34.203, Confs: Applied Ling, Lang Acquisition, Lang Doc, Socioling/Netherlands

[The LINGUIST List]

LINGUIST List: Vol-34-203. Sat Jan 21 2023. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 34.203, Confs: Applied Ling, Lang Acquisition, Lang Doc, Socioling/Netherlands

Moderators:

Editor for this issue: Everett Green <everett at linguistlist.org>
================================================================


Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2023 04:26:26
From: Jelske Dijkstra [jdijkstra at fryske-akademy.nl]
Subject: Minority Languages in the City

 
Minority Languages in the City 

Date: 16-Mar-2023 - 17-Mar-2023 
Location: Leeuwarden, Netherlands 
Contact: Jelske Dijkstra 
Contact Email: jdijkstra at fryske-akademy.nl 
Meeting URL: https://www.mercator-research.eu/city/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Language Documentation; Sociolinguistics 

Meeting Description: 

Minority Languages in the City Conference

As a result of globalisation and urbanisation, many cities are hotspots of
linguistic diversity. Immigrants tend to settle in urban environments because
they usually offer the best economic opportunities, and life in the city
allows them to access networks that provide the support needed to adjust
within a new host community. Many immigrants strive, but struggle, to maintain
and transmit their heritage languages. Signing communities often emerge and
flourish in large cities where deaf people are able to live together and/or
gather frequently. New speakers of minority languages – that is, individuals
who did not grow up with minority languages but acquire them later on in life,
outside the home – are generally characterised by urban profiles.

Traditional speakers of minority languages often consider the varieties learnt
by new speakers to be inauthentic, causing urban new speakers to struggle with
how to become legitimate minority language users. At the same time, among
traditional speakers of autochthonous languages, urbanisation frequently leads
to a shift from the minority to the majority language. Many cities are thus
home to a range of minority language communities with different histories,
different levels of recognition and support, and very different needs.

The organisers of the international conference on Minority Languages in the
City, i.e. the Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and
Language Learning (Fryske Akademy, Leeuwarden, NL), the Endangered Languages
Archive (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin, DE), and
the Interdisciplinary Centre for Social and Language Documentation (Minde,
PT), are proud to announce that three particularly interesting key speakers
will come to Leeuwarden on 16-17 March to deliver a lecture. These are:

* Robert Blackwood (University of Liverpool): 
Minority languages in urban linguistic landscapes: Beyond documenting
multilingualism in France 
* Ruth Kircher (Mercator / Fryske Akademy): 
Multilingual migrants in Montreal: A regional perspective on language
attitudes and social identities 
* Agnieszka Legutko (Columbia University): 
Minority languages in the city and at university: The Mapping Yiddish New York
project
 






------------------------------------------------------------------------------

***************************    LINGUIST List Support    ***************************
 The 2022 Fund Drive is under way! Please visit https://funddrive.linguistlist.org
  to find out how to donate and check how your university, country or discipline
     ranks in the fund drive challenges. Or go directly to the donation site:
                   https://crowdfunding.iu.edu/the-linguist-list

                        Let's make this a short fund drive!
                Please feel free to share the link to our campaign:
                    https://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/
 


----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-34-203	
----------------------------------------------------------