<div dir="ltr">Multilingualism and Multimodal Interaction<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Forwarded From: <a href="mailto:LINGANTH@listserv.linguistlist.org">LINGANTH@listserv.linguistlist.org</a><br><br><br>Call for papers for 2013 American Anthropological Association annual<br>
meeting in Chicago. Please indicate your interest in the panel as soon as<br>
possible, and send a 250 word abstract by April 1 to Melanie McComsey at<br>
<a href="mailto:mmccomsey@ucsd.edu">mmccomsey@ucsd.edu</a>.<br>
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Multilingualism and Multimodal Interaction<br>
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Organizer: Melanie McComsey (University of California, San Diego)<br>
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Traditional approaches to the study of multilingual interaction have<br>
focused primarily on speech phenomena such as codeswitching, borrowing,<br>
interference, and the deployment of linguistic variables in talk. Like all<br>
interaction, however, multilingual interaction is multimodal, meaning that<br>
it makes recourse to a diversity of semiotic resources in the speech<br>
stream, the human body, and the environment. Recent approaches to<br>
multimodal and embodied interaction, such as those collected in Streeck,<br>
Goodwin and LeBaron 2011, have diverse antecedents. Work by Goffman on<br>
mutual monitoring (1963) and on the importance of the human and material<br>
setting in interaction (1964), and early work by Kendon on “visible<br>
behavior” (1973) and “gesticulation” (1980) have been particularly<br>
influential. The present session will take inspiration from such<br>
multimodal approaches, bringing them to bear on multilingual interaction<br>
and thus expanding the possibilities for what might be considered<br>
linguistic contact phenomena.<br>
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Papers may include but are not limited to topics such as:<br>
*bimodal multilingualism<br>
*multilingualism in signed languages<br>
*cross-linguistic gestural transfer (Pika et al. 2006) or “manual accents”<br>
(Kellerman and Van Hoof 2003)<br>
*relationship between codeswitching and embodied practice<br>
*socialization to multiple repertoires of embodied practice<br>
*contact-induced change in prosody, gesture, etc.<br>
*the role of the body in second language learning<br>
*the relationship between linguistic ideologies and embodied practice<br>
*gestural translation and gesture in translation<br>
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This panel engages the 2013 AAA theme of “Future Publics, Current<br>
Engagements” by acknowledging that in a globalized future of linguistic<br>
and cultural heterogeneity, multilingual encounters will become the norm.<br>
The panel contributes to a broad movement in linguistic anthropology to<br>
redefine the traditional boundaries of “language” and to challenge the<br>
notion of the discreteness of linguistic codes. Furthermore, multimodal<br>
approaches to language, due to their focus on micro-interactions, are at<br>
the forefront of methodological innovations in anthropology, utilizing new<br>
technologies and adapting techniques that have been used in other<br>
disciplines such as cognitive science, linguistics and psychology.<br>
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Melanie McComsey<br>
Doctoral Candidate<br>
Department of Anthropology<br>
University of California, San Diego<br>
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</font></span></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies <br>
University of Pennsylvania<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone: (215) 898-7475<br>Fax: (215) 573-2138 <br><br>Email: <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br>
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