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Subject: 31.3139, Calls: Applied Ling, Cog Sci, Psycholing, Socioling, Translation/Online

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Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 21:29:03
From: Michał B. Paradowski [m.b.paradowski at uw.edu.pl]
Subject: Morals and social norms in multilingual performance: Looking beyond the foreign language effect

Full Title: Morals and social norms in multilingual performance: Looking beyond the foreign language effect 

Date: 09-Jul-2021 - 14-Jul-2021
Location: Warsaw (online), Poland 
Contact Person: Michał B. Paradowski
Meeting Email: m.b.paradowski at uw.edu.pl
Web Site: http://isb13.wls.uw.edu.pl/conference/thematic-sessions/morals-and-social-norms-in-multilingual-performance-looking-beyond-the-foreign-language-effect/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Cognitive Science; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics; Translation 

Call Deadline: 30-Nov-2020 

Meeting Description:

It has often been posited that bilinguals are more emotional and subjective
when speaking their mother tongue while more distanced and objective when
using their second language (Dewaele 2004; Harris 2004; Pavlenko 2005;
Caldwell-Harris & Ayçiçeği-Dinn 2009; Opitz & Degner 2012). This perception is
shared both by listeners/readers and by the bilinguals themselves (Gumperz
1982).

However, a series of recent studies (Gawinkowska, Paradowski & Bilewicz 2013;
Costa et al. 2014; Geipel, Hadjichristidis & Surian 2015, 2016; Cipolletti,
McFarlane & Weissglass 2016; Corey et al. 2017; Brouwer 2020; Dylman &
Champoux-Larsson 2019; Karataş 2019; Driver 2020) have gone beyond this
simple, clear-cut distinction between the more ‘emotional’ L1 and the more
‘distanced’ L2 by revealing a new dimension once social norms and moral
decisions are taken into account. Researchers have begun to extend the scope
of enquiry into social norms (e.g. manifest in the use of swear words) as well
as moral judgments, usually by making reference to the ‘foreign-language
effect’ (henceforth FLE; Keysar, Hayakawa & An 2012), which posits that
speakers make more utilitarian, cost-and-effect judgments in their L2 but more
conservative and deontological decisions in their L1.

While the above-mentioned early studies support the FLE with respect to moral
judgments and language, not all studies have been able to corroborate its
existence (e.g. Čavar & Tytus 2017; Hayakawa et al. 2017; Brouwer 2019; Krautz
& Čavar 2019). This discrepancy leads to the necessity of looking towards
factors that can strengthen the current understanding of the FLE and the
limits on its manifestations.

This symposium brings together researchers investigating the influence of
language choice (L1, L2, L3+) on performance and actions involving social
normativity as well as moral decision-making. We invite contributions from
scholars who apply different ① perspectives, research questions (judgments of
misconduct, perception of outgroups, gambling, decision-making, etc.), ②
conditions (e.g., single-language blocks, alternate language blocks,
code-switching, etc.) and ③ experimental paradigms (behavioural – reaction
times, skin electroconductivity, eye-tracking/pupillometry; translation,
ratings, questionnaire data, interviews) from a wide array of ④ language
contexts and populations. In considering the FLE from multiple angles, this
symposium seeks to tease out the possible moderating variables that may
explain when and under what conditions the FLE and related phenomena seem to
hold and when they do not.

Confirmed Speakers:
 - Susanne M. Brouwer, Radboud University: “The interplay between language
proficiency, modality and emotion in the Foreign-Language Effect on moral
decision making”
 - Joanna D. Corey, Universitat de Barcelona: “The moral foreign language
effect: A behavioral investigation of potential mechanisms”
 - Meagan Y. Driver, Michigan State University/Georgetown University: “Moral
decision-making in the context of written and oral code-switching: A new
context for the Foreign Language Effect”
 - Alexandra S. Dylman, Stockholm University: “The effect of language and
cultural context on decision making and personality inventories”
 - Agnieszka Ewa Krautz & Franziska Čavar, Universität Mannheim: “Language and
Morality: A Pupillometry Study on the Foreign-Language Effect”
 - Michał B. Paradowski, University of Warsaw: “L2 vs L3 = two or one set of
social norms? Social Normativity Hypothesis beyond the L2”

Call for Papers: 

Proposals can be submitted via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isb13,
selecting thematic session 4 ''Morals and social norms in multilingual
performance: Looking beyond the foreign language effect'' until 30 November
2020.

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