27.2808, Calls: Anthropological Ling, Discourse Analysis, General Ling, Historical Ling, Typology/Switzerland

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Subject: 27.2808, Calls: Anthropological Ling, Discourse Analysis, General Ling, Historical Ling, Typology/Switzerland

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Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2016 11:32:32
From: Agnes Kolmer [info at spur.uzh.ch]
Subject: Spatial Boundaries and Transitions in Language and Interaction: Linguistics and Geography

Full Title: Spatial Boundaries and Transitions in Language and Interaction: Linguistics and Geography 
Short Title: BTLI2017 

Date: 23-Apr-2017 - 28-Apr-2017
Location: Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Charlotte Meisner
Meeting Email: boundaries2017 at spur.uzh.ch
Web Site: http://www.spur.uzh.ch/boundaries 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Typology 

Call Deadline: 31-Oct-2016 

Meeting Description:

Spatial Boundaries and Transitions in Language and Interaction - Perspectives
from Linguistics and Geography

Spatial boundaries can be considered as real or imaginary lines separating two
things. Hence we may find natural, social, linguistic or geographical
boundaries. Boundaries are often visualized on maps, and the scientific
discipline most obviously concerned with them is geography. Within
linguistics, the fields of dialectology and typology are traditionally
concerned with boundaries, in that they mark linguistic areas on maps. Aside
from this local scale, interactional spaces emerge in concrete social
situations. It is this micro level of face-to-face interaction and its
delimination of being ''inside'' and ''outside'' that provides the focus of
interactional linguistics. Linguistic boundaries are never clear-cut, but are
better characterised as overlapping transitional spaces because of myriads of
interaction episodes arising from migration and urbanisation. Moreover, human
interaction is being transformed by new communication technologies dissolving
physical boundaries, while socio-cultural and linguistic ones may persist. 

The interdisciplinary symposium ''Spatial boundaries and transitions in
language and interaction'', organized by the University Research Priority
Program (URPP) ''Language and Space'' (University of Zurich) will combine
perspectives from geography and linguistics, bringing together eminent experts
and highly qualified young researchers from various linguistic fields
(including contact linguistics, dialectology, sociolinguistics, cognitive
linguistics and conversation analysis); cultural and human geography,
anthropology, and geographical information science. It will address the role
of boundaries and transitions at different levels, theoretically as well as
empirically, and will bring focus to the methodological underpinnings to a
wide range of relevant approaches.

Core Topics and Sessions:
The relevant disciplinary perspectives with regard to spatial boundaries will
be covered by talks from eminent experts, namely the roles of spatial
boundaries within linguistic areas, within human geography, within
interactional spaces, and within GIScience. The core topics of the conference
will be developed within four sessions dedicated to different ways of
conceiving, and representing spatial boundaries. The sessions will be
introduced by renowned experts in their field of research. An evening talk
open to the interested public will discuss very current issues of migration,
borders and boundaries from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Invited Speakers:
Peter Auer
Christian Berndt
Nick Enfield
Frans Gregersen
Tom Güldemann
Setha Low
Dan Montello
Barbara Tversky
Ruth Wodak

Workshop:
The conference also contains a one-day workshop entitled ''Inferring and
Visualizing boundaries from data''. It is conceived and hosted by the URPP
members C. Derungs (GISLab), W. Kesselheim (VideoLab), and T. Samardžić
(CorpusLab). 

Organization:
E. Glaser, H. Hausendorf, P. Longley, A. Kolmer, Ch. Meisner, R. Zaugg

Scientific Committee:
W. Behr, Ch. Dürscheid, E. Glaser, S. Günthner, J. Harrington, H. Hausendorf,
Ch. Heath, M. Hundt, W. Kesselheim, A. Lameli, A. Ledgeway, A. Linke, P.
Longley, A. Lüdeling, D. Nübling, D. Preston, R. Purves, H. Ruch, J. Salmons,
T. Samardžić, D. Schreier, B. Sonnenhauser, B. Tschofen, R. van Gijn, R.
Watts, R. Weibel, P. Widmer

Call for Papers: 

We call for papers in the following sessions:

Session 1: Physical boundaries in language and interaction
Session 2: Boundaries of linguistic areas and socio-cultural interaction
Session 3: Mountain and valley: categorization of geographic objects from
multiple perspectives
Session 4: Shifting boundaries in time and space

We refer to the conference website for detailed session descriptions:
http://www.spur.uzh.ch/en/veranstaltungen/workshops/2017/boundaries/proposals.
html

Abstract submission for session talks:

Abstracts should be 400-500 words (English) and submitted in PDF-format until
October 31, 2016. Reviewing will be double-blind, so please refrain from
including author's names or affiliations. Please submit your abstract to:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=btli2017 (account needs to be created
if not already happened).

You will have to decide for which of the sessions you would like to submit an
abstract. Please indicate the session chosen in the abstract. For the online
submission it is mandatory to provide key words. In order to facilitate the
review process please make sure you indicate the following key words depending
on the session you choose:

Session 1: physical boundaries, social areas, interactional spaces
Session 2: linguistic areas, socio-cultural interaction, language contact
Session 3: mountain and valley, geographic objects, categorization
Session 4: shifting boundaries, dialect contact, diffusion

Important Dates:

Abstract submission deadline: October 31, 2016
Notification of acceptance: December 2016
Registration: October 1, 2016 to January 31, 2017
Conference dates: April 23- 28, 2017

It is planned to publish selected papers of the conference within a special
issue of the Journal of Linguistic Geography.

Link to pdf-version of call for papers:
http://www.spur.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:0c8bb3a1-39d2-4b21-bea0-585db54f737e/CfpBoundar
ies2017-MonteVerita.pdf
Link to conference website: http://www.spur.uzh.ch/boundaries

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