29.3011, Calls: Applied Ling, Gen Ling, Lang Acquisition, Psycholing, Socioling/Australia

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Subject: 29.3011, Calls: Applied Ling, Gen Ling, Lang Acquisition, Psycholing, Socioling/Australia

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Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 13:12:02
From: Kleanthes K. Grohmann [kleanthi at ucy.ac.cy]
Subject: Multifaceted Multilingualism: Language, Cognition, and Communication

 
Full Title: Multifaceted Multilingualism: Language, Cognition, and Communication 

Date: 10-Dec-2018 - 12-Dec-2018
Location: Adelaide (South Australia), Australia 
Contact Person: Kleanthes K. Grohmann
Meeting Email: kleanthi at ucy.ac.cy

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Oct-2018 

Meeting Description:

Multifaceted Multilingualism: Language, Cognition, and Communication

Multilingualism comes in many forms and situations, and linguistically
relevant studies may be conducted on many different topics: individual and
societal multilingualism, multiple languages brought to or taught in school,
and so on. In addition, multilingualism has been argued to benefit cognition
(the so-called ‘bilingual advantage’). Understanding the growing multilingual
and multicultural world requires interdisciplinary approaches to the study of
multilingualism. 

This workshop focuses on multilingualism through a multifaceted approach to
research on language, cognition, and communication. Apart from the theoretical
linguist’s bread and butter (grammatical description, language-specific
analyses, and modelling of multilingualism), different fields of study and
research interests will be represented through the work of the four invited
speakers:

- Development: Multilingualism is relevant for first language acquisition (L1,
also bi- or multilingual) and learning of additional languages (L2),
especially in the context of child bilingualism or heritage languages;
experimental research is typically carried in psycholinguistic studies
pursuing theoretically guided questions.
- Education: Multilingualism gains importance in many areas of education,
whether catering for heritage speakers, multilingual students, or teaching
additional languages throughout the school curriculum; from a multilingual
perspective, this requires careful planning of different school curricula and
education policies.
- Society: Multilingualism is an important aspect of most modern societies in
a globalized world, complementing issues in development and education but also
beyond (integration of migrants, provisions of services, policy-making, and so
on); beyond qualitative studies, quantitative research in sociolinguistics
gains importance.
- Pathology: Multilingualism has already become a serious issue (even if
completely ignored by policy-makers in most countries) for accurately and
positively identifying different types of language-related pathologies as well
as for treating them successfully; this concerns speech–language–communication
difficulties and developmental impairments, but also attrition, breakdown, and
other language situations.

This workshop calls on theoretical, applied, and experimental
(psycho)linguists, speech–language pathologists, neurobiologists of language,
cognitive and developmental psychologists, educationalists, and other
researchers to contribute to the rising challenge of multilingualism for
nation states, policy-making, cultural heritage, speech communities, and
individual speakers through the lifetime: from infants and children to
adolescents and adults, including aging populations.

We are interested in novel strategies for multilingual populations in any of
these areas, new datasets, and more. Research can stem from the perspective of
a single language in a multicultural/multilingual setting or from multilingual
individuals and speaker groups; we are particularly interested in
minority/migrant languages, dialects/vernacular varieties, and other,
typically understudied aspects of language. Likewise, the research to be
reported can be drawn from small/large population-based or single case
studies. There is also a broad spectrum for take-home messages, ranging from
new theoretical analyses or approaches to assess multilingual speakers all the
way to recommendations for policy-makers, to mention just a few.


Call for Papers:

We solicit abstracts for 30-minute oral presentations at the one-day workshop
*Multifaceted Multilingualism: Language, Cognition, and Communication*, which
is part of the 2018 Australian Linguistic Society Annual Conference
(http://als.asn.au/Conference/Conference-2018/Conference-2018).

In line with our invited speakers, the above general description includes the
keywords: 
theory; development; education; society; pathology (in the context of
multilingualism)

We are happy to announce confirmation of the following invited speakers:

Iain Giblin, Macquarie University (Sydney)
Maria Kambanaros, Cyprus University of Technology (Limassol)
Peter Mickan, University of Adelaide (Adelaide)
James A. Walker, La Trobe University (Melbourne)

Abstracts should not exceed 500 words but may in addition include data,
diagrams, and references. They should be sent by email as a PDF attachment
directly to the organizer: kleanthi at ucy.ac.cy

Acceptance decisions will be made by the end of October in order to allow
participants to make travel arrangements in time. A workshop homepage will be
added soon. In the meantime, please use the general conference information
from the ASL to find out more about the venue and all other information.




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