27.1035, Calls: Dutch, Socioling/Belgium

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Subject: 27.1035, Calls: Dutch, Socioling/Belgium

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Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 11:36:02
From: Jürgen Jaspers [jurgen.jaspers at ulb.ac.be]
Subject: Taal & Tongval Colloquium 2016: Vernacular Vitalities

 
Full Title: Taal & Tongval Colloquium 2016: Vernacular Vitalities 
Short Title: T&T 

Date: 25-Nov-2016 - 25-Nov-2016
Location: Ghent, Belgium 
Contact Person: Sarah Van Hoof Jürgen Jaspers
Meeting Email: taalentongval2016 at gmail.com
Web Site: http://www.vtc.ugent.be/taalentongval2016/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics 

Subject Language(s): Dutch (nld)

Call Deadline: 30-Apr-2016 

Meeting Description:

Taal & Tongval: Language Variation in the Low Countries is a peer-­reviewed
journal devoted to the study of language variation in the Dutch language area,
which organizes an annual one-day colloquium on a current topic in the study
of language variation. The theme of the 2016 edition is “Vernacular
vitalities: old-­‐school dialects, contemporary koines and new urban speech
styles”. It will take place at the Royal Academy for Dutch Language and
Literature (KANTL) in Ghent on 25 November 2016.

In much of Western Europe, the last five to six decades are generally seen as
the era of pervasive dialect levelling and dialect shift, processes that are
taking place with varying intensity and speed, on account of the
ever-encroaching impact of linguistic standardization, intensified
communication and increased geographical and social mobility in modern
nation-states (Hinskens, Auer & Kerswill 2005; Vandekerckhove 2009). At the
same time, there are more and more signs that dialect death and attrition are
counterbalanced by a range of processes pointing to the vitality rather than
the obsolescence of vernacular language forms: 

1. The use of ‘old’ dialects is generally not replaced by standard language
use, but rather by new, often hybrid or “koineized, ‘‘compromise’’ dialects,
shaped by contact between local, regional, interregional, and other, including
standard, varieties” (Britain 2009: 122; cf. also Kerswill & Williams 2000).
These mixed varieties are moreover increasingly common in public discourse, as
seems to be the case with Estuary English in the UK (Mugglestone 2003) or
tussentaal in Flanders (De Caluwe 2009; Grondelaers & van Hout 2011).

2. Traditional dialects are sometimes observed to experience a renaissance
(Hinskens et al. 2005: 36) as they are increasingly and unapologetically used
in contemporary music, TV fiction and social media (Androutsopoulos 2010;
Nobels & Vandekerckhove 2010; Van Hoof 2015), and commodified in advertising
and forms of city or region marketing (Johnstone 2009; Strand 2015). 

3. Traditional dialects are being appropriated by urban speakers with mixed
ethnic backgrounds, although the use of these traditional dialects may only be
partial and combined with a range of other linguistic resources (Jaspers 2011;
Rampton 2006; Van Meel et al. 2014). At the same time, some features of ethnic
minority languages get picked up by those not normally seen to own them (e.g.,
Nortier & Dorleijn 2008; also see Van der Sijs 2014).

4. There are indications that new types of vernacular emerge with a distinct
local, often urban colour (see Madsen 2013 and Cornips et al. 2015 on ‘street
language’, Wiese 2012 on ‘Kiezdeutsch’, Marzo & Ceuleers 2011 and Svendsen &
Marzo 2015 on ‘Citétaal’ and ‘Kebabnorsk’). Traditionally labelled ‘youth
language’ or ‘ethnolects’ (Muysken 2013), they have alternatively been dubbed
‘contemporary urban vernaculars’ (Rampton 2011), to emphasize their
durability, use across different ages and ethnic groups, and similarity to
traditional dialects in terms of their indexicality and function.

Organizers:
 
Jürgen Jaspers, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
Sarah Van Hoof, Ghent University

Confirmed plenary speakers: 

- Leonie Cornips (Meertens Institute Amsterdam and Maastricht University)
- Lian Malai Madsen (University of Copenhagen)
- Julia Snell (University of Leeds)
- Reinhild Vandekerckhove (University of Antwerp)


Call for Papers:

This colloquium welcomes 20-minute presentations from dialectological,
variationist, experimental as well as discourse-analytic and
interactional-sociolinguistic perspectives on each of these issues, with a
focus on Dutch or other languages. 

Abstract proposals for presentations (max. 500 words), including name,
affiliation and author contact details, are to be submitted to
taalentongval2016 at gmail.com at the latest by 30 April 2016. Notification of
acceptance will be given by 15 May 2016. Abstracts and presentations can be in
English or Dutch.




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