34.2439, Calls: DGfS 2024 AG 11: Evaluating register(s)

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Subject: 34.2439, Calls: DGfS 2024 AG 11: Evaluating register(s)

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Date: 09-Aug-2023
From: Oliver Bunk [oliver.bunk at hu-berlin.de]
Subject: DGfS 2024 AG 11: Evaluating register(s)


Full Title: DGfS 2024 AG 11: Evaluating register(s)

Date: 28-Feb-2024 - 29-Feb-2024
Location: Bochum, Germany
Contact Person: Oliver Bunk
Meeting Email: idslrueg at hu-berlin.de
Web Site: https://hu-berlin.de/ag11-dgfs2024

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

Call Deadline: 25-Aug-2023

Meeting Description:

In sociolinguistics, the pervasive phenomenon of speakers being
subjected to judgments based on their linguistic choices has sparked
extensive investigation into language attitudes and ideologies,
uncovering the valuation of certain speech patterns while
marginalizing others. Previous research has brought to light three
major points: 1) standard language is often valorized while
non-standard language is devalued (cf. Dragojevic et al. 2021), 2) the
evaluation of language use(rs) and varieties can reflect power
relations and social injustice (cf. Spitzmüller 2022), and 3)
multilingual speakers and their language use are often devaluated
based on informal speech practices that are contrasted with a formal,
standard-like norm of monolinguals (Wiese et al. 2022). This
perspective on multilingualism is particularly dominant in
monolingually biased societal macro contexts of the Global North,
calling for an integration of perspectives from the Global South.
Furthermore, the evaluation of registers has received less attention
from both research on language attitude and language ideology. We
consider registers broadly as the socially recurring linguistic
response of speakers in a particular communicative situation (cf.
Lüdeling & Alexiadou et al. 2019; Wiese 2021), covering varieties such
as youth language, academic language, family language, or chat
communication via social media.
This workshop aims to a) clarify the interplay between language
attitudes, ideologies and register use, b) bring together perspectives
from the Global South and North c) integrate different methods (e.g.,
interviews, surveys, corpus analysis, experiments) and d) integrate
different theoretical approaches (e.g., variationist sociolinguistics,
critical sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology). Naomi Truan, an
expert in the area of language ideologies, will join as a discussant
to synthesize the various perspectives and accounts presented in the
workshop.

Questions that will be addressed include, but are not limited to:

- How do language ideologies and attitudes influence register use and
the perception of its use?
- How does access to certain registers reflect power inequalities?
- What effects do language ideologies have on speakers (e.g., language
insecurity)?
- How do different methods complement each other?
- What is the role of multilingualism for the evaluation of registers?
- What is the role of language prestige for the evaluation of
registers?

2nd Call for Papers:

We encourage submissions addressing these topics taking various
theoretical and empirical perspectives and methodological approaches.
Research areas include, but are not limited to:

- Sociolinguistics
- Psycholinguistics
- Multilingualism research
- Contact linguistics
- Discourse linguistics.

Invited discussants and speakers:
Naomi Truan (Leiden University)
Rafael Lomeu Gomes (University of Oslo)

Abstract submission guidelines:
Abstracts should be anonymously submitted in PDF format and not exceed
500 words to idslrueg at hu-berlin.de using the subject line: DGfS 2024,
AG11 submission.
Abstracts should also include three to five keywords.

Workshop format:
The workshop will take place in person, given the general workshop
guidelines provided by the German Linguistics Society (DGfS).
The German Linguistics Society (DGfS) does not allow workshop
participants to present two or more papers as the first author in
different workshops.

Time for talks: 20 min presentation, 10 min discussion

Important deadlines:
Extended deadline for abstract submission: August 25, 2023, 23:59 CET
Notification of acceptance: August 31, 2023

Workshop organizers:
Oliver Bunk, Humboldt University at Berlin
Esther Jahns, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg
Annika Labrenz, Humboldt University at Berlin
Antje Sauermann, Humboldt University at Berlin

References:
Dragojevic, Marco, Fasoli, Fabio, Cramer, Jennifer, and Rakić, Tamara.
2021. Toward a Century of Language Attitudes Research: Looking Back
and Moving Forward. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 40(1),
60–79. https://doi.org/10.1177/0261927X20966714

Lüdeling, Anke, Alexiadou, Artemis, and et al. (2019, unpublished).
Register. Language-Users’ Knowledge of Situational-Functional
Variation. Finanzierungsantrag CRC Register, submitted to Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Zentrum für
Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft.

Spitzmüller, Jürgen. 2022. Soziolinguistik. Eine Einführung.
Stuttgart: Metzler.

Wiese, Heike, Alexiadou, Artemis, Scarvaglieri, Claudio, and
Schroeder, Christoph. (2022). Multilinguals as Others in society &
academia. Challenges of belonging under a monolingual habitus. Working
Papers in Urban Language & Literacies, 302 (ed. Ben Rampton et al.).
King’s College London.

Wiese, Heike. (2021). Communicative situations as a basis for
linguistic systems: Integrating linguistic multi-competence with
grammatical structure. Working Papers in Urban Language and Literacies
287 (ed. Ben Rampton et al.). King’s College London.



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