29.4703, Calls: Sociolinguistics/France

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Subject: 29.4703, Calls: Sociolinguistics/France

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Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 03:54:02
From: Charles Brasart [charles.brasart at univ-nantes.fr]
Subject: Multilingualism and Otherness

 
Full Title: Multilingualism and Otherness 
Short Title: MOT2019 

Date: 10-May-2019 - 10-May-2019
Location: Nantes, France 
Contact Person: Charles Brasart
Meeting Email: charles.brasart at univ-nantes.fr
Web Site: https://lling.univ-nantes.fr/agenda/conference-multilingualism-and-otherness--2357396.kjsp 

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2019 

Meeting Description:

This conference will focus on the place and the perception of multilingualism
in predominantly monolingual communities. If such people as Grégoire or Arthur
Schlesinger Jr. are right in saying that the language makes the people, are
multilingual bound to drift from community to communitarianism? To what extent
is multilingualism still perceived as a threat to individual or academic
wellbeing and/or national cohesion? How do multilingual speakers manage their
identities and languages in monolingual settings? And how can linguists
working on those issues better convey their findings to the public?

Despite decades of academic research, multilingualism often remains the focus
of negative perception, either interpreted as a snobbish display of cul- tural
capital or a refusal to integrate. This can be exemplified in France by
recurring media scares that the government is about to make Arabic a
compulsory topic in primary schools whenever the teaching of Arabic is
mentioned (Grenery 2016[7], Durand 2018[5]), or by the many teachers who still
ask parents of multilingual children to stop using the home language with
them.

The concept of domains of language use theorized by Fishman (1972)[6] can help
understand how multilingual speech practices may come across as out of place
in certain contexts. Whereas a domain involves typical interac- tions between
typical participants in typical settings, bilingual speakers often straddle
several domains, and represent a potentially threatening otherness, all the
more so as many myths about bilingualism persist in the wider population,
regardless of whether so-called “prestige” or “heritage” multilingualism is at
stake. The social significations and stigma associated to language contact
have a part to play in making invisible, sometimes to the point of ghettoiza-
tion, the linguistic repertoires that are perceived as non-standard, and the
identities that are linked to them.

The conference is organized by the Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantesand
will take place in the beautiful city of Nantes, Brittany, on May 10, 2019.
Our laboratory is a member of Bilingualism Matters and the AThEME (Advancing
The European Multilingual Experience) consortium. Its research aims at
defining the human capacity known as language — modeling the representations
and mechanisms involved in the production, understanding and perception of
language.


Call for Papers:

We welcome submissions related to, but not limited to:

- Multilingualism, multilingual education, policies and practices 
- Code-switching and translanguaging 
- Linguacism, linguistic insecurity, glottophobia 
- Face-threatening acts and politeness theory 
- Communication Accommodation Theory

Guidelines for Submission:

Abstracts should be written in either English or French and should not exceed
300 words. Abstracts should include:

1. name and affiliation of presenter(s),
2. title of presentation,
3. aims, theoretical underpinnings, methodology, main findings and discussion,
4. references.

Papers will be allocated 20 minutes with 10 minutes for discussion. 

Abstracts should be submitted via EasyAbstract at the following address: 
http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/mot2019 

If this is your first time submitting an abstract for a conference,
theLinguistic Society of America offers guidelines on how to write convincing
abstracts at the following URL:
https://www.linguisticsociety.org/resource/model-abstracts

We would like to encourage early-career researchers and PhD students to submit
abstracts, and hope to make #MOT2019 a supportive environment in which to test
out new ideas and receive positive and constructive feedback.




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