LINGUIST List 14.294

Tue Jan 28 2003

Calls: Universal Language/Sociolinguistic Competence

Editor for this issue: Karolina Owczarzak <karolinalinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. jytak, Journal of Universal Language
2. j.dewaele, Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Competence, UK

Journal of Universal Language	


Call Deadline: 15-March-2003 

Call Information:

The Journal of Universal Language calls for papers for the JUL 4:1,
which will be published in March, 2003.

Honorarium: 

As a token of our gratitude, the authors whose paper will appear in
the Journal of Universal Language will be given the $1,000 honorarium
(which is subject to taxation).

Topic Areas: 

The Journal of Universal Language is concerned with various areas of
artificial language, universality in language, and language typology.
The editors encourage the submission of papers on proposed themes as
well as on other topics relevant to the interest of the Journal of
Universal Language. Each volume contains two issues, published in
March and September. The language of publication is English.


Format: 
1. The length of a manuscript should not exceed 25 pages. 
2. A 200-word abstract should be given at the beginning of each manuscript. 
3. Manuscripts should be submitted on A4 paper, with the margins at
least 4cm on all four sides of each sheet. They may be single-spaced
and/or double-sided, if desired.


Important Dates: 
No Submission deadline: We accept manuscripts throughout the year. 
Notification of acceptance: February 15, 2003 
Submission of camera-ready papers: March 15, 2003 


Submissions: 

1. Electronic submissions are acceptable. Acceptable file formats are
Portable Document Format (.pdf) and MS Word (.doc). Please send your
file in an attachment to jytaksejong.ac.kr. 

2. For hard copy submissions, please send 3 copies, accompanied by a
cover letter which includes the author's name, affiliation, address,
and home or office phone number, to:

Jin-young Tak, Editor 
Department of English Language/Literature, Sejong University 
Dasan-gwan 435 Gunja-dong, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul, Korea 
e-mail:jytaksejong.ac.kr 


For more information: http://www.unish.org/ 

 

Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Competence by Advanced Second Language
Learners

Short Title: Sociolinguistic competence L2
Location: Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom 
Date: 01-Apr-2003 - 05-Apr-2003 
Call Deadline: 01-Feb-2003

Web Site: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ss15/
Contact Person: Jean-Marc Dewaele
Meeting Email: j.dewaelebbk.ac.uk
Linguistic Subfield(s): Sociolinguistics 

This is a session of the following conference:
15th Sociolinguistics Symposium


Meeting Description: 

Call for papers for a thematic colloquium: THE ACQUISITION OF
SOCIOLINGUISTIC COMPETENCE BY ADVANCED SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNERS
Conveners: Jean-Marc Dewaele, Raymond Mougeon & Robert Bayley.

Investigation of the acquisition of sociolinguistic competence by
advanced second language learners has become a rapidly growing and
recognized research strand within the field of SLA
studies. Publications on this topic have appeared in the major
journals in applied linguistics and SLA (Bayley, 1996; Blondeau &
Nagy, 1998; Dewaele, 2002; Dewaele & Mougeon, 2002; Dewaele & Regan,
2002; Lyster, 1996; Mougeon & Rehner, 2001; Regan, 1995; Rehner &
Mougeon, 1999; Rehner, Mougeon & Nadasdi, 2003).

This research focuses on the aspects of the target language where
native speakers follow variable rules (ie. where their use is
determined by both linguistic and extralinguistic constraints). Given
the nature of the dependent variables, this new variationist approach
concentrates on advanced users and learners of the TL. Variation in
interlanguage has traditionally been conceived as transitory, as the
sign that the system has not stablised yet. In the study of the
acquisition of sociolinguistic competence however, the variation is
the objective of the acquisition process. Variation patterns in the
interlanguage have been found to approximate native speaker-like
variation but rarely reaching it. L2 users seem reticent in using
non-standard variants, using higher proportions of formal variants
instead.

Researchers have focussed on the effects of factors such as learners'
social class, sex, personality, contacts with speakers of the target
language, language transfer, educational input.

We propose to organize a colloquium where two types of learners will
be focused upon: L2 learners in an institional setting and L2 learners
who reside in the target language community.

The purpose of the seminar will be to examine the extent to which
research on these two populations of learners arrive at similar
results.

The present panel will bring together sociolinguists, applied
linguists, and psycholinguists who are conducting research on the
above mentioned topics and who will report on different target
languages and learners.

References:

Bayley, R. (1996). Competing constraints on variation in the speech of
adult Chinese learners of English. Second Language Acquisition and
Linguistic Variation. In R. Bayley & D. R. Preston (eds.), Amsterdam:
John Benjamins, 97-120.

Blondeau, H. & Nagy, N. (1998). Double marquage du sujet dans le
fran�ais parl� par les jeunes anglo-montr�alais. In J. Jensen & G. Van
Herk (eds.), Actes du congr�s annuel de lAssociation canadienne de
linguistique. (pp. 59-70). Ottawa: Cahiers Linguistique dOttawa.

Dewaele, J.-M. 2002. Using sociostylistic variants in advanced French
IL: the case of nous/on. In S. Foster-Cohen, T. Ruthenberg,
M.L. Poschen (eds.), EUROSLA Yearbook 2002, Amsterdam: John Benjamins,
205-226.

Dewaele, J.-M. & Mougeon, R. 2002. (eds.) Special issue of Acquisition
et interaction en langue �trang�re - AILE. Title: Lappropriation de
la variation en fran�ais langue �trang�re, 17, December.

Dewaele, J.-M. & Regan, V. 2002. Ma�triser la norme sociolinguistique
en interlangue fran�aise: le cas de l'omission variable de ne. Journal
of French Language Studies, 12, 2, 131-156

Lyster, R. 1996. Question forms, conditionals, and second-person
pronouns used by adolescent native speakers across two levels of
formality in written and spoken French. Modern Language Journal, 80,
165-180.

Mougeon, R. & Rehner, K. 2001. Variation in the spoken French of
Ontario French immersion students: The case of juste vs seulement vs
rien que. In Modern Language Journal , 85, 398-414.

Regan, V. 1995. The acquisition of sociolinguistic native speech
norms: effects of a year abroad on second language learners of
French. In B.F. Freed (ed.), Second language acquisition in a study
abroad context. Benjamins, Philadelphia, 245-267.

Rehner, K., & Mougeon, R. 1999. Variation in the spoken French of
immersion students: To ne or not to ne, that is the sociolinguistic
question. In Canadian Modern Language Review no 56, 124-154.

Rehner, K., Mougeon, R. & Nadasdi, T. