<div><br clear="all">Mediating Multilingualism: Meanings and Modalities <br><br>Date: 02-Jun-2008 - 05-Jun-2008 <br>Location: Jyväskylä, Finland <br>Contact Person: Päivi Pahta <br>Meeting Email: multilingualism(AT)jyu.fi
<br>Web Site: <a href="http://www.jyu.fi/hum/laitokset/kielet/conference2008/en/">http://www.jyu.fi/hum/laitokset/kielet/conference2008/en/</a> <br><br><br>Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2008 <br><br>University of Jyväskylä, Finland
<br>June 2-5, 2008 <br><br>Mediating Multilingualism: Meanings and Modalities <br><br>University of Jyväskylä, Finland <br>June 2-5, 2008 <br><br>Invited speakers: <br><br>- Jan Blommaert (University of London / University of Jyväskylä)
<br>- Diane Maevers (University of London) <br>- Ben Rampton (University of London) <br>- Steven Thorne (Pennsylvania State University) <br>- Crispin Thurlow (University of Washington) <br><br>Deadline for abstracts: January 15, 2008
<br>Guidelines for submission: <br><a href="http://www.jyu.fi/hum/laitokset/kielet/conference2008/en">http://www.jyu.fi/hum/laitokset/kielet/conference2008/en</a> <br><br>Description of the conference: <br><br>In today's globalized world of mobilities and flows, multilingualism is
<br>increasingly an everyday phenomenon that people encounter and have to cope with <br>in work, education, institutions, leisure time and media uses, for example. In <br>these various contexts, multilingualism can be mediated
<br>not only by languages, but also by a range of other semiotic means such as <br>genres, discourses, styles, embodied action and visuality. <br><br>At the same time multilingualism is a mediational system in itself, sustaining,
<br>but also mobilizing and reorganizing language user identities, relationships and <br>possibilities for action and the relative values of languages. Multilingualism <br>can thus have repercussions in terms of what resources and possibilities
<br>individuals and groups have to agency and participation. <br><br>The conference on Mediating Multilingualism approaches mediation and <br>multilingualism from this double perspective: in its focus are the different <br>
ways and means for mediating multilingualism, as well as multilingualism as a <br>mediational system. The aim is to shed light on the complexities of this <br>relationship and to develop new ways of investigating and understanding the
<br>roles, meanings and modalities of mediation in multilingual settings. To this <br>end, the conference aims at bringing together researchers, students, teachers <br>and other practitioners who share an interest in exploring the interface between
<br>mediation and multilingualism as a particular linguistic, social, cultural and <br>ideological contact zone where the meanings of languages, identities and <br>relationships are reassessed and renegotiated. <br><br>The conference is organized at the University of Jyväskylä as the 26th Summer
<br>School of Applied Language Studies. It will consist of invited keynote lectures, <br>workshops and paper sessions. The topics of the keynote lectures and workshops <br>will be announced later. <br><br>Call for Papers
<br><br>Submissions are solicited for 20-min. papers and posters relating to the <br>conference theme. Studies on any languages and disciplinary takes (e.g. <br>sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, discourse studies, pragmatics,
<br>ethnography, and language learning and teaching) are welcome. The main working <br>language of the conference is English. Individual papers and posters can be <br>presented in other languages, but no interpretation services are automatically
<br>provided by conference organization. Young scholars are encouraged to <br>contribute; five postgraduate students from non-EU countries will be excused <br>from paying the conference fee (applications to be included in the online
<br>registration form, to appear on the conference website). <br><br>Abstracts in English (max. 300 words) should be submitted via 'submission' on <br>the conference website <br><a href="http://www.jyu.fi/hum/laitokset/kielet/conference2008/en">
http://www.jyu.fi/hum/laitokset/kielet/conference2008/en</a>. The deadline for <br>submissions is January 15, 2008. All submissions will be reviewed; notification <br>of acceptance March 15, 2008. <br><br>For further information, see the website:
<br><a href="http://www.jyu.fi/hum/laitokset/kielet/conference2008/en">http://www.jyu.fi/hum/laitokset/kielet/conference2008/en</a> <br><br>The Organizing Committee <br><br>Sirpa Leppänen, Päivi Pahta, Hannele Dufva, Sari Pietikäinen, Tarja
<br>Nikula, Sirkka Laihiala-Kankainen, Samu Kytölä, Marianne Toriseva, Tiina <br>Virkkula, Satu Julin, Eeva Riipinen <br><br>Contact: multilingualism(AT)jyu.fi <a href="http://linguistlist.org/issues/18/18-2893.html">http://linguistlist.org/issues/18/18-2893.html
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