Conference Presentations (2018)

Belmar, Guillem. November 2018. Computer-Mediated Communication: Digital presence and the emergence of virtual communities as ‘breathing spaces’ for minority languages. Small language, large issue. University of Warsaw.

Belmar, Guillem & Sara Pinho. November 2018. Intelligibility of West Frisian for Dutch native speakers. Twatalige konversaasjes: Receptive multilingualism to boost the use of Frisian in Fryslân. Big cities, small languages. Leibniz-Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), in Berlin.

Belmar, Guillem. July 2018. New technologies are not the enemy: the opportunities Social Media offer minority languages, from the perspective of the #europeminoritylanguages project. 3rd Poznan Conference of Celtic Studies. Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, in Poznan.

Belmar, Guillem. June 2018. Social Media platforms and minority languages: opportunities and challenges from the perspective of the #europeminoritylanguages project. 8th Cambridge Conference on Language Endangerment: Language Revitalisation and Language Shift. University of Cambridge.

Belmar, Guillem. June 2018. Adults learning a minority language. It Frysk is ek myn taal, new speakers of West Frisian. CELC (Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures) Postgraduate Workshop. University of Cambridge.

Belmar, Guillem, Nienke Eikens, Daniël de Jong, Willemijn Miedema & Sara Pinho. May 2018. The paradoxes of being a new speaker of Frisian: understanding motivation, authority and legitimacy in Fryslân. 3rd Edition of Contested Languages in the Old World. Universiteit van Amsterdam.

Belmar, Guillem. April 2018. Minority languages on Social Media: multilingual practices and digital presence. First Conference on Frisian Humanities: Multilingualism. Mercator Research Center and Fryske Akademy, in Ljouwert.

Belmar, Guillem, Nienke Eikens, Daniël de Jong, Willemijn Miedema & Sara Pinho. April 2018. Nativeness and identity: motivation and attitudes of ‘nije sprekkers fan it Frysk’. First Conference on Frisian Humanities: Multilingualism. Mercator Research Center and Fryske Akademy, in Ljouwert.