35.2733, Calls: The Communicative Spaces of Mexico: Language Contacts, Multilingualism and Linguistic Variations

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Subject: 35.2733, Calls: The Communicative Spaces of Mexico: Language Contacts, Multilingualism and Linguistic Variations

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Date: 03-Oct-2024
From: Jannis Harjus [jannis.harjus at uibk.ac.at]
Subject: The Communicative Spaces of Mexico: Language Contacts, Multilingualism and Linguistic Variations


Full Title: The Communicative Spaces of Mexico: Language Contacts,
Multilingualism and Linguistic Variations

Date: 19-Jun-2025 - 21-Jun-2025
Location: Innsbruck, Austria
Contact Person: Jannis Harjus
Meeting Email: Workshopmexico2025 at uibk.ac.at
Web Site: https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/congress/mexico25/call-for-papers/

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Discourse Analysis;
Historical Linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics
Subject Language(s): Spanish (spa)

Call Deadline: 15-Dec-2024

Meeting Description:

With over 130 million inhabitants, Mexico is home to by far the
largest number of Spanish speakers in the world and has a large number
speakers of Amerindian languages - excluding speakers of Mexican
languages in migration situations. Mexico City alone is home to over
20 million speakers, making it the largest Spanish-speaking metropolis
in the world. Various relevant studies have already shown that this
demographic force is accompanied by diverse linguistic variations. In
addition, the high number of Spanish speakers is linked to various
linguistic and cultural peculiarities of the communicative spaces of
Mexico, through language contact between Spanish and numerous
Amerindian languages, above all Nahuatl, Mayan or Zapotec, or through
the geographical proximity to the USA and the associated direct
language border with globally dominant US English. Other languages
and/or linguistic varieties of Spanish - especially from Central
America - also reach Mexico due to migration, particularly in the
metropolitan area of Mexico City, and together with the multilingual
contexts mentioned above, they make up Mexico's superdiversity. At the
same time, the social and communicative interaction space of Mexican
(ethnic) speakers extends far beyond the political borders of the
Republic of Mexico, e.g., to Canada or the United States of America,
due to dynamic migration movements and histories. Furthermore, the
communicative practices of Mexican speakers are not bound to the
analog social space of Mexico, but also interact with others in the
digital space.

The international workshop “Los espacios comunicativos de México:
Contactos de idiomas, multilingüismo y variaciones lingüísticas /
Communicative Spaces of Mexico: Language Contacts, Multilingualism,
and Linguistic Variations” is addressed to researchers who would like
to participate in developing the state of the art of current and/or
historical linguistic phenomena in connection with Spanish and other
(e.g., Indigenous) languages in the communicative space of Mexico -
which is not only thought of in terms of nation states, but also
transnationally.

We welcome contributions that deal with empirical approaches of modern
sociolinguistics of Mexican Spanish on a lexical-semantic,
morphosyntactic and phonetic-phonological level or variation-related
phenomena of Mexican-Indigenous Languages or other migration-related
languages of Mexico, deal with language dynamics between Mexican
varieties of Spanish and Amerindian languages of Mexico or US-American
English or another language and/or variety dynamics on a
lexical-semantic, morphosyntactic and/or phonetic-phonological level
and identify linguistic interferences into Spanish or from Spanish
into other (e.g. Mexican Indigenous) languages, and specific case
studies that include language policies, pragmalinguistic,
metalinguistic and/or metalinguistic/ideological approaches - also in
the digital space. Thus, all schools and methodological approaches
that have their part in drawing a holistic picture of the current
and/or historical (superdiverse) communicative space of Mexico and
beyond are welcome. The work presented can therefore be done from a
synchronic and diachronic perspective to draw a representative,
up-to-date portrait of language and variety dynamics in Mexico and in
the Mexican diaspora. A quality-assured publication has been arranged.

Call for Papers:

Prospect speakers are encouraged to submit abstract proposals that
contribute to the general knowledge of the linguistics field and its
branches, with a focus on the communicative spaces of Mexico. The
presentations can be in Spanish or English, and they may last up to 20
minutes of presentation (plus 10 minutes of discussion). The
Organizing Committee invites you to submit your proposal(s) (between
350 and 500 words) in English or Spanish (anonymously, in a Word or
PDF document).

Please submit before the deadline, 15 December 2024, to the following
email address: Workshopmexico2025 at uibk.ac.at



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