28.440, Calls: Anthro Ling, Lang Acquisition, Ling & Lit, Socioling/USA

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Subject: 28.440, Calls: Anthro Ling, Lang Acquisition, Ling & Lit, Socioling/USA

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Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 17:20:37
From: Augusto Lorenzino [galorenz at temple.edu]
Subject: Forum on Language Change at Modern Language Association 2018

 
Full Title: Forum on Language Change at Modern Language Association 2018 
Short Title: MLA Language Change Forum 

Date: 04-Jan-2018 - 07-Jan-2018
Location: New York City, NY, USA 
Contact Person: Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino
Meeting Email: galorenz at temple.edu
Web Site: https://www.mla.org/Convention/Planning-a-Convention-Session/Calls-for-Papers 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Ling & Literature; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 08-Mar-2017 

Meeting Description:

The Modern Language Association has chosen “States of Insecurity” as the
presidential theme for the Annual Convention in New York City, on January 4-7,
2018.  The theme of the conference will enable the Forum on Language Change to
engage with the notion of linguistic changes, practices and patterns as the
outcome of different types global and local migrations


Call for Papers: 

The Forum on Language Change is accepting proposals on ''Language Change:
Global (Im-) migration and Linguistic Insecurity'' for the 2018 MLA in New
York City. With increased immigration to developed countries in recent decades
we have seen a proliferation in the number of languages, cultures,
ethnicities, religions, nationalities and countries represented by the
immigrants.  

We seek papers that examine how global migration has an impact on language at
the individual and community level contributing to linguistic insecurity and
other language-related changes, such as language maintenance, death, choice,
lingua franca / ethnolects' development and other phenomena resulting from
migrant contact situations.  How is language policy used to assimilate or
marginalize immigrants?  How do natives and immigrants use linguistic and
sociocultural knowledge to interact, or not, with each other?  How does
language proximity between the immigrant's language and the host country's
play a role in migrants' decision where to emigrate?  These are some of the
questions to be raised in the session to help us understand the complex
relations between various types of migration and language change.

Approaches addressing the theoretical and practical relevance of migration in
language change from different perspectives (literature, anthropology,
sociology, geography, economics, and related areas) are especially welcome.

Please send a 300-word abstract by March 8, to Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino
(galorenz at temple.edu).




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