<div dir="ltr">Dear Edwin and Sonya<div><br><div>Here I send an abstract for your proposed AAA session. I hope it fits.</div><div>best,</div><div><br></div><div>Magnus</div><div><br><br><div><b>The existential grounding of language politics: A life history perspective</b></div><div><i>Magnus Pharao Hansen, Postdoc, University of Copenhagen</i><br></div><div><i style="">Email: <a href="mailto:magnuspharao@gmail.com">magnuspharao@gmail.com</a></i></div><div><b><br></b></div><div>Across the world increasing numbers of speakers of minority languages are deciding to participate in linguistic revitalization projects, often struggling to take up speech (Moore 2012) in languages that the surrounding society has encouraged them to abandon, and in social contexts from which those languages have been excluded. In Mexico indigenous language activists work in different contexts to reclaim Nahuatl as a language of community and of education. This paper uses life history narratives of Nahua language educator-activists as a way to understand how people come to make the choice of reclaiming languages, focusing on how language activists ground their glottopolitical activities in narrative reconstructions of lived experience, framing them as individual existential choices. It is suggested that attention to the existential grounding of the glottopolitical decisions of individual speakers may be crucial to be able to predict the outcomes of language revitalizatoin and reclamation projects.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 1 April 2018 at 21:51, Edwin Everhart <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:edwin.everhart@gmail.com" target="_blank">edwin.everhart@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div>Dear colleagues,</div><div><br></div><div>We are happy to announce that Anthony K. Webster (University of Texas at Austin) will serve as discussant for this panel. Please see our panel abstract, below, and forward widely. Thank you again for considering this call for papers.</div><div><br></div><div>Sonya Rao and Edwin K. Everhart, University of California, Los Angeles</div><div><br></div><div><b><font size="4">Language and Life History: Linguistic Resistance, Resilience, and Adaptation</font></b></div><div>117th AAA Annual Meeting, November 14 - 18, 2018, San Jose, CA</div><div><i>Draft panel abstract - subject to minor updates.</i><br></div><div><br></div><div>Through language, how do people experience, enact, and narrate resistance, resilience, and adaptation? In this panel, we hope to articulate an approach to language and life history focused neither exclusively on social structure, nor on language structure. Rather, in line with Sapir’s (1934) call to understand culture through both the individual and the structural, we take individual biographies, perspectives, and practices as necessary for a rigorous understanding of language in society. </div><div><br></div><div>We share an interest in language-focused life histories which often draw on subjects’ own narratives and (limited) consciousness of social structure, and which center on experiences of language such as socialization, acquisition, labor, exclusion, and alienation. While maintaining a focus on language and the individual, the organizers hope to bring together diverse scholars whose work represents a broad range of ethnographic contexts and research agendas.</div><div><br></div><div>The long tradition of observing the social individual in anthropology, including the tradition of person-centered ethnography (LeVine 1982), has led to uniquely powerful analyses of narrative (e.g. Ochs and Capps 2001), and provided a framework of the life history as a lens into social structures (Langness 1965, Langness and Frank 1981, Watson and Watson-Franke 1985). More recently, scholars have joined these approaches to show that the narratives of “exceptional individuals” can explain important sociolinguistic change from valorization (Kroskrity 2009) to devaluing a linguistic culture (Kroskrity 2014). </div><div> </div><div>Meanwhile, there is a long-running debate in linguistics (cf. Johnstone 2000) between perspectives which address language as primarily individual knowledge, and those which address language as primarily a set of shared norms. In both cases the object of analysis is language structure; studies of individuals are incidental to the study of phenomena like style and register (Rampton 1999, Schilling-Estes 1998), genre (Alim 2003), and variety (Labov 1979).</div><div><br></div><div>Moving forward, what can we learn from individual cases of linguistic resistance, resilience, and adaptation? This panel will draw together a range of approaches to “lingual life histories” (Kroskrity 1993:109-142) and linguistic individuals. Taken together, we show that turning our attention to biographical detail of individuals will reveal important spheres of experience and agency that are not captured through other methods, and explore diverse questions of language ideologies, language structure, and discursive practice, and social change.</div><div><br></div><div>Though individual perspectives are never definitive, their analysis (e.g. analysis of internal structure, or cross-checking against external evidence of actual practice) is a productive method for the anthropologist. How might life histories in language help us to understand the multiple voices in any society (cf. Hymes 2003), and to examine individual agency in linguistic practice (cf. Kroskrity 2009)? How does the moral freight of life-history narratives, including moments of transformation (Mandelbaum’s (1973) ‘turnings’), reveal social realities that escape conventional ethnography? As a core part of the methodological toolkit of the discipline, linguistic life histories can contribute to numerous contemporary concerns of linguistic anthropology, including community, media, discrimination, identity, publics, representation, language shift, and language policy. Finally, the organizers believe that the diachronic, often narrative character of linguistic life histories will lead to a panel which powerfully addresses the conference themes.</div></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><b><font size="4">Abstract submission guidelines</font></b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-weight:400">Please send abstracts (max 250 words), along with your name, title, institutional affiliation, and contact information to both Sonya Rao (<a href="mailto:sonyarao@g.ucla.edu" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">sonyarao@g.ucla.edu</a>) and Edwin K. Everhart (<a href="mailto:eke@g.ucla.edu" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">eke@g.ucla.edu</a>) by </span><b>Wednesday, April 4 at 8:00pm Eastern/5:00pm Pacific.</b> </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">We will notify you about acceptance by Friday, April 6 at 8:00pm Eastern/5:00pm Pacific.</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-fam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,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-style:normal">•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap">        </span>Kroskrity, P.V., 2014.<span> </span></span><i>Borders traversed, boundaries erected: Creating discursive identities and language communities in the Village of Tewa</i>. Language & Communication, 38, pp.8-17.</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-style:normal">•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap">     </span>Labov, W., 1979.</span><i><span> </span>Locating the frontier between social and psychological factors in linguistic variation</i>. in Individual differences in language ability and language behavior (pp. 327-340).</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-style:normal">•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap">  </span>Langness, L.L., 1965.<span> </span></span><i>The life history in anthropological science</i><span> </span>(No. F/301.01 S7/8).</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-style:normal">•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap">     </span>Langness, L.L. and Frank, G., 1981.<span> </span></span><i>Lives: an anthropological approach to biography</i>. Novato, CA.: Chandler & Sharp Publishers.</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-style:normal">•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap">   </span>LeVine, R.A., 1982.<span> </span></span><i>Culture, behavior, and personality</i>. Transaction Publishers.</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-style:normal">•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap">      </span>Mandelbaum, D.G., 1973.<span> </span></span><i>The study of life history: Gandhi</i>. Current Anthropology, 14(3), pp.177-206.</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-style:normal">•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap">  </span>Ochs, E. and Capps, L., 2001.<span> </span></span><i>A dimensional approach to narrative</i>. in Living narrative: Creating lives in everyday storytelling, pp.1-58.</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-style:normal">•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap">    </span>Rampton, B., 1999. (ed.)<span> </span></span><i>Styling the other</i>. Journal of sociolinguistics, 3(4).</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-style:normal">•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap">       </span>Sapir, E., 1934.<span> </span></span><i>The Emergence of the Concept of Personality in a Study of Cultures</i>. The Journal of Soci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