30.629, Calls: General Linguistics/United Kingdom

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LINGUIST List: Vol-30-629. Fri Feb 08 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.629, Calls: General Linguistics/United Kingdom

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Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2019 00:05:22
From: Malin Christina Wikstroem [malin.wikstroem at abdn.ac.uk]
Subject: Language and Identity: Intersections between Linguistics, Ethnology and Translation

 
Full Title: Language and Identity: Intersections between Linguistics, Ethnology and Translation 

Date: 30-Mar-2019 - 30-Mar-2019
Location: Aberdeen, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Malin Christina Wikstroem
Meeting Email: malin.wikstroem at abdn.ac.uk

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 25-Feb-2019 

Meeting Description:

The aim of our event is to encourage research and initiate discussion on the
topic of language and identity. We also hope to bring more attention to the
newly established subsection of translation studies at University of Aberdeen,
which currently falls under the umbrella of linguistics studies. The area of
translation studies at the university, mirroring society in general, is a
growing field – slowly becoming independent from the field of linguistics. At
this conference, we wish to discuss the links and intersections between
linguistics, language teaching and translation.


Call for Papers:

In today’s modern society we develop identities related to our use of
language, not only in relation to code switching within our native languages,
but also across different languages. At the same time as individuals are
gaining multiple identities through language acquisition, others are losing
their identities to decreased use or extinction of their native tongues.
Through globalisation the population of the world is interacting more across
linguistic and cultural boundaries than ever before: through learning foreign
languages and reading translated texts. How does this increased interaction
with other languages affect our identities?

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

- Language acquisition
- Subjectivity and reflexivity
- Collaboration
- Linguistic ethnography
- Dialectology
- Language attitudes
- Minority languages
- Standard vs. local dialects
- Bilingualism and multilingualism
- Translation and linguistics
- Translation and language teaching
- Training and education of translators
- The role of the translators
- Manipulation and translation
- Language, identity, gender and sexuality
- Identity and literature

The keynote speaker for our event will be Dr. Angela Creese, professor of
Linguistic Ethnography in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of
Stirling.

Important Dates:

Submission of abstracts: by Monday 25 February 
Informing applicants of outcome: Friday 8 March
Registration deadline: Friday 22 March
Submission of PowerPoint: Friday 29 March at 5pm

Individual presentations should be no more than twenty minutes in length,
including five minutes at the end for questions. Please send an abstract of
250-350 words and a brief biography to malin.wikstroem at abdn.ac.uk, by 5pm on
Monday 25 February. Submissions are open to all researchers at every level of
study, but we particularly encourage submissions from masters and postgraduate
students.




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