27.4859, Summer Schools: MultiLing Winter School 2017: Language, Youth and Identity/Norway

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Subject: 27.4859, Summer Schools: MultiLing Winter School 2017: Language, Youth and Identity/Norway

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Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 10:58:22
From: Malene Boyum [malene.boyum at iln.uio.no]
Subject: MultiLing Winter School 2017: Language, Youth and Identity/Norway

MultiLing Winter School 2017: Language, Youth and Identity - Explored through Ethnographic Methodologies

Host Institution: University of Oslo
Coordinating Institution: University of Oslo
Website: http://www.hf.uio.no/multiling/english/news-and-events/events/phd-seminars/2017/multiling-winter-school-2017/index.html

Dates: 30-Jan-2017 - 03-Feb-2017
Location: Oslo, Norway

Focus: This course presents methods for collecting linguistic ethnographic data, with a specific focus on language, youth and identities in culturally and linguistically heterogeneous urban spaces.  We engage in the practical issues of conducting ethnographic fieldwork; of planning and collecting data, of doing digital ethnography, and of turning data into ethnographic text.
Minimum Education Level: MA

Special Qualifications:
The participants must be enrolled in a PhD program in linguistics or a related field of study.

Description:
The course introduces some key concepts from poststructuralist, discursive and
sociolinguist approaches to analysing identities in linguistic ethnographic
data. Through an investigation of political (in) correctness, and what Sarah
Ahmed calls non-performatives, a discussion on what is not being said in talk
is given attention. We analyse prohibited language, we look at how various
social categories and identities are constructed, ascribed and resisted
through language, and what happens when talk becomes a substitution for other
social actions. Colour blind (anti) racism and race is taken as one example of
this subject. The course combines lectures with literature-, and data
seminars. Plenty of time is devoted for analysing data in hands-on seminars.
All participants are requested to bring and present their own transcribed
material from on-going research projects which will be jointly analysed in
relation to the presented theoretical perspectives of the course. We welcome
not only interactional data but also interview and computer mediated
communication (CMC) data.  The hands-on seminar offers an opportunity to both
practice linguistic ethnographic analysis and to receive valuable readings of
own data from other course participants. The overall aim of the course is thus
to introduce linguistic ethnographic methods, and to provide theoretical
perspectives and analytical tools through which to analyse identities in
mundane talk.

All applicants are kindly asked to submit with their application either 1-4 A4
pages of transcribed data (along with a translation into English) or a
250-word description of the data that they would like to present for
discussion during the course (NB the deadline for submission of the
transcribed and translated data is January 2nd) . The data will be discussed
and analysed in the afternoon sessions of the course. The students will be
asked to give a short presentation introducing the data and setting it against
the backdrop of their research projects.

Contact: Britt-Marie Forsudd, e-mail: b.m.forsudd at iln.uio.no, or Professor
Bente Ailin Svendsen, e-mail: b.a.svendsen at iln.uio.no.

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                      Applied Linguistics
                      Sociolinguistics

Tuition: 0 USD

Tuition Explanation: There is no course fee, but participants will have to cover their own travel
and accommodation expenses.

Registration: 25-Nov-2016 to 12-Dec-2016

Contact Person: Britt-Marie Forsudd
                Email: b.m.forsudd at iln.uio.no

Apply on the web: https://nettskjema.uio.no/answer/77909.html

Registration Instructions:
See the application form: https://nettskjema.uio.no/answer/77909.html

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