[Linganth] call for papers

[susana castillo]

European Conference on African Studies. Basel 29 June-1 July 2017.

(H07)

Mobility within Africa: A Sociolinguistic Perspective

Location [TBD]
Date and Start Time [TBD] at [TBD]
Convenors

Susana Castillo-Rodriguez (Saint Anselm College) email
Cecile Vigouroux (SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY) email
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Short Abstract

This panel seeks to highlight the methodological and theoretical relevance
of language-related questions to intra-continental migrations within
sub-Saharan Africa. We address issues regarding the ways in which
population movements affect language practices especially in urban settings.
Long Abstract

Although many Africanists working on migrations advocate for a
multidisciplinary approach to migrations on the African continent (e.g.
Kane & Leedy 2013), the linguistic dimension of population movements
has hardly been considered. This 'missing link' may well have to do with
the arbitrary division of labor among academic disciplines. However, it
also reflects the fact that non-linguists have hardly realized the
contribution that a sociolinguistic perspective can make to the already
complex picture. In this panel, we intend to highlight the methodological
and theoretical relevance of language-related questions to
intra-continental migrations within sub-Saharan Africa.

We will explore what impact different types of mobility (e.g., forced vs.
free and circular vs. long-term migrations) have on population contacts and
the migrants' language practices. We will address at least some of the
following questions: Do institutional categories such as refugees,
(il)legal immigrants, and displaced people, commonly used in migration
studies, shed light on language dynamics? Do the distinction between rural
and urban zones and its correlation with particular population movements
within and across them help explain adequately the processes of language
spread and change? Are cities as dense language contact zones more likely
to foster the emergence of contact languages than rural settings often
mischaracterized as linguistically homogeneous? Does mobility entail the
reconfiguration of language indexicalities and how? Does the migrants'
language competence in the host population's language(s) guarantee their
socio-economic integration, in sub-Saharan Africa, as commonly claimed
regarding migrations in the Global North?

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Susana Castillo-Rodríguez
last publication:
https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/ijsl.2016.2016.issue-239/issue-files/ijsl.2016.2016.issue-239.xml
http://revistas.uned.es/index.php/endoxa/article/view/16618
https://anselm.academia.edu/SusanaCastilloRodriguez
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