<div dir="ltr"><div>For linguistic geographers studying Ibero-Romance languages and mobility:</div><div><br></div><div>Full Title: Dynamics of (Im)mobilities and Discursive Practices in the 21st Century </div>
<br> Date: 08-Nov-2018 - 09-Nov-2018 <br> Location: Berne, Switzerland <br> Contact Person: Yvette Bürki<br> Web Site: <a href="http://mobility-unibe.jimdo.com/english/welcome/">http://mobility-unibe.jimdo.com/english/welcome/</a> <br>
<br> Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Sociolinguistics<br><br> Call Deadline: 30-Jun-2018 <br><br> Meeting Description:<br><br>
As Salazar (2016) claims, the concept of mobility captures the
impression that today's world is structured around the constant flow not
only of people, but also of cultures, objects, capital, services,
media, images, information and ideas. It is not surprising, therefore,
that in the social and human sciences mobility turn has been put forward
and named. As a result, new theoretical concepts that attempt to
describe the new spatial and temporal dynamics of today's world:
deterritorialization, reterritorialization, spatial-temporal
compression, scalarity, etc. have emerged. The mobility turn is
conceived as a turn because it breaks with the traditional
correspondence between person, place and culture. But perhaps the most
important aspect of the mobility turn is that it highlights that the
concept of mobility does not have an immutable meaning but varies
according to people, social circumstances and the very concept of
mobility, which is necessarily defined through its counterpart,
immobility. <br> <br>Mobility turn is therefore a different way of
framing and encompassing global mobility, showing how physical mobility
of people entails economic, social and cultural mobility, the
transformation of institutions at different levels and spheres, and the
mobilization of (linguistic) ideologies. <br> <br>We are delighted to announce that, so far, the following key speakers have been confirmed: <br> <br>Alexandre Duchêne, Université de Fribourg <br>Marleen Haboud, Universidad Católica del Ecuador <br>Luisa Martin Rojo, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid <br>Li Wei, University College, London<br><br> Call for Papers: <br> <br>The
committee welcomes papers from a sociolinguistic, discursive or
ethnographic linguistic perspective on theoretical or methodological
aspects researching or examining the interrelationship between mobility
and communicative practices in spaces where Ibero-Romanic languages
(Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, Galician) and Creole languages with an
Ibero-Romanic base come into contact with other languages due to
(im)mobility. <br> <br>Questions raised by this conference are: <br> <br>- How do mobilities impact on epistemic and methodological frameworks? <br>- What happens with (linguistic) identities in mobility? <br>- How do language practices in mobility show, change, and emergeHow does linguistic mediation work in mobility contexts? <br>- How are (linguistic) ideologies manifested in and with mobility? <br>- How should mobility be studied through the linguistic landscape? <br>- How does (im)mobility manifest in discourse (political, media, educational, etc.)? <br>- How is the impact of mobility on social networks shown? <br>- How is the impact of (im)mobility on language policies and language planning shown? <br> <br>These
questions are meant to serve as guideposts. Please feel free to submit
papers on other topics related to the conference’s theme. <br> <br>
Abstracts (titled) that will be submitted as proposals will have a
maximum length of 500 words (including bibliographic references). They
will be written in Times New Roman (with 1.5 spacing). The following
information shall be included on a separate sheet accompanying the
summary: <br> <br>Title <br>Names of who submitted it <br>Academic affiliation <br>Contact e-mail address <br> <br>Abstracts must be submitted by registration at <a href="https://mobility-unibe.jimdo.com/english/registration/">https://mobility-unibe.jimdo.com/english/registration/</a>. <br> <br>Each individual presentation will last 20 minutes (plus 10 minutes for discussion and questions).<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Catherine Lee<br><br></div>Department of Linguistics<br>University of Hawai‘i at MÄnoa<br>
1890 East-West Road, 569 Moore<br>
Honolulu, HI 96822 USA<br></div></div>
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