28.4885, Calls: Anthro Ling, Disc Analysis, Historical Ling, Lang Acquisition, Socioling/Netherlands

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Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 11:06:48
From: Dick Smakman [d.smakman at hum.leidenunv.nl]
Subject: Globalising Sociolinguistics 2: Communicating in the City

 
Full Title: Globalising Sociolinguistics 2: Communicating in the City 
Short Title: GloSoc2 

Date: 13-Dec-2018 - 15-Dec-2018
Location: Leiden, Netherlands 
Contact Person: Dick Smakman
Meeting Email: GloSoc2018 at hum.leidenuniv.nl

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Historical Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Apr-2018 

Meeting Description:

This second edition of the Globalising Sociolinguistics series focusses on the
city as a sociolinguistic entity in its own right. Cities have something in
common, even if they are in different parts of the world. In fact, city
dwellers might feel more at home in another city – even one in another country
–than in the surrounding more rural regions of their own city. More often than
not, moving to the city is a life-changing event that reveals itself in ways
of communicating of individuals and in the expansion and fluidity of
repertoires. We will seek to explore communicative practices in the city in a
way that transcends group-based or language-centered approaches. We seek to
capture communication as situational, evolving, and dynamic.

The city as a sociolinguistic system in a more general way is also worthy of
attention. Sociolinguistically, cities are where things often happen. They are
growing in size, in importance, in independence from the nation state, and in
complexity. Cities are the locus of innovation, adaptation, conflict,
opportunity-seeking, and, as a consequence, of language use diversification
and modernisation. Broader communication systems in urban contexts are,
therefore, part of this conference. 

The conference is inspired by the recent publication of the edited volume
Urban Sociolinguistics. The City as a Linguistic Process and Experience
(Routledge, 2018; Smakman & Heinrich, Eds):
https://www.routledge.com/Urban-Sociolinguistics-The-City-as-a-Linguistic-Proc
ess-and-Experience/Smakman-Heinrich/p/book/9781138200371. This book explains
language usage in very large cities across the globe and provides examples and
analyses of such uses.

Organisers:

- Dick Smakman, Leiden University, Netherlands
- Patrick Heinrich, Ca’Foscari University, Venice, Italy
- Kapitolina Fedorova, European University at St. Petersburg, Russia
- Jiří Nekvapil, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
- Sandra Barasa, Radboud University of Nijmegen University, Netherlands

Keynote Speakers:

- Jan Blommaert, Tilburg University, Netherlands
- (More to follow)


Call for Papers:

1. Paper abstracts are invited related to communication in the city in (a.) a
narrow, individual sense and in (b.) a broad, system-oriented sense. This
means that we welcome papers in the areas of discourse studies, linguistic
landscape studies, ethnolinguistics, approaches focusing on ethnicity and
identity, language-acquisition approaches, as well as approaches in the field
of language/communication in relation to economy, social mobility, and
modern/traditional media. We aim to receive papers about a wide variety of
cities; both large ones and smaller ones. Paper presentations are 40 minutes,
including questions.
2. Poster abstracts are invited about the same themes.

Please send abstracts (200-250 words, not including references) to
GloSoc2018 at hum.leidenuniv.nl. Give the abstract a title and write down three
keywords underneath this title. For each presenter, include (underneath the
abstract text): presenter name, university name, country of origin, and
contact details. Indicate whether you are interested in presenting a paper or
a poster. The abstract deadline is 1 April 2018; confirmation by the
organisers by 15 April 2018.




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