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Xul

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Despedida Alberto Pérez

O FIFA despide a Alberto Pérez

Tras preto de dúas décadas no posto da secretaría do Departamento, o Departamento de Filoloxía Inglesa, Francesa e Alemá despide con honores a Alberto Pérez Pereira nun xantar entre colegas. Alberto, moita sorte no teu novo posto! Enlace ao álbum fotográfico na intranet do Departamento (require autenticación na zona privada, só para membros do FIFA: http://fifa.uvigo.es/gl/system/files/intranet/alberto_fifa.pdf)

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Dec

16
Jose Carregal - viva

Redefinitions of the Irish Family in Colm Tóibín's Fiction

On 16 Dec 2016 José Carregal Romero defended his doctoral dissertation "Contemporary Redefinitions of the Irish Family in Colm Tóibín's Fiction" at the Faculty of Philology and Translation in Vigo. The dissertation was supervised by Dr María Teresa Caneda Cabrera, and the jury included Prof Anne C Fogarty (UCD Dublin), Dr Marisol Molares Ladrón (Alcalá) and Dr Martín Urdiales Shaw (Vigo). Congratulations, Jose!

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Nov

16

The Sociolinguistics of Gibraltar in the 21st Century

On 16 November 2016 we hosted the Seminar The Sociolinguistics of Gibraltar in the 21st Century. The program comprised three talks, the first by Cristina Suárez-Gómez (University of the Balearic Islands) with the title “Gibraltarian English and its status within ‘World Englishes’”, which dealt with the recent history of Gibraltar and the linguistic status of Gibraltarian English according to model of analyses of World Englishes, essentially Schneider’s (2007) Dynamic Model and the analyses of data by D. Levey and D.

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Nov

16
Pascual Perez-Paredes

Multidimensional approaches to L1 and L2 speech productions

On 14 Nov 2016, Dr Pascual Pérez-Paredes (University of Cambridge) delivered the talk “Native and non-native speaker approaches to story reconstruction in spoken English. A multidimensional analysis” at the Faculty of Philology and Translation in Vigo. In this talk, Dr Pérez-Paredes described Douglas Biber’s ‘Mutidimensional Analysis’ and summarised his recent findings on oral texts produced by native and non-native speakers of English.

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Set

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SELIM28

Expertos de sete países converten Vigo nun foro internacional sobre literatura e lingua inglesa medieval

(http://duvi.uvigo.es/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11758&Itemid=2)

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Mai

16

Canadian Poet Erín Moure awarded Honorary Doctorate Degree

Renowned Canadian poet and translator Erín Moure has been distinguised as "Doutora Honoris Causa" by the University of Vigo. The formal ceremony will take place on June 22, 2016 at noon. This distinction is awarded in recognition for her outstanding multilingual poetic production; her dedicated and fruitful efforts to transcultural understanding in her role as translator; her activist support in defense of linguistic, ethnic and sexual minorities; and for her contribution to the international appreciation of Galician cultural heritage. 

02

Mai

16
Alazne Landa

Alazne Landa, on society and grammars

On 2 May, Alazne Landa (UPV/EHU) gave a talk at the Faculty of Philology and Translation entitled “Society and the 'other' grammars".The labels of superiority or inferiority that are typically associated with certain language varieties are the result of social judgment, not the outcome of linguistic or scientific research.

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Abr

16
Ariela Freedman PHOTO

Charlotte Salomon, Graphic Artist: A Feminist Lineage for Jewish Women’s Comics

On March 16, Professor Ariela Freedman  (Concordia University, Montréal) delivered a talk on Charlotte Salomon, a young Jewish artist from Berlin who fled Germany after Kristallnacht, and hid in the South of France.  view here  From 1940 to 1942, Salomon created over thirteen hundred small gouaches and

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Abr

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Ástráður Eysteinsson PHOTO

The Task of the Translator: Kafka In Icelandic

On 29 April, Ástráður Eysteinsson, Professor of Comparative Literature and Literary Translator (University of Iceland / Háskóli Íslands) gave a talk entitled "The Task of the Translator: Kafka In Icelandic", based on his own experience as a (co-) translator of a large part of Franz Kafka's work into Icelandic.