This study is situated in the context of the UK, in which transnational families often engage in multilingual practices with their family members near and far via digital devices or face-to-face interactions. Involving six families from two transnational communities, the Chinese and the Polish, the study focuses on emotionally related language practices. Data sources include recordings of mealtime conversations, daily WhatsApp/WeChat texts, and digital mediated family talk. Using affective repertoire as analytical framework, the study investigates linguistic features and situated language use of home language(s) in emotional negotiations between family members. In addition, it explores how multimodalities and languages are mixed to contribute to the interactional dynamics underlying ‘family talk’ and how children and adults position themselves emotionally in moment-by-moment discourse of family life.

21 and 22 November 2023 | in presence: The Department of Sport and Exercise Science cordially invites you to two guest lectures by Prof. Will G. Hopkins at Schloss Rif. Prof. Hopkins has been a renowned expert in applied statistics for decades and is one of the most cited sport scientists worldwide.

Tobias Scheckel, PhD student at the PLUS Econ Department, had the opportunity to participate in an advanced PhD course given by David Dunson (Duke University) at the renowned Study Center Gerzensee (Switzerland) on Bayesian methods for stochastic network modelling.