30.3789, Calls: Sociolinguistics/Hong Kong

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Subject: 30.3789, Calls: Sociolinguistics/Hong Kong

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Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 06:24:43
From: Charley Rowe [rowe at email.unc.edu]
Subject: Multilectalism and Polyglossia Unsettled

 
Full Title: Multilectalism and Polyglossia Unsettled 

Date: 16-Jun-2020 - 19-Jun-2020
Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong 
Contact Person: Charley Rowe
Meeting Email: rowe at email.unc.edu

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 13-Oct-2019 

Meeting Description:

Multilectalism and Polyglossia Unsettled
Charley Rowe

In many societies, multilectalism, particularly in the form of polyglossia, is
a reality to be managed in daily life. While diglossia (or polyglossia) in
some communities is relatively stable, in others it is shifting rapidly, and
in ways that are complex and, in some cases, unexpected and unpredictable.
Realities currently under discussion for some language societies include
koineization, dual-continua diglossia, diglossic breakdown and/or shift,
dialect moribundity, ideology, and the interaction of these which makes
classification difficult--particularly as a reflection of the speed of
sociolinguistic change. 

Some of these changes are reflections of a society’s n-glossic/n-lectal
status, e.g., immigration (including intermarriage), which may involve notions
of transfer of the immigrants’ home country’s sociolinguistic situation and
its concomitant linguistic attitudes and values; “organic” changes (so,
“natural” changes from within), and shifts in prestige orientation--so, the
levels of prestige of each language variety relative to the other(s) in the
same society. 

The panel seeks to investigate the complexities of current (putatively)
diglossic and other, similar multilectal states in various societies, and to
situate and document their place in society as a whole. 

Keywords: diglossia, koineization, language and society, moribundity,
multilectalism.


Call for Papers:

Abstracts for themed panel: 

If you would like to contribute to this panel, please contact the panel
convenor by October 13, 2019 allowing time for convenor’s submission from US
(New York - EST) to Hong Kong (12 hours ahead).

Charley Rowe (rowe at email.unc.edu)
Department of English and Comparative Literature
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

and

Cyprus Acquisition Team
Department of English Studies
University of Cyprus




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