[Edling] AILA 2020 Symposium 153: Representation of Multimodal and Multilingual Data in Linguistic Ethnography

[Ingrid Rodrick Beiler]

Call for Papers: AILA 2020 Symposium 153 - Representation of Multimodal and Multilingual Data in Linguistic Ethnography



AILA 2020, 9-14 August 2020, Groningen, The Netherlands



Organizers: Joke Dewilde (joke.dewilde at ils.uio.no<mailto:joke.dewilde at ils.uio.no>) and Ingrid Rodrick Beiler (i.r.beiler at ils.uio.no<mailto:i.r.beiler at ils.uio.no>), University of Oslo, on behalf of the Linguistic Ethnography Forum



Featured speaker: Jeff Bezemer, UCL Institute of Education



Keywords: transcription, representation, linguistic ethnography, multilingual and multimodal data


Summary:

Linguistic ethnographers increasingly gather complex multilingual and multimodal data, which are both reduced and translated through transcription or other forms of representation for analysis. We invite contributions related to methodological, theoretical, or ethical aspects of representing multilingual or multimodal data in linguistic ethnographic or other contextually sensitive applied linguistics research.



Full description:

In line with multilingual (Conteh & Meier, 2014; May, 2014) and spatial turns (Canagarajah, 2018; Li Wei, 2018) in applied linguistics, linguistic ethnographers increasingly gather complex multilingual and multimodal data sets. During transcription or other representation of data for analysis, the analyst necessarily reduces these complex data to a set of salient features and often translates one type of data (e.g. audio or video recordings) to a more static and manageable form (e.g. text), which in turn shapes the resulting analysis (Ayass, 2015; Bezemer & Mavers, 2011; Duranti, 2006). These processes of reduction and translation pose a host of methodological, theoretical, and ethical issues related, for instance, to making selections in large and rich data sets, representing and marking spoken language in relation to written standards, and balancing participants' wishes for confidentiality with the imperative to share data with collaborators and audiences. The Linguistic Ethnography Forum invites contributions that address any of these aspects of the process of representing multilingual or multimodal data in linguistic ethnographic or other contextually sensitive applied linguistics research. In particular, we invite contributions related to the processes of transcription and representation of recorded data, including but not limited to audio, video, and screen recordings.



Strands:

  1.  Transcribing and representing multimodal data: methodological, theoretical, and ethical aspects
  2.  Transcribing and representing multilingual data: methodological, theoretical, and ethical aspects

Note: The strands are not meant to be mutually exclusive. A contribution may address both.



Instructions for submission:

Please submit an abstract of maximum 300 words, with a maximum 50-word summary, directly to the AILA 2020 website by September 16, 2019 (Code S153): https://www.aila2020.nl/call-for-papers. We will accept contributions both for standard multimodal presentations (15-20 minutes) and focused multimodal presentations (2-5 minutes). Details of each presentation format are available at the AILA webpage for abstract submissions. If applicable, please indicate which strand your abstract addresses.

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