32.3648, Calls: Sociolinguistics/Germany

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LINGUIST List: Vol-32-3648. Fri Nov 19 2021. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 32.3648, Calls: Sociolinguistics/Germany

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Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2021 06:39:39
From: Christian Mair [christian.mair at anglistik.uni-freiburg.de]
Subject: African Immigrants in Europe: Multilingual (mis)communication

 
Full Title: African Immigrants in Europe: Multilingual (mis)communication 

Date: 07-Jun-2022 - 10-Jun-2022
Location: Freiburg, Germany 
Contact Person: Christian Mair
Meeting Email: christian.mair at anglistik.uni-freiburg.de
Web Site: https://nomadit.co.uk/vad/vad2022/programme#10989 

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2022 

Meeting Description:

The meeting will explore mobile multilingualism among African immigrants and
sojourners in Europe, exploring the role of language in community formation
among immigrants and in communication between immigrants and resident
populations, bringing together perspectives from sociolinguistics and cultural
anthropology. It is organised as a panel in the frame of the annual meeting of
VAD (Vereinigung für Afrikawissenschaften in Deutschland/German Association
for African Studies), taking place in Freiburg from 7 to 10 June 2022. The
organisers envisage a face-to-face event with some virtual elements.
Information on the conference and for participants is available on this
website: https://nomadit.co.uk/vad/vad2022/.


Call for Papers:

The past two decades have seen considerable increase in immigration from
Africa to Europe. This has further diversified existing postcolonial
multilingualism in countries such as the UK and France and established
entirely new multilingual ecologies in places such as Germany and Scandinavia.
The panel  will focus on how immigrants’ multilingual repertoires change and
adapt in these new environments, with a focus on the following questions,
among others:

- What is the role of language(s) in community formation among Africans in the
European diaspora?
- What is the role of traditional colonial linguistic alignments (e.g.
Anglophone-Francophone) in non-English/French-speaking Europe?
- What is the role of indigenous African lingua francas (e.g. Wolof, Lingala),
of pidgins/creoles (e.g. English-lexifier West African Pidgin in its various
dialects), or other non-traditional hybrid and urban vernaculars (e.g.
Camfranglais)?
- Which factors impact on the ethnolinguistic vitality of African heritage
languages in the European context?
- What, finally, is the role of English (and to a lesser extent, French) in
lingua-franca interaction between immigrants and the resident population in
non-English speaking European countries.

In addition to (socio)linguistic studies, we invite contributions that explore
the role of languages and multilingualism in the wider social and political
context, for example with regard to racialisation, cultural identity and
citizenship.

For the full call for papers, visit:
https://nomadit.co.uk/vad/vad2022/cfp




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