31.935, Calls: Germanic; Applied Ling, Lang Acquisition, Ling & Lit, Ling Theories, Socioling/USA

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Subject: 31.935, Calls: Germanic; Applied Ling, Lang Acquisition, Ling & Lit, Ling Theories, Socioling/USA

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Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2020 10:40:09
From: Mareike Lange [langemk at mail.uc.edu]
Subject: FOCUS Graduate Student Conference

 
Full Title: FOCUS Graduate Student Conference 

Date: 18-Sep-2020 - 19-Sep-2020
Location: Cincinnati, USA 
Contact Person: Mareike Lange
Meeting Email: UCGerman at uc.edu
Web Site: http://www.artsci.uc.edu/departments/german/focus/conferences.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Ling & Literature; Linguistic Theories; Sociolinguistics 

Language Family(ies): Germanic 

Call Deadline: 30-Apr-2020 

Meeting Description:

The editors of the graduate student journal Focus on German Studies in
conjunction with the Graduate Student Association of the Department of German
Studies at the University of Cincinnati are hosting the Twenty-Fifth Annual
Focus Graduate Student Conference ''Teaching the Speech Act – Identity
Inscriptions and their Sociolinguistic Implications in the Classroom.''

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Christine Mallinson; University of Maryland, Baltimore
County

 Teaching languages is essential, especially from a present-day perspective,
yet language education is on the decline in the US. In the meantime,
professional organizations that promote language learning increasingly
advocate for language learning as a rote skill for purposes of economic and
national security rather than as a valuable pursuit in and of itself. While
applied linguistics has provided teachers with effective and efficient methods
of language teaching, these practical, utilitarian approaches to teaching
language too often ignore the sociolinguistic complexities of language in use.
How, for example, do we teach gender-neutral language for languages in which
standardized options do not yet exist? Similarly, how do we teach certain
linguistic forms (e.g. word order in German subordinate clauses or “double
negatives” in English) associated with linguistic discrimination without
replicating and reinforcing this linguistic discrimination?

 Teaching and learning languages – as it happens in school lessons, as well as
in everyday casual contexts – transcends domains such as grammar, orthography
and lexicon. This conference seeks to foster a dialogue between
sociolinguistic theory and teaching realities. By looking at methods of
language teaching that include aspects of an awareness of norms and variations
and by taking situational appropriateness, target, addressee and media as well
as socially relevant identity inscriptions into account, this conference aims
to be at the interface between theory and praxis.


Call for Papers and Projects: 

Themes may include but are not limited to: 

 - Social and regional origin, gender, religion, generation, social groups,
migration, multilingualism, and language change and their influence on
language
 - Heterogeneity vs. homogeneity in the classroom
 - Subjective factors of language attitudes and language ideologies
 - Intersections between language and critical race theory, e.g.
raciolinguistics, linguistic profiling
 - Queer theory and queer linguistics
 - Influences of sociolinguistics on education and language pedagogy
 - Critical approaches to teaching with technology 
 - Varieties of language – Youth language; computer-mediated communication;
spoken colloquial language

Whereas we are anticipating and encouraging academic discussion fostered by
conventional conference presentations, we would also like to encourage
students to present creative works that fit the overall frame of the
conference (e.g. concept-grounded artistic approaches to pedagogy). We
encourage submissions from all Germanic fields (i.e. Germanic languages,
including but not limited to English, German, Dutch, Yiddish, and Scandinavian
languages) but also welcome contributions from other disciplines. Submissions
in German or English are welcome. Current Graduate Students are invited to
submit abstracts or project descriptions (250-300 words in length),
accompanied by a short bio, to Mareike Lange and Barbara Besendorfer at
UCGerman at uc.edu by April 30, 2020. Please use the subject “Focus 25”.




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