28.3187, Calls: Applied Ling/New Zealand

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Subject: 28.3187, Calls: Applied Ling/New Zealand

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Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 11:14:32
From: Heini Lehtonen [heini.lehtonen at helsinki.fi]
Subject: Developing and reinforcing language awareness

 
Full Title: Developing and reinforcing language awareness 

Date: 29-Jun-2018 - 29-Jun-2018
Location: Auckland, New Zealand 
Contact Person: Heini Lehtonen
Meeting Email: heini.lehtonen at helsinki.fi

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 06-Aug-2017 

Meeting Description:

Developing language awareness and reinforcing language diversity
through participatory sociolinguistic methods

This colloquium brings together scholars working on language diversity,
minorities, language and power, and multilingual education. The participants
share methodological orientation towards linguistic ethnography and action
research in plurilingual communities.


Call for Papers:

This is a call for abstract proposals for a colloquium in Sociolinguistics
Symposium 22. 

Are you interested in language awareness and employing participatory
sociolinguistic methods (ethnography, action research, community arts) in a
multilingual or plurilingual setting? Please consider sending an abstract for
our colloquium Developing language awareness and reinforcing language
diversity through participatory sociolinguistic methods that is suggested for
the SS22 (Auckland, NZ, June 2018). We are happy to welcome participants from
different countries and from different stages of academic careers. We are
going to invite a discussant for the colloquium.

Organisers: Heini Lehtonen and Janne Saarikivi, University of Helsinki
Procedure: If you are willing to participate, please suggest a preliminary
title as soon as possible. Until the 6th of August, send your 350-word
abstract proposal (including references) as well as your affiliation
information to heini.lehtonen at helsinki.fi.
 
During the recent years, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics and
anthropological linguistics have gained an ever more solid understanding on
the ways in which people employ their diverse linguistic repertoires in
environments where the participants possess asymmetric resources. Research has
clarified processes through which ideologies and attitudes contribute to
social relations. These processes are reflexive – they display awareness and
interpretation regarding social semiotics.

Our colloquium will discuss the ways in which sociolinguistic academic
knowledge can be shared with people whose lives happen through linguistically
and culturally diverse encounters. 

Questions to be addressed are:
- What is linguistic awareness and how does it contribute to everyday lives of
people?
- What can linguists do to raise linguistic awareness in the communities they
are working with?
How to co-construct linguistic awareness that increases the sense of belonging
for everyone?
- How can linguistic diversity and translanguaging be taken into account and
employed as positive assets in linguistically and ethnically diverse settings?

A shared keyword for the authors is participation: researchers participate in
the everyday life of the community, and the people in the field are not
objects, but they actively construct understanding of the plurilingual
practices they participate in. Activities promote shifts in conventional
roles, i.e. the roles of  researcher, teacher, and student are less confined
than in traditional research contexts.




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