*đ *We are happy to announce the next webinar in the CIRCE online
seminar series, organized by the CIRCE <https://www.circe-project.eu/>
project in collaboration with DFCLAM University of Siena
<https://www.dfclam.unisi.it/it>, H2IOSC <https://www.h2iosc.cnr.it/>
project and CNR-ILC.
*Speaker*: _Rob Drummond_ (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
*Title*: Ten things everybody should know about (spoken) language
*Date*: Monday, March 31, 2025 - 16:30 CET
*Venue*: Online Attendees: Secondary school teachers, researchers,
language instructors
*Summary*: I spend a lot of my time trying to persuade people to have a
more accepting attitude towards language variation and language change.
In fact, we should be doing a lot more than accepting it â we should be
enjoying it and celebrating the fact that we all use language in
different ways. We should take time to appreciate the fundamental
connection between the way we speak, and who we are. In this talk, I
will present my top ten reflections and insights that aim to improve
everyoneâs relationship with their own, and other peopleâs, use of English.
*Bio*: Rob Drummond is Professor of Sociolinguistics at Manchester
Metropolitan University, where he researches, teaches and writes about
the relationship between spoken language and identity. He recently led
the community-focused Manchester Voices project, exploring the accents,
dialects and identities of people in Greater Manchester, and he co-leads
The Accentism Project, which strives to challenge and raise awareness of
language-based prejudice. Rob does a lot of public-facing academic work
and is the author of Youâre All Talk: Why we are what we speak (Scribe
Publications, 2023), a book for a general audience that sheds light on
the fascinating relationship between ourselves and our language.
Upcoming webinars:
- Alice Henderson, /Learning to listen: Coping with spoken variation in
the workplace/ (Monday, April 28, 2025)
- Ana Tankosic, /Intersectionality in translingual spaces: Migrant
experiences from âdown-underâ/ (Monday, May 12, 2025)
- Giuliana Regnoli, /Unveiling linguistic bias: Approaches to accent
perception and discrimination/ (Monday, May 26, 2025)
The seminar is free of charge, but participants must register. To access
this and next events, you should create an account on theH2IOSC Training
Environment
<https://h2iosc-training-platform.ilc4clarin.ilc.cnr.it/registration>.
Once logged in with your credentials, choose the course âLanguage and
Accent Discrimination - Online Seminar Seriesâ and activate it with the
code PbK837GtE. Make sure to have the Teams platform installed.
The registrations of the previous CIRCE Seminars are also available on
the H2IOSC Training Environment
<https://h2iosc-training-platform.ilc4clarin.ilc.cnr.it/>. For any
inquiry, write to [email protected] <mailto:
[email protected]>.
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