35.1070, Calls: Coherence and Fragmentation: The Languages of the Nordic Countries and their Interrelations Today

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Subject: 35.1070, Calls: Coherence and Fragmentation: The Languages of the Nordic Countries and their Interrelations Today

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Date: 25-Mar-2024
From: Lena Dal Pozzo [lena.dalpozzo at unifi.it]
Subject: Coherence and Fragmentation: The Languages of the Nordic Countries and their Interrelations Today

Full Title: Coherence and Fragmentation: The Languages of the Nordic
Countries and their Interrelations today.

Date: 14-Nov-2024 - 16-Nov-2024
Location: Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
Contact Person: Lena Dal Pozzo
Meeting Email: nordlang24 at forlilpsi.unifi.it
Web Site: www.nordlang24.unifi.it

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Language Acquisition;
Language Documentation; Ling & Literature; Sociolinguistics
Subject Language(s): Danish (dan)
                     Finnish (fin)
                     Norwegian Bokmål (nob)
                     Sami, Northern (sme)
                     Swedish (swe)
Language Family(ies): Finno-Ugric; Germanic

Call Deadline: 15-May-2024

Meeting Description:

This is the first international conference of its kind aiming to bring
together high-level research on multilingualism in the Nordic
countries from an interdisciplinary perspective. The three main areas
addressed by the conference are: 1) the Nordic countries as
multilingual societies; 2) receptive multilingualism; 3) literary
multilingualism. Participants will be invited to submit an article to
a special issue of the peer-reviewed class A journal LEA (Lingue e
Letterature d’Oriente e d’Occidente) published by the University of
Florence. The conference is supported by SNU (Samarbejdsnævnet for
Nordenundervisning i Udlandet).

Call for Papers:

While on the one side the Nordic countries have a common history and
are considered by sociologists and historians to represent a
“cluster”, on the other side they are quite heterogenous from a
linguistic point of view. This heterogeneity can be observed in
various ways. First, receptive multilingualism is a common way of
communicating between speakers of Danish, Norwegian and Swedish.
However, the mutual intelligibility between the languages is
asymmetrical, and many young Scandinavians prefer to use English when
they meet instead their native tongue. At the same time, there are
important differences between young people’s experienced comprehension
across the Nordic countries. The Nordic countries are divided by
barriers of linguistic families, barriers which traditionally have
been surmounted by Icelandic, Faroese and Greenlandic speakers
learning Danish, Finnish speakers learning Swedish, and Sami adopting
the national language of the country in which they live. Second, the
indigenous Sami language group is also heterogeneous across these
countries. The situation of these languages varies as regards their
endangerment, number of speakers, and relationship to the dominant
language.
Third, in addition to indigenous languages, minority languages and
national languages, several other languages are spoken in the Nordic
region because of the extensive immigration that has occurred in the
last decades. From a literary point of view, this has given rise to
new narratives mixing slang and different languages and fueled
theoretical interest in literary multilingualism, for instance in
modernist texts.
Nonetheless, all these languages coexist and interact in and between
the countries. Multilingualism is thus visible in the Nordic countries
on many levels and can be investigated from a wide range of
theoretical and methodological perspectives. The conference invites
papers on the Nordic countries as a multilingual region in which
languages exist side by side, come into contact with and influence
each other, are used as identity markers and political instruments,
and give rise to multilingual texts.
Themes might include, but are not limited to:
- Receptive multilingualism as a political ideal
- Verbal and non-verbal strategies to communicate across languages
- Code-switching, mutual intelligibility, and language choice
- Factors determining the level of mutual intelligibility in
Scandinavia
- Attitudes towards minority languages
- Uses of minority languages at an individual and group level
- Language policies in a transnordic perspective
- Repression and revitalization of indigenous languages
- Language endangerment and language loss
- Bi- and multilingual acquisition
- Bilingualism in individuals and society
- Language maintenance and shift
- Instruction in the other Nordic region languages in primary and
secondary schools in the Nordic countries
- The impact of English on the languages of the Nordic countries
- The relationship between the use of various languages and identity
- The role of translation in communicating minority languages and
cultures both within and outside the Nordic region
- Different forms of literary multilingualism
- Functions of literary multilingualism
Please submit a one-page abstract (ca. 200 – 300 words) and a short
bio-note (50 words) by 15 May. Presentations (in English) will consist
of a 20-minute talk followed by 10 minutes for discussion. All
abstracts should be submitted to nordlang24 at forlilpsi.unifi.it.

Key dates:
- The deadline for abstract submission is 15 May 2024 (via email to:
nordlang24 at forlilpsi.unifi.it)
- Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent out by 15 June
2024.
- Registration will begin on 15 June 2024. The participation fee is 60
€, while the conference dinner (optional) costs 40 €. The
participation fee for students is 25 €.

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