26.5491, Calls: Anthropological Ling, Socioling/UK

Thu Dec 10 15:28:34 UTC 2015

LINGUIST List: Vol-26-5491. Thu Dec 10 2015. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 26.5491, Calls: Anthropological Ling, Socioling/UK

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Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 10:28:05
From: Kinga Kozminska [lib.conference2016 at gmail.com]
Subject: Language, Indexicality and Belonging

Full Title: Language, Indexicality and Belonging 
Short Title: LIB 2016 

Date: 07-Apr-2016 - 08-Apr-2016
Location: Oxford, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Kinga Kozminska
Meeting Email: lib.conference2016 at gmail.com
Web Site: http://libconference.wix.com/libconference2016 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Dec-2015 

Meeting Description:

Language, Indexicality and Belonging
Linguistic Anthropology Conference
University of Oxford
7-8 April 2016 

This 2-day conference brings together leading scholars and graduates in linguistic anthropology and related fields in order to explore the relationship between languages and senses of belonging. Focus is placed on the indexical character of language in the modern, changing world as manifest in communicative practices that are impacted by social, political and economic processes that bring different languages or forms of language into contact. Participants in three dedicated conference panels will examine how global, state, local and institutional aspects of belonging are indexed through language, how these levels can be distinguished from one another, and how linguistic anthropology and sociolinguistics can account for related linguistic transformations. We welcome abstract submissions from researchers in the field of linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics and related fields. 

Keynote speakers: Professor Deborah Cameron, Dr Erez Levon, Professor Norma Mendoza-Denton, Dr Catherine Miller, Professor David Parkin, Professor Michael Silverstein

2nd Call for Papers:

The University of Oxford

Organising Committee: Kinga Kozminska, Leonie Schulte, Dr Nancy Hawker, Dr Stephen Leonard

At the conference we would like to address such questions as:

- Are ideas of citizenship on the one hand and national identity on the other being conflated? What role does language play in these debates?
- How do migrants appropriate and challenge existing language ideologies and norms?
- In a globalized world, what does it mean to ‘sound’ local? What does it mean to ‘sound’ like a national?Can local communicative practices transcend local environments?
- How does the development of multiethnolects, such as those emerging in ethnically mixed and economically disadvantaged areas of some European cities, challenge or even redefine understandings of the relationship between language and social class, ethnicity, gender, but also national and local belonging?

We invite 20-mintute-long papers contributing to the debate on the relationship between language and regional, national and transnational affiliations contested on social, economic and policy-based levels.

Preference will be given to papers based on fieldwork conducted in the last three years. The papers given at the conference will be published through open access platforms.

Submissions of 500-word abstracts with keywords and short bios should be sent to lib.conference2016 at gmail.com.

Abstracts will undergo blind review, so please make sure that your submission is properly blinded. The deadline for submissions is December 15, 2015. Accepted speakers will be notified on February 1, 2016.

There will be a conference fee for participants. The exact cost will be confirmed in December.

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