[Ethnocomm] Fwd: Language, Indexicality and Belonging Conference - CALL FOR PAPERS

[David Boromisza-Habashi]

Language, Indexicality and Belonging
Linguistic Anthropology Conference

SOMERVILLE COLLEGE | UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
7-8 April 2016

CALL FOR PAPERS

ORGANISING COMMITTEE: Kinga Kozminska, Leonie Schulte, Dr. Nancy Hawker,
Dr. Stephen Leonard

This 1.5-day conference brings together leading scholars and graduates in linguistic
anthropology and related fields in order to explore the relationship between languages
and senses of belonging. Focus is placed on the indexical character of language in the
modern, changing world as manifest in communicative practices that are impacted by
social, political and economic processes that bring different languages or forms of
language into contact. Participants in three dedicated conference panels will examine
how global, state, local and institutional aspects of belonging are indexed through
language, how these levels can be distinguished from one another, and how linguistic
anthropology and sociolinguistics can account for related linguistic transformations.

At the conference we would like to address such questions as:
* Are ideas of citizenship on the one hand and national identity on the other
being conflated? What role does language play in these debates?
* How do migrants appropriate and challenge existing language ideologies and
norms?
* In a globalized world, what does it mean to 'sound' local? What does it mean to
'sound' like a national? Can local communicative practices transcend local
environments?
* How does the development of multiethnolects, such as those emerging in
ethnically mixed and economically disadvantaged areas of some European
cities, challenge or even redefine understandings of the relationship between
language and social class, ethnicity, gender, but also national and local
belonging?

We invite 20-mintute-long papers contributing to the debate on the relationship
between language and regional, national and transnational affiliations contested on
social, economic and policy-based levels.

Preference will be given to papers based on fieldwork conducted in the last three
years. The papers given at the conference will be published through open access
platforms.

Submissions of 500-word abstracts with keywords and short bios should be sent to
lib.conference2016 at gmail.com.

Abstracts will undergo blind review, so please make sure that your submission is
properly blinded. The deadline for submissions is December 15, 2015. Accepted
speakers will be notified on February 1, 2016.

There will be a conference fee, which will be confirmed in December.

For more information visit our website which we will be updating regularly.
http://libconference.wix.com/libconference2016

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David Boromisza-Habashi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication
College of Media, Communication and Information, University of Colorado Boulder
http://colorado.academia.edu/DavidBoromiszaHabashi

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