29.1185, Calls: Sociolinguistics/UK

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LINGUIST List: Vol-29-1185. Thu Mar 15 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.1185, Calls: Sociolinguistics/UK

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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 16:55:24
From: emmanuelle Labeau [e.labeau at aston.ac.uk]
Subject: French in Multilingual Urban Centres

 
Full Title: French in Multilingual Urban Centres 

Date: 12-Sep-2018 - 13-Sep-2018
Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: emmanuelle Labeau
Meeting Email: e.labeau at aston.ac.uk
Web Site: http://www.aston.ac.uk/lss/research/research-projects/corpus-de-franais-parl-bruxellois/french-in-multilingual-urban-centres/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics 

Subject Language(s): French (fra)

Language Family(ies): Romance 

Call Deadline: 30-Apr-2018 

Meeting Description:

This two-day conference will conclude two pilot studies, French as Spoken in
Brussels, funded by the British Academy (2013-2016) and Back for the future of
the Corpus de français parlé à Bruxelles, funded by the Modern Humanities
Research Association (2017-2018). The first project aimed to conduct, to
transcribe and to disseminate online sociolinguistic interviews with born and
bred inhabitants of Brussels in order to provide an authentic snapshot of
French as it is spoken nowadays in Brussels, the second to make available
online the transcriptions of ethnolinguistic interviews collected in Brussels
in 1989.

In addition to presenting the projects’ results, the conference’s purposes are
to offer networking opportunities to researchers working on French in
multilingual urban centres, and a springboard for new collaborations and
research directions.


Call for Papers:

The conference welcomes any presentation on French in a multilingual urban
environment, irrespective of its focus: contact phenomena, changes or
linguistic planning.  Presentations about existing or planned corpora and
resources are welcome. More specifically, the programme will revolve around 4
specific areas

Research Strands:

Strand 1: Language policy in officially multilingual spaces
In many parts of the worlds, French officially co-exists with other languages.
 Autochthonous language, language of implantation or of (post)colonisation,
how is the status of French evolving? This strand welcomes discussions around
issues of language planning and its fallouts.

Strand 2: Spaces of language contact
The vagaries of history and migration movements have put French in contact
with other languages, some of which are typologically very remote. What are
the consequences on discursive practices including French? Discussions about
code-switching and code mixing would be relevant in this section.

Strand 3: Influence of language contact on language evolution
Language contact can lead to adopting foreign features but also to encouraging
word coinage. In extreme cases, it can result in forsaking one language for
another. Phenomena of that type will be addressed here.

Strand 4: Linguistic Data
In the last half century, large corpora have emerged and developed thanks to
technological development. This strand will be devoted to the presentation and
the exploitation of corpora of French in multilingual spaces of any kind.

Submissions:

A 400-word abstract (excluding references) will provide the background for the
paper, the research question(s) and an overview of the results.
It will be submitted through Easychair (https://easychair.org/cfp/FMM1), by 30
April 2018.




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