Gibraltarian participants at Vigo
Welcoming the delegates
At the Conference venue
Launching Gibraltarians and their Language
Rafael Velez Nuñez delivering presentation on M. G. Sanchez's Marlboro Man
Isabel Alonso Breto talking about M. G. Sanchez's Bombay Journal
Galician Evening Meal
The international conference “Gibraltar English: Linguistic, Literary and Cultural Perspectives” took place on 8-9 July 2024 at Edificio Redeiras in Vigo.
The programme was as follows:
8 July
8:30 – 9:15 | Registration
9:15 – 9:30 | Opening
9:30 – 10:00 | Dominic Lopez (Government Archaeologist, Ministry for Heritage)
“Gibraltar: Colonialism and Spanish Immigration”
10:00 – 10:30 | Sophie Macdonald (University College London)
“Gibraltar at the untidy edges of decolonisation: Gibraltar’s cultural hybridity, language and placement on the UN’s list of Non-Self Governing Territories”
10:30 – 11:00 | Francisco Javier Fonseca Rengel (Universidad de Cádiz)
“An introductory study of Gibraltar’s linguistic and semiotic landscape: a politico-linguistic and ethnographic approach”
11:00 – 11:30 | Trino Cruz Seruya (Gibraltarian writer)
“Crossroad and Threshold: Writing in the Strait of Gibraltar, a personal account”
11:30 – 12:00 | Coffee break
12:00 – 13:15 | Plenary: MG Sanchez (Gibraltarian writer)
“From Rock Black to Marlboro Man: Twenty-five years writing about Gibraltar”
13:15 – 14:45 | Lunch
14:45 – 15:15 | Rafael Vélez Núñez (Universidad de Cádiz)
“Rewriting Nostos in M. G. Sanchez’s Marlboro Man”
15:15 – 15:45 | Giordano Durante (Gibraltarian poet and translator)
“Like a second heart – nostalgia and language loss in contemporary Gibraltarian Literature”
15:45 – 16:15 | Isabel Alonso Breto (Universitat de Barcelona)
“Reading M.G. Sanchez’s Bombay Journal: A Journal”
16:15 – 16:45 | Coffee break
16:45 – 17:15 | Dale Buttigieg (Gibraltarians For a Multilingual Society)
“The past, present and future of Ligurian and Haketía in Llanito”
17:15 – 17:45 | John Manuel Enriles (President of Gibraltarians For a Multilingual Society)
“The role of Llanito in preserving Gibraltar’s multilingual culture”
17:45 – 19:00 | Plenary: Laura Wright (University of Cambridge)
“An outline of present-day Llanito”
19:15 | Welcome Reception at Pazo Quiñones de León
(Offered by Concello de Vigo – Vigo City Council, free of charge)
9 July
9:30 – 10:00 | Marta Rodríguez-García (Universität Basel and Universität Bern)
“Yanito from a code-switching and code-mixing perspective: an analysis of the speech of young adults in Gibraltar”
10:00 – 10:30 | Raquel Fernández Fuertes, Tamara Gómez Carrero, Esther Álvarez de la Fuente, and Sonja Mujcinovic (Universidad de Valladolid, Language Acquisition Lab)
“Codeswitching preferences in Gibraltar: when dominance and age are involved”
10:30 – 11:00 | Marta Rodríguez-García (Universität Basel and Universität Bern) & Eugenio Goria (Università di Torino)
“Community norms and pragmatic motivations for bilingual discourse markers in Gibraltar’s English-Spanish mixed code: a comparison with the Miami corpus”
11:00 – 11:15 | Verónica Silva-Folgar (Universidade de Vigo)
“Backflagging in Street Talk: A study of Spanish functional markers in Gibraltar English”
11:15 – 11:30 | Jan-André Diederich (TU Dortmund)
“‘Intimate’ language use in comparison to the language(s) of ‘status’ on the Rock: A view from Haugen’s model of linguistic ecologies”
11:30 – 12:00 | Coffee break
12:00 – 13:15 | Plenary: Carmen Parafita-Couto (Universiteit Leiden and Universidade de Vigo)
“Journeying through Spanish-English codeswitching dynamics: from USA to Belize and Gibraltar”
13:15 – 14:45 | Lunch
14:45 – 15:15 | Manfred Krug and Fabian Vetter (Universität Bamberg)
“Spoken and written English (grammar) in contrast: Gibraltar, England, Scotland, and the US”
15:15 – 15:45 | Ángel L. Jiménez-Fernández, Mª Carmen Parafita Couto & Melvin González Rivera
“Topic preposing in Puerto Rican Spanish-English codeswitching and its extension to Gibraltar”
15:45 – 16:15 | Tasnim Rahman (Università di Trento)
“Banglish: Code-switching Between Bangla and English”
16:15 – 16:30 | Break
16:30 – 17:00 | Lucía Loureiro-Porto (Universitat de les Illes Balears)
“Gibraltar English on the international linguistic map: Challenges in the compilation of ICE-GBR”
17:00 – 18:00 | Various speakers on Gibraltar English
18:00 – 18:15 | Closing & Book Launch
Launching of Gibraltarians and their languages – 22 linguistic biographies
21:00 | Conference dinner