27.962, Calls: English, Socioling/France

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Subject: 27.962, Calls: English, Socioling/France

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Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 10:11:28
From: Olivier Glain [olivier.glain at univ-st-etienne.fr]
Subject: English-Speaking Towns/Cities: Memoirs and Narratives

 
Full Title: English-Speaking Towns/Cities: Memoirs and Narratives 

Date: 20-Oct-2016 - 21-Oct-2016
Location: Saint Étienne, France 
Contact Person: Olivier Glain
Meeting Email: olivier.glain at univ-st-etienne.fr

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 30-Apr-2016 

Meeting Description:

International conference
« English-speaking towns/cities: memoirs and narratives »
Université Jean Monnet de Saint-Etienne, France
CIEREC EA 3068
October 20 – 21, 2016

The focus of this conference is the linguistic manifestations of urban
identities in the English-speaking world and the various changes they have
undergone. The aim is to study the linguistic features typically associated
with towns/cities and the artistic representations of urban language.

Guest speakers: 

Joan Beal, University of Sheffield, England
Jane Stuart-Smith, University of Glasgow, Scotland


Call for Papers: 

Submissions may consider traditional and/or modern manifestations of language
and language usage in specific urban areas. The concepts of linguistic
identity and of the linguistic imaginary may also be explored, particularly in
the way that they define the relations of individuals with their
languages/varieties and their linguistic communities. Synchronic and
diachronic perspectives are welcome, across all fields of linguistics.

The following is a non-exhaustive list of areas that may be addressed:

- How do towns/cities speak? How do towns/cities sound? 
- How can the plurality and diversity of towns/cities be heard? How can
individuals be heard in towns/cities?
- How do the language practices of urban areas connect speakers locally? How
do these practices connect speakers to other times or places (be they spatial,
temporal, imaginary, constructed or reconstructed)?
- What contact phenomena best define towns/cities today/at some point in the
past?
- What artistic signs bear testimony to the linguistic features of urban
areas? 

Presentations may address the representations of towns/cities in
literature/films/plays/on television/in urban art and design, etc. They may
explore how these representations allow for a construction or reconstruction
of urban identity, and how they bear witness to a change in the “narratives”
and in the imaginary of towns/cities.

Each talk will be 30 minutes long, followed by 10 minutes for discussion.
Anonymous abstracts (300 words maximum), along with a separate document
containing the author’s name and affiliation, should be sent, before 30 April
2016, to the following e-mail address: olivier.glain at univ-st-etienne.fr

Deadline for abstracts: 30 April, 2016
Notifications of acceptance: 30 June, 2016

Contact: Olivier Glain : olivier.glain at univ-st-etienne.fr 

Language of the conference: English

The conference proceedings will be published (1 volume).

Scientific committee
Joan Beal, University of Sheffield
Anne Béchard-Léauté, Université Jean Monnet de Saint-Etienne
Rémi Digonnet, Université Jean Monnet de Saint-Etienne
Olivier Glain, Université Jean Monnet de Saint-Etienne
Vincent Hugou, Université François Rabelais de Tours
Manuel Jobert, Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3
Sylvain Navarro, Université Paris 7 Paris Diderot
Jane Stuart-Smith, University of Glasgow
Stephan Wilhelm, Université de Bourgogne
Gabriela Zapletalova, University of Ostrava




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