[Linganth] CfP: New Speakers of Celtic Languages

[DUNMORE Stuart]

The Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures at the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland is pleased to invite submissions for a special session on New Speakers of the Celtic Languages as part of the 2nd Poznan Conference of Celtic Studies. Organizers invite established scholars as well as young researchers working in the field to submit paper proposals (max. 300-350 words plus bibliography) for talks of 20 minutes plus ten minutes of discussion.


Please submit your paper proposals using the EasyChair system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pccs2) or via email to pccs at wa.amu.edu.pl<mailto:pccs at wa.amu.edu.pl> . The deadline for submissions is 31st  March 2016. The language of the conference is English.


Call for papers:
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Special Session: New Speakers of the Celtic Languages


Organised by Dr Michael Hornsby (Adam Mickiewicz University) and Dr Stuart Dunmore (University of Edinburgh)

In this session, we explore the notion of new and creative ways people are using, speaking and engaging with the Celtic languages in the twenty-first century. As with other language users, speakers of Welsh, Irish, Manx, Cornish, Breton and Gaelic can engage with a language or languages which are not their mother tongue, native, first or family languages. In the field of linguistics and its related strands, the new speaker category is one which has been examined under the perhaps more familiar, but now increasingly contested labels such as non-native, second-language speaker, learner, etc. Similar to related notions such as emergent bilinguals (García and Kleifgen 2010), multilingual subjects (Kramsch 2012), metrolingualism (Pennycook 2010), translanguaging (Creese and Blackledge 2010) and translingual practices (Canagarajah 2013), the term "new speaker" and "new speakerness" constitute an explicit attempt to move away from these older labels in order to express an increasingly important stage in language attrition and revitalization.

As Celtic languages, like other minority languages, are transformed from community into network languages, the changes which occur at linguistic and sociolinguistic levels are important to document in order to add to our understanding of the processes of language revitalization.  The conference website can be found here: https://poznanconference.wordpress.com/informacje/

This session is based upon work from COST Action (IS1306) on New Speakers in a Multilingual Europe: Opportunities and Challenges, supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology).



Le meas,

Repectfully,



An Dr Stiùbhart Dunmore / Dr Stuart Dunmore

Rannsaiche Iar-Dhotaireil / Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Ceiltis agus Eòlas na h-Alba / Celtic and Scottish Studies

50 Ceàrnag Sheòrais / 50 George Square

Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann / University of Edinburgh

Dùn Èideann / Edinburgh EH8 9LH

Alba / Scotland


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