Slavic Sociolinguistics at AAASS: Call for Papers

[Christina Kramer]

Dear Curt,

        I am very interested in your Roundtable, but am not sure if my work is
"innovative" enough. I am working on two things which may be of
relevance:
1, Socio-linguistic issues in language pedagogy (I have submitted an
article to Canadian Slavonic Papers on this topic and would be happy to
send you
a copy), or 2. Language planning and policy and its implications for
language and identity cohesion in the Macedonian village of Vrbnik in
Southern Albania.
My field research suggested that identity in Vrbnik was transitional
between religion (tying Catholic Albanian with Orthodox Macedonian) and
village-based
language identity. Field notes point to strong village-based linguistic
identity, though recognizing connections to the standard. The people in
Vrbnik viewed neighbouring villages as not speaking "nashi", though
they watched Macedonian television from the Republic, traveled to
Ohrid, and were schooled in the standard.
I would be more than happy to discuss either of these two things.

Please let me know if you are interested in either. I plan to be in
Boston regardless, since I am chairing another panel, so I won't be
insulted if you have
already filled the roundtable.

All the best,

Christina


On Wednesday, January 7, 2004, at 12:27 AM, Curt F. Woolhiser wrote:

> Dear Colleagues:
>
> I am organizing a roundtable on "New Directions in Slavic
> Sociolinguistics" at
> AAASS in Boston, Dec. 4-7, 2004, and am looking for two to three
> additional
> participants. Presentations for this roundtable should discuss
> research which
> applies recent innovations in sociolinguistic theory and methodology
> in the
> study of language variation and change in the Slavic-speaking world. Of
> particular interest are presentations relating to the following areas:
> variationist approaches to social dialectology; socio-historical
> linguistics;
> gender linguistics; sociopragmatics; ethnography of communication;
> social
> psychology of language; folklinguistics and perceptual dialectology;
> language
> ideology; and applications of sociolinguistic research in foreign
> language
> pedagogy. Presentations discussing the use of new theoretical
> frameworks and
> methodologies in the study of more traditional topics in Slavic
> sociolinguistics (language planning and policy, bilingualism and
> language
> contact), and those addressing metatheoretical issues, such as the
> relevance of
> western sociolinguistic models to (post-)socialist societies in
> eastern Europe
> and Eurasia, are also welcome.
>      If you are interested in participating in the roundtable, please
> e-mail me
> a brief summary of the topic of your proposed presentation, together
> with the
> information requested on the CV form on the AAASS website (http://
> www.fas.harvard.edu/~aaass/), by January 14th.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Curt Woolhiser
>
> ===============================
> Curt Woolhiser
> Department of Slavic Languages
> and Literatures
> 12 Quincy St., Barker Center
> Harvard University
> Cambridge, MA 02138-3879 USA
>
> Tel. (617) 495-3528
> Fax (617) 496-4466
> email: cwoolhis at fas.harvard.edu
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