35.2003, Calls: Workshop: Linguistic variation and change meet anthropology: Investigating ways of speaking in cultural contexts (47. DGfS)

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Date: 09-Jul-2024
From: Nico Nassenstein [nassenstein at uni-mainz.de]
Subject: Workshop: Linguistic variation and change meet anthropology: Investigating ways of speaking in cultural contexts (47. DGfS)


Full Title: Workshop: Linguistic variation and change meet
anthropology: Investigating ways of speaking in cultural contexts (47.
DGfS)
Short Title: DGfS

Date: 04-Mar-2025 - 07-Mar-2025
Location: Mainz, Germany
Contact Person: Nico Nassenstein / Svenja Völkel
Meeting Email: nassenstein at uni-mainz.de
Web Site: https://dgfs.de/de/info/22/DGfS+2025+in+Mainz

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics

Call Deadline: 09-Sep-2024

Meeting Description:

Workshop: Linguistic variation and change meet anthropology:
Investigating ways of speaking in cultural contexts
Convened by Dr. Svenja Völkel & Prof. Nico Nassenstein (JGU Mainz)
Speakers: Prof. Dr. Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Prof. Dr. James Slotta

This workshop is part of the 47. Jahrestagung der Deutschen
Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS): Vielfalt und Wandel /
Variation and Change, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 04.–07.
März 2025
organized by The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS) &
Kölner Sprachwissenschaften

Call for Papers:

Variation in language and its modalities depends upon various factors,
which can be of a social nature, pragmatic reasons or can be linked to
culture and cultural practices. In this workshop, we focus on speech
styles and registers within communities from an
anthropological-linguistic perspective, comparing contexts of
linguistic variation and factors of change.
The focus on different speech styles in a speech community, i.e.
context-bound adaptations of language use in specific cultural
contexts, is often credited to Dell Hymes’ (1989 [1974]) concept of
“ways of speaking”. In his framework, language is understood as a
system of cultural practices and behaviors in which different
contextual ways of speaking are shared by a speech community. However,
the idea of recognizing and studying different speech styles in their
cultural context is much older and had already been preceded by
Malinowski (1922) in his work on the Trobriand Islanders’ magic
formulae. This inspired the emergence of the “ethnography of speaking”
paradigm (later “ethnography of communication”) by Hymes and others in
the 1960s. In more recent years, scholars such as Gunter Senft (2010)
have redefined and adapted Malinowskian and Hymesian approaches with
ethnolinguistic in-depth studies on speech styles in Kilivila from an
emic perspective. Such studies illustrate that speech styles are
strongly shaped by cultural parameters and generally fulfill specific
social functions. Depending on their nature and function, some speech
styles drive change (e.g. speech of urban youth) while others support
the maintenance of social ideas and practices (e.g. ritual speech).
This workshop aims at bringing together scholars from various
linguistic sub-disciplines (anthropological linguists, sociolinguists,
typologists and pragmaticians) to share and discuss empirical findings
and to engage in more theoretic exchanges on the nature and occurrence
of cultural-dependent variation and its outputs. The workshops intends
to investigate how variation is governed, triggered, managed and how
“ways of speaking” reflect or shape the cultural foundation of a
speech community (e.g. the speech of priests, royal courts,
transgressive speech and curses, avoidance practices, or the speech of
urban youth) and also how new culturally-grounded speech styles emerge
(e.g. World Englishes, multiethnolects in Europe, and contact
varieties worldwide).

References
Hymes, Dell. 1989 [1974]. Ways of speaking. In Richard Bauman & Joel
Sherzer (eds.), Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking, 433–452.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Malinowski, Bronislaw. 1922. Argonauts of the Western Pacific. London:
Routledge.
Senft, Gunter. 2010. The Trobriand Islanders Ways of Speaking. Berlin:
De Gruyter Mouton.

If you are interested in the workshop, please send an email with a
max. 200-word abstract to nassenstein at uni-mainz.de or
svenja.voelkel at uni-mainz.de no later than September 9, 2024.



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