CIOL conference 2022

I received so many nice comments and praising because of my talk at CIOL conference 2022.

I am really glad that it went well. It connected me with many people all around – especially Greece In the middle of my talk I was interrupted by one lady from Greece who told us a positive story … but I was so nervous and I couldn’t follow the details.

We didn’t talk about politics.

My domain is sociolinguistic and how language shapes our perception of reality and thought (not in Sapir–Whorf way) and I am glad that among linguists we can all understand that perfectly!

Language and Identity

This talk is about how identity is constructed and expressed by language. How foreign languages can give some emotional distance and whether bilingual people can carry two identities and not just two languages. What happens if suddenly your name is changed or even the name of your country changes, does that influence your identity as well? We derive parts of our identities from words that are being thrown around us. They mean particular things to us or our national identities, but those same words might mean something slightly different to other people and other nationalities. The way we understand them makes us who we are.

https://www.ciol.org.uk/ciol-conference-2022-sessions