Lithuanian and Scandinavian panel
Wednesday, 28 September 2016, J. Balkevičius room 16.00-18.45
4th International Conference of Applied Linguistics
LANGUAGES AND PEOPLE: DIVERSITY AND HARMONY
Vilnius University
16.00–16.10
Introduction to the panel (Loreta Vaicekauskienė)
16.10–16.30
Jacob Thøgersen (University of Copenhagen)
Media evidence of sociolinguistic change. How media language changes and how symbolic meaning changes with it
16.30–16.50
Loreta Vaicekauskienė (Vilnius University and Institute of the Lithuanian Language)
On the way out of the ideological captivity: ‘good language’ according to Lithuanian broadcast journalists
16.50–17.10
Jenny Stenberg-Sirén (University of Helsinki)
Model or mirror: journalists' conflicting opinions about the role of broadcast news language
17.10–17.30
Laima Nevinskaitė (Institute of the Lithuanian Language)
Conversationalization on TV and radio during the last 5 decades: overlaps and interruptions
17.35–17.55
Ramunė Čičirkaitė (Institute of the Lithuanian Language)
From formal to informal: has the changing role of TV and radio changed the ‘best’ pronunciation in the Lithuanian broadcast media?
17.55–18.15
Giedrius Tamaševičius (Vilnius University and Institute of the Lithuanian Language)
Why they do not follow the prescriptions? On the use of non-standard and informal vocabulary in broadcast media
18.15–18.45
Discussion (Jacob Thøgersen)