29.2669, Calls: Applied Ling, Disc Analysis, Phonology, Pragmatics, Socioling/United Kingdom

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Subject: 29.2669, Calls: Applied Ling, Disc Analysis, Phonology, Pragmatics, Socioling/United Kingdom

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Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 15:53:29
From: Nicole Baumgarten [n.baumgarten at sheffield.ac.uk]
Subject: Urban Futures : Workshop on Language-Based Discrimination

 
Full Title: Urban Futures : Workshop on Language-Based Discrimination 

Date: 12-Oct-2018 - 12-Oct-2018
Location: Sheffield, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Victoria Gill
Meeting Email: v.l.gill at sheffield.ac.uk
Web Site: https://www.researchgate.net/project/Linguistic-Profiling-on-the-Urban-Residential-Property-Market 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Phonology; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 18-Jul-2018 

Meeting Description:

A recent article in the Guardian suggested that the rise of discrimination
against non-UK nationals is on the rise (The Guardian, 11/9/2017).
Discrimination in the form of language discrimination can occur as hearers'
pre-conceived judgements of social groups are triggered by the hearing of
particular accents affiliated with those groups. In contexts where a form of
gatekeeping is required, such as service industries, having a particular
accent in the local majority language can affect people's success at accessing
services. 

The workshop is built around ongoing work on linguistic profiling on the
housing market funded by the British Academy, in the cities of Sheffield, UK,
and Bremen, Germany, with the goal of understanding culture-specific
decision-making patterns related to the use of (non-)standard speech and
personal names, when requesting services in the socially sensitive context of
housing. Sheffield and Bremen are so-called 'second-tier' cities with
comparable socio-economic structure, located at some distance from major
metropolitan areas, but similarly enveloped in public debates on social
exclusion, cultural diversity and identity, integration, and ownership of
public space. In the current context of the UK housing crisis, the residential
housing market has been described as 'broken', 'fragmented', 'ruthless and
competitive'. Recent and current population movements into Western Europe has
seen further activity for receiving communities on their housing markets which
increases competition for affordable housing. With estate agents playing a
pivotal role in providing access to the housing market, they serve as
gatekeepers with the power to perform residential steering and influence
ethnic or residential segregation. 

This one-day workshop aims to bring together research from both the humanities
and social sciences exploring discrimination in the context of language,
ethnicity and urban space. 

Keynote speaker: Prof Ingrid Breckner (Urban and Reginal Sociology, HafenCity
University Hamburg, Germany)

Workshop organisers: 
Dr Nicole Baumgarten (University of Sheffield)
Dr Inke Dubois (University of Bremen)
Victoria Gill (University of Sheffield)


Call for Papers:

To broaden our understanding of discrimination in urban space, we invite
contributions that investigate multilingualism and/or multiculturalism, the
hallmarks of urban diversity, for its potential to disadvantage individuals,
divide communities and fragment urban societies into segregated units. A
selection of articles arising from the conference papers will be published as
a thematically-organised special issue.

Topics include (but are not limited to) the following:

- Language-based discrimination in service industries (housing, financial
advice etc.) 
- Language discrimination: attitudes towards accented speech
- Service industry and provision in culturally and linguistically diverse
environments
- Accessing services in a second language
- Gatekeeping 
- Migration, ethnic segregation in (non-)metropolitan areas

Speakers may address any national or linguistic context; however, the working
language of the workshop will be English.

Abstracts should be 300 words in length. Please include your email address and
institutional affiliation. All abstracts, as well as queries, should be sent
to Victoria Gill (v.l.gill at sheffield.ac.uk)

Workshop organisers:

Dr Nicole Baumgarten (University of Sheffield)
Dr Inke Dubois (University of Bremen)
Victoria Gill (University of Sheffield)




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