28.3346, Calls: Sociolinguistics/UK

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Subject: 28.3346, Calls: Sociolinguistics/UK

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Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2017 13:06:52
From: Andreea Calude [andreea at waikato.ac.nz]
Subject: Sociolinguistics Symposium Colloquium on Loanwords

 
Full Title: Sociolinguistics Symposium Colloquium on Loanwords 

Date: 27-Jun-2018 - 30-Jun-2018
Location: Auckland, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Eline Zenner
Meeting Email: eline.zenner at kuleuven.be

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 20-Aug-2017 

Meeting Description:

Lexical borrowing as expression of culture, identity and attitude – empirical
investigations into the social meaning potential of loanwords

The use of loanwords is not merely a lexical act (filling a lexical gap in a
given language, or using a shorter word in place of a longer expression) but
also a social one – an expression of self, identify and attitude. 

By keeping track of existing equivalents in the host language for the concepts
expressed by loanwords, recent lexical borrowing research explicitly aims to
study the social meaning potential of loanwords over native equivalents
(Zenner, Speelman and Geeraerts 2014, 2012, Winter-Froemel, Onysko and Calude
2012, Calude et al 2018). What motivates language users to select a borrowed
form over a native equivalent, what is the social meaning of this choice and
how can we empirically address these questions? 

This colloquium seeks to bring into debate the interface between speakers (the
social dimension) and language (the linguistic dimension) with regard to
lexical borrowing, and to probe how language attitudes, cultural awareness,
and speaker identity influence and explain the use of loanwords. In a bid to
better understand this complex interface, the colloquium includes papers that
encompass a range of empirical methodologies (both experimental and
corpus-based) and documents a variety of contact situations. Together, the
sociolinguistic analyses of loanwords presented will help further advance our
understanding of the relationship between lexical change on the one hand and
prestige, ideology and identity on the other hand. 

Organizing Committee:

Eline Zenner (KU Leuven)
Laura Rosseel (KU Leuven)
Andreea Calude (University of Waikato) 

Calude, Andreea, Pagel, Mark, Miller, Steven. (2018). Modelling Borrowing
Success – a quantitative study of Maori loanwords. Journal of Theoretical
Linguistics and Corpus Linguistics 15: 2. 
Winter-Froemel, Esme, Onysko, Alexander. & Calude, Andreea. (2012). Why some
non-catachrestic borrowings are more successful than others: a case study of
English loans in German. In A. Koll-Stobbe & S. Knospe (eds.), Language
Contact in Times of Globalization. Frankfurt am Main: Lang. 119-144.
Zenner, Eline, Dirk Speelman & Dirk Geeraerts. (2014). 
-- (2014). A sociolinguistic analysis of borrowing in weak contact situations:
English loanwords and phrases in expressive utterances in a Dutch reality TV
show. International Journal of Bilingualism 19(3): 333-346.
-- (2012). Cognitive Sociolinguistics meets loanword research: Measuring
variation in the success of anglicisms in Dutch. Cognitive Linguistics 23(4):
749-792.


Call for Papers: 

This is a call for abstract proposals for a colloquium in Sociolinguistics
Symposium 22. Please submit your abstract of 350 words (including references)
to eline.zenner at kuleuven.be by 20 August 2017. Thank you.




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