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Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 15:15:01
From: Lena Zipp [languageattitudes at es.uzh.ch]
Subject: Symposium on Research Methods in Language Attitudes

 
Symposium on Research Methods in Language Attitudes 

Date: 02-Jul-2020 - 03-Jul-2020 
Location: Zurich, Switzerland 
Contact: Lena Zipp 
Contact Email: languageattitudes at es.uzh.ch 
Meeting URL: https://www.languageattitudes.uzh.ch 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Meeting Description: 

In the current context of rapidly increasing globalisation and migration,
where contact with different linguistic groups is becoming the norm for more
and more individuals and communities, language attitudes research is gaining
great importance – because language attitudes not only mirror but also affect
intergroup relations in contact situations. Due to their pervasiveness,
language attitudes are an integral part of the social psychology of language,
the sociology of language, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, and
communication studies. Given the prevalence of language attitudes and the
highly interdisciplinary nature of their studies, this symposium will foster
exchanges about methodological protocols and innovations as well as best
practices in language attitudes research. 

The symposium will consist of several panels of talks and discussions by
invited experts from around the world as well as an open-call poster session
for postgraduate and early career researchers working on language attitudes.
For postgraduate and early career researchers, the symposium is an excellent
opportunity to present methodological aspects of their own work and receive
expert feedback. 

The invited talks and discussions deal with the three main types of methods by
means of which language attitudes can be investigated – the analysis of the
societal treatment of languages, direct methods, and indirect methods of
attitude elicitation – as well as key overarching issues in language attitudes
research. The methods talks and discussions will cover both well-established
as well as cutting-edge approaches (including various types of ethnographic
and observational studies, questionnaires, interviews, variable analysis, and
different experimental methods). The talks and discussions regarding
overarching issues will deal with aspects of attitudes research that go beyond
individual methods (namely researching language attitudes in multilingual
communities, in signing communities, and based on historical data, as well as
the use of priming and mixed-methods approaches in language attitudes
research).

Case studies based on the experts’ own research will be presented to
illustrate key methodological issues. These case studies deal with a wide
range of languages and varieties: Danish, German, Dutch, Yiddish, Breton,
Welsh, Cypriot Greek, Cypriot Turkish, Kurdish, Spanish, Catalan, Galician,
European and Quebec French, English in the UK, the US, Canada, New Zealand and
the South Pacific, as well as International, American, Indonesian and Flemish
Sign Language.

Fields: social psychology of language, sociology of language,
sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, and communication studies

Deadline for poster abstracts: 28 February 2020
Notification of acceptance: 31 March 2020

Contact: Lena Zipp (Zurich University) and Ruth Kircher (Mercator European
Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning) at
languageattitudes at es.uzh.ch
 

Please go to www.languageattitudes.uzh.ch to download the preliminary
programme.





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