27.3164, Calls: Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Lang Acq, Socioling, Typology/Australia

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Subject: 27.3164, Calls: Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Lang Acq, Socioling, Typology/Australia

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Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2016 13:26:28
From: Lucija Medojevic [lucija.medojevic at westernsydney.edu.au]
Subject: Multilingual Repertoires and Multilingual Discourse

 
Full Title: Multilingual Repertoires and Multilingual Discourse 
Short Title: MRDM 

Date: 26-Oct-2016 - 28-Oct-2016
Location: Sydney, Australia 
Contact Person: Lucija Medojevic
Meeting Email: lucija.medojevic at westernsydney.edu.au
Web Site: http://www.westernsydney.edu.au/hca/multilingual 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Sociolinguistics; Typology 

Call Deadline: 15-Aug-2016 

Meeting Description:

This conference aims at bringing together researchers interested in language
variation, contact and change in multilingual settings; scenarios of prolonged
language shift; long-standing multilingualism; code switching/mixing, as well
as ethnolect continua; creole formation and creole continua; and first and
second language acquisition (including L1-L2 transfer in language contact
situations).

Please see our Call for Papers for more information. 

Keynote Speakers:

Eric Anchimbe (University of Bayreuth)
Diana Eades (University of New England)
Felicity Meakins (University of Queensland)


Final Call for Papers:

We welcome submissions from researchers from all linguistic disciplines,
including (but not limited to) sociolinguistics, language variation, contact
linguistics, psycholinguistics, and language acquisition. We especially
welcome theoretical contributions.

Background:

Sociolinguistic variation and the effects of long and short-term language
contact are practical and theoretical issues that have proven difficult to
tackle (see e.g. the contributions in Deumert & Durrleman 2006). Notions like
‘source language’ and ‘recipient language’ (van Coetsem 2000) may inadequately
describe language situations/uses that are more fluid. They may also fail to
adequately describe situations in which the results of language contact are
not uniform across one community (see e.g Golovko 2012, Pagel 2015), or where
notions of unidirectional transfer relationships are simplistic.

One key case is English spoken in many remote areas of Australia, in which
language contact between various varieties of English and Indigenous languages
has persisted for several generations. Describing and accounting for
linguistic features in terms of their origin in cases like English spoken on
Croker Island is extremely challenging because of their vast intra-communal
heterogeneity and the multiple possibilities of linguistic influence
(Mailhammer, 2015). 

Another key case can be found in the relationships between Aboriginal English
and Kriol (the English-lexified creole spoken in northern Australia), as well
as between English, Kriol, the mixed language Light Warlpiri, and the
traditional Australian language Warlpiri. Are these cases of a continuum of
lects? Or cases of separate codes/languages which may influence each other in
some way? And how? (Bundgaard-Nielsen & Baker, 2016; Bundgaard-Nielsen,
O'Shannessy, & Baker, 2015)

This conference seeks to discuss contact-induced change and variation with
tools borrowed from sociolinguistics, experimental linguistics,
psycholinguistics, language acquisition theory, and language contact theory,
pushing beyond the constraints of a traditional variety approach in order to
solve questions, such as the following:

- How can contact be modeled theoretically?
- How can contact be analysed practically?
- What are properties of contact repertoires or varieties?
- What are the theoretical and practical implications for multilingual
discourse if varieties/repertoires only partially overlap?
- What do non-overlapping varieties/repertoires mean for concepts like 'native
speaker', and 'language dominance' (both linguistic and social, see Cerruti
2014)?

We invite submissions of abstracts for a 20-minute paper presentation to our
conference website  (www.westernsydney.edu.au/hca/multilingual). The deadline
for submission has been extended to Monday 15th August. All abstracts will be
anonymously peer reviewed. Notifications will be sent out by 17th August.




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