ICOMP – International Conference on Multilingual Practice
ICOMP will take place between 24-26th February 2020. The conference is organised by Uniwersytet Szczeciński and affiliated with AILA Research Network „Social and Affective Factors in Home Language Maintenance & Development”.
The conference is one of the measures taken in order to establish a research focus at the University of Szczecin on multilingualism in general, and multilingualism accompanied by transcultural processes in border areas in particular. This includes issues in linguistic and cultural diversification within families, which develops specific traits in transitional regions distinguished by high levels of cross-border mobility.
We will be talking about:
• the multilingual and multicultural individual,
• multilingual and multicultural family,
• multilingual and multicultural practices in institutions, organisations, workplaces, and the media,
• linguistic landscape studies,
• education in foreign/second language,
• bilingual education,
• heritage language education,
• language attitudes,
• language policies by agencies on all levels of social structure,
• impact of L2 on L1,
• brain imaging studies on neural correlates of multilingualism.