27.4229, Calls: Sociolinguistics/Switzerland

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LINGUIST List: Vol-27-4229. Thu Oct 20 2016. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 27.4229, Calls: Sociolinguistics/Switzerland

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Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 15:27:27
From: Charlotte Meisner [cmeisner at rom.uzh.ch]
Subject: Boundaries in Empirical (Linguistic) Data

Full Title: Boundaries in Empirical (Linguistic) Data 

Date: 28-Apr-2017 - 28-Apr-2017
Location: Monte Verità, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Charlotte Meisner Agnes Kolmer
Meeting Email: boundaries2017 at spur.uzh.ch
Web Site: http://www.spur.uzh.ch/en/veranstaltungen/workshops/2017/boundaries/workshop.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 31-Oct-2016 

Meeting Description:

The workshop consists of three individual sessions, conceived and hosted by
the URPP members Curdin Derungs (University of Zurich), a GIScientist
currently leading the GISLab, Wolfgang Kesselheim (University of Zurich), a
conversation analyst and leader of the VideoLab, and Tanja Samardžić
(University of Zurich), a computational linguist leading the CorpusLab. The
general idea is to present case studies, including associated data, and to
provide simple tools that allow hands-on discussions of boundaries in
linguistics. Participants can register for one of the three case studies
(appr. 15 participants per group):

Case study 1: Boundaries in Interactional Space (VideoLab)
Case study 2: Spatial Boundaries in Areal Linguistics (GISLab)
Case study 3: Spatial spread of linguistic features extracted from Twitter
(CorpusLab)

The three sessions share the same umbrella questions:

1) What information is used to create spatial entities?
2) What types of boundaries result from the analysis?

Findings from the three case study groups will be discussed in a common
concluding session. 

Registration information:

- The workshop is free for participants of the conference Spatial Boundaries
and Transitions in Language and Interaction. The number of participants is
limited to max. 45 persons. 
- Please register until 31 January 2017 via email to
boundaries2017 at spur.uzh.ch by indicating your preferred case study.

The conference program includes talks by invited speakers, talks in four
thematic sessions, a poster session and a workshop. Sunday, 23 April, is the
arrival day. Registration opens in the afternoon. The actual conference
program starts on Monday, 24 April, at 9 am. The thematic sessions and the
invited talks take place from Monday to Thursday. Friday, 28 April, is the
departure day. The workshop and the excursion will take place in parallel on
Friday morning. The conference ends on Friday around 2 pm. A complete and
detailed program will be published in January, 2017.

Invited Speakers:

Peter Auer (University of Freiburg): Physical boundaries in language and
interaction 
Christian Berndt (University of Zurich): The role of boundaries within human
geography 
Nick Enfield (University of Sydney): The role of boundaries within
Interactional spaces
Frans Gregersen (University of Copenhagen): Shifting boundaries in time and
space 
Tom Güldemann (Humboldt-University Berlin): The role of boundaries within
Linguistic Areas 
Setha Low (City University of New York): Boundaries of linguistic areas and
socio-cultural interaction 
Dan Montello (University of California, Santa Barbara): The role of boundaries
within GIScience
Barbara Tversky (Stanford University): Mountain and valley: the categorization
of geographic objects 
Ruth Wodak (Lancaster University): Migration, borders and boundaries from an
inter-disciplinary perspective

Call for Papers:

Deadline for submitting abstracts is October 31, 2016. For further information
please visit the conference website: http://www.spur.uzh.ch/boundaries. To
submit an abstract, please visit
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=btli2017.

Core Topics and Sessions:

The relevant disciplinary perspectives with regard to spatial boundaries and
transitions in language and interaction will be covered by talks from eminent
experts. These include the roles of spatial boundaries within linguistic
areas, within human geography, within interactional spaces, and within
GIScience. The core topics of the conference will be developed within four
sessions dedicated to different ways of conceiving, and representing spatial
boundaries. The sessions will be introduced by renowned experts in their field
of research. An evening talk open to the interested public will discuss very
current issues of migration, borders and boundaries from an interdisciplinary
perspective.

Abstract Submission for Session Talks:

Abstracts should be 400-500 words (English) and submitted in PDF-format until
October 31, 2016. Reviewing will be double-blind, so please refrain from
including author’s names or affiliations. Please submit your abstract to:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=btli2017 (account needs to be created
if not already happened).

You will have to decide for which of the sessions above you would like to
submit an abstract. Please indicate the session chosen in the abstract. For
the online submission it is mandatory to provide key words. In order to
facilitate the review process please make sure you indicate the following key
words depending on the session you choose:

Session 1: Physical boundaries, social areas, interactional spaces
Session 2: Linguistic areas, socio-cultural interaction, language contact
Session 3: Mountain and valley, geographic objects, categorization
Session 4: Shifting boundaries, dialect contact, diffusion

Important Dates:

- Abstract submission deadline: October 31, 2016
- Notification of acceptance: December 2016
- Registration: October 1, 2016 to January 31, 2017
- Conference dates: April 23 - 28, 2017

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