20.1863, Calls: Sociolinguistics, Anthropological Linguistics/UK

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Subject: 20.1863, Calls: Sociolinguistics, Anthropological Linguistics/UK

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Date: 13-May-2009
From: Dominic Watt < dw539 at york.ac.uk >
Subject: Borders and Identities Conference 2010
 

	
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Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 14:40:46
From: Dominic Watt [dw539 at york.ac.uk]
Subject: Borders and Identities Conference 2010

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Full Title: Borders and Identities Conference 2010 
Short Title: BIC2010 

Date: 08-Jan-2010 - 09-Jan-2010
Location: York, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Dominic Watt
Meeting Email: bic2010 at events.york.ac.uk
Web Site: http://www.york.ac.uk/res/aiseb/bic2010/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Jul-2009 

Meeting Description:

While research on borderlands is well-established in the social sciences, it is 
only within recent years that interest in such regions as sites of particular 
relevance has taken hold within the fields of sociolinguistics and the sociology 
of language. Findings from studies on the relationships between and 
interdependence of language, borders and identities are of great value for many 
other disciplines within the social sciences - anthropology, human geography, 
and political science, among others. In the same way, the insights from social 
scientific research in border areas provide sociolinguists with challenging new 
theoretical frameworks within which to situate empirical evidence revealing the 
exact nature of the role language plays in identity-making and -marking in sites 
where identity is fluid, complex and emergent in social interaction.

The Borders and Identities Conference (BIC2010) has two aims: 1) to demonstrate 
our current state of knowledge in this fast-developing area of sociolinguistic 
inquiry, and 2) to provide an interdisciplinary perspective in order that the 
results of recent sociolinguistic studies on the topic can be contextualised in 
broader social scientific discourse. Our principal objective in organising the 
meeting is to foster new collaborative research initiatives by bringing together 
scholars in allied disciplines, with a view to extending and refining our 
understanding of the language-identity nexus in regions where in-group and out-
group categorisations may be problematic, or at least more salient than 
elsewhere.

Keynote Addresses:

Dave Britain (Essex) 'Where North meets South?: Contact, Divergence, and the 
Routinisation of the Fenland Dialect Boundary'
Nik Coupland (Cardiff) 'Where does Welsh Begin and End? Ideological Boundary 
Disputes in the Revitalisation of a Minority Language'
Danny Dorling (Sheffield) 'If Lions Could Talk: Mapping over the Borders' 

Call for Papers

The BIC2010 organising committee welcomes abstracts for oral and poster 
presentations on the theme of identity construction in borderland areas. Papers 
need not have a principally linguistic focus.

Abstracts should not exceed 400 words in length, including references. Please 
submit anonymised abstract(s)- in .rtf and PDF format - by e-mail to 
bic2010 at events.york.ac.uk no later than 1st July 2009. Include your name and 
affiliation, and those of any co-authors, in the accompanying e-mail. Please 
also state whether you wish your paper to be considered for an oral presentation 
or a poster if you have any preference.

Oral presentations

Papers will be allotted 30 minutes in total (20 mins for paper, 10 mins for 
questions).

Poster presentations

Posters may be up to A0 size (841 × 1189mm), and should be prepared in portrait 
format.




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