Dr Wini Davies will be the main speaker at this year's Welsh-medium Modern Languages Conference in Gregynog on June 20/21, 2013. She will speak (in Welsh) on 'Standard German in the classroom - the teachers' dilemma'.

On November 29, 2013 at 6 pm Dr Wini Davies will give a talk (in German) at the Gesellschaft fuer deutsche Sprache in London on "Die Rolle von Mythen bei der Produktion  sprachlicher Normen".>>more information

Dr Wini Davies was invited (with Dr Nils Langer, Bristol) to give a lecture at the annual conference of the Institut fuer Deutsche Sprache in Mannheim, one of the main research institutes in the German-speaking world. The topic of the lecture was:

Normbewusstsein im Spannungsfeld zwischen Sprachwirklichkeit, Perzeption und Idealnorm oder: Das Dilemma der Lehrer.

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Dr Wini Davies was an invited speaker at the workshop on Foundations for the Methodology of Research into Standard Varieties held at the Charles University Prague on November 29 - December 1. She spoke on 'Was ist der Gegenstand der Standardvarietaetenforschung? Versuch einer kritischen Annaeherung'. For more information see: http://german.ff.cuni.cz