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<div>I'd be very interested. I'm doing work on the legal enforcement of English-only rules by US employers, looking at how courts misunderstand the cognitive and sociolinguistic nature of bilingualism in these rulings. Here's a brief abstract:</div>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: black"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">This paper considers the role of linguistic ideology in driving legal doctrine in American employment discrimination law by examining the
rules adopted by some American employers requiring that employees speak exclusively in English on the job. Multi-lingual employees fired for violating such employment policies have attempted to argue these so-called “English only” policies violate American
laws prohibiting discrimination against workers based on their national origin. They have, however, found a chilly reception in US courts for their claims. In part, this is due to the ideology of language incorporated into the fabric of law, including the
belief by lawyers and judges that languages are transparent media for representing reality. Judges presume therefore that, since all languages are commensurate with one another as means of communication, it cannot be a disadvantage to a fully bi-lingual employee
to be made to select one language over another while on the job. Multi-lingual employees, by that reasoning, are not disadvantaged by being required to speak English alone. I argue that the law in this area fails to account for the linguistic research on
bilingual communication. By ignoring the cognitive aspects of bi-lingual code-switching, the law falsely assumes that employees are making deliberate and unnecessary choices about their manner of expressing themselves when they code-mix and code-switch on
the job. By ignoring the social and cultural context of language use by multi-lingual speakers, these courts fail to understand the degree to which code-switching by bilinguals serves as a rich resource for encoding identity and meaning. In this way, American
law’s ideologically based failure to recognize the indexical aspects of language choice contributes to the continuing linguistic and legal subordination of non-native English speakers.</font></font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: black"><font size="3"><font face="times new roman">Let me know if you think this paper would fit your panel. I plan to be in the UK at the IAFL conference anyway and could incorporate the
IPrA conference as well before returning to the US.</font></font></span></p>
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<font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> International Gender and Language Association [GALA-L@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Candy Goodwin [mgoodwin@ANTHRO.UCLA.EDU]<br>
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<div>Valentina, congratulations on your appointment! candy<br>
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<div>On Aug 20, 2010, at 10:17 AM, Valentina wrote:</div>
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Sorry for eventual cross-postings. Sabina Perrino and I are organizing a panel <br>
for the IPrA conference (July 2011) and we have space for a few additional <br>
panelists. Work that touches on gender and sexuality as well as citizenship is <br>
welcome.If you are interested, please let me know ASAP.<br>
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Call for Papers<br>
Making Citizens: Discursive Practices at the Boundary of Nationhood<br>
IPrA Conference, 3-8 July 2011, Manchester UK<br>
Organizers: Valentina Pagliai (American University) & Sabina Perrino (University <br>
of Michigan at Ann Arbor) <br>
The formation of new international bodies, such as the European Union, as well <br>
as growing transnational flows, have imposed the pressuring question on the fate <br>
of citizenship in the age of globalization. In particular, scholars have <br>
pointed out that citizenship, while usually associated with rights and duties, <br>
is very much connected to civic and social participation. However, this type of <br>
participation is as much connected to actual citizenship (having an ID or <br>
passport, for example, being able to demonstrate legal belonging or residency – <br>
as in the case of immigrants) as it is to class and race. Images of who is a <br>
citizen or not may be completely separate from the ability to produce a passport <br>
or an ID – and participation and social inclusion similarly pass through class <br>
and racial lines. Cultural and social capital can also influence the ability of <br>
the person to participate to “citizenship”: – for example, in Italy US citizens <br>
are not considered “extracomunitari” (a word that is also racialized, meaning <br>
‘coming from outside the European Union,’ but applied only to certain categories <br>
of immigrants). New models of citizenship are thus emerging that may reproduce <br>
or distinguish themselves from a classic model of citizenship as simple <br>
belonging to a nation state - either by jus solis or jus sanguinis - and as <br>
connected to particular rights that may be additional or different from human <br>
rights accorded to both citizens and non-citizens alike. <br>
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In this panel, we start from a consideration of everyday and institutional <br>
discursive practices as a fundamental site for the study of citizenship. Using a <br>
linguistic anthropological and pragmatic perspective, we argue that a careful <br>
attention to these discursive practices can help better understand nationhood in <br>
terms of belonging, the racialization of the Self, the gendering of citizenship, <br>
and so forth. <br>
We welcome contributions exploring everyday and institutional discursive <br>
practices about citizenship produced by different social actors: ordinary <br>
people, political representatives, immigrants, immigration officers, etc. The <br>
papers may consider, for example:<br>
- How the citizen is imagined in micro-narratives, as well as in longer <br>
narratives that may be produced in everyday encounters, in focus groups, or in <br>
interview settings. How is citizenship talked about? How is it imagined in <br>
everyday encounters?<br>
- The way citizenship is presented in everyday discursive practices <br>
produced in educational settings, such as schools, ESL programs, citizenship <br>
classes, and so forth. In the educational institutions ideas about citizenship <br>
may be reflected in the creation of language curricula, for example for the <br>
teaching of a second language.<br>
- The discursive practices that connect citizenship to the use of <br>
particular languages or varieties, either produced at the everyday level or <br>
proposed by the mass media or political parties (one only has to think of the <br>
recent laws passed in Arizona regarding teaching with a “foreign” accent).<br>
- The narratives that reflect political ideologies about citizenship, <br>
produced by mass-media or political parties, and their connection to linguistic <br>
ideologies.<br>
- The macro-level discursive practices produced by institutions, including <br>
legal views of citizenship and belonging.<br>
- Discursive practices that connect citizenship to identity and senses of <br>
belonging and place.<br>
In all these contexts, everyday discursive practices are an important site in <br>
which citizenship is proposed in conversations and in other forms of language <br>
use. The papers proposed can look at both spoken and written language, and <br>
should have a focus on language use. Contributions that examine the intersection <br>
of citizenship, race and gender, or racial, class and gender identities are <br>
particularly welcome.<br>
Best,<br>
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<br>
Valentina Pagliai<br>
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Department of Anthropology<br>
American University<br>
Washington, DC 20016<br>
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Phone# (908) 668-4840 (h)<br>
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There Is No Place Like Everywhere<br>
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