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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">We invite contributions for a panel at the Sociolinguistic Symposium 23 in Hong Kong, organized by Katy Highet (UCL Institute of Education, UK) and Sara Nyssen (Ghent University, Belgium), with Prof. Judith Irvine (University
of Michigan) as discussant. The panel is entitled ‘Unequal Personalities: Language Education and the Politics of Difference’, please find the full description attached.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">If you would like to contribute a paper, please send your abstract to
<a href="mailto:k.highet@ucl.ac.uk">k.highet@ucl.ac.uk</a> and <a href="mailto:sara.nyssen@ugent.be">
sara.nyssen@ugent.be</a> by October 10, 2019.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Kind regards, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Katy Highet and Sara Nyssen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Unequal Personalities: Language Education and the Politics of Difference
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Language is often perceived as an expression of a particular personhood and, by extension, a reflection of one’s personality – the ‘chaotic’ multilingualism of the early 20th century Macedonians as indexical of their
‘disorderly’ psyche, being one example (Gal, 2013). Different ways of speaking are therefore seen to reflect different ways of being that are linked to forms of morality. In educational contexts, ‘personality’ is used as a discursive trope to justify the unequal
valuation of individuals’ linguistic behaviour as well as to point to a type of persona that acquiring certain languages and registers allows them to be. Yet, ‘personality’ in this context is often understood as a psychological, and thus individual, phenomenon,
rather than social and ideological. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">This panel is concerned with how the concept of personality is mobilised in language learning contexts. By critically investigating the idea that language is a transparent expression of an inner personality, this panel
will explore how language learners and teachers negotiate ideas about personality, and the moral dimensions of such processes. In addition, it will address the histories and structures that they are a product of, and the implications of such ideas. Specifically,
we welcome ethnographic contributions from different geographical contexts, from both classrooms and less institutionalised sites, that explore the following questions:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- How, and under what circumstances, are certain languages or registers seen as linked with particular personalities?
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- How do teachers/learners perceive the influence of personality on language learning?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- What moral evaluations are connected to particular languages and personalities?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- How are ideas about the link between language and personality, and the moral evaluations connected to them, connected to wider histories and structures of race, gender, class?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- What are the social, economic or political implications of these ideas?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">References<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Gal, S. (2013). Tastes of Talk: Qualia and the moral flavor of signs. Anthropological Theory, 13(1–2), 31–48<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Keywords:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> personality, language learning, personhood, morality, ethnography<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Organisers:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Sara Nyssen (Ghent University)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Katy Highet (UCL Institute of Education)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Discussant:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Prof. Judith Irvine (University of Michigan)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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