28.4338, Confs: Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Lang Documentation, Socioling/China

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Subject: 28.4338, Confs: Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Lang Documentation, Socioling/China

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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 11:40:25
From: Hui Zhao [hui.zhao1 at nottingham.ac.uk]
Subject: Language Standardization and Linguistic Variation in Asia from Sociolinguistic Perspectives

 
Language Standardization and Linguistic Variation in Asia from Sociolinguistic Perspectives 

Date: 11-Dec-2017 - 13-Dec-2017 
Location: Ningbo, China 
Contact: Nicola Mclelland 
Contact Email: languagestandards at nottingham.ac.uk 
Meeting URL: http://www.meits.org/events/event/language-standardization-and-linguistic-variation-in-asia-from-sociolinguis 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Language Documentation; Sociolinguistics 

Meeting Description: 

There has been much work in sociolinguistics on language standardization and
language diversity in both Western and Asian scholarships. Though this
conference places emphasis on the scholarship developed in Asia due to its
venue, multidirectional comparisons and contrasts between different contexts
are also welcome.

As is widely acknowledged, societies in Asia have become increasingly
multilingual and multicultural as a result of increased mobility and modern
transportation. Inevitably, these societies have all been struggling to
balance language standardisation in the context of diverse ethnicity and
culture. To better understand the changing sociolinguistic landscape, tensions
between standardization and diversity, and policies and measures to address
issues, this conference features papers on theoretical frameworks, concepts,
policies and practices with a focus on either language standardization and its
relation to linguistic variation from sociolinguistic perspectives by
educators, policy makers and researchers. We also address how standardization
and diversity could be reconciled in different multilingual and multicultural
contexts of Asia.

The conference will take place at Ningbo, China (about two hours by train
south of Shanghai). The language of the conference is English. The conference
is co-hosted and co-sponsored by the University of Nottingham, UK, (UNUK) and
University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC).The language of the conference is
English.

Areas of interest include – but are not limited to – those outlined below.

1. The history of language standardization: selection, elaboration and
codification
2. Theories and methodological approaches to language standardisation
3. Standard language ideology and language attitudes
4. Multilingualism and lingua franca
5. Language standards and language testing
6. New media and challenges to language standardization
7. Reconciling linguistic/ethnic diversity and language standardization
8. Comparisons and contrasts in language standardization and linguistic
variation in different contexts

Keynote Speakers:

Prof. Anvita Abbi (Jawaharlal Nehru University): Challenging the monolithic
model of standardization in the context of multilingual and plurilingual India

Prof. Imtiaz Hasnain (Aligarh Muslim University): Authenticity and
Coloniality: Language Standardization, Hybridity and Asian Sensibility

Prof. Luo Lian (Minzu University of China): Standards in Chinese Writing –
Comparing the New HSK tests for Foreign Learners and the MHK Tests for Ethnic
Minority Learners of Mandarin Chinese

Prof. Minglang Zhou (University of Maryland, College Park): Contradiction
between Standardization and Variation in China’s Language Planning: A
Conceptual Account
 






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