37.40, Confs: Heteroglossic Practices in Spanish-Portuguese Contact Areas Colloquium (France)

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Date: 03-Jan-2026
From: Cesar Ruiz Pisano [cesar.ruizpisano at univ-paris13.fr]
Subject: Heteroglossic Practices in Spanish-Portuguese Contact Areas Colloquium


Heteroglossic Practices in Spanish-Portuguese Contact Areas Colloquium
Short Title: Pratheterogloss

Date: 15-Oct-2026 - 16-Jan-2026
Location: PARIS, France
Contact: CESAR RUIZ PISANO
Contact Email: cesar.ruizpisano at univ-paris13.fr
Meeting URL: https://pratheterogloss.sciencesconf.org/

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

Submission Deadline: 28-Feb-2026

The term “heteroglossia” was used by Bakhtine (see Emerson and
Holquist, 1981) to designate the semiotic function of linguistic
variation in the novel (languages, dialects, or registers). Recently,
sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology have recontextualized it
to designate the use of linguistic repertoires in which elements
appear that, in theory, could be attributed to different varieties.
The heteroglossic approach involves an epistemological approach that
moves away from the conception of languages as well-defined and
self-sufficient objects, emphasizing the heterogeneous practices of
speakers (Bailey, 2012).
Hispanic-Lusophone spaces in Europe, America, Africa, and the
Caribbean are privileged areas for observing the diversity and
mobility of heteroglossic linguistic practices derived from histories
of colonization, resistance, and migration. However, these practices
cannot be understood independently of the power relations, ideologies,
and regulations that permeate them. From this perspective,
glottopolitics offers a fertile framework for reflecting on explicit
and implicit interventions in language and the tensions they generate
between homogenization and heterogeneity (Del Valle, 2024; Gugenberger
et al., 2013; Guespin and Marcellesi, 1986). Similarly, critical
approaches to contact (Léglise, 2018, 2021; Makoni and Pennycook,
2007) invite us to move beyond viewing contact as a simple encounter
between systems and instead consider it as a set of socially situated
practices shaped by historical and political dynamics.
The study of these dynamics has been based on various approaches: some
have focused on analyzing the effects of contact between different
linguistic systems, describing its morphosyntactic, phonetic, or
lexical consequences (Blestel and Palacios, 2021; Regueira and
Fernández-Rei, 2020; Vázquez Rozas, 2020; Escobar, 2000; Haboud, 1998;
Muntendam, 2008; Muysken, 2013; Palacios, 2005, 2011); Others have
highlighted the social, pragmatic, and ideological dimensions of these
practices, emphasizing the role of mobility, learning, attitudes, and
glottopolitical regulations in the reconfiguration of repertoires
(Klee, 2009; Klee and Caravedo, 2012; Recalde, 2012; Léglise, 2013;
Makoni and Pennycook, 2007; Sánchez Moreano, 2018; Sánchez Moreano and
Blestel, 2021b, 2021a). Far from being opposed, these perspectives
complement each other: they allow us to consider together the
observable phenomena and the social, institutional, and political
conditions of their production.
By bringing together these different currents, the colloquium aims to
explore how heteroglossic practices participate in the social and
political construction of meaning in educational, media,
institutional, and everyday contexts. The aim is to examine not only
the processes of contact, but also the ideologies and glottopolitical
devices that shape them, in order to question the place of language in
the construction of hierarchies, affiliations, and contemporary
imaginaries. The aim is to open up a space for collective reflection
in which empirical results, theoretical frameworks, and the political
challenges of language can be discussed without disciplinary barriers,
in order to think together about diversity, its regulations, and its
forms of expression.
Proposals may fall under one or more of the following themes
(non-exhaustive list):
 - Variation and structural dynamics: description of phonetic,
morphosyntactic, or lexical changes related to contact; phenomena of
convergence, innovation, or diffusion in Spanish-Portuguese varieties.
 - Linguistic attitudes and epilinguistic discourses: social
representations, stereotypes, ideologies, and indexations of forms;
symbolic hierarchies and legitimization of uses.
 - Glotopolitics and language policies: institutional and ordinary
interventions on practices; norms, planning, educational regulations,
and public policies.
 - Acquisition, learning, and interlinguistic pragmatics: acquisition
processes in bilingual and multilingual contexts; transfers,
communicative strategies, and pedagogical practices.
 - Education and intercultural mediation: schools, universities, the
media, and community spaces as places for the circulation and
negotiation of multilingualism.
 - Contact theories and methodologies: field approaches, corpus
constitution and analysis, interactive, ethnographic, and variational
perspectives.
Contributions that combine several of these dimensions are especially
welcome.
Papers should be submitted via the website
https://pratheterogloss.sciencesconf.org/
Abstracts should be submitted as separate anonymous files by February
28, 2026.
Please use the template file provided and follow the guidelines for
abstract content. Each abstract of 350 to 800 words should specify the
issue addressed and its relevance to research, the specific research
question to be addressed, and the method to be used to answer it
(research approach, data used, type of analysis, implementation,
bibliography).
Please provide 3 to 5 keywords to describe your proposal (type of
approach, method, field, concepts, or objects).
Abstract languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese
[Presentation languages: languages of Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking
countries. A presentation in a language other than that of the
presentation will be required.]
The papers selected by the scientific committee will be announced to
participants on April 30, 2026.
Practical information:
The conference will take place at two locations: Sorbonne Nouvelle
University, Campus Nation, 8 avenue Saint Mandé, 75012 PARIS, and
Campus Condorcet, Place du Front populaire, 93322 Aubervilliers. More
information to follow.
The conference will take place from Thursday, October 15 to Friday,
October 16, 2026.
Registration Fees:
Full price: €40
Reduced price (doctoral students): €25
More information to come on the registration fee management website.
Organizing Committee:
Élodie Blestel (Sorbonne Nouvelle University) -
elodie.blestel at sorbonne-nouvelle.fr
Montserrat Recalde Fernández (Instituto da Lingua Galega –
Universidade Santiago de Compostela) - montserrat.recalde at usc.gal
César Ruiz Pisano (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord) –
cesar.ruizpisano at univ-paris13.fr
Please contact César Ruiz Pisano if necessary.
Scientific Committee:
- Anik Nandi (Woxsen University, Telangana, India)
- Araceli Enríquez Ovando (Michoacán University of San Nicolás,
Mexico)
- Eva Gugenberger (University of Flensburg, Germany)
- Francisco Dubert García (Galician Language Institute / University of
Santiago de Compostela)
- Carola Mick (Université Paris Cité)
- Azucena Palacios (Autonomous University of Madrid)
- Santiago Sánchez Moreano (IRD & National University of Colombia)
- Fabio Scetti (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières)
- Sandra Schlumpf (Department of Languages and Literatures Seminar for
Ibero-Romance Studies, Basel, Switzerland)
- José Vicente Lozano (University of Rouen Normandy)
- Victoria Vázquez Rozas (University of Santiago de Compostela)
- Melanie Uth (University of Potsdam)
- Lenka Zajícová (Palacký University Olomouc, CZ)
Confirmed Speakers:
-Eeva Sippola (University of Helsinki)
-José del Valle (CUNY, USA)
-Carmen Alén Garabato (Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry, Région
Occitanie, France)
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