31.2724, Calls: Greek, Modern; Anthro Ling, Socioling/Online

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LINGUIST List: Vol-31-2724. Thu Sep 03 2020. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 31.2724, Calls: Greek, Modern; Anthro Ling, Socioling/Online

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Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2020 21:14:25
From: Petros Karatsareas [P.Karatsareas at westminster.ac.uk]
Subject: Language Ideologies, Identity and Authenticity in Minoritised Greek-speaking Communities

 
Full Title: Language Ideologies, Identity and Authenticity in Minoritised Greek-speaking Communities 

Date: 21-Jan-2021 - 21-Jan-2021
Location: London, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Petros Karatsareas
Meeting Email: P.Karatsareas at westminster.ac.uk
Web Site: https://forms.gle/VuqrjT38C8pAWMih9 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Subject Language(s): Greek, Modern (ell)

Call Deadline: 16-Oct-2020 

Meeting Description:

Online Workshop – 20 January 2021 (time tbc)

Organisers: 
Matthew John Hadodo, University of Pittsburgh (matthewjohnhadodo at pitt.edu)
Elena Ioannidou, University of Cyprus (ioannidou.elena at ucy.ac.cy)
Petros Karatsareas, University of Westminster
(P.Karatsareas at westminster.ac.uk) 

Call for Papers
Linguistic research across diverse speech communities suggest that the
processes behind language ideologies are often as much about perceptions of
speakers as they are about the speech itself (Irvine & Gal, 2000). Ideologies
about language then play important roles in how communities form and
differentiate themselves from others (Gal & Irvine, 2019; Recinto, 2006).
Furthermore, different communities may use different linguistic and other
sociocultural criteria to determine whether a speaker is an “authentic”
in-group member (Lacoste et al., 2014). Language use is often seen as an
“objective” in-group marker, and therefore strong discourses on language and
community are constructed, with idealized projections of “authentic” speakers
and homogenized communities. 

Against this backdrop, recent years have seen an increased interest in the
role language plays among minoritised Greek-speaking communities (that is,
contexts in which Greek is not the majority language of society). Research has
explored a range of issues including the reproductions, transformations and
contestations of language ideologies in such contexts, which in many cases
divert from dominant discourses about language and identity, and the interplay
of language ideologies with formed linguistic repertoires and social  outcomes
(Finnis 2013, 2014; Hadjidemetriou 2015; Hadodo, 2019, in preparation;
Ioannidou 2017; Ioannidou et al. 2019, 2020; Karatsareas, 2018, 2019, 2020a,
2020b). 

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers investigating these
issues with the aim of exploring points of both convergence and divergence
across communities in different parts of the world, and with distinct
sociohistorical trajectories of minoritisation, linguistic repertoires,
experiences and processes of identity formation.

Potential avenues of investigation include:
– the construction of Greekness and/or Greek-speakerhood in different
geographical and sociohistorical contexts and communities;
– manifestations, conceptualisations and negotiations of linguistic
authenticity, especially in communities that are or have been removed from the
influence of Standard Greek or other local Greek norms;
– sociolinguistic outcomes of the confrontation with competing language forms
as a result of language/dialect contact with other varieties of Greek, both
standardised and non-standardised;
– the role of Greek language education in shaping local sociolinguistic
landscapes and dynamics;
– the impact of language policies implemented and promoted across different
levels (family language policy; local, regional, national language policies;
home country and host country policies). 

Special Issue
A selection of contributions presented at the workshop will be published in a
special issue in the open-access journal Languages
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/languages.


Call for Papers: 

We invite abstracts for oral papers presenting and analysing data related to
these and other related avenues of research. We are particularly interested
in, but not limited to, contributions focusing on Greek-speaking diasporas,
indigenous Greek-speaking communities outside the borders of Greece and the
control of the Republic of Cyprus, and lesser-studied Greek varieties. We
welcome a broad range of theoretical and methodological approaches
(sociolinguistic, language contact, language policy and planning, language and
education; variationist approaches, (critical) discourse analytic approaches,
ethnographic approaches).

Abstract submission: 
Abstracts should be of a maximum of 500 words (including references) in
English or Greek, the languages of the workshop. Abstracts should be submitted
by filling in the form available here https://forms.gle/VuqrjT38C8pAWMih9  by
16 October 2020. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by 16 November
2020. Details for joining workshop proceedings online will be shared shortly
after.




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