[Linganth] AAA panel participation call: "Pushing beyond the code: Shifting perspectives on dialect, stance, and register"

[Ogren, Holly]

Dear colleagues,

Cindi Sturtz Sreetharan and I are putting together a panel entitled "Pushing
beyond the code:  Shifting perspectives on dialect, stance, and register."

If your work aligns with the abstract below, please send an expression of
interest to me (Holly Didi-Ogren at ogren at tcnj.edu) by *April 3rd*, with
your abstract to follow by *April 10th*.


Sincerely,
Holly HK Did-Ogren

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*Pushing beyond the code:  Shifting perspectives on dialect, stance, and
register.*






*This panel proposes to look carefully at the limitations of code switching
as a characterization of the phenomenon of multiple linguistic forms
occurring within one conversation or conversational setting.  Drawing on a
sociocultural linguistic approach to code switching (see Nilep 2006), we
are interested in the ways in which “an alternation in the form of
communication” serves to signal something recognizable by participants in
an ongoing conversational interaction (Nilep 2006:  17).  Furthermore, what
is signaled may actually differ across interactions, even while the forms
of communication may remain constant.  For example, a grammatical or
dialectal linguistic resource can serve to index local membership in one
context but solidarity in another.Empirically grounded data provides
insight into the agility with which speakers recognize and respond to the
interactional context to achieve (1) micro-level shifts in language forms;
these forms can include code, register, lexicon, etc.; and (2) macro-level
shifts in the stances and positionalities being negotiated.This panel seeks
to move beyond code switching as a main theoretical framework to explain
shifts among dialects and (so-called) standard languages as well as shifts
in registers or styles.We invite others working in any language context to
consider how such shifts within conversations across multiple language
‘barriers’ are better explained by asking questions about stance, register,
and so on rather than using code as the framework.*

-- 
Holly HK Didi-Ogren, PhD
Japanese Program Coordinator, World Languages and Cultures Department
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Bliss Hall 303
The College of New Jersey
Ewing, NJ 08628
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