[LingGEOG] CfP: Dynamics of (Im)mobilities and Discursive Practices in the 21st Century

[Catherine Lee]

For linguistic geographers studying Ibero-Romance languages and mobility:

Full Title: Dynamics of (Im)mobilities and Discursive Practices in the 21st
Century

Date: 08-Nov-2018 - 09-Nov-2018
Location: Berne, Switzerland
Contact Person: Yvette Bürki
Web Site: http://mobility-unibe.jimdo.com/english/welcome/

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Applied Linguistics;
Discourse Analysis; Sociolinguistics

Call Deadline: 30-Jun-2018

Meeting Description:

As Salazar (2016) claims, the concept of mobility captures the impression
that today's world is structured around the constant flow not only of
people, but also of cultures, objects, capital, services, media, images,
information and ideas. It is not surprising, therefore, that in the social
and human sciences mobility turn has been put forward and named. As a
result, new theoretical concepts that attempt to describe the new spatial
and temporal dynamics of today's world: deterritorialization,
reterritorialization, spatial-temporal compression, scalarity, etc. have
emerged. The mobility turn is conceived as a turn because it breaks with
the traditional correspondence between person, place and culture. But
perhaps the most important aspect of the mobility turn is that it
highlights that the concept of mobility does not have an immutable meaning
but varies according to people, social circumstances and the very concept
of mobility, which is necessarily defined through its counterpart,
immobility.

Mobility turn is therefore a different way of framing and encompassing
global mobility, showing how physical mobility of people entails economic,
social and cultural mobility, the transformation of institutions at
different levels and spheres, and the mobilization of (linguistic)
ideologies.

We are delighted to announce that, so far, the following key speakers have
been confirmed:

Alexandre Duchêne, Université de Fribourg
Marleen Haboud, Universidad Católica del Ecuador
Luisa Martin Rojo, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Li Wei, University College, London

Call for Papers:

The committee welcomes papers from a sociolinguistic, discursive or
ethnographic linguistic perspective on theoretical or methodological
aspects researching or examining the interrelationship between mobility and
communicative practices in spaces where Ibero-Romanic languages (Spanish,
Catalan, Portuguese, Galician) and Creole languages with an Ibero-Romanic
base come into contact with other languages due to (im)mobility.

Questions raised by this conference are:

- How do mobilities impact on epistemic and methodological frameworks?
- What happens with (linguistic) identities in mobility?
- How do language practices in mobility show, change, and emergeHow does
linguistic mediation work in mobility contexts?
- How are (linguistic) ideologies manifested in and with mobility?
- How should mobility be studied through the linguistic landscape?
- How does (im)mobility manifest in discourse (political, media,
educational, etc.)?
- How is the impact of mobility on social networks shown?
- How is the impact of (im)mobility on language policies and language
planning shown?

These questions are meant to serve as guideposts. Please feel free to
submit papers on other topics related to the conference’s theme.

Abstracts (titled) that will be submitted as proposals will have a maximum
length of 500 words (including bibliographic references). They will be
written in Times New Roman (with 1.5 spacing). The following information
shall be included on a separate sheet accompanying the summary:

Title
Names of who submitted it
Academic affiliation
Contact e-mail address

Abstracts must be submitted by registration at
https://mobility-unibe.jimdo.com/english/registration/.

Each individual presentation will last 20 minutes (plus 10 minutes for
discussion and questions).

-- 
Catherine Lee

Department of Linguistics
University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
1890 East-West Road, 569 Moore
Honolulu, HI 96822 USA
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