02 May 2011

Symposium on bilingualism

ISB8 - International Symposium of Bilingualism, Oslo 2011
Velkommen til ISB8 2011!
Denne viktige internasjonale konferansen for tospråklighet blir i år arrangert av Institutt for lingvistiske og nordiske studier ved Universitetet i Oslo fra 15. til 18. juni.
Konferansen inngår som en del av feiringen for 200-årsjubiléet for Universitetet i Oslo.

ISB8 will be hosted by the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Oslo from June 15 to June 18, 2011.
The University of Oslo celebrates its 200th anniversary in the same year and ISB8 is part of the program for a celebration that will last throughout the entire year.


Six papers will cover the following topics:
-Synesthesia in Translingual Texts
-The Case of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
-Language and National Identity in Beckett’s Comment c’est/How It is and Nabokov’s Pale Fire
-Translingual Israeli Arab Writers
-Acquiring a Second Language Literature: a Case Study in Translingualism
-Visual Applications of English-Chinese Code-mixing in Ezra Pound’s The Cantos and Xu Bing’s Square Word Calligraphy