27.372, Confs: Anthropological Ling, Socioling/Croatia

Wed Jan 20 15:32:48 UTC 2016

LINGUIST List: Vol-27-372. Wed Jan 20 2016. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 27.372, Confs: Anthropological Ling, Socioling/Croatia

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Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 10:32:36
From: Mirna Jernej Pulić [mirna.jernej at inantro.hr]
Subject: The language of privatization and the privatization of language (IUAES Inter Congress)

The language of privatization and the privatization of language (IUAES Inter Congress) 

Date: 04-May-2016 - 09-May-2016 
Location: Dubrovnik, Croatia 
Contact: Anita Sujoldzic 
Contact Email: anita.sujoldzic at inantro.hr 
Meeting URL: http://iuaes2016.com/congress-panel/panel-30-09-2015-143708-anita-sujoldzic/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Meeting Description: 

The dominant processes underlying the transformation of life in all current
societies have been that of privatization amidst globalization, including the
conversion of things, activities and ideas into commodities, or
commodification, expanding into all domains of social and cultural life. Not
surprisingly, languages are also seen now as commodities that carry different
values in the era of globalization, while under economic pressure language
practices are used as currency for the flow of capital. These new trends,
driven by marketization and privatization, impact different domains of
knowledge production and elite formation, from education, the workplace,
market and public sphere to digital communication. They deserve closer
scrutiny with respect to implications for their critical real-world issues
from linguistic, cultural and economic rights to identity.

The panel aims to critically examine both the language of privatization and
privatization of languages, and how they may lead to issues of exclusion and
exacerbate issues of access. It takes a critical approach that makes the
workings of power visible arguing that what is often lost in discourses about
understandings of knowledge production are questions of who gets to achieve
certain type of knowledge. It will focus on the role of language in knowledge
production in terms of the privatization of language under conditions of late
capitalism, and in relation to notions such as symbolic, cultural and
linguistic capital, language ideology and linguistic hierarchy. Case studies
tied to specific contexts or more theoretical reflections are welcome to
illuminate these questions.

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