30.2075, Confs: Anthropological Linguistics, Sociolinguistics/Germany

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Subject: 30.2075, Confs: Anthropological Linguistics, Sociolinguistics/Germany

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Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 14:09:00
From: Monika Reif [reif at uni-landau.de]
Subject: Multilingualism, Translanguaging and Language Contact

 
Multilingualism, Translanguaging and Language Contact 

Date: 03-Aug-2020 - 06-Aug-2020 
Location: Landau in der Pfalz, Germany 
Contact: Martin Pütz 
Contact Email: puetz at uni-landau.de 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Meeting Description: 

LAUD 2020

Theme Session 1:
Multilingualism, translanguaging and language contact in Africa

The Symposium challenges the idea of languages as discrete, countable entities
and favours the concept of translanguaging as a new approach to
multilingualism. Translanguaging assumes that bilinguals/multilinguals have
only one complex linguistic repertoire from which they select features that
are socioculturally appropriate. Thus, this session is concerned with the
nature of the translanguaging repertoires of people in the African continent
(African languages, varieties of African Englishes, pidgin and creole
languages, languages of wider communication, etc.) by focussing on language
policy/planning issues, language contact phenomena (such as borrowing,
codeswitching and codemixing) as well as linguistic landscape studies, i.e.
issues of visual multilingualism in the public space.

We invite abstracts for presentations on the following sub-themes:

- multilingualism, translanguaging and polyglossia in urban and rural Africa
- effects of the spread of English from colonialism to the “New World Order”
- language policy/planning, ideologies and attitudes
- linguistic landscapes in urban African spaces 
- the sociolinguistics of the city
- African languages in legislation and policies
- language contact and diversity: codeswitching, codemixing, borrowing
- sociolinguistic investigations of pidgin and creole languages 
- languages of wider communication
- African sign languages
 






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