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Message1: Cognitive Aspects of Multilingualism/Germany
Date:29-Feb-2016
From:Julia Blanco ifm at daf.lmu.de
LINGUIST List issue http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-1050.html

Full Title: Taal & Tongval Colloquium 2016: Vernacular Vitalities 
Short Title: T&T 

Date: 25-Nov-2016 - 25-Nov-2016
Location: Ghent, Belgium 
Contact Person: Sarah Van Hoof J�rgen Jaspers
Meeting Email: taalentongval2016 at gmail.com
Web Site: http://www.vtc.ugent.be/taalentongval2016/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics 

Subject Language(s): Dutch (nld)

Call Deadline: 30-Apr-2016

Meeting Description:

Taal & Tongval: Language Variation in the Low Countries is a peer-�reviewed journal devoted to the study of language variation in the Dutch language area, which organizes an annual one-day colloquium on a current topic in the study of language variation. The theme of the 2016 edition is "Vernacular vitalities: old-�?school dialects, contemporary koines and new urban speech styles". It will take place at the Royal Academy for Dutch Language and Literature (KANTL) in Ghent on 25 November 2016.

In much of Western Europe, the last five to six decades are generally seen as the era of pervasive dialect levelling and dialect shift, processes that are taking place with varying intensity and speed, on account of the ever-encroaching impact of linguistic standardization, intensified communication and increased geographical and social mobility in modern nation-states (Hinskens, Auer & Kerswill 2005; Vandekerckhove 2009). At the same time, there are more and more signs that dialect death and attrition are counterbalanced by a range of processes pointing to the vitality rather than the obsolescence of vernacular language forms: 

1. The use of 'old' dialects is generally not replaced by standard language use, but rather by new, often hybrid or "koineized, ''compromise'' dialects, shaped by contact between local, regional, interregional, and other, including standard, varieties" (Britain 2009: 122; cf. also Kerswill & Williams 2000). These mixed varieties are moreover increasingly common in public discourse, as seems to be the case with Estuary English in the UK (Mugglestone 2003) or tussentaal in Flanders (De Caluwe 2009; Grondelaers & van Hout 2011).

2. Traditional dialects are sometimes observed to experience a renaissance (Hinskens et al. 2005: 36) as they are increasingly and unapologetically used in contemporary music, TV fiction and social media (Androutsopoulos 2010; Nobels & Vandekerckhove 2010; Van Hoof 2015), and commodified in advertising and forms of city or region marketing (Johnstone 2009; Strand 2015). 

3. Traditional dialects are being appropriated by urban speakers with mixed ethnic backgrounds, although the use of these traditional dialects may only be partial and combined with a range of other linguistic resources (Jaspers 2011; Rampton 2006; Van Meel et al. 2014). At the same time, some features of ethnic minority languages get picked up by those not normally seen to own them (e.g., Nortier & Dorleijn 2008; also see Van der Sijs 2014).

4. There are indications that new types of vernacular emerge with a distinct local, often urban colour (see Madsen 2013 and Cornips et al. 2015 on 'street language', Wiese 2012 on 'Kiezdeutsch', Marzo & Ceuleers 2011 and Svendsen & Marzo 2015 on 'Cit�taal' and 'Kebabnorsk'). Traditionally labelled 'youth language' or 'ethnolects' (Muysken 2013), they have alternatively been dubbed 'contemporary urban vernaculars' (Rampton 2011), to emphasize their durability, use across different ages and ethnic groups, and similarity to traditional dialects in terms of their indexicality and function.

Organizers:

J�rgen Jaspers, Universit� Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
Sarah Van Hoof, Ghent University

Confirmed plenary speakers: 

- Leonie Cornips (Meertens Institute Amsterdam and Maastricht University)
- Lian Malai Madsen (University of Copenhagen)
- Julia Snell (University of Leeds)
- Reinhild Vandekerckhove (University of Antwerp) 

Call for Papers:

This colloquium welcomes 20-minute presentations from dialectological, variationist, experimental as well as discourse-analytic and interactional-sociolinguistic perspectives on each of these issues, with a focus on Dutch or other languages. 

Abstract proposals for presentations (max. 500 words), including name, affiliation and author contact details, are to be submitted to taalentongval2016 at gmail.com at the latest by 30 April 2016. Notification of acceptance will be given by 15 May 2016. Abstracts and presentations can be in English or Dutch.

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