universities on the 2+2 scheme. This year, the honour fell to Dr George Walkden, accompanied by Dr Ben Walker from Recruitment & Admissions. Here they are in the English room at Shanghai Ocean University, with a host of interested students and staff. […]
October 3, 2016 by manling
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A new report by the Multilingual Manchester team addresses provision of interpreters and language services in Manchester, with the aim of establishing whether there are any barriers to the use of language provisions that potentially affect access to health care. The report has the title Language provisions in access to primary and hospital care in […]
September 30, 2016 by manling
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Yaron Matras is featured on Manchester Policy Blogs this week, making the case against linguaphobia. Next week will see the launch of the Multilingual Communities strand of the AHRC-funded OWRI project, which Yaron and the Multilingual Manchester team head up. Watch this space! Featured image: people eating food, from the Policy Blogs page.
April 6, 2016 by manling
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PhD student George Bailey features in the Faculty of Humanities’ latest video, giving a demo of the ultrasound machine. The footage is from the Dissecting Language event at the Museum of Science and Industry last year, run by Laurel MacKenzie. You can watch the video below! George’s part starts at 0:47, under “Putting theory into […]
February 26, 2016 by manling
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The Deputy Leader of Manchester City Council, Councillor Sue Murphy, joined the University of Manchester President and Vice Chancellor, Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell, on 23rd February to launch LinguaSnapp – Multilingual Manchester’s brand new mobile app. An audience of University colleagues and external stakeholders heard speeches celebrating the city’s diversity from Professor Dame Rothwell and […]
January 28, 2016 by manling
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LEL’s Tine Breban has been awarded Leadership Fellow funding by the Arts & Humanities Research Council! Tine’s project starts on 1 July 2016 and will last until 15 Sept 2017. The title of the project is A methodology for qualitative analysis of historical corpus data: New insights about language change from a micro-analytical approach. The […]
July 8, 2017 by manling
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