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Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2020 17:51:48
From: Anabella-Gloria Niculescu-Gorpin [anabellaniculescu at hotmail.com]
Subject: Theoretical, Applied and Experimental Perspectives on the Influence of English Today
Full Title: Theoretical, Applied and Experimental Perspectives on the Influence of English Today
Short Title: TAEPET
Date: 26-Aug-2020 - 29-Aug-2020
Location: Bucharest, Romania
Contact Person: Anabella-Gloria Anabella-Gloria
Meeting Email: Anabella-Gloria
Web Site: http://www.sle2020.eu/downloads/workshops/WS%2010%20Theoretical,%20Applied%20and%20Experimental%20Perspectives.pdf
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Subject Language(s): English (eng)
Language Family(ies): Adelbert Range
Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2020
Meeting Description:
Even a perfunctory browsing through the research literature reveals an
incredibly high number of articles tackling the current influence of English
on various languages, thus making it a self-evident truth that over the last
decades English has acquired the status of a true global language. This could
only please those who have dreamt of a universal language, but there are
numerous people who have swallowed the idea that the influence of English is
unavoidable with a pinch of salt.
The influence of English on various languages has been the topic of numerous
studies in all subfields of linguistics and related fields over the last
decades: Otheguy and Zentella (2012) discuss Spanish use of personal pronouns
and more complex phenomena triggered by Spanish/English bilingualism in New
York; Konieczna (2012), Jaworski (2014) focus on word formation and other
morphological aspects of Polish, Vakareliyska & Kapatsinski (2014) focus on
Bulgarian, Veisbergs (2006) on Latvian and Saugera (2017) on particular aspect
of French, whereas Niculescu-Gorpin and Vasileanu (2018) discuss
experimentally the processing of luxury Anglicisms in Romanian, to name just a
few.
However, the topic is far from being exhausted as the influence is on-going
and it is generating significant language change that can be studied from a
myriad of perspectives ranging from purely descriptive or normative ones to
language acquisition or psycholinguistics, thus discussing the complex and
multifaceted influence of English on various languages and developing new
insights on the phenomenon.
Such a pervasive influence of a language on other languages has led to a new
and unique situation of intensified bi- and multilingualism in the target
languages, an aspect that calls for discussion. The phenomenon has deep
ramifications for all speakers and it changes the way their mother tongue
functions and the way they use their mother tongue.
The workshop aims to bring together researchers whose research focuses on the
current transformation many languages undergo due to immediate or mediated
contact with English and on the synchronic and/or interdisciplinary study of
Anglicisms, lexical or other. We thus encourage any contribution, be it
descriptive or multidisciplinary, normative or experimental that discusses the
influence of English on other languages and brings new insights into the
phenomenon.
We intend to attract researchers focusing on the English influence on any
language to be able to provide a sound overview of the current globalising
effect of English that triggers a vast array of language changes that can be
studied from different perspectives. And this is the underlying reason that
has made us launch a call for papers that have at their core only the English
influence, and not a particular theoretical approach. The phenomenon under
discussing here needs a heterogenous and multidisciplinary approach.
For the purpose of this workshop, Anglicisms are defined as any spelling,
phonetic, morpho-syntactic or lexical phenomenon whose origin can be traced
back to English and which have not been completely adapted and embraced by the
target language.
By considering the current bi- and multilingual situations from most countries
due to globalization, the national language policies and local reactions to
the English influence, and the lexical, morpho-syntactic and other changes
that are triggered by the influence of English, we are trying to offer some
possible explanations for the speakers’ attitudes towards using their mother
tongue vs. the English language, for the way in English discourse markers
borrowed in other languages behave in the target language, offering a variety
of approaches to the phenomenon under discussion. We also focus on
experimental studies of, as well as on more descriptive and theoretical
approaches to the English influence.
The abstracts that are currently building up the present workshop are centred
on the speakers’ perception and processing of the English influence, be it by
means of psycholinguistic experiments, or by corpus analysis. The corpora the
authors build up their analyses on are made up of real life texts and speech,
some of them compiled from the very modern and productive new environment of
social interaction and communication: social media (Facebook, Twitter, blogs,
etc.), a hybrid communicative setting that is currently systematically studied
as it opens up new interactional situations, that most often are online
interactions between the participants, but they do not presuppose direct or
face-to-face interactions.
As the main objective of the workshop is to offer a complex overview of the
influence of the English language, and to provide some possible explanations
related to the effects of this influence, we particularly welcome submissions
on the English influence on any language provided they offer an explicit and
considerable theoretical, applied or experimental contribution to the issue at
hand.
The proposed topics are listed below, but we are open to other approaches or
perspectives that may be relevant to the study of the English influence and of
Anglicisms:
- speakers’ attitudes towards mother tongue vs. the English language
- experimental approaches to the English influence, to Anglicisms etc.
- bilingualism, multilingualism and the English influence
- (possible) psycho- and socio-linguistic explanations for language change
phenomena triggered by the English influence
- lexical Anglicisms: diachronic, synchronic, normative and/or descriptive
studies
- English discourse markers borrowed in other languages and their behaviour
- code-switching or mixed languages
- ‘luxury’ vs. ‘necessary’ Anglicisms
- the English influence, Anglicisms and corpus analysis
- national language policies and local reactions to the English influence
- lexical, morpho-syntactic and other changes due to the influence of English,
and their study (any approach)
We aim to turn the papers that will make up the workshop into a collective
volume discussing different issues of the current pervasive English influence.
The workshop Theoretical, Applied and Experimental Perspectives on the
Influence of English Today proposes an interdisciplinary, round exposé of the
different aspects of the English influence on other languages, focusing on
sociological, discoursal, and psychological aspects of the phenomenon that has
led to new instances of grammaticalization, variation within and across
languages, as well as pragmatic shifts.
We strongly believe that the workshop is open to other researchers and it can
be extended should other authors submit their papers.
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