32.1132, Calls: Germanic; Socioling/USA or Online

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LINGUIST List: Vol-32-1132. Mon Mar 29 2021. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 32.1132, Calls: Germanic; Socioling/USA or Online

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Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 17:05:43
From: Mareike Lange [langemk at mail.uc.edu]
Subject: 25th FOCUS Graduate Student Conference: Speaking Identity – Identity in Second Language Studies

 
Full Title: 25th FOCUS Graduate Student Conference: Speaking Identity – Identity in Second Language Studies 

Date: 15-Oct-2021 - 16-Oct-2021
Location: University of Cincinnati; Ohio (Hybrid), USA 
Contact Person: Mareike Lange
Meeting Email: langemk at mail.uc.edu
Web Site: https://journals.uc.edu/index.php/fogs/index 

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics 

Language Family(ies): Germanic 

Call Deadline: 15-May-2021 

Meeting Description:

The Editors of the graduate student journal ''Focus on German Studies'' in
conjunction with the Graduate Student Association of the Department of German
Studies at the University of Cincinnati organize the Twenty-Fifth Annual Focus
Graduate Student Conference entitled: Speaking Identity – Identity in Second
Language Studies.

The concept of “identity” in its poststructural notion as a social process, as
opposed to a determined product, is frequently employed and currently
renegotiated in the humanities as well as in education and applied
linguistics, often in contradictory manners. The conceptualization of identity
in applied linguistics sparks fundamental disagreements around the term
‘identity’ itself, including debates about whether or not it is even
appropriate as a blanket term. Nevertheless, identities, whether self- or
otherwise ascribed, have created new challenges for language teaching, calling
into question previously presumed notions of the ‘native/non-native speaker’
divide, ‘bilingualism’, and ‘first’ and ‘second language’. Within this larger
discourse, the effects of identity inscriptions on Second Language pedagogy
needs further explorations. How, for example, do we teach genderneutral
language for languages in which standardized options do not yet exist?
Similarly, how do we teach certain linguistic forms (e.g. word order in German
subordinate clauses or “double negatives” in English) associated with
linguistic discrimination without replicating and reinforcing this linguistic
discrimination?

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Christine Mallinson; University of Maryland, Baltimore
County


Call for Papers and Projects

The 25th Annual FOCUS Graduate Student Conference pursues to address the
effects of the muddled terrain of poststructuralist linguistic identities on
Second Language pedagogy. We seek to foster a dialogue between sociolinguistic
theory and language teaching/learning realities.

Themes may include but are not limited to:
 - Social and regional origin, gender, religion, generation, social groups,
migration, multilingualism, and language change and their influence on
language, etc.
 - Heterogeneity vs. homogeneity in the classroom
 - Subjective factors of language attitudes and language ideologies
 - Intersections between language and critical race theory, e.g.
raciolinguistics, linguistic profiling
 - Queer theory and queer linguistics
 - Influences of sociolinguistics on education and language pedagogy
 - Critical approaches to teaching with technology
 - Varieties of language – Youth language; computer-mediated communication;
spoken colloquial language
 - Problematic aspects of contemporary applied linguistics research in which
identity is a key construct

Whereas we are anticipating and encouraging academic discussion fostered by
conventional conference presentations, we would also like to encourage
students to present creative works that fit the overall frame of the
conference (e.g. concept-grounded artistic approaches to pedagogy). We
encourage submissions from all Germanic fields (i.e. Germanic languages and
all Germanic dialects and varieties, including but not limited to English,
German, Dutch, Yiddish, and Scandinavian languages) but also welcome
contributions from other disciplines. Submissions in German or English are
welcome. Current Graduate Students are invited to submit abstracts or project
descriptions (250-300 words in length), accompanied by a short bio, to Mareike
Lange and Barbara Besendorfer at UCGerman at uc.edu by May 15, 2021. Please use
the subject “Focus 25”.

Given the ongoing uncertainties, we will offer a hybrid model (Zoom or
in-person) for the conference. We would like to ask you to please indicate
whether you preliminarily plan to attend in-person.




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