9.270, Confs: Sociolinguistics Symposium

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Subject: 9.270, Confs: Sociolinguistics Symposium

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Date:  Fri, 20 Feb 1998 04:39:01 +0000
From:  E.Reid at ioe.ac.uk (Euan Reid)
Subject:  Sociolinguistics Symposium

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Date:  Fri, 20 Feb 1998 04:39:01 +0000
From:  E.Reid at ioe.ac.uk (Euan Reid)
Subject:  Sociolinguistics Symposium

REMINDER:  you can still register (at the Standard Rate of 140 pounds
sterling until February 28, thereafter 160 pounds)  for 'SS12'  -  the 12th
(UK) SOCIOLINGUISTICS SYMPOSIUM.   This is the SOCIOLYMPICS - at least on
the European side of the Atlantic!

 'SS12'  will be held at the

  INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION
  University of London
  20 BEDFORD WAY
  LONDON WC1H  OAL
  UK

  from

  Thursday 26th MARCH (mid-day)
  to
  Saturday 28th MARCH (mid-day)

  1998


  PROGRAMME

  Plenaries       Colloquia      Papers in Parallel Sessions

  Short 'Work in Progress' Reports    Poster Presentations

  Publishers Displays      Social Events

  British Sign Language Interpretation available to participants who
  request this in advance.

  Academic Organising Committee

  Professor Jenny Cheshire, Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of
  London; Professor Jennifer Coates, Roehampton Institute London; Dr
  Penelope Gardner-Chloros,  Birkbeck College, University of London; Dr Ben
  Rampton & Celia Roberts, Thames Valley University; Euan Reid, Institute
  of Education, University of London.; Professor Brian Street, King's
  College, University of London.


  PLENARIES

  Professor Jan BLOMMAERT  (University of Antwerp/International Pragmatics
  Association):  Reconstructing the Sociolinguistic Image of Africa:
  Grassroots Writing in Shaba, Congo.

  Professor Debbie CAMERON  (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow),  Good to
  Talk? The Discourse and Practice of Communication Skills.

  Professor Penny ECKERT  (Stanford University)  Variation, Style & Identity.

  Professor Susan GAL  (University of Chicago)  Language Ideologies and
  Linguistic boundaries: the Semiotics of  Differentiation.


  COLLOQUIA

  1.  Speech Representation & Institutional Discourse

  Convenors:  Stef Slembrouck, Dept of English, University of Gent, Belgium
  & Mike Baynham, Centre for Language & Literacy, University of Technology,
  Sydney

  This Colloquium aims to bring together concerns with institutional
  discourse and an interest in discourse representation phenomena
  ('reported speech'). Its focus will be on how institutional members
  (clients, professionals and  novices) represent, incorporate and
  appropriate the discourses ('voices') of 'the other' in their own
  discourse. This theme is intended to reflect the growing body of
  research into practices of discourse representation in a range of  sites
  (media, legal, educational, social work).

  In these sites, such  practices are often constitutive of institutional
  processes and affect institutional outcomes. The Colloquium theme also
  ties in with the current interest (within pragmatics, discourse analysis,
  etc.) in re-contextualisation and processes of (re)formulation.

 Contributors include:  Malcolm Coulthard, Janet Maybin, Geert Jacobs,
 Titus Ensink, Greg Myers, Graham Hall, Srikant Sarangi & Akira Satoh,


  2. Constructing the University: Problematizing the notion of language in
  academic discourse.

 Convenors: Carys Jones & Brian Street,  School of Education, King's
 College, University of London

  The aim of this colloquium is to explore issues surrounding academic
  literacies and the genre of faculty feedback, with particular reference
  to British and international students in Higher Education.  Rather than
  focus on study skills or academic socialisation, the dominant discourses
  in this field, the session will  address from a number of perspectives
  the model of academic literacies and discourses, which problematise the
  varied literacy practices involved in the constitution of 'the
  university'.

