33.806, Calls: Sociolinguistics/Belgium
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Subject: 33.806, Calls: Sociolinguistics/Belgium
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Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2022 03:23:43
From: Kristel Doreleijers [taal-en-tongval-2022 at rug.nl]
Subject: Taal en Tongval 2022
Full Title: Taal en Tongval 2022
Short Title: T&T 2022
Date: 18-Nov-2022 - 18-Nov-2022
Location: Ghent, Belgium
Contact Person: Kristel Doreleijers
Meeting Email: taal-en-tongval-2022 at rug.nl
Web Site: https://www.taalentongval2022.ugent.be/
Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics
Call Deadline: 25-Apr-2022
Meeting Description:
Taal en Tongval is a conference on language variation in the Low Countries.
The theme of Taal en Tongval 2022 is ‘Micro- and macrovariation: Diverse
approaches in research on language variation and change’. The conference will
take place in the Royal Academy for Dutch Language and Literature (KANTL) in
Ghent on November 18, 2022.
Organizing committee:
Raoul Buurke (University of Groningen)
Kristel Doreleijers (Tilburg University & Meertens Institute)
Melissa Farasyn (Ghent University)
Lisa Hilte (University of Antwerp)
Jos Swanenberg (Tilburg University & Meertens Institute)
Cesko Voeten (Fryske Akademy & Utrecht University)
Call for Papers:
Micro- and macrovariation: Diverse approaches in research on language
variation and change
The theme of Taal en Tongval 2022 is ‘Micro- and macrovariation: Diverse
approaches in research on language variation and change’. The conference will
take place in the Royal Academy for Dutch Language and Literature (KANTL) in
Ghent on November 18th, 2022.
(Socio)linguistic research in recent years has revealed an increasingly
multidimensional landscape of language variation. This development is
reflected in the journal Taal & Tongval, both in naming and content. Several
decades ago, the journal carried the subtitle Journal of Dialectology. Due to
the broader interests of language variation researchers and the readership of
the journal, the subtitle was rewritten to the more encompassing Tijdschrift
voor taalvariatie (‘Journal of language variation’) shortly after the turn of
the century. This evolved into the current Language Variation in the Low
Countries (in Dutch: Taalvariatie in de Lage Landen) in 2012. The name change
is symbolic for the diversity in perspectives treated in both the journal and
the yearly conference.
The current context of globalization, increased mobility, and digitalization
has not only afforded new dimensions to language variation, but has also
generated a greater awareness of the complex language-internal and
language-external dynamics constituting language variation. These dynamics are
borne out in, for instance, the boundaries between dialects and standard
language, which are fading on the one hand but reinforced and enlarged on the
other hand (as illustrated by the 2018 conference and the corresponding theme
issue). Another example is the fascinating relationship between the language
behaviors of individual speakers and that of the community they are a part of.
How do individual and collective language systems differ? The increasing focus
on the individual has also led to a growing interest in variation within
speakers besides variation between speakers. Are some speakers more inclined
towards adopting ongoing changes than others, or initiating new changes, and
what factors play a role here?
On a large scale, these questions straightforwardly translate to the big
question underlying the language variationist research tradition: why do
languages vary and change? What factors have an influence, and how can we
identify them? Over the past decades, language variation research has
demonstrated that geographical, social, ethnic, stylistic, and diachronic
perspectives – among others – do not exclude but rather supplement and
reinforce each other. There is an ongoing surge of large-scale and innovative
quantitative research (as illustrated by the previous conference on ‘Big
Data’), while the receptiveness and interest for a more qualitative
perspective on language variation has expanded at the same time.
The theme micro- and macrovariation leaves room for diverse interpretations
and offers a platform for language variation researchers with diverse
perspectives and approaches. We therefore invite contributions on language
variation at the individual level, the community level, or the interaction
between these. We also welcome contributions discussing the relationships
between local (micro) and supralocal (meso to macro) variation. We invite
contributions on language variation in the Low Countries in the form of
presentation proposals of 20 minutes that fit these themes.
Abstracts of 300-500 words can be submitted until April 25, 2022, in the form
of an anonymized email attachment to taal-en-tongval-2022 at rug.nl. You are
requested to state your name and affiliation(s) in the email, as well as those
of any co-authors. Authors may be involved with at most two abstracts, of
which they may be the first author of at most one. Abstracts can be submitted
in Dutch, English, Frisian, or German. The selection will be announced by the
end of May 2022.
Conference languages: Dutch, English, Frisian, German
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