Center for the Study of Language and Society

04/03/2023

Don’t miss out first lecture of the summer semester. Attend in-person or online.
Text us for more details!

30/11/2022

Don't miss next week's transcription workshop at the CSLS!

📆 7 December - Erez Levon
'Transcribing and Annotating Sociolinguistic Data'
🕑 16.15-17.45
📍 UniS 201, Schanzeneckstrasse 1

29/11/2022

Don't miss next week's CSLS Transcription Workshop.

📆 Wednesday, 7 December
📓 'Transcribing and Annotating Sociolinguistic Data' - Erez Levon
🕒 16.15 - 17.45
📍 UniS 201, Schanzeneckstrasse 1

Event: https://fb.me/e/2NlmBuEYE

24/11/2022

🔜Don't miss out on next week's Guest Lecture by Jennifer Smith, Mary Robinson and Brian Aitken!

📆 Wednesday, 30 November - Prof Dr Jennifer Smith, Dr Mary Robinson, Mr Aitken
📍 Unitobler, Lerchenweg 36, room: F013
🕓 16.15 - 17.45

15/11/2022

🔜Participation in the 'Languages and Lives in Deaf Communities' workshop is still possible in person and over zoom! Check our website for more information and registration: bit.ly/3yW2vuw
📆18 & 19 November
📍 Konservatorium Bern (Kramgasse 36, 3011 Bern)

Although official statistics are not available, the Swiss Federation of the Deaf estimates that more than 20,000 people in Switzerland use a sign language as their primary means of communication. Yet, by international standards, Swiss sign languages are under-studied. In addition, there is a general...

21/10/2022

🔜 We are pleased to invite you to our two days workshop 'Languages and Lives in Deaf Communities'
📆 18 & 19 November
🕑9.30-18.00
📍 Konservatorium Bern (Kramgasse 36, 3011 Bern)
Check our website for more information and registration: https://bit.ly/3yW2vuw

19/10/2022

🔜 Don’t miss Sean Smith (KU Leuven)'s Guest Lecture at the CSLS.

'Pro-nature, anti-litter: Environmental discourses, social media, and the paths to change in Oman'

📆 Tuesday, 1 November, 2022
🕑 16.15 - 17.45
📍 Hauptgebäude, room 206, Universität Bern
🔗 [email protected]

17/10/2022

🔜 Don’t miss next week’s CSLS Guest Lecture by Anna Islentyeva (University of Innsbruck)

'Migration in the British Press: Combing Corpus Linguistics and Critical Discours Studies'

📆 Wednesday, October 26, 2022
🕑 16.15 - 17.45
📍 Unitobler, Room F013
🔗 [email protected]

26/09/2022

🔜 We are back! Don’t miss next week’s CSLS Workshop
Prof. Dr. Erez Levon (Universität Bern)
'Research Ethics: Conducting sociolinguistic research in an ethical manner'
📆 5 October
🕑 15.15-16.45
📍 UniS A 024, Schanzeneckstrasse 1
🔗 [email protected]

08/06/2022

🔜 Don’t miss next week’s Lectures during the CSLS Summer School 2022

14 June | Emma Moore (University of Sheffield)
'The Social Meaning of Language: Integrating approaches from linguistic anthropology, pragmatics and third wave variationism’

15 June | Christina Higgins (University of Hawai’i)
'Researching language attitudes with discourse tools: Appraisals, stances, and dispositions’

16 June | Carolin Debray (University of Basel)
'Co-constructing positive relations in interactions: Insights from interpersonal pragmatics’

🕑 09.15-10.15
📍 Hauptgebäude 028
🔗 [email protected]

More information: https://bit.ly/3NVKnG4

02/05/2022

🔜 Don’t miss this week’s CSLS Guest Lecture
Jean-Pierre Chevrot (Université Grenoble Alpes)
'Integrating the cognitive and the social, the individual and the collective dimensions in a unified framework: How does sociolinguistics contribute?’
📆 04 May
🕑 16.15-17.45
📍 Unitobler F023, Lerchenweg 36
🔗 [email protected]

The structural (sounds, words and rules), cognitive (mental and neural processes) and social (network, groups and identities) aspects of language have been studied by historically distinct fields. If some interdisciplinary trends of Language sciences bring together two of these aspects, we still lac...