Transnational Families as Public Spaces:
Multilingualism, Ideologies and Identity Online

Co-sponsored by the Run Run Shaw Lecture Series, Department of Asian and Asian American Studies (AAAS),
and the Center for Multilingual and Intercultural Communication (MIC)
Date: Thursday, April 11th, 2019, 4:00 PM
Location: Wang Center, Lecture Hall 2

Watch: Transnational Families as Public Spaces

Lecture Abstract

In this presentation, Lanza will discuss the transnational family as a space for language and how this space
has become public. She will focus on media discourses on transnational families, online parental blogging
sites for multilingual families and the growing need to examine the role of technology.

About the Speaker: Elizabeth Lanza

Elizabeth Lanza is Professor of Linguistics at the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, and Director of the Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan/MultiLing, University of Oslo, Norway. Lanza has published on language topics including ideology, linguistic landscape, policy, identity in migrant narratives, the language socialization of bilingual/multilingual children and research methodology.