27.4909, Calls: Sociolinguistics, Text/Corpus Linguistics/Czech Republic

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Subject: 27.4909, Calls: Sociolinguistics, Text/Corpus Linguistics/Czech Republic

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Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 15:26:52
From: Tobias Bernaisch [Tobias.J.Bernaisch at anglistik.uni-giessen.de]
Subject: Genderlectal Differentiation in the Outer and Expanding Circles? Corpus-linguistic Explorations

 
Full Title: Genderlectal Differentiation in the Outer and Expanding Circles? Corpus-linguistic Explorations 
Short Title: Workshop of ICAME 38 

Date: 24-May-2017 - 24-May-2017
Location: Prague, Czech Republic 
Contact Person: Tobias Bernaisch
Meeting Email: Tobias.J.Bernaisch at anglistik.uni-giessen.de
Web Site: http://icame.ff.cuni.cz/pre-conference-workshops/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 31-Dec-2016 

Meeting Description:

This is to bring to your attention the call for papers for the ICAME 38
pre-conference workshop ''Genderlectal differentiation in the Outer and
Expanding Circles? Corpus-linguistic explorations'' to take place in Prague on
24 May 2017. 

The ways in which females and males use linguistic resources is a seemingly
timeless and all-pervasive topic in the popular media (e.g. Men Are from Mars,
Women Are from Venus, Gray (1992)). Academic examinations of present-day
English – be they anecdotal or empirical – have similarly sought to delineate
inter alia phonetic (cf. Weinberg & Bennett 1971), lexical (cf. Lakoff 1977)
and grammatical (cf. Cheshire 1978) characteristics of the two gender groups
for several decades. As women have repeatedly been empirically profiled as
leaders of linguistic change (cf. e.g. Labov 1990; Nevalainen 1996;
Raumolin-Brunberg & Nurmi 1997), it is hardly surprising that there is also a
pronounced interest in genderlectal variation in the history of English (see
e.g. Pallander-Collin (cf. 1999: 125) discussing spelling variation or
Nevalainen (2002) on pragmatic principles of address forms in Early Modern
English).

Despite extensive research in the field, studies of gender and English have
generally relied on native speaker data – with a few laudable exceptions such
as Lange (cf. 2012: 189–191) profiling Indian women as linguistic innovators
in their outer-circle variety. Thus, the proposed workshop widens the scope of
genderlectal research via the systematic exploration of English-as-a-second-
(ESL) and English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) varieties by addressing the
following and related research questions in an empirically valid fashion:

- What is the (statistical) importance and role of gender as a sociolinguistic
variable in comparison to others such as age, social class, ethnicity, etc. in
structural choices in ESL and EFL varieties and do results imply that gender
lects are robust subcategories of outer- and expanding-circle varieties
- Are there differences in how females and males contribute to linguistic
changes in outer- and expanding-circle varieties and what implications do
these findings have for the alleged paradigm gap between ESL and EFL varieties
- Does methodological triangulation of corpus analyses with e.g. survey data,
eye-tracking experiments, etc. in outer- and expanding-circle varieties enable
the identification of females or males as agents of linguistic change in a
statistically sound manner when the change concerned is only in its infancy
and relevant corpus-based frequencies thus very low
- To what extent do indigenous cultural differences across the sexes (e.g. in
Japanese with gender-specific sentence-final particles (cf. Jorden 1974))
influence female and male structural choices across various ESL and EFL
varieties and what are resulting implications for the definition of gender in
relation to biological sex across the three Kachruvian (1985) circles?


Call for Papers:

Abstracts should be between 400 and 500 words in length (excluding
references). Given the strict limit in terms of the maximum number of ICAME
delegates, work-in-progress reports can unfortunately not be considered and
single-authored papers are particularly welcome. Abstracts should be sent to
Tobias.J.Bernaisch at anglistik.uni-giessen.de and the deadline for abstract
submission is 31 December 2016. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out
by the end of January 2017.

The full call for papers for the ICAME 38 pre-conference workshop
''Genderlectal differentiation in the Outer and Expanding Circles?
Corpus-linguistic explorations'' can be accessed via
http://icame.ff.cuni.cz/pre-conference-workshops/.




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