  In particular the focus will be on the gap between student and faculty
  expectations of academic writing processes and the conceptualisation and
  representation of 'language' embedded in them.   Contributors will
  include, in addition to the convenors, Fiona English, Monika
  Hermerschmidt, Mary Lea, Mary Scott, Joan Turner & Theresa Lillis.



  3.  Language, Gender & Sexuality

  Convenor:  Debbie Cameron (University of Strathclyde)

  This Colloquium is a response to the rapid development of sociolinguistic
  work in which sexuality or sexual identity is a key social variable.
  Among the questions we hope to reflect on, in papers, responses to papers
  and open discussion, are: is there and should there be a distinctive
  gay/lesbian sociolinguistics? how should we theorise the relationship
  between sexuality and gender?  have sociolinguists talked too little
  about heterosexualities? how do sociolinguists position themselves with
  regard to existing theories of sexual identity/practice, especially
  feminist theory and queer theory?

  Contributors : Kathryn Remlinger, Paul McIlvenny,  Joanne Winter .


  4.  Oral Narratives across Contexts & Cultures

  Convenors:  Alexandra Georgakopoulou, Dept. of Byzantyne and Modern Greek
  Studies, King's College, University of London  &  Shoshana Blum-Kulka,
  Department of Communication, Hebrew University,  JERUSALEM, Israel.

  The goal of the colloquium is to bring together ethnographic, discourse
  analytical and interactional sociolinguistic perspectives to discuss the
  role of context and culture in the discursive shaping of oral narrative
  modes and functions.  The papers presented will attempt to combine
  micro-level with macro-level analytic concerns,  and their scope will
  cover a wide range of oral narrative modes (e.g. conversational stories,
  life histories, mediated discourse narratives,family dinner narratives)
  in different communities.

  Papers will be presented by Catherine Snow, Shoshana Blum-Kulka,
  Alexandra Georgakopoulou, Esther Schelly-Newman and Tamar  Katriel.  The
  discussants of the presentations will include Johanna Thornborrow, Maria
  Sifianou, Mike Baynham and Paddy Scannell.


  5.  Disability, Language & Social Identity

  Convenor: Graham H. Turner, Deaf Studies Group, Department of Education
  Studies,  University of Central Lancashire, PRESTON

  This interdisciplinary Colloquium sets out to address questions raised by
  claims about 'Deaf identity'  - in the sense of an identity shaped by
  distinct linguistic and cultural forms - and other disabled identities,
  by focusing upon the role of language in discourse practices that
  construct and reflect such identities. Does the  language currently used
  by and about disabled people (including Deaf people) sustain the
  distinction, and what part does language play in any changes being
  witnessed?

  In spite of the existence of  theoretical Deaf and disability literature,
  relatively little has to date emerged by way of empirical accounts of
  language choices in either personal or institutional discourse, and there
  has been little theorization of language practices in such contexts.
  While sociolinguists' discussions of (for instance) ethnicities move on
  from the debate about group-membership-as-acquired-disposition versus
  group-membership-as-situated-performance, there remains little
  exploration of even these two notions in relation to language and
  disability.

  The purpose of this Colloquium is to assess the state of knowledge in
  this field and to begin to explore (a) the role of disabled people in
  effecting language change, (b) the extent to which communicative
  practices are defining in relation to disabled identities, (c) what (if
  any) patterns emerge from the cross-referencing of different groups in
  this regard and (d) what kinds of research could tell us more about the
  role of language in constructing and performing disability.

  Within this session (which will have British Sign Language/English
  interpretation) four 25-minute papers will be followed by short
  independent responses from two discussants and an open workshop  session
  for exploration of issues arising.  Contributors include:  Jenny Corbett,
  Mairian Corker, Susan Gregory,  & Kyra Pollitt.


  6.  Computer-Mediated Communication, Language and Society

  Convenor:  Dr. Simeon J. Yates, Discipline Of Sociology, Faculty Of
  Social Sciences,  Open University.

