31.1701, Calls: English; Socioling/Italy

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LINGUIST List: Vol-31-1701. Wed May 20 2020. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 31.1701, Calls: English; Socioling/Italy

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Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 12:14:09
From: Katherine Russo [kerusso at unior.it]
Subject: EASA Panel “Australian Languages at Risk: Past, Present and Future''

Full Title: EASA Panel “Australian Languages at Risk: Past, Present and Future “, 

Date: 29-Mar-2021 - 01-Apr-2021
Location: Napoli, Italy 
Contact Person: Katherine Russo
Meeting Email: easanaples2020 at gmail.com
Web Site: http://www.unior.it/ricerca/20459/3/cfp-panels-@-international-easa-conference-2021.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 15-Jun-2020 

Meeting Description:

European Association for Studies of Australia (EASA) International Conference
Australia as a Risk Society: Hope and Fears of the Past, the Present and the
Future 

Keynote speakers: 
Monika Bednarek (University of Sydney)
Dany Adone (University of Cologne)

University of Naples “L’Orientale”, Italy 
29 March – 1 April 2021

Linguistic studies increasingly conceive of English language varieties as
‘constellations’ and have demonstrated how contact settings have resulted in
the linguistic approximation of several parties (Schneider 2007). Yet the
English language has borne the connotation of colonial property since its
introduction in Australia: it has arguably functioned as an unalienable
insignia of colonial authority. Conversely, colonial language policies have
been fiercely directed towards Indigenous languages for they constituted
counterfactual evidence to the claim of terra nullius. Similarly, the
emergence of Indigenous English varieties has been counteracted by several
processes of institutionalisation which have attempted to reduce the strength
of Aboriginal varieties of English, and there is still scarce recognition of
the heterogeneous varieties which form the Indigenous Australian English
continuum. Hence the question of language death, language maintenance, and
language revitalization relates to the way in which the past, the present and
future is envisaged by Australian peoples.
Today, minority languages are still represented as handicapping minority
groups and Standard Australian English is promoted as “the power language”,
which enables the acquisition of education, employment, and, in short, a “fair
go” in the lucky country (2005, 19). The ideology of “monolingualism” or
“linguicism” is arguably part of the Australian definition of productive
citizens and migrants (Skutnabb-Kangas and Phillipson, 1994), with the recent
Prime Minster Scott Morrison calling for the introduction of an entry test for
refugees. Consequently, the use of the English language has been variously
questioned, for it is closely tied to colonial governmentality and to policies
of forced assimilation. Yet the English language is not essentially colonial
but derives its authority from colonial discursive claims of property
(Pennycook 1998). Indigenous linguists and writers have often commented on the
socioeconomic value of Standard Australian English (Bell J. 1994, 55). The
discursive representation of English as a colonial and settler property has
determined the asymmetrical access to the social space engendered by its
possession. Yet, the inequalities that are produced and reproduced through its
property are not givens or inevitabilities, rather conscious selections
regarding the structuring of social relations. Through the representation of
the colonial uses of the English language as the only appropriate and
authoritative ones, the colonial order has established and protected an actual
property interest in Australian English which is used to create a social
divide and reputation. Critical approaches suggest that property claims over
the English language pertain to the realm of discursive representation
(Fairclough 1989; Pennycook 1994, 1998, 2001, 2007). 

Panel convenors: Rita Calabrese, Gerhard Leitner, Katherine E. Russo

Call for Papers: 

The panel aims to explore the following lines of enquiry:
- Language revitalization, maintenance and death in the Australian context
- Contact linguistics
- Australian languages at risk
- Pluricentricity
- Diachronic and synchronic studies of language variation and change
- The role of adstrates
- Language attitudes and ideologies
- Critical approaches to discourse

Please send a 250-words abstract and a 100-words bio-note to the email address
easanaples2020 at gmail.com by June 15, 2020. All accepted participants will be
expected to become members of EASA as a precondition to presenting their
papers. Details of EASA membership are available on the association’s website
at this address: http://www.australianstudies.eu/?page_id=1083. A call for
full academic-length papers derived from conference presentations will be
issued after the conference for publication in the Association’s online
journal JEASA (http://www.australianstudies.eu/?page_id=92).

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