34.2650, Calls: Language Variety in the South

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LINGUIST List: Vol-34-2650. Thu Sep 07 2023. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 34.2650, Calls: Language Variety in the South

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Date: 07-Sep-2023
From: Bill Kretzschmar [kretzsch at uga.edu]
Subject: Language Variety in the South 


Full Title: Language Variety in the South
Short Title: LAVIS V and SECOL 91

Date: 04-Apr-2024 - 07-Apr-2024
Location: Athens, GA, USA
Contact Person: Bill Kretzschmar
Meeting Email: lavis5 at uga.edu
Web Site: https://linguistics.uga.edu/lavis

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Lexicography; Phonetics;
Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics
Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     French (fra)
                     Spanish (spa)

Call Deadline: 31-Oct-2023

Meeting Description:

The fifth decennial meeting of Language Variety in the South
(henceforth LAVIS V) builds on and extends the academic foundations
and the traditions of the previous four LAVIS meetings, which have
brought together the most prominent linguists and researchers in the
United States for a four-day thematic symposium to examine issues of
language variation and change in the US South. Past LAVIS conferences
have focused on the role of ethnic diversity historically and
contemporarily in language variation and central questions about
sociolinguistic methodologies, analysis, description, and application
of sociolinguistic data in the regional context of the American South.
LAVIS V continues and expands upon this tradition by exploring
language in the “Changing South,” a region that has undergone dramatic
demographic, social, and cultural change in the past half-century.

Call for Papers:
LAVIS V and SECOL 91

The Southeastern Conference on Linguistics invites abstract
submissions for papers for the 91st meeting, which will be held
concurrently with Language Variation in the South V (LAVIS V), hosted
by the University of Georgia  in Athens, GA, April 4-7, 2024. Papers
in all areas of language and linguistics are welcome, including papers
and panels on the teaching of linguistics, but special consideration
will be given to proposals related to the conference theme, "The
Changing South."

"The Changing South" is in part a story of demographic and economic
boom, but many other compelling narratives exist as well, including
the cultural and demographic transformations brought by immigrants
from all over the world. In recent census reports, states like Georgia
had the fastest growing percentage Hispanic populations in the US.
While Hispanic migrants are clearly the most visible group of recent
newcomers to the South, other groups have transformed the region over
the past thirty years, including large Asian populations (Chinese,
Vietnamese, Hmong, Indian, Pakistani, etc.), Middle Easterners
(Lebanese, Iraqi, Egyptian, Saudi, Yemeni, etc.) and Southern and
Eastern Europeans (Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, etc.). African
Americans, too, have been moving back to the South from other areas of
the country.

Thus, "The Changing South" is comprised of increasing demographic and
linguistic diversity, but as important are the changes to the
traditional populations and ways of life. LAVIS V and SECOL 91
together will be the most comprehensive conference documenting
language in this dynamic landscape, following the once-per-decade
pattern of the LAVIS meetings.

Abstracts for 20-minute papers should not exceed 400 words, excluding
title and references. Authors may submit up to two abstracts (across
both conferences), one individual and one joint. Abstracts will be
accepted electronically through Oxford Abstracts between September 1
and October 31, 2023, at
https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/6722/submitter. Abstracts will
be evaluated together (no separate evaluation for LAVIS V and SECOL
91).

Please direct all inquiries by email to lavis5 at uga.edu.

Organizing Committee
Jon Forrest
Chad Howe
Katherine Ireland
Margaret Renwick
Bill Kretzschmar

Graduate Assistant
Anna Freeman



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