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Date: 19 Sep 2014
From: reem bassiouney <reembassiouney at hotmail.com>
Subject: Leiden Conference CFP:Globalizing Sociolinguistics

        18-20 June 2015: Globalizing Sociolinguistics


        From 18 to 20 June 2015 LUCL will host the international conference
Globalizing Sociolinguistics.Challenging the Anglo-Western nature of
Sociolinguistics and expanding theories. Participants are welcome to
challenge mainstream theories, since the conference theme will be
'theoretical mismatches'.


                Theoretical mismatches







                                This conferences addresses mismatches
between mainstream
sociolinguistic models and non-Anglo-Western sociolinguistic settings.
Papers are invited on sociolinguistic issues, from various areas in the
world, which challenge or expand mainstream theories. Both theoretical
and empirical contributions are welcome. Papers will explore
sociolinguistic settings in various areas, focusing on difficulties in
applying common theory in the area in question, or the need to expand
theory. In so doing, the conference hopes to lay bare the nature and the
 mechanisms related to the named bias and arrive at a more comprehensive
 understanding of sociolinguistic issues around the world.



A combined European, American and British dominance is known to exist in
 sociolinguistic theory-making. This results in difficulties in using
several dominant sociolinguistic models outside their ‘western’
geographical domain. Most researchers working outside this domain are
keenly aware of this, and hence objections to this dominance are
regularly vented by them. However, despite the fact that
non-Anglo-Western language settings are described extensively in a
multitude of publications, these settings somehow seem to contribute
less to mainstream theory, and are implicitly regarded as deviant.






                Routledge volume 'Globalizing Sociolinguistics'



                                                This conference will also
celebrate the publication of the
Routledge volume ‘Globalizing Sociolinguistics’, which is to appear
early 2015. This volume contains 19 chapters – written by 27 authors,
from all continents – describing the sociolinguistic situations in
various regions and speech communities in the world. Each chapter
describes a number of mismatches between mainstream sociolinguistic
theory and the situation in the specific region/community. A number of
authors will be present at the conference.



The organisers aim to publish a number of original conference papers in
an international peer reviewed journal, so as to continue the work
achieved in the Routledge volume.


                Programme



                                                More information on the
programme will appear on this website soon.


Confirmed plenary speakers:




 - Florian Coulmas, Director of the German
Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo. Associate Editor of the
International Journal of the Sociology of Language; Author of
Sociolinguistics. The Study of Speakers’ Choices (2005).



- Maarten Mous, Professor of African Linguistics and
Head of the Department of African Languages and Cultures, Leiden
University. Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
 (KNAW). His research interests include Language & Identity and
Cushitic and Bantu languages. Author of The making of a mixed language: The
case of Ma’á/Mbugu (2003).



- Daming Xu, Professor of Chinese Linguistics at the University of Macau;
Co-editor of Industrialization and the Re-structuring of Speech Communities
in China and Europe (2010).



- Reem Bassiouney, Associate Professor of Linguistics at the American
University of Cairo; Author of Functions of Code-Switching in Egypt (2006),
Arabic Sociolinguistics (2008), and Arabic and the Media
 (2010). Her work focusses on Arabic sociolinguistics, including
code-switching, language and gender, leveling, register, language
policy, and discourse analysis. She is also an award winning novelist;
Author of The Pistachio Seller (2009).


                Organising committee



                                                Dick Smakman (Leiden
University)


Patrick Heinrich (Ca'Foscari University Venice)


                Scientific Committee



                                                Patrich Heinrich
(Ca'Foscari University Venice)


Maarten Mous (Leiden University)


Joachim Scharloth (Dresden University)


Dick Smakman (Leiden University)


Yuko Sugita (Potsdam University)


                Contact



                                                For more information on the
conference and in order to contact the conference organisers, please send
an email to: glosoc2015 at hum.leidenuniv.nl.


                Call for papers



                                                Papers are invited on the
topic of “Mismatches between
mainstream and non-mainstream (non-western) sociolinguistics”. Three
main paper types are welcome:



1. Papers taking a certain community or region as a point of departure
and directly addressing mismatches regarding theories on issues such as
the following:


     - Politeness


     - Social networks


     - Gender


     - Social class


     - Languages standardization


     - Policy


     - Power


     - Code-switching



2. Data-driven papers illustrating mismatches between mainstream models and
lesser known sociolinguistic settings.



3. Papers taking the general issue of mismatches as its point of departure
and discussing future actions.



Presentations are 45 minutes, including 15 minutes for discussion.



Abstract submission by: 15 December 2014.

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