<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px">Dear list-readers,</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">I am co-organising a workshop on 'intergenerational multilingualism' at the International Congress of Linguistics conference next year with Judith Purkarthofer (Oslo). Please consider submitting an abstract! We would love to have presenters who work in a wide range of contexts,</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">The deadline for abstracts has been extended to 31st August</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">To submit an abstract see:</div><a href="http://www.icl20capetown.com/index.php/2016-06-20-10-33-33/abstracts" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">http://www.icl20capetown.com/<wbr>index.php/2016-06-20-10-33-33/<wbr>abstracts</a><h1 style="margin-top:0cm"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria">Workshop<span style="letter-spacing:-0.05pt"> </span>ID<span style="letter-spacing:-0.05pt"> </span>:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal">                 9</span></h1><h1 style="margin-top:0cm"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria">Workshop<span style="letter-spacing:-0.25pt"> </span>Title<span style="letter-spacing:-0.35pt"> </span>:</span></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria">            Intergenerational<span style="letter-spacing:-0.65pt"> </span>multilingualism:<span style="letter-spacing:-0.6pt"> </span>negotiating<span style="letter-spacing:-0.65pt"> </span>language<span style="letter-spacing:-0.8pt"> </span>policies<span style="letter-spacing:-0.8pt"> </span>and </span><b style="text-indent:133.2pt;font-size:small"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Cambria">practices across generations </span></b></h1><b style="font-size:12.8px">Workshop Leader :</b><span style="font-size:12.8px">        Judith Purkarthofer, University of  Oslo</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:165.25pt;margin-left:5.15pt;font-size:12.8px;text-indent:133.2pt"><br></p><p class="gmail-m_-7433349392628759348gmail-MsoBodyText" style="text-align:left;font-size:12.8px;margin-right:5.65pt;margin-left:5.15pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria">Research in multilingual contexts often has a strong focus on one generation while others are treated as  'background'. Looking at multilingual families, the focus may be on the children, while their parents are interviewed more for background information - or vice versa. In educational contexts, teachers' attitudes might be in the spotlight, while children are mainly talked about. Research on small or endangered languages is often centered on designated 'Elders' to the exclusion of younger community members. In all these contexts, we look at multilingualism and lived language experience through a specific lens that might be<span style="letter-spacing:-0.15pt"> </span>called<span style="letter-spacing:-0.15pt"> </span>generational.<span style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt"> </span>Biographical<span style="letter-spacing:-0.15pt"> </span>research<span style="letter-spacing:-0.15pt"> </span>(Rosenthal<span style="letter-spacing:-0.25pt"> </span>2009),<span style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt"> </span>but<span style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt"> </span>also<span style="letter-spacing:-0.25pt"> </span>research<span style="letter-spacing:-0.25pt"> </span>on<span style="letter-spacing:-0.25pt"> </span>language<span style="letter-spacing:-0.25pt"> </span>maintenance (Hinton<span style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt"> </span>2013),<span style="letter-spacing:-0.15pt"> </span>have<span style="letter-spacing:-0.1pt"></span>shown<span style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt"> </span>how<span style="letter-spacing:-0.1pt"> </span>important<span style="letter-spacing:-0.15pt"> </span>intergenerational<span style="letter-spacing:-0.1pt"> </span>relations<span style="letter-spacing:-0.3pt"> </span>are<span style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt"> </span>for<span style="letter-spacing:-0.15pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-0.1pt"> </span>construction<span style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-0.25pt"> </span>narratives<span style="letter-spacing:-0.15pt"> </span>on language use and for the transmission of languages. At the same time, research centres on different continents are putting a stronger emphasis on the lifespan perspective and thus generational relations emerge more as a center of<span style="letter-spacing:-1.55pt"> </span>attention.</span></p><p class="gmail-m_-7433349392628759348gmail-MsoBodyText" style="text-align:left;font-size:12.8px;margin-right:5.5pt;margin-left:5.15pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria">The main part of this workshop brings together research that looks at different generations, ideally giving them fairly equal consideration. These could be parents and children, grandparents and grandchildren, or even interactions across generations outside of the family context. We consider 'intergenerational multilingualism' to include language practices and policies that affect and are negotiated by members of at least two different generations.</span></p><p class="gmail-m_-7433349392628759348gmail-MsoBodyText" style="text-align:left;font-size:12.8px;margin-left:5.15pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria">The key questions for the workshop are:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria"></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-7433349392628759348gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0cm;margin-left:51.35pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Cambria">Which<span style="letter-spacing:-0.5pt"> </span>forms<span style="letter-spacing:-0.25pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-0.4pt"> </span>multilingualism<span style="letter-spacing:-0.25pt"> </span>do<span style="letter-spacing:-0.4pt"> </span>we<span style="letter-spacing:-0.4pt"> </span>find<span style="letter-spacing:-0.3pt"> </span>across<span style="letter-spacing:-0.35pt"> </span>generations?