34.2689, Calls: Modern Developments in Dialectology and Variation Linguistics

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Subject: 34.2689, Calls: Modern Developments in Dialectology and Variation Linguistics

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Date: 13-Sep-2023
From: STAVROULA TSIPLAKOU [stavroula.tsiplakou at ouc.ac.cy]
Subject: Modern Developments in Dialectology and Variation Linguistics

Full Title: Modern developments in dialectology and variation
linguistics
Short Title: DDVL

Date: 08-Sep-2024 - 14-Sep-2024
Location: Poznan, Poland
Contact Person: Stavroula Tsiplakou
Meeting Email: stavroula.tsiplakou at ouc.ac.cy
Web Site: https://icl2024poznan.pl

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics

Call Deadline: 08-Jan-2024

Call for Papers:

The focus stream addresses central issues in contemporary dialectology
and variation linguistics, including structural and sociolinguistic
aspects of language shift, dialect levelling, cross-dialectal
convergence and/or dialect-to-standard advergence, as well as aspects
of resistance to language shift, which in several cases lead to the
emergence of intermediate varieties between (residual) base dialects
and the standard (Hinskens, Auer & Kerswill, 2005; Cerruti &
Tsiplakou, 2020).  An issue of central importance in this regard is
the collusion of structural and sociolinguistic factors in spurring on
or arresting language shift. The study of the dynamic space where
structural factors (often involving aspects of adult or nonadult
second language/variety acquisition) collude with sociolinguistic
factors (involving not only the expected effects of extralinguistic
variables such as age, gender, status etc. but also ideologies and
attitudes toward, and indexicalities of, particular variants in
socially and culturally shifting linguistic landscapes) is a major
theoretical challenge (Britain, 2022). Moreover, teasing apart
structural and sociolinguistic effects of dialect shift requires
methodological innovation, not only in terms of devising methods for
bringing together and critically revisiting existing datasets and
corpora but also in terms of re-examining methods of data collection,
classification and analysis.
We invite papers exploring structural (micro)variation and its links
to both structural-systemic parameters and extralinguistic variables,
and discussing approaches to the contextual micro- and macro- level
(Guy & Hinskens, 2016); i.e., examining not only broad macro-level
categories (e.g. geographical distribution, age, gender, status, as
well as literacy and standardization  etc.) but also, micro-level
categories, e.g. emergent local, youth or professional identities,
varying performativities, shifting attitudes and varying notions of
local/group allegiance and prestige, the temporally and
micro-contextually constrained indexicalities of particular variants
and their role in language shift, which call for more nuanced
theoretical and methodological  approaches to variation.

References
Britain, D. (2022). ‘Rural’ and ‘urban’ in dialectology. In B. Busse &
I. H. Warnke, (eds.) Handbuch Sprache im urbanen Raum - Handbook of
Language in Urban Space, 52-73. Boston: De Gruyter.
Cerruti, M. & S. Tsiplakou (eds.) (2020). Intermediate language
varieties. Koinai and regional standards in Europe. Amsterdam: John
Benjamins.
Guy, G.R. & F. Hinskens (2016). Linguistic coherence; systems,
repertoires and speech communities. In F. Hinskens, & G.R. Guy (Eds.),
Coherence, covariation and bricolage: Various approaches to the
systematicity of language variation. Special issue of Lingua, 172/173,
1–9.
Hinskens, F., P. Auer, & P. Kerswill (2005). The study of dialect
convergence and divergence: conceptual
 and methodological
considerations. In P. Auer, F. Hinskens, & P. Kerswill (Eds.), Dialect
change: Convergence and divergence in European languages, 1–48.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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