27.1604, Calls: Socioling/Italy

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Subject: 27.1604, Calls: Socioling/Italy

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Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2016 11:30:09
From: Patrick Heinrich [wadoku at yahoo.com]
Subject: The Sociolinguistics of Urban Language Life

 
Full Title: The Sociolinguistics of Urban Language Life 
Short Title: GloSoc II 

Date: 15-Nov-2017 - 17-Nov-2017
Location: Venice, Italy 
Contact Person: Patrick Heinrich
Meeting Email: globalisingsociolinguistics at gmail.com
Web Site: http://globalisingsociolinguistics.com 

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 30-Jun-2017 

Meeting Description:

In the Globalising Sociolinguistics symposia the problem of applicability, and
beyond that of the expansion of sociolinguistic theory and methodology, is at
the centre of attention. In this second edition, we will tackle this issue by
focusing on the sociolinguistics of urban language life.

Mainstream sociolinguistic theories, which are supposed to cover a broad range
of language settings in the world, often exhibit an Anglo-Western cultural
bias. This bias is due to the relatively high degree of sociolinguistic
activity in the Inner Circle and Europe. It is a widely acknowledged bias, but
we also know that it is difficult to challenge. In the Globalising
Sociolinguistics symposia the problem of applicability, and beyond that of the
expansion of sociolinguistic theory and methodology, is at the centre of
attention. In this second edition, we will tackle this issue by focusing on
the sociolinguistics of urban language life.

The complexity of the city provides a fertile testing ground for how
sociolinguistic theory fares in a present-day context. City people come into
daily contact with strangers having different belief systems, behavioural
norms, day-to-day rituals and linguistic practices, and they must somehow
learn to get along for the city to function ecologically. Non-mobile
monolinguals, who stay their entire life in their provincial home society, are
becoming increasingly atypical cases. Instead, the urbanite multilingual, who
functionally ''plays'' with language and uses it as a commodity, most of the
time outside the original environment of that language, can now be considered
the norm rather than the exception. Cities are not filled with an anonymous
population but with concrete actors, struggling to achieve things they deem
relevant while seeking a self-identification they perceive to be rewarding.
Language plays an important role in these activities. The language of these
individuals should be approached as a set of patterned activities by concrete
speakers and listeners, with interactants applying distinct repertoires and
having volatile mutual relations. All this influences how city people
communicate with each other, and this, in turn, affects language structures
and repertoires.

City people come into daily contact with strangers having different belief
systems, behavioural norms, day-to-day rituals and linguistic practices, and
they must somehow learn to get along for the city to function ecologically.
Non-mobile monolinguals, who stay their entire life in their provincial home
society, are becoming increasingly atypical cases. Instead, the urbanite
multilingual, who functionally “plays” with language and uses it as a
commodity, most of the time outside the original environment of that language,
can now be considered the norm rather than the exception. Cities are not
filled with an anonymous population but with concrete actors, struggling to
achieve things they deem relevant while seeking a self-identification they
perceive to be rewarding. All this influences how city people communicate with
each other, and this affects language structures and repertoires.


Call for Papers: 

We invite abstract of up to 250 words on urban language settings, which
problematize how to study language life in the city, including up to five
keywords. Please send your abstract to globalisingsociolinguistics at gmail.com
until 30 June 2017. Selected papers will be published in a special’s issue of
an international peer-reviewed journal.




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