</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Cambria"></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-7433349392628759348gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0cm;margin-left:51.35pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Cambria">How<span style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt"> </span>do<span style="letter-spacing:-0.45pt"> </span>members<span style="letter-spacing:-0.3pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-0.25pt"> </span>different<span style="letter-spacing:-0.35pt"> </span>generations<span style="letter-spacing:-0.4pt"> </span>relate<span style="letter-spacing:-0.35pt"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt"> </span>each<span style="letter-spacing:-0.35pt"> </span>other's<span style="letter-spacing:-0.3pt"> </span>language<span style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt"> </span>use<span style="letter-spacing:-0.35pt"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt"> </span>ideologies?</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Cambria"></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-7433349392628759348gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0cm;margin-left:51.35pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Cambria">How<span style="letter-spacing:-0.25pt"> </span>do<span style="letter-spacing:-0.45pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-0.4pt"> </span>different<span style="letter-spacing:-0.3pt"> </span>generations<span style="letter-spacing:-0.35pt"> </span>respond<span style="letter-spacing:-0.4pt"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing:-0.25pt"> </span>changes<span style="letter-spacing:-0.45pt"> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing:-0.4pt"> </span>societal<span style="letter-spacing:-0.35pt"> </span>conditions<span style="letter-spacing:-0.45pt"> </span>for<span style="letter-spacing:-0.35pt"> </span>multilingualism?</span></p><p class="gmail-m_-7433349392628759348gmail-MsoBodyText" style="text-align:left;font-size:12.8px;margin-right:5.75pt;margin-left:5.15pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria">We welcome contributions with a focus on intergenerational multilingualism, both in indigenous and minority contexts and in contexts of diaspora and migration. Examples might include but are of course not limited to:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria"></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-7433349392628759348gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0cm;margin-left:51.35pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Cambria">schooling<span style="letter-spacing:-0.35pt"> </span>practices<span style="letter-spacing:-0.55pt"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing:-0.35pt"> </span>children<span style="letter-spacing:-0.5pt"> </span>with<span style="letter-spacing:-0.35pt"> </span>multilingual<span style="letter-spacing:-0.45pt"> </span>repertoires</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Cambria"></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-7433349392628759348gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0cm;margin-left:51.35pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Cambria">family<span style="letter-spacing:-0.55pt"> </span>language<span style="letter-spacing:-0.35pt"> </span>policies<span style="letter-spacing:-0.4pt"> </span>where<span style="letter-spacing:-0.35pt"> </span>grandparents<span style="letter-spacing:-0.4pt"> </span>are<span style="letter-spacing:-0.25pt"> </span>primary<span style="letter-spacing:-0.4pt"> </span>caregivers</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Cambria"></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-7433349392628759348gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0cm;margin-right:22.65pt;margin-left:51.35pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Cambria">traditionally<span style="letter-spacing:-0.5pt"> </span>multilingual<span style="letter-spacing:-0.25pt"> </span>rural<span style="letter-spacing:-0.4pt"> </span>areas<span style="letter-spacing:-0.25pt"> </span>where<span style="letter-spacing:-0.3pt"> </span>three<span style="letter-spacing:-0.3pt"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt"> </span>four<span style="letter-spacing:-0.15pt"> </span>generations<span style="letter-spacing:-0.35pt"> </span>are<span style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt"> </span>negotiating<span style="letter-spacing:-0.3pt"> </span>changes<span style="letter-spacing:-0.35pt"> </span>in local language<span style="letter-spacing:-0.9pt"> </span>use</span></p><p class="gmail-m_-7433349392628759348gmail-MsoBodyText" style="font-size:12.8px;margin-right:20.75pt;margin-left:5.15pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria">We also welcome methodologically-oriented discussions of how research methods might be adapted to different age groups. Or more specifically, how to make use of multilingual resources in these methodologies. The role of the researcher, who is also situated along the generational continuum, will be treated as well.</span></p><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:small">-- </span><br style="font-size:small"><div class="gmail_signature" style="font-size:small"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Dr Ruth Singer</div><div dir="ltr">DECRA Postdoctoral Fellow<br>Linguistics Program / Research Unit for Indigenous Language<br>School of Languages and Linguistics<br>Faculty of Arts<br>University of Melbourne 3010<br>Tel. +61 3 90353774<br><a href="http://www.findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/display/person2621" target="_blank">http://www.findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/display/person2621</a><br><a href="http://indiglang.arts.unimelb.edu.au/" target="_blank">http://indiglang.arts.unimelb.edu.au/</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail-yj6qo gmail-ajU" style="margin:2px 0px 0px;font-size:12.8px"><div id="gmail-:as" class="gmail-ajR" tabindex="0"><img class="gmail-ajT" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif"></div></div></div>