The impact of Englishes on European mediascapes / Part I
Organisers Erling, Elizabeth J. / Leppänen, Sirpa
Free U of Berlin · Germany · The Open U · UK, U of Jyväskylä, Finland
The media plays a central role in how English spreads and penetrates into everyday life in European societies, and, therefore, a throrough analysis of the use of Englilsh there gives insight into the changing role of English as part of European multilingualism.
Contributors to Symposium:
Berns, Margie · Contact with English media and formation of identities among young Europeans (Purdue University · USA)
Nikula, Tarja · Finnish teenagers navigating in English-speaking mediascapes (The Academy of Finland / U of Jyväskylä · Finland)
Luedtke, Solveig · The use of English in German Hip Hop (U of Hanover · Germany)
Pulaczewska, Hanna · Attitudes to the use of Anglicisms in the internal communications of HipHop communities: Germany and Poland (Regensburg U · Germany)
Laversuch, I. M. · Multilingualism on modern German radio (U of Cologne · Germany)
Hilmarsson-Dunn, Amanda · Policies versus practices: The use of English in the media in Iceland and Denmark (U of Southampton · UK)