[lg policy] call: Regional Varieties, Language Shift and Linguistic Identities

[Harold Schiffman]

Regional Varieties, Language Shift and Linguistic Identities

Date: 12-Sep-2012 - 15-Sep-2012
Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom
Contact Person: Gertrud Reershemius
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: http://www1.aston.ac.uk/lss/research/centres-institutes/interland/regional-varieties/

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics

Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2012

Meeting Description:

The Aston Centre for Interdisciplinary Research into Language and
Identity (InterLand) and Institute for the Study of Language and
Society (ISLS) to host:

Regional Varieties, Language Shift and Linguistic Identities
Aston University, 12-14 September 2012

Plenary Speakers:

Prof. Joan Beal, University of Sheffield (UK)
Prof. Barbara Johnstone, Carnegie Mellon University (USA)
Prof. Yaron Matras, University of Manchester (UK)

Regional varieties have become an important contributor to identity
construction processes, and an increasingly important issue for the
individual and the community in late Modernity: the individual is
under constant and increasing pressure to define who s/he is and has
to choose from an ever growing pool of possibilities to construct
social identity in an increasingly globalized world, which is
perceived as incomprehensively complex. By referring to what is seen
as traditional regional language, dialect and culture, localizing
oneself seems to be a viable way out of this dilemma. This should have
stabilizing effects on lesser used varieties, which have been facing a
gradual process of language shift and divergence towards dominant
contact languages over the hundred years. Unfortunately, at the same
time, modern life does not so much require knowledge of regional
varieties as of standard languages and a good command of English as
the global lingua franca. How can an upwardly mobile individual
combine the requirements of modern life with identity construction on
a regional scale if they so choose? What are the linguistic
consequences for lesser used varieties and their respective contact
languages?

2nd Call for Papers:

Focussing on the individual speaker and the speech community which is
created by the use of language(s) as social practice, the conference
organizers welcome papers and posters on the following fields of
research:

- Language contact between a lesser used regional variety and a
dominant standard language
- Identity and regional varieties
- Indexicality and enregisterment
- Variation and style
- Postvernacular linguistic and cultural practices
- Emblematic language use and language mixing
- Lesser used regional varieties and the Internet
- Regional varieties and linguistic landscapes
- New approaches to dialectology

Deadline for call of papers: 31 March 2012

Abstracts for posters and papers should be no longer than 500 words
plus references. Please submit one copy with contributors' details and
one anonymous copy, both in Word format, to lss_rvcaston.ac.uk.

http://linguistlist.org/issues/23/23-662.html

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