31.302, Calls: Anthropological Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, General Linguistics, Language Documentation, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, Text/Corpus Linguistics/Croatia

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Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 16:47:22
From: Antonio Oštarić [aostaric at unizd.hr]
Subject: New Contexts for the Use of Minoritized Languages/Varieties

 
Full Title: New Contexts for the Use of Minoritized Languages/Varieties 
Short Title: NEWCON2020 

Date: 28-Sep-2020 - 30-Sep-2020
Location: Zadar, Croatia 
Contact Person: Antonio Oštarić
Meeting Email: newcon2020 at unizd.hr
Web Site: http://conference.unizd.hr/newcon2020/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics; Language Documentation; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Apr-2020 

Meeting Description:

New Contexts for the Use of Minoritized Languages/Varieties is an
international linguistics conference organized by the Linguistics Department
of the University of Zadar,the SOAS World Languages Institute at the
University of London, Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and
Language Learning and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Social and Language
Documentation (CIDLes).

The NEWCON 2020 Conference will be held at the University of Zadar from
September 28-30, 2020.

At a time when we are witnessing the discursive glorification of
multilingualism, which often however officially recognizes only selected
(standard) varieties of (national) languages, other languages, varieties and
modes of speaking are marginalized and further minoritized. Being pushed to
the periphery, their speakers often require additional resources to maintain
them either as part of their individual as well as their community's
linguistic repertoires. Capturing a range of factors that lead to language
decline, shift and loss has been the focus of scholarly interest for a long
time. The conference will be focused on understanding different (emerging)
forms of resilience in such speech communities and will offer a platform to
discuss new ways in which minority, minoritized, non-standard and
non-standardized languages and varieties (i.e. all those that do not function
as national languages and/or have no official status) are being used,
maintained, or creatively adapted to new contexts, such as, for instance, 
- in migrational contexts, either local, regional or (inter)national ones
- in new media
- for new purposes and in new genres
- in new (linguistic) forms 
- in the public space


Call for Papers: 

Some of the questions the conference aims to tackle include, but are not
limited to the following:

What factors contribute to the transformation of local language ecologies in
different parts of the world? How are minority and minoritized languages and
varieties managed in micro-contexts and at grassroots levels in ways that
promote their sustainability?

What factors influence a continued use of some languages / varieties in
certain, local or global, migrational contexts? How do the existing modes of
speaking get transformed to fulfil communicative and identity needs in such
situations? 

In what ways small and minoritized languages and varieties become visible in
public space, in traditional and/or social media, and in different forms of
institutional discourses? 

We invite original and previously unpublished contributions on these and
related issues. The language of the conference is English, but PPT
presentations and hand-outs in other (minoritized) languages are welcome.

Submission of abstracts: 
Presentations will last 30 minutes in total, with 20 minutes for the talk and
10 minutes for discussion. Abstracts should be prepared in .doc, .docx, or
.rtf format and consisting of max. 300 words, excluding references. Abstracts
may be submitted via the EasyChair website on the following link:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=newcon2020

Important dates: 
- Deadline for abstract submission: 1 April 2020
- Notification of acceptance: 1 June 2020
- Conference: 28-30 September 2020




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