[lg policy] calls: Borders and Identities Conference 2010

[Harold Schiffman]

Borders and Identities Conference 2010
Date: 20-Nov-2009
From: Damien Hall <bic2010events.york.ac.uk>


Borders and Identities Conference 2010
Short Title: BIC2010


Date: 08-Jan-2010 - 09-Jan-2010
Location: Newcastle, United Kingdom
Contact: Dominic Watt
Contact Email: < click here to access email >
Meeting URL: http://www.york.ac.uk/res/aiseb/bic2010/

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Sociolinguistics

Meeting Description:

While research on borderlands is well-established in the social
sciences, it is only within recent years that interest in such regions
as sites of particular relevance has taken hold within the fields of
sociolinguistics and the sociology of language. Findings from studies
on the relationships between and interdependence of language, borders
and identities are of great value for many other disciplines within
the social sciences – anthropology, human geography, and political
science, among others. In the same way, the insights from social
scientific research in border areas provide sociolinguists with
challenging new theoretical frameworks within which to situate
empirical evidence revealing the exact nature of the role language
plays in identity-making and –marking in sites where identity is
fluid, complex and emergent in social interaction.


The Borders and Identities Conference (BIC2010) has two aims: 1) to
demonstrate our current state of knowledge in this fast-developing
area of sociolinguistic inquiry, and 2) to provide an
interdisciplinary perspective in order that the results of recent
sociolinguistic studies on the topic can be contextualised in broader
social scientific discourse. Our principal objective in organising the
meeting is to foster new collaborative research initiatives by
bringing together scholars in allied disciplines, with a view to
extending and refining our understanding of the language-identity
nexus in regions where in-group and out- group categorisations may be
problematic, or at least more salient than elsewhere.

Keynote Addresses:

Dave Britain (Essex) 'Where North meets South: Contact, Divergence,
and the Routinisation of the Fenland Dialect Boundary'
Nik Coupland (Cardiff) 'Where does Welsh Begin and End? Ideological Boundary
Disputes in the Revitalisation of a Minority Language'
Danny Dorling (Sheffield) 'If Lions Could Talk: Attempts at Mapping
over the Borders'

Friday January 8th

8:45 - 9:20
Registration

9:20 - 9:30
Welcome

9:30 - 10:30
Keynote address 1:

Nikolas Coupland, “Where does Welsh Begin and End? Ideological
Boundary Disputes in the Revitalisation of a Minority Language”

10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30
Monolingual Communities: the Scottish/English Border:


Gerry Docherty, Damien Hall, Carmen Llamas, Jennifer Nycz and Dominic
Watt, “Accent and identity on the Scottish/English Border”


Karen Corrigan, Isabelle Buchstaller, Anders Holmberg, Patrick
Honeybone, Warren Maguire and April McMahon, “'T-to-R' and the
'Northern Subject Rule': Dialect Convergence and Divergence across the
Anglo-Scottish Border”

Chris Montgomery, “Perceptual Dialectology across the Scottish-English Border”

12:30 - 1:30
Lunch break


1:30 - 3:00
Perceptions and Orientations:


Mark Waltermire, “Variants of Intervocalic /d/ as Markers of
Sociolinguistic Identity among Spanish-Portuguese Bilinguals”


Rowan Hoper and Kevin Watson, “We're 'over the water from them':
Language and Identity on the Wirral Peninsula”


Zvjezdana Vrzic, “Interpretations of the Identity of the
Vlaski/Zejanski Speaking Community in Istria”

3:00 - 3:30
Coffee break

3:30 - 5:00
Luxembourg

Daniel Redinger, “Multilingual Luxembourg: Language and Identity at
the Romance-Germanic Language Border”

Julia de Bres and Anne Franziskus, “Dealing with Language Diversity -
the Language Ideologies and Practices of Cross-border Workers in
Luxembourg”

Gerald Stell and C. Parafita Couto, “Language and Identity between
Romania and Germania: Code-switching Practices and their
Sociolinguistic Correlates in Luxembourg's Lusophone Minority”

5:15 - 6:15
Keynote Address 2:

Danny Dorling, “If Lions Could Talk: Attempts at Mapping over the Borders”

Saturday January 9th

9:00 - 10:30
European Language Policies:

Michel Bert and James Costa, Linguistic Borders, “Language
Revitalisation and the Imagining of New Regional Entities”

Patrick Stevenson and Jenny Carl, “Multilingualism in Mitteleuropa:
Language in the Lives of German-speakers in Central Europe”

Conchúr Ó Giollagáin, Addressing the Geographic Fallacy of the
Gaeltacht's Border: “Implications of the Findings of the Comprehensive
Linguistic Study of the Use of Irish in the Gaeltacht”

10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30
Cross-border Contact:

Marit Bjerkeng and Sonni Olsen, “'Russenorsk Revival'?: the Role of
Language in Border Relations”

Bettina Miggen and Isabelle Léglise, “Language and Identity
Construction on the French Guiana-Suriname Border: Negotiating the
Creoles of Suriname”

Jane Wilkinson, “Theatrical Constructions of Border Identities: Case
Studies from the German-Polish Borderland”

12:30 - 1:30
Lunch break

1:30 - 3:00
Bilingual Communities: the Mexico/US Border:

Neddy A. Vigil and Garland D. Bills, “Spanish Language Variation and
Ethnic Identity in New Mexico”

MaryEllen Garcia, “Language Mixing and Identity in a Mexican American
Community”

Wendy Baker, “Religion on the Border: the Effect of Utah English on
English and Spanish use in the Mexican Mormon Colonies”

3:00 - 3:30
Coffee break

3:30 - 5:00
Narratives of Borders:

Leslie Powner, “Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly's Model of Borders and
Borderland Studies: Sharpening the Focus”

Jodie Clark, “'No, Like Proper North': Re-drawing Boundaries in an
Emergent Community of Practice”

Camelia Suleiman, “What is Palestine? A Discourse Analysis of
Palestinian and Israeli Peace Activists”

5:15 - 6:15
Keynote Address 3:

David Britain, “Where North Meets South?: Contact, Divergence, and the
Routinisation of the Fenland Dialect Boundary”

6:15
Closing Address

Sunday January 10th

Conference excursion: assemble outside Newcastle Central Station,
8:45am. Return to Newcastle approximately 5pm. See full programme for
more information:

http://www.york.ac.uk/res/aiseb/bic2010/prog.htm

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