27.1643, Confs: Socioling/Norway

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Subject: 27.1643, Confs: Socioling/Norway

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Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2016 16:43:05
From: Jorunn Thingnes [j.s.thingnes at iln.uio.no]
Subject: Dialect Acquisition and Migration

Dialect Acquisition and Migration 

Date: 13-Apr-2016 - 15-Apr-2016 
Location: Oslo, Norway 
Contact: Unn Røyneland 
Contact Email: unn.royneland at iln.uio.no 
Meeting URL: http://www.hf.uio.no/multiling/english/news-and-events/events/conferences/2016/dialect-acquisition-and-migration/index.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics 

Meeting Description: 

This workshop aims to bring together sociolinguists from various Northern,
Central and Southern European countries to explore, and in turn develop a
comprehensive view on, the way second and third generation migrants adapt to
the dialects and regiolects in the receiving societies.

Within Europe, there are huge differences in the way the second and third
generation migrants adapt to the dialectal and regiolectal ways of speaking
found in the receiving societies. They range from (apparently) complete
accommodation of the whole repertoire from standard to dialect in places such
as Sicily and southern Italy in general, Switzerland, or Norway, to an
outright rejection of dialects as spoken by the 'white' autochthonous
population and which are perceived as part of middle class mainstream culture,
such as in The Netherlands, northern Italy, or (at least parts of) Germany.
Variation within a country has also been reported (Denmark).

While these differences may be due to how speakers with an immigrant
background position themselves vis-à-vis the receiving societies, they may
equally be a consequence of social restrictions imposed on these choices by
community norms and by the legitimate, entitled users of dialects. Hence the
question of whether second/third generation immigrants use dialects (or at
least regional features) seems to reflect both on the status of the dialects
in the respective society, and on the relationship between immigrant and
non-immigrant population. It is therefore highly indicative of the social
processes underlying transformations of late modern European societies due to
migration. Differences between rural and urban geographies almost certainly
play a role as well. In addition, there may be significant developmental
differentiation between early and later generations of immigrants.

Although sociolinguists in various European countries have started to
investigate the issue, a comprehensive view and interesting sociolinguistic
generalizations are only possible once these single investigations are
confronted with each other. The workshop therefore aims at bringing together
sociolinguists from various north, middle and south European countries to
develop such a perspective and to discuss different methodological approaches
to such studies.

Programme:

Wednesday, 13 April 2016

11:00–11:15
Welcome to MultiLing
Elizabeth Lanza, Center director

11:15–11:30
Introduction
Peter Auer  & Unn Røyneland

11:30–12:30
Presentation 1
Jan-Ola Östman, University of Helsinki, Finland & Lena Ekberg, University of
Stockholm, Sweden
Language and integration in rural areas: first- and second-generation dialect
acquisition and identity construction

12:30–13:30 Lunch break*

13:30–14:30
Presentation 2
Pia Quist, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Hybrid use of dialect and ethnolect in an urban housing estate

14:30–15:30
Presentation 3
Unn Røyneland & Bård Uri Jensen, University of Oslo, Norway
Attitudes towards immigrants’ use of local dialects; questions of
authenticity, belonging and entitlement

15:30–16:00 Break with light refreshments

1600–1700
Presentation 4
María Sancho Pascual, University of Alcalá / Compultense University of Madrid
& Cristina Martinez Sanz, University of Antonio de Nebrija, Spain
Language attitudes and dialect acquisition: Ecuadorians and Dominicans in
Madrid

Thursday, 14 April 2016

09:00–10:00
Presentation 5
Cécile Evers, University of Pennsylvania: Arabic-French Linguistic Syncretism
in Marseille's Housing Projects
How Second-Generation Youth Transformed Marseille’s Historical Dialect into a
Vernacular for Young People of Color

10:00–11:00
Presentation 6
Raphael Berthele, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Dialect as a bond, a barrier, or a threat. Case studies from Romance and
Alemannic varieties spoken in Switzerland

11:00–11:30 Coffee/tea break

11:30–12:30
Presentation 7
Stephan Schmid, University of Zürich, Switzerland
Some features of Swiss German dialects spoken by second-generation immigrants

12:30–13:30 Lunch break*

13:30–14:30
Presentation 8
Peter Auer, University of Freiburg, Germany
Young Stuttgart people with migrant background don't use dialect

14:30–15:30
Presentation 9
Leonie Cornips, Meertens Instituut (KNAW) & Maastricht University, The
Netherlands
Exploration on dialect acquisition by new speakers in the Netherlands

15:30–16:00 Break with light refreshments

16:00–17:00
Presentation 10
Philippe Hambye, University of Louvain, Belgium
How to be legitimately illegitimate? Analyzing the vernacular of
French-speaking Belgians of immigrant descent

Friday, 15 April 2016

09:00–10:00
Presentation 11
Paul Kerswill, University of York, Penelope Gardner-Chloros, Birkbeck,
University of London, UK and Maria Secova, Queen Mary, University of London,
UK
Expressing identity in London and Paris: ethnicity, class and youth

10:00–11:00
Presentation 12
Cecelia Cutler, CUNY, USA
“People don’t see me as white”: how appearance plays in dialect acquisition
among immigrants in the U.S.

11:00–11:30 Coffee/tea break

11:30–12:30
Presentation 13
David Britain, University of Bern, Switzerland
Challenges and opportunities for future research on the acquisition of
dialects and the development of ''new'' lects by immigrant groups in Europe

12:30–13:30 Lunch break*

13:30–14:30
Concluding discussion/plans ahead/publication?

*) Lunch is provided for the invited guests.

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