  The colloquium will cover a range of sociolinguistic topics relating to
  the use of Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) in contemporary society.
  CMC systems range from the personal forms of electronic mail and
  internet-relay chat, through on-line forms of audio and video
  conferencing,  to the World Wide Web and other digital media formats.
  The aim of the colloquium is to explore, through the discussion of
  presented papers, the connections between language use, CMC and key
  aspects of contemporary society, such as: globalisation, work, politics,
  identity, gender and media genres.

  This colloquium represents a development of the session on the
  socio-linguistics of Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) held at SS11,
  and will provide an opportunity for researchers in this field to present
  and discuss current theories and findings.  The focus of the session will
  be upon the relationship between contemporary society, contemporary
  language use and the various forms of CMC.

 Speakers will include:  Simeon J. Yates,  Susan Herring,  John Paolillo,
 Lynn Cherny, Lorenzo Mondada, Robert Fouser, Zazie Todd,  P.Nayar &
 Jacqueline Johnson Lambiase..


  7.   Maintaining Indigenous Languages, with special reference to Latin
  America -  State Planning vs Grass-roots Initiatives:

 Convenors:  Jane Freeland (Univ of Portsmouth) & Rosaleen Howard-Malverde
 (Univ of Liverpool)

  Latin American governments are giving increasing attention to the
  maintenance of indigenous langauges, mainly through formal education.
  However, outcomes frequently clash with, are even destructive of,
  language maintenance strategies developed by organised indigenous groups.
  This workshop will explore the relationship between these different
  approaches, through a series of brief case studies (pre-circulated),  but
  above all through extensive discussionof the language planning issues
  raised by this clash.

 Speakers will include:  Kendall King, Sheila Aikman, Serafin
 Coronel-Molina, Tim Marr & Eliseo Canulef M.


  8.   Language & Multimodality

  Convenor:  Prof. Gunther Kress, Culture Communication and Societies (CCS)
  Group,  Institute of Education,  LONDON

 Texts in many domains of public communication are becoming more intensely
 multimodal: that is, they make a deliberate use of the visual as well as
 the written (where before that might have been an incidental  matter) for
 overt purposes of communication.  Social difference therefore finds
 expression not only in the linguistic mode  whether written or spoken
 (as in generic or discursive differences, eg ) but in other modes.

  Different combinations,  different emphases of modes may  respond to
  different social purposes, so that even at this level there is a new
  issue of what the consequences are for language. If in a multimodal text
  some information is carried  visually and some verbally - where before it
  was all carried  verbally - it follows that language will play a
  different role in the overtly multi modal text than it did in the
  formerly (at least ostensibly) monomodal text.

 Other participants: Theo van Leeuwen,  David Graddol, Roz Ivanic & Fiona
 Ormerod,    Radan Martinec,
 Carey Jewitt,  and  Judy Delin.


  9.   Teaching & Learning Bilingually in Post-Colonial Contexts

  Convenors:   Marilyn Martin-Jones, University of Lancaster  & Peter
  Martin, Universiti Brunei Darussalam.

 Over the last decade, there has been an increasing amount of research into
 language practices in schools and classrooms in a number of post-colonial
 contexts.  In each of these multililngual contexts, a former colonial
 language is still  used as a medium of instruction.

 The aim of this Colloquium is to bring together researchers working in
 different multilingual sites and to enable them to compare insights from
 research which combines detailed analysis of bilingual classroom discourse
 with ethnographic observation.  Our specific objectives are (1) to compare
 the ways in which teachers and learners in these settings accomplish
 lessons in two languages;  (2)  to identify commonalities and differences
 in  bilingual discourse practices observed and analysed in different
 institutional sites;  (3) to discuss the implications of these
 commonalities and differences.

 Contributors include:  Casimir Rubagumya, Grace Bunyi  & Nancy Hornberger,
 Angel Lin & Jo Arthur, in addition to the convenors.


  10.    Language Play & the Construction  of Meaning among Working Class
  Teenagers in Hong Kong.

  Convenor:  Angel Lin, City University of Hong Kong.  Other contributors
  will include  Isaac Lam,  Michelle Kwan, Tit-wing Lo & Kevin Chu, with
  Chris Candlin as discussant.


