29.2454, Calls: English, Spanish, Gen Ling, Ling & Lit, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling/Belgium

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Subject: 29.2454, Calls: English, Spanish, Gen Ling, Ling & Lit, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling/Belgium

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Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2018 13:46:54
From: Renata Enghels [renata.enghels at ugent.be]
Subject: Crossing the Border between Spanish and English: Current issues, future perspectives, linguistic and literary insights

Full Title: Crossing the Border between Spanish and English: Current issues, future perspectives, linguistic and literary insights 

Date: 05-Feb-2019 - 06-Feb-2019
Location: Ghent, Belgium 
Contact Person: Renata Enghels
Meeting Email: cros at ugent.be
Web Site: http://www.cros.ugent.be/en/cros-2019-conference/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Ling & Literature; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     Spanish (spa)

Call Deadline: 15-Aug-2018 

Meeting Description:

This international congress is a joint initiative of the Research Group CROS
of the Department of Spanish and Comparative Romance Linguistics at Ghent
University (Belgium) and the Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies
(Spanish language) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)
http://www.cros.ugent.be/ .

The congress will take place at Het Pand (Ghent, Belgium) on 5-6 February,
2019.

Plenary speakers

Linguistics: Kim Potowski (University of Illinois)
Literary Studies: An Van Hecke (KU Leuven, Antwerpen)
Cultural Studies: Silvia Betti (Università di Bologna)

Call for Papers:

The phenomenon of globalization includes an ever-increasing degree of contact
between different languages and cultures. This congress wants to study
concrete consequences of contact between the Spanish and English languages and
cultures in different areas. 

1. Spanish in contact with English in Spain
The conference wants to contribute to the ‘measurement’ of the impact of
English on Spanish. 
- Is it mostly to be situated in the domain of lexical borrowings, or can
concrete cases of impact on Spanish syntax be identified?
- Can one observe a changing impact, for instance by the analysis of a
particular phenomenon through different micro-diachronies?
- Is it true that the impact is to be situated among adolescents and younger
generations? 

Although proposals including theoretical reflections and all kinds of concrete
topics are accepted, we particularly welcome case studies on syntactic
borrowings and calques.

2. Spanish in contact with English in the USA
Spanglish has rightly been treated as a socially, politically and culturally
relevant research domain and has been the topic of many sociolinguistic
studies. However, much less is known on what really happens in the minds of
Spanglish speakers. This workshop wants to provide an interdisciplinary
approach to the phenomenon, by combining linguistic and literary insights, and
within each discipline by integrating different viewpoints.  

>From a linguistic viewpoint, the conference aims at further identifying the
characteristics of Spanglish as a unique form of bilingualism: 

- It particularly welcomes concrete case studies of Spanglish grammar (e.g. on
phenomena of word order, discourse markers etc.). These could contribute to
the general question of whether the image of linguistic chaos can be replaced
by the model of Spanglish as a ‘a third linguistic system’, full of remarkable
regularities.
- We also particularly welcome papers that discuss the construction of
corpora: What kind of empirical data can be used in order the study the
phenomena? As such, the conference ties up with a more general discussion on
the value of written data to study phenomena typical of orality. 
- It also wants to discuss the main challenges Spanglish is expected to be
confronted with in the (near) future given that, more than ever, the identity
of its speakers in the USA is at stake.

>From a literary point of view, the following research topics can be discussed:

- How to write a territorialized national identity where notions of homeland,
native language (mother tongue), and cultural belongings are affected by the
crossing of borders? How does writing attempt to reconfigure the links between
the author and his/her origins? How and what else is around the writing of the
ambivalent sense of belonging? To do so, some suggested areas and topics of
exploration (non-exhaustive) are:

o Self-experience writing: Autobiography, Autofiction, Testimonial literature.
o Personal Geographies: Experiencing 'nostos' (return to the homeland),
longing for home.
o Images of nostalgia and in-betweenness.
o In the search of roots and routes.
o Borders and Boundaries.
o Women writing.

Abstracts for an oral presentation (20 minutes + discussion time) must not
exceed 500 words, including references, and should mention the main research
question(s), methodology, data and (expected) results. Please submit via
Easychair through https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cros2019 . 

The conference languages are Spanish and English.

Important Dates:

15 August 2018: Abstract submission deadline
30 September 2018: Notification to authors

Organizing Committee:

Renata Enghels (UGent)
Diana Castilleja (VUB)
Miriam Bouzouita (UGent)
An Vande Casteele (VUB)
Kim Collewaert (VUB) 
Linde Roels (UGent)
Marie Comer (UGent)

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