- Sponsor
- Kachru Foundation, Department of Linguistics, Center for the Study of Global Gender Equity, School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education, Center for East Asian & Pacific Studies, European Union Center, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center, and Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
- Speaker
- Jamie Shinhee Lee (University of Michigan-Dearborn)
- Contact
- Saman Jamshidi
- samanj2@illinois-edu
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- Originating Calendar
- SLCL Event Calendar
The 7th Annual Sociolinguistics Symposium (SOSY) at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign is the central annual research event organized by graduate students in Linguistics, offering a key forum for scholarly exchange across language related fields. This year’s theme, Between Languages, Between Worlds: Language, Culture, and Global Communication, foregrounds the role of language in shaping cultural connection, social positioning, and senses of belonging in an increasingly interconnected world. The symposium will showcase work that examines how individuals and communities navigate linguistic boundaries across social, cultural, and geopolitical contexts, highlighting language as both a resource and a site of negotiation in global communication.
Our plenary speaker will be Jamie Shinhee Lee (University of Michigan-Dearborn), who will give a talk titled, "World Englishes in mediated and performative spaces: Korean pop culture as a site of linguistic innovation."