  11.  There will also be a Postgraduate Workshop, convened by Kristina
  Bennert, of University College, Cardiff.   Bennert at cardiff.ac.uk.




  FURTHER DETAILS ON PROGRAMME

  By post:  The full provisional programme is now being sent by post to
  people as they register, along with local travel details, and hotel
  booking arrangements.

  On the Internet:  our website is being updated regularly until the event
  itself, and you can find us at:

  http://www.ioe.ac.uk/ccs/ss12



  PAPERS

  As well as the Colloquia, the programme includes c60  35-minute 'Papers'
  - where presenters are being encouraged to speak for no more than c20
  minutes, leaving c15 minutes for questions and discussion, c20 15 minute
  'Reports' on work in progress),  and c12  'Posters'.   The criteria for
  selection were:  originality, significance, estimated contribution to
  conceptual development of the field, lucidity.

  All submissions, including those for the Colloquia,  were subject to
  anonymous review by members of the committee during September and October
  1997,  with the help of Colloquium convenors where appropriate.

  In addition to those speaking in the Colloquia,  presenters will include
  David Barton, Stella Bortoni-Ricardo,  Jennifer Coates, Jenny Cheshire,
  Gemma Moss, Anne Pauwels , Mark Sebba, Alison Sealey.



  COSTS

  Standard Symposium Fee - 140 pounds sterling

  Late Symposium Fee - 160 pounds sterling
  (for bookings received after February 27, 1998)

   Student/Unwaged Symposium Fee - 95 pounds,
   (on production of satisfactory evidence of status)

  Day Symposium Fees  (only available after the standard booking period
  ends on February 27, 1998, and if places are left).


  REGISTRATION

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  itself, administered by the Institute of Education's Conference Office:
  email c.bird at ioe.ac.uk,  NOT, PLEASE NOT, the sender of this message!
  (For Accommodation see note at end.)  Payment of the appropriate
  Symposium Fee  is obligatory, and will entitle you to all documents for
  the meeting (programme, abstracts booklet, participants list),  and to a
  badge giving admission to sessions,  tea/coffee etc at breaks, and buffet
  lunches.


  CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FORM: (PRINT THIS OFF AND FAX OR MAIL IT, OR USE
  THE ELECTRONIC VERSION ON OUR WEBSITE - ADDRESS OF THIS AT THE END OF THE
  POSTING)

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  participants' list - only one person on each form]:

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  PLEASE RESERVE A CONFERENCE PLACE FOR ME: date of booking.....

  EITHER  for the whole meeting

  or                               @ standard rate of         140 pounds
  or                               @ late rate of                 160 pounds

  OR  for  the following half-days

  Thursday 26/3           @                                     45  pounds
  Friday 27/3 am           @                                    45      "
  Friday 27/3  pm          @                                    45      "
  Saturday 28/3            @                                     45      "

  Completed Registration Forms, along with sterling cheques (non-sterling
  cheques or bank transfers add 10% please) payable to 'Institute of
  Education -  SS12',  should be sent to

The Conference Office (SS12),  Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way,
London WC1H 0AL, UK.

Booking Enquiries can be made to the Conference Officer there, Cathy Bird
(c.bird at ioe.ac.uk) Tel: +44.171.612.6017....Fax: +44.171.612.6402.



  ACCOMMODATION

  Bookings should be made independently, or through Hotelscene, a
  reservation service offering discounted accommodation in a range of
  hotels etc within a few minutes walk from the Institute of Education in
  the Bloomsbury district of West Central London.

  Hotelscene information will be normally only sent to you on receipt of
  your registration forms, but can be sent earlier if you need it - on
  request to the Conference Office.   Single room and breakfast prices will
  be from about 20 pounds per night in a student hall of residence [not
  many of these left now], to about \163100 per night in a first class hotel -
  less per head in double rooms.

 website address for updates on ss12:     http://www.ioe.ac.uk/ccs/ss12.

Euan Reid
Culture, Communication and Societies
Institute of Education
University of London
20 Bedford Way
LONDON  WC1H 0AL
Tel: + 44 171 612 6524/Fax: + 44 171 612 6177

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