31.3014, Calls: Italian; Socioling/Greece

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Subject: 31.3014, Calls: Italian; Socioling/Greece

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Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2020 16:17:05
From: Eugenio Goria [eugenio.goria at unito.it]
Subject: Italian heritage language communities: multiple perspectives

 
Full Title: Italian heritage language communities: multiple perspectives 
Short Title: IHL 

Date: 31-Aug-2021 - 03-Sep-2021
Location: Athens, Greece 
Contact Person: Eugenio Goria
Meeting Email: eugenio.goria at unito.it
Web Site: http://www.sle2021.eu/call-for-workshop-papers 

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics 

Subject Language(s): Italian (ita)

Call Deadline: 10-Nov-2020 

Meeting Description:

This workshop aims to bring together the experiences of researchers working on
Italian heritage communities, in order to achieve new theoretical advances
that can make a lasting contribution to the discipline of heritage language
studies, as well as to provide an in-depth exploration of the key features
that are shared by most Italian heritage language communities. Below is a
provisional list of research topics that researchers are invited to consider
while preparing their submissions: 

 - Language documentation of Italian communities abroad. We invite the
submission of papers
discussing ongoing or completed research on undescribed or poorly described
Italian communities abroad, focusing on such linguistic aspects as linguistic
repertoires, language contact with the national language, code-switching,
language variation and/or change in the heritage language, and language shift;
authors are also encouraged to discuss fieldwork methods and current issues
related to data collection, transcription and annotation.

 - Italian and dialects in the heritage language scenario. Several Italian
heritage language
communities are dialect-speaking communities. As said, this is a salient
feature of Italian
communities, one that has very few parallels at least among speakers of other
European national languages. Key topics related to this aspect of migrant
communities include complex repertoires, patterns of language maintenance or
language shift associated with specific dialects (and possibly diverging from
the tendencies in which Standard Italian is involved), language contact
between a dialect and the national language and patterns of variation and
change. Furthermore, a relatively understudied topic is contact between
different mutually intelligible dialects within the migration setting; this
has been described in a few cases where most migrants come from the same
region and might eventually lead to the formation of new varieties that are
referred to in the literature as migrant koinés (Kerswill 2006)

 - Comparisons between old and new migrations. Changes in migration patterns
may lead to changes in the dynamics observed within the heritage language
communities, both in their external sociolinguistic aspects (e.g. structure of
linguistic repertoires and language maintenance vs shift) and in their
structural outcomes. For this reason, we encourage the submission of works
aimed at comparing different heritage language scenarios involving Italian
communities, for example highlighting the differences between older
communities--such as Italians in Brazil, Argentina or the United States--with
more recent ones.


Call for Papers: 

Provisional abstracts must have a maximum length of 300 words excluding
references and must be sent to the workshop organizers Eugenio Goria
(eugenio.goria at unito.it) and Margherita Di Salvo (margherita.disalvo at unina.it)
before 10 November 2020.

After the submission, if the workshop is accepted by the SLE organizing
committee, the authors will need to submit their final abstracts by 15 January
2021 through the EasyChair platform.

Important dates
10 November 2020 deadline for the submission of provisional abstracts
20 November 2020 notification of (provisional) acceptance and workshop
submission
15 December 2020 notification of acceptance for the workshop
15 January 2021 deadline for abstract submission on EasyChair

For more information, please contact eugenio.goria at unito.it or
margherita.disalvo at unina.it

To read the full call for papers, please refer to the SLE website




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