The Second Annual Language and Society Centre Roundtable:

Intercultural and Plurilingual Communication: From

the Streets to the Internet

Day One: Thursday 18th February 2010

9.30am Acknowledgement of the traditional owners of the land

Welcome from LASC Director Farzad Sharifian (Monash University)
Welcome from Head of School, School of Languages, Cultures and
Linguistics, Faculty of Arts Associate Professor Marko Pavlyshyn

9.45am Keynote Address:

Whither inter-cultural communication in Australia?
Michael Clyne (Monash University/University of Melbourne)

10.30am Acquiring Intercultural Academic Writing Skills: A European Perspective

Claudia Maria Riehl (University of Cologne, Germany)

11am Morning Tea

11.30am Cultural schemas in intercultural communication: A study of Persian

cultural schema of sharmandegi
Farzad Sharifian (Monash University)
Maryam Jamarani (Monash University)

12pm Mitigating Advice: A Study of Iranian L2 Learners of English and

Australian English Speakers
Mahshad Davoodifard (Monash University)

12.30pm Where Deaf studies meets language maintenance: Exploring intercultural

communication issues for deaf people from migrant backgrounds
Louisa Willoughby (Monash University)

1pm LUNCH

2pm Use of Croatian across domains: language maintenance and shift amongst
Croatian-speakers in Australia
Jim Hlavac (Monash University)

2.30pm The Linguistic and Social Interactions of EFL Students in the Computer-
Mediated Communication Environment
Ali Alamir (Monash University)

3.00pm End of day one

 Day Two: Friday 19th February 2010

9.30am L2 literacy practices and computer technology: focusing on Japanese

learners’ reading/writing activities outside the classroom
Miho Inaba (Monash University)

10am Technologically-mediated intercultural communication: balancing multiple

dimensions
Ekaterina Tour (Monash University)

10.30am Speaking of Lying: Blogs vs. Other Genres of Writing.

Anna Mostovaia (Monash University)

11am Morning Tea

11.30am Codeswitching, English and the Indonesian multilingual

Howard Manns (Monash University)

12pm Electronic Communication and the Reclamation of Kaurna Language

Jasmin Morley (Monash University)

12.30pm Linguistic identities and multiple hybridity of bilingual bloggers

Emma-Jean Stewart (UNE)

1pm LUNCH

2pm Grammar Change from Manuscript to Internet

Kate Burridge (Monash University)

2.30pm Open Discussion:

Future Directions in the study of intercultural and plurilingual communication at
the Language and Society Centre

3pm Drinks to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Language and Society Centre