29.4789, Calls: Romance; Applied Linguistics, Phonology, Pragmatics, Text/Corpus Linguistics/Germany

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Subject: 29.4789, Calls: Romance; Applied Linguistics, Phonology, Pragmatics, Text/Corpus Linguistics/Germany

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Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2018 15:04:29
From: Oliver Wicher [oliver.wicher at upb.de]
Subject: Linguistic Standards in Romance FL Teaching

 
Full Title: Linguistic Standards in Romance FL Teaching 

Date: 29-Sep-2019 - 02-Oct-2019
Location: Kassel, Germany 
Contact Person: Oliver Wicher
Meeting Email: oliver.wicher at upb.de
Web Site: https://www.uni-kassel.de/fb02/institute/romanistik/fachgebiete/romanische-sprachwissenschaft/romanistentag-2019/sektionen/sektion-20.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Phonology; Pragmatics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Language Family(ies): Romance 

Call Deadline: 31-Dec-2018 

Meeting Description:

Identifying and reconstructing linguistic standards and norms has become a
well-known topic in foreign language didactics - and has become popular under
the slogan quel français enseigner / que español enseñar / quale italiano
insegnare. Take, for instance, diatopic variation (e.g. Jones 2011), a topic
that Romance FL didactics in Germany has been tackling for some time
(Frings/Schöpp 2011, Leitzke-Ungerer/Polzin-Haumann 2017), asking how
learners' so-called receptive variety competence can be promoted, i.e., the
ability to understand (mostly regional) L2 varieties. Corpus linguistics has
provided another view on linguistic standards, permitting a lexicogrammatical
approach to language based on teaching those units that speakers actually use
(O'Keeffe et al. 2007). This often involves a pragmatic dimension, as
(learner) corpus linguistic studies have, for instance, identified the
relevance of discourse markers in conversation (Jones et al. 2018). 

These didactic ''standard issues'' are reflected in the linguistic discourse
(Coseriu 1989). For instance, Stehl (2012) makes the case for the subdivision
into two types of standards one has to distinguish: a prescriptive one, based
on a formal-written variety (exogenous) and a pragmatically-communicative one,
based on how speakers actually use language (endogenous). Against this
background, it seems necessary to deal again with categories such as
'(in)correct' or 'bad use of language' (think of examples such as subjunctive
use in Romance). Note in this respect that former approaches to reconstructing
linguistic standards have also proved to be questionable: Instead of
intuition-driven acceptability judgments, corpus linguistic and more
sophisticated psycholinguistic methods have paved the way for a more
empirically substantiated approach to determining what standards in language
use are (Schütze 2016). 

The session, part of the Romanistentag 2019, aims to show that applied
linguistics can offer answers to didactic ''standard issues'' in order to
improve Romance FL didactics. We start from the idea that only an endogenous
standard serves as an adequate reference for communicative FL didactics and
thus for the development of intercultural communicative competences. 

It is thanks to corpus linguistics that we can provide frequency-based answers
to the questions of which units are to be taught, how the artificial division
of vocabulary and grammar can be overcome and how textbooks can be optimized
(Meunier/Gouverneur 2009, Etienne/Sax 2009, Edmonds 2015). In the field of
variational linguistics, one focus is the analysis of pronunciation phenomena,
their development of regional standard realizations and how this informs the
promotion of receptive variety competence (e.g. the PFC project, Pustka 2009).
Empirical studies may also investigate how textbooks represent pronunciation
(Vialleton/Lewis 2014). Finally, pragmatic studies may analyze the use of
discourse markers (Siepmann 2005) or aspects of intercultural pragmatics
(Bührig/ten Thije 2006). 



Call for Papers:

We therefore invite all interested researchers to submit contributions on
identifying and reconstructing linguistic standards from the following
combinable areas, clearly relating to the application of Romance FL didactics:
 
- receptive variety competence and variational linguistics; 
- pronunciation competence and phonetics/phonology; 
- pragmatic competence and pragmatics; 
- vocabulary, grammar (lexicogrammar) and corpus linguistics. 

Abstracts for talks should be no longer than 3000 characters (including spaces
and references) and should be sent until 31 December to Oliver Wicher
(oliver.wicher at upb.de). Talks and discussions will be in German or a Romance
language.




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