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Subject: 31.3503, Calls: Anthro Ling, Applied Ling, Lang Acq, Psycholing, Socioling/Online

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Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2020 20:53:37
From: Laura Rosseel [laura.rosseel at vub.be]
Subject: The development of social meaning in heterogeneous speech communities

 
Full Title: The development of social meaning in heterogeneous speech communities 

Date: 09-Jul-2021 - 14-Jul-2021
Location: Warsaw (online), Poland 
Contact Person: Laura Rosseel
Meeting Email: laura.rosseel at vub.be
Web Site: http://isb13.wls.uw.edu.pl/conference/thematic-sessions/the-development-of-social-meaning-in-heterogeneous-speech-communities/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 30-Nov-2020 

Meeting Description:

Speech communities are “never homogeneous and hardly ever self-contained”
(Weinreich 1970: vii). In these volatile contexts where linguistic contact is
the rule rather than the exception, every language user remains a language
learner, confronted with the transient social meanings attached to language
variation (Eckert 2019). This sociolinguistic learning in heterogeneous speech
contexts is the focus of our thematic section, which aims to uncover how the
social meaning of contact-induced variation emerges and develops in bi- and
multilingual speech communities. This way, our theme session will contribute
to both sociolinguistics and contact linguistics.

First, studies on the acquisition of sociolinguistic variation can benefit
from a contact linguistic perspective. Researchers in this field have so far
mainly studied how children acquire the social meaning of standard and
vernacular in monolingual contexts (De Vogelaer & Toye 2017). In two ways, our
thematic section complements this implicit priority: (1) by targeting more
heterogeneous speech communities (bi- or multidialectal, bi- or multilingual
and/or L2 speakers e.g. Kaiser 2019); (2) by backgrounding the focus on
standard/vernacular variation in favor of the contact-induced linguistic
outcomes essential to heterogeneous speech contexts (Oxbury 2019).

Second, by scrutinizing the development of sociolinguistic variation in
heterogeneous contexts, this thematic section likewise contributes to contact
linguistic research. As social meaning has so far largely remained under the
radar in studies targeting multilingual acquisition (Cornips 2018), both
methodological and theoretical challenges remain. Methodologically, we aim to
present new ways of uncovering the social meaning awarded to contact-induced
variation in developmental contexts (Miller 2017). Theoretically, this
thematic section foregrounds the role of (macro and micro) ideology and
language planning in the development of contact-induced variation and change
(Berthele 2019).

Together, these perspectives illustrate how the complex nature of bilingual
communities can help enhance our general understanding of language variation
as an intricate interplay between human faculty and sociolinguistic competence
(Matras, 2009). More specifically, the papers in this section address one of
three crucial subthemes that contribute to this research program: (1) A first
group of papers (Ender et al., McKenzie and Schleef) enrich developmental
sociolinguistics by taking the perspective of the L2 speaker and investigate
how they acquire social meaning in their L2. (2) The second set of papers
(Röthlisberger, Rickert, Ender et al. and Roberts et al.) adds to the contact
linguistic tradition by bringing in a developmental perspective. (3) A final
subtheme running through the thematic section is language policy in relation
to monolingual and multilingual ideologies in diverse speech communities
(Rickert and Alvarez) as well as in scholarly discourse (Berthele).
Furthermore, the section’s keynote speaker Devyani Sharma includes all three
subthemes and innovates theorizing on bilingualism and sociolinguistics by
discussing the importance of individual frame of reference in addition to
social meaning making on the group level. The section leaders (Laura Rosseel,
Eline Zenner and Itxaso Rodríguez-Ordóñez) guarantee structure and coherence
by providing an introduction and a closing discussion. Additional papers that
fit with one of the subthemes presented above are welcomed.


Call for Papers: 

Abstracts for papers can be submitted through
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isb13. Please select the thematic
section “The development of social meaning in heterogeneous speech
communities” during your submission. Abstracts should not exceed 300 words.
The submission deadline is 30 November, 2020 (23:59 Central European Time).
Accepted papers will receive 20 minute slots and 5 minutes for discussion.




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