Current issues in sociolinguistics / Aktuální otázky sociolingvistiky

Coordinator: Jiří Nekvapil and Tamah Sherman

Meetings: Sociolingvistický seminář se koná vždy ve středu v 14,10 v místnosti 419a na hlavní budově FFUK.

The sociolinguistics seminar is held every Wednesday at 2:10 p.m. in Room 419a of the main building of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University.

More information: Každý seminář je autonomní jednotkou, nepředpokládá znalost předchozích seminářů, jazyk semináře je obsažen v názvu vystoupení, obvykle angličtina nebo čeština.

Each seminar is a standalone unit; it does not require prior knowledge of previous seminars. The language of the seminar is indicated in the title of the presentation—usually English or Czech.

Program Winter Semester 2026/27

DatePresenterTopic / Lecture
2026-10-07Tamah Sherman and Jiří NekvapilIntroductory meeting for the new students / Seznamovací hodina pro nové studenty 
2026-10-14Kai Zhu (ÚL FFUK)„Mapping the Linguistic Landscapes of Chinese Restaurants in Prague: Spatial Differentiation, Semiotic Change, and the Social Reproduction of Migration Networks“
2026-10-21Marián Sloboda (ÚESEBS  FFUK)„Practicing linguistics with martial arts: an ethnomethodological sketch of hybrid practice“
2026-10-28 NO MEETING National holiday
2026-11-04Alena Mikolášková (ÚGS FFUK)„Language Co-officialization in Brazil: Insights from a research stay at IPOL and fieldwork in Antônio Carlos (Santa Catarina, Brazil)“
2026-11-11Satone Komoriya (Tohoku University, Japan)„Inclusiveness among local Japanese residents supporting multicultural coexistence: Language Management Theory as a framework for understanding language awareness toward Easy Japanese“
2026-11-18NO MEETINGTýden humanitních věd
2026-11-25Lu Xia (ÚL FFUK)to be announced
2026-12-02to be announcedto be announced
2026-12-09Vojtěch Kocourek (ÚL FF UK)„Selected aspects of dialect acquisition by adult migrants in Switzerland“
2026-12-16Filip Blažek (UMPRUM)„Typofix: Evropský typografický korektor“
2027-01-06to be announcedto be announced