35.108, Calls: Modern Developments in Dialectology and Variation Linguistics

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Subject: 35.108, Calls: Modern Developments in Dialectology and Variation Linguistics

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Date: 08-Jan-2024
From: STAVROULA TSIPLAKOU [stavroula.tsiplakou at ouc.ac.cy]
Subject: Modern Developments in Dialectology and Variation Linguistics

Full Title: Modern developments in dialectology and variation
linguistics
Short Title: ICL2024

Date: 08-Sep-2024 - 14-Sep-2024
Location: Poznan, Poland
Contact Person: Stavroula Tsiplakou
Meeting Email: stavoula.tsiplakou at ouc.ac.cy
Web Site:
https://ciplnet.com/news/call-for-papers-and-workshop-proposals/

Linguistic Field(s): Typology

Call Deadline: 01-Feb-2024

Meeting Description:

Modern developments in dialectology and variation linguistics. Focus
stream at the 21st International Congress of Linguists (ICL), 8 - 14
September 2024, Poznań, Poland.  https://icl2024poznan.pl/?id=3. NEW
DEADLINE: February 1, 2024

Call for Papers:

The 21st International Congress of Linguists (ICL) will be held from 8
to 14 September 2024 in Poznán. We invite abstracts for 20-minute
papers on Modern Developments in Dialectology and Variation
Linguistics, a focus stream that will take place on Wednesday, 11
September. The focus stream addresses central issues in contemporary
dialectology and variation linguistics, including structural and
sociolinguistic aspects of language shift, dialect levelling,
cross-dialectal convergence and/or dialect-to-standard advergence, as
well as aspects of resistance to language shift, which in several
cases lead to the emergence of intermediate varieties between
(residual) base dialects and standards (Hinskens, Auer & Kerswill,
2005; Cerruti & Tsiplakou, 2020).  An issue of central importance in
this regard is the interplay of structural and sociolinguistic factors
in spurring on or arresting language shift. The study of the dynamic
space where structural factors (often involving aspects of adult or
nonadult second language/variety acquisition) collude with
sociolinguistic factors (involving not only the expected effects of
extralinguistic variables such as age, gender, status etc. but also
ideologies and attitudes toward, and indexicalities of, particular
variants in socially and culturally shifting linguistic landscapes) is
a major theoretical challenge (Britain, 2022). Moreover, teasing apart
structural and sociolinguistic effects of dialect shift requires
methodological innovation, not only in terms of devising methods for
bringing together and critically revisiting existing datasets and
corpora but also in terms of re-examining methods of data collection,
classification and analysis.
We invite papers exploring structural (micro)variation and its links
to both structural-systemic parameters and extralinguistic variables,
and discussing approaches to the contextual micro- and macro- level
(Guy & Hinskens, 2016); i.e., examining not only broad macro-level
categories (e.g. geographical distribution, age, gender, status, as
well as literacy and standardization  etc.) but also micro-level
categories, e.g. emergent local, youth or professional identities,
varying performativities, shifting attitudes and varying notions of
local/group allegiance and prestige, the temporally and
micro-contextually constrained indexicalities of particular variants
and their role in language shift, which call for more nuanced
theoretical and methodological  approaches to variation.

References
Britain, D. (2022). ‘Rural’ and ‘urban’ in dialectology. In B. Busse &
I. H. Warnke, (eds.) Handbuch Sprache im urbanen Raum - Handbook of
Language in Urban Space, 52-73. Boston: De Gruyter.
Cerruti, M. & S. Tsiplakou (eds.) (2020). Intermediate language
varieties. Koinai and regional standards in Europe. Amsterdam: John
Benjamins.
Guy, G.R. & F. Hinskens (2016). Linguistic coherence; systems,
repertoires and speech communities. In F. Hinskens, & G.R. Guy (Eds.),
Coherence, covariation and bricolage: Various approaches to the
systematicity of language variation. Special issue of Lingua, 172/173,
1–9.
Hinskens, F., P. Auer, & P. Kerswill (2005). The study of dialect
convergence and divergence: conceptual 
and methodological
considerations. In P. Auer, F. Hinskens, & P. Kerswill (Eds.), Dialect
change: Convergence and divergence in European languages, 1–48.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Abstract submission is via EasyChair
Please select the focus stream Modern Developments in Dialectology and
Variation Linguistics

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