35.1912, FYI: Call for Chapters: “Language and Identity in Antiquity”

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Subject: 35.1912, FYI: Call for Chapters: “Language and Identity in Antiquity”

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Date: 01-Jul-2024
From: Robin Meyer [robin.meyer at unil.ch]
Subject: Call for Chapters: “Language and Identity in Antiquity”


This multilingual volume, edited by Victoria B. Fendel, Robin Meyer,
and Antoine Viredaz, seeks to explore the relationship(s) between
language(s) and identity(/ies) for individuals and groups of people
(of any size and shape) in the polities bordering on the Mediterranean
Sea and their neighbours in antiquity and beyond. Since correlations
between language and identity are prone to changing diachronically and
being highly variable synchronically, we have chosen a purposefully
wide timeframe of between 2000 BCE and 1000 CE.

We want to move away from deterministic discourses such as ‘one
language – one nation’ or ‘multilingualism as a problem’ which no
longer reflect our understanding of language in society. Rather, we
view identity as ‘multifaceted, fluid and dynamic, and thus constantly
being constructed and (re)negotiated, and as both an individual and
social phenomenon’ (Bennett and Fisher 2022: 16). This approach
reflects, broadly speaking, a post-structuralist idea of identity: As
a semiotic system, language is, on the one hand, a tool to construct
identity, and, on the other hand, one of many emblems of identity
choice (cf. Halliday and Webster 2007: 255). However, not all language
choices are intentional and not all identity cues are interpreted by
one’s environment in the intended way (cf. Block 2022: 187; Foucault
1981). While production and perception experiments, interviews
assessing attitudes, and longitudinal studies are possible for modern
spoken languages, these approaches and the type and detail of
information they provide are often lacking for corpus languages.

Questions of interest include the following, where ‘language choices’
refer both to choosing between what is usually termed languages as
well as between varieties of the same language:
- How and/or why can language choices reflect identity choices? What
factors impact? What types of identities can be reflected?
- To what extent does context influence language and identity choices?
Are there synchronic and/or diachronic correlations? Are there systems
adopted by individuals and/or groups that regulate this?
- To what extent do language choices not reflect identity choices
(e.g. in the sense of Labov’s indicators)? What identities are imposed
on language users due to their language choices (cf. Block 2022; Duff
2022)?
- What aspects of language are manipulated in order to reflect
identity choices? Are any aspects immune? Are any aspects specifically
prone to it?

We are particularly interested in contributions that
- showcase interdisciplinary approaches;
- are data-driven and adhere to the FAIR use of data;
- connect past and present theories with a clear vision or in an
established framework;
- include non-Indo-European language data.

Expressions of interest (in English, French, German or Italian),
including an abstract not exceeding 500 words (excl. references),
should be sent to Robin Meyer (robin.meyer at unil.ch) by 30 August 2024.
Final and complete drafts of the chapters accepted will be expected
for submission by 25 April 2025. The editors intend to publish the
volume in Open Access.

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics




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