28.5350, Calls: Anthro Ling, Historical Ling, Lang Doc, Socioling/Switzerland

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Subject: 28.5350, Calls: Anthro Ling, Historical Ling, Lang Doc, Socioling/Switzerland

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Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 23:23:32
From: Danae Perez [danae.perez at es.uzh.ch]
Subject: Postcolonial Language Studies

 
Full Title: Postcolonial Language Studies: Changes and Challenges 

Date: 04-Jun-2018 - 06-Jun-2018
Location: Zurich, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Danae Perez
Meeting Email: iacpl at es.uzh.ch

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Language Documentation; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 28-Jan-2018 

Meeting Description:

In postcolonial communities, both colonial history and the experience of
decolonization shape cultural norms, transmission of knowledge, and
communicative practices. While forces of social change, such as colonialism,
globalization, or Americanization, threaten to weaken community ties and
endanger linguistic diversity (e.g. Harrison 2007; Edwards 2010), marginalized
communities have shown resistance and emancipation by adapting and
appropriating new forms of communication and enriching local practices
(Mufwene 2008). This has challenged earlier scholarly approaches to
postcolonial communities as well as current linguistic scholarship, which
seems to limit itself to traditional analytic approaches that are insufficient
to fully grasp the linguistic outcomes of these social forces. 

This conference aims at bringing together researchers working on all aspects
of language use and linguistic practices in colonial and postcolonial
settings. Our goal is to explore, describe, and better understand how changing
social conditions shape linguistic practices in colonial and postcolonial
contexts. In so doing, we want to critically evaluate a number of basic,
perhaps Eurocentric, assumptions, such as the loss of linguistic diversity, or
the role of the researcher as an active agent within the context in which they
work.


Call for Papers:

We invite submissions for 20-minute presentations on empirical, theoretical,
or methodological research on any aspect of language use in colonial and
postcolonial contexts. These may include, but are not limited to, language
policies, language ideologies, and communicative practices in colonial and
postcolonial settings, as well as structural aspects of postcolonial
varieties. We are particularly interested in critical views on basic
assumptions in both linguistic theory and methodology. Please send your
300-word abstracts (excl. references) to iacpl at es.uzh.ch by January 28, 2018.




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