Slavic Sociolinguistics at AAASS: Call for Papers

[Christina Kramer]

Apologies to the list for sending a personal note. I hope everyone is
enjoying the new year and I look forward to seeing everyone in Boston.

Christina E. Kramer

On Wednesday, January 7, 2004, at 09:31 AM, Christina Kramer wrote:

> 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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