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Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2020 15:38:49
From: Anna-Christine Weirich [Anna-Christine.Weirich at ucs.inrs.ca]
Subject: ON THE NOTION OF ‘HAVING A VOICE’ IN SOCIAL RESEARCH: BETWEEN MORAL IMPERATIVE AND SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS

 
Full Title: ON THE NOTION OF ‘HAVING A VOICE’ IN SOCIAL RESEARCH: BETWEEN MORAL IMPERATIVE AND SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS 
Short Title: Voice2020 

Date: 28-May-2020 - 29-May-2020
Location: Montréal (Québec), Canada 
Contact Person: Anna-Christine Weirich
Meeting Email: Anna-Christine.Weirich at ucs.inrs.ca
Web Site: https://tinyurl.com/Voix2020 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Mar-2020 

Meeting Description:

How useful is the notion ‘voice’ in social and sociolinguistic theory? ‘Having
voice’, ‘finding one’s voice’, ‘listening to voices’ and even ‘giving voice’
are frequent claims in critical pedagogy and in contexts of language learning
sensitive to discrimination and equity (Juffermans/Van der Aa 2013; Morrell
2008; Pennycook 2001; Rampton/Cook/Holmes 2018). Those are also recurring
notions in social and urban policies when it comes to recognizing and
valuating the perspectives of less privileged persons. Researchers who are
aware of global inequalities in knowledge production are concerned with
finding and empowering non-western scholars and opening their academic
contexts to uncommon approaches that challenge taken-for-granted
epistemologies (Bell 2017). To do so, they often draw on the notion of
‘voice’. This entails that ‘voice’ has become both an object of study and a
political and moral concept. How far can it be theoretically founded in order
to support thorough analysis of social and sociolinguistic inequalities and
the struggles of individuals and groups to overcome them?
Since the founding works of sociolinguistics in the 1960s, ‘voice’ has been a
central term in order to define the subject of (socio-)linguistic inequalities
(having a voice or not) and the aim of language learning processes (“develop a
voice worth listening to”, Hymes 1996). In this tradition, it is also a key
term to more recent sociolinguistic studies on “linguistic repertoires” (Bell
2013; Blommaert/Backus 2013; Busch 2016; Creese/Blackledge 2010;
Rampton/Cook/Holmes 2018) in translocal or ‘superdiverse’ contexts. In these
ethnographic and anthropological approaches ‘voice’ names what is at stake for
speakers.
However, we hardly find detailed theoretical discussions about what exactly
‘voice’ is, and how the notion can be integrated into methodological frames
for analysing sociolinguistic inequalities.
The transdisciplinary conference proposes to provide an opportunity to discuss
whether it is necessary and useful to develop a nuanced theoretical account of
‘voice’ as a notion with epistemological value for analysis of ethnographic
linguistic data. What would such an account look like and to which contexts
could it be applied? Should the concept rather be treated as one that helps to
formulate the critical claims of sociologists and sociolinguists while other
theoretical concepts would be applied in analysis?  Or does the rich
conceptual treasure of sociolinguistic notions already provide us with
sufficient means to investigate ‘having a voice’? Which concepts remain to be
better developed?

KEYNOTE
Cécile Van den Avenne (Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle Paris 3)

'''Indigenous' Voices - Or how to render silenced voices audible.
Sociolinguistics in colonial archives''


Call for Papers: 

SUBMISSION OF TITLES & ABSTRACTS: March 15, 2020
https://tinyurl.com/Voix2020 (max. 300 words)

DECISIONS: March 31, 2020

REGISTRATION AS AUDIENCE: until April 30, 2020
https://tinyurl.com/Voix2020 
No registration fees.

CONTACT: Anna-Christine.Weirich at ucs.inrs.ca

WHERE? MONTRÉAL - Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS),
Centre Urbanisation Culture Société

ORGANIZERS: Anna-Christine Weirich (INRS & Goethe-University, Frankfurt) & 
Nicole Gallant (INRS)

FINANCED BY: Volkswagen Stiftung (Germany)




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