21.4302, Calls: Sociolinguistics/United Kingdom

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Subject: 21.4302, Calls: Sociolinguistics/United Kingdom

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Date: 28-Oct-2010
From: Esther Asprey [e.c.asprey at aston.ac.uk]
Subject: Regional Varieties
 

	
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Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 11:16:21
From: Esther Asprey [e.c.asprey at aston.ac.uk]
Subject: Regional Varieties

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Full Title: Regional Varieties 

Date: 07-Jul-2011 - 10-Jul-2011
Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Esther Asprey
Meeting Email: lss_rvc at aston.ac.uk
Web Site: http://www1.aston.ac.uk/lss/news-events/conferences-
seminars/summer-2011/varieties-shift-change/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2011 

Meeting Description:

Regional Varieties, Language Shift and Linguistic Identities, Aston 
University, UK

Regional varieties have become an important contributor to identity 
construction processes, and an increasingly important issue for the 
individual and the community in late Modernity: the individual is under 
constant and increasing pressure to define who s/he is and has to choose 
from an ever growing pool of possibilities to construct social identity in an 
increasingly globalized world, which is perceived as incomprehensively 
complex. By referring to what is seen as traditional regional language, 
dialect and culture, localizing oneself seems to be a viable way out of this 
dilemma. This should have stabilizing effects on lesser used varieties, which 
have been facing a gradual process of language shift and divergence 
towards dominant contact languages over the hundred years.

Unfortunately, at the same time, modern life does not so much require 
knowledge of regional varieties as of standard languages and a good 
command of English as the global lingua franca. How can an upwardly 
mobile individual combine the requirements of modern life with identity 
construction on a regional scale if they so choose? What are the linguistic 
consequences for lesser used varieties and their respective contact 
languages? The conference organisers welcome papers focusing on 
multilingualism and language contact on a world wide level.

Focussing on the individual speaker and the speech community which is 
created by the use of language(s) as social practice, the conference 
organizers welcome papers and posters on the following fields of research:

- Language contact between a lesser used regional variety and a dominant
standard language.
- Identity and regional varieties;
- Indexicality and enregisterment;
- Variation and style;
- Postvernacular linguistic and cultural practices;
- Emblematic language use and language mixing;
- Lesser used regional varieties and the Internet;
- Regional varieties and linguistic landscapes;
- New approaches to dialectology. 

Call For Papers
 
Oral presentations will be 20 minutes in length, followed by 10 minutes for
discussion. Dedicated time and space will also be allocated for poster
presentations. Abstracts (up to 300 words) should be submitted by e-mail
attachment (Word files) to lss_rvc at aston.ac.uk. Please submit two files, one
containing the abstract and details of the author(s) (name(s), affiliation,
email address) and one containing an anonymous abstract. Under the title 
for the abstract, please give four keywords which summarise the 
paper/poster. In the body of your email please specify whether the abstract 
is for a poster or paper presentation. Further information about the 
dimensions of posters will be available online shortly.





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