32.1067, Calls: Socioling/Online

Wed Mar 24 16:32:54 UTC 2021

LINGUIST List: Vol-32-1067. Wed Mar 24 2021. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 32.1067, Calls: Socioling/Online

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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2021 12:32:07
From: Lotta Aunio [lotta.aunio at helsinki.fi]
Subject: Small-Scale Multilingualism Conference 2

Full Title: Small-Scale Multilingualism Conference 2 
Short Title: SSML2 

Date: 16-Aug-2021 - 18-Aug-2021
Location: Helsinki (online), Finland 
Contact Person: Lotta Aunio
Meeting Email: lotta.aunio at helsinki.fi
Web Site: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/small-scale-multilingualism-conference-2-ssml2 

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2021 

Meeting Description:

As the world has become more global in unprecedented ways, the ability to
communicate in multiple languages has become a prized characteristic.
Multilingualism has, however, been the majority experience for most of human
history. The second ever Small-Scale Multilingualism (SSML2) conference aims
to recentre the notion of multilingualism as a natural and typical state of
human societies and aims to shift multilingualism into the centre of the
academic field of linguistics. We want to think more expansively about what
constitutes SSML, and focus on the term “small-scale” as a means to “pay
attention to detail”, and “take a look at individuals and localised
communities”. Multilingualism is simultaneously a description of an
environment and individuals who make up the tapestry of many modes of
communicating, including spoken and signed languages. It is in this spirit of
inclusion and attention to individuals that we seek funding to experiment with
innovative forms of conferencing that would expand accessibility to people
from multiple locations, and with diverse needs.

Our conference shows boldness in two ways. First, it aims to redefine SSML as
mentioned above, and second, it will pilot an online format that aims at
maximum inclusivity and accessibility. This second point has become even more
imperative due to the ongoing COVID-19 global pandemic. In order to achieve
these goals, we seek support in the form of financial and technical resources.

The second SSML conference will be hosted virtually by the University of
Helsinki where multilingualism is highly topical as a research topic, but also
as social reality. The conference will have wider implications in the field of
language planning and policy.

Keynote speakers:
-Annelies Kusters (Associate Professor in Sign Language and Intercultural
Research at Heriot-Watt University)
-Ibrahima Abdoul Hayou Cissé (Senior lecturer at Institut de Pédagogie
Universitaire (Doctoral School), an education consultant and the Operations
Coordinator at UNESCO Chair for Community Research on the Levers of
Development: ''Emergence through Innovation'' in Bamako, Mali)
-Ruth Singer (Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the Research Unit
for Indigenous Languages and the Centre for the Dynamics of Language (COEDL),
University of Melbourne, Australia)

Second Call for Papers: 

The emergent field of Small-Scale Multilingualism (SSML) studies defines SSML
as a type of rural language ecology widely attested throughout human history
(Evans 2018). Small localities were and remain characterised by extensive
internal heterogeneity and linguistic diversity motivated by a broad range of
sociopolitical factors. Differently to superdiverse contexts (Blommaert &
Rampton 2011) proliferating in the context of recent migration and
globalisation, small-scale multilingual situations rely on the presence of
highly multilingual individuals who speak, sign, or understand a high number
of locally confined languages with low numbers of speakers and on the habitus
of maintaining and sharing intricate multilingual repertoires. Such settings
have become overshadowed by multilingualism in the more recent ethnolinguistic
nation states of the Global North and by their monolingual language ideologies
that expanded in the wake of colonisation. As a consequence, multilingualism
is most commonly studied from a monolingual vantage point.

Our conference will have three themes which pilot this broad and innovative
approach to SSML:

- New data from rural small-scale multilingualism. Contributions on
small-scale, rural settings of the Global South (including minoritised
settings in the Global North, for instance in Finland, Russia, or Australia)
which provide insight into their historical development and evolution, into
language ideas and ideologies, patterns of language acquisition and use, as
well as issues of language rights and inclusive multilingual education
stemming from them.
- Recentering sign languages as part of multilingualism. Contributions which
explore multilingual communication in SSML settings from a multimodal
perspective, focusing on how sign and spoken languages co-evolve, co-exist and
are shared.
- Minoritised SSML in urban and national contexts. Concerning transformations
of SSML settings and speakers through their participation in larger-scale
processes that situate them at the periphery (Pietikäinen, Jaffe, Kelly-Holmes
& Coupland 2016), from strategic essentialism (Spivak 1988) to the
restructuring of repertoires and the emergence of new localised multilingual
practices.

Abstracts of 500 words (excluding references) or 5 minute video abstract in
International Sign can be submitted here: https://easychair.org/cfp/SSML2

Multiple submission welcome. However, you may only be the main author of one
paper.

See
https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/small-scale-multilingualism-conference-
2-ssml2/call-for-papers-ssml2 for full Call of Papers.

Important Dates:
Abstract Due Date - March 31 (Wednesday)
Notification of Acceptance - April 30 (Thursday)
Conference Dates: August 16 - 18

Organizers:
- Suomen Kielitieteellinen Yhdistys (SKY – Finnish Linguistic Association
http://www.linguistics.fi/)
- University of Jyväskylä (https://www.jyu.fi/)
- University of Helsinki (https://www.helsinki.fi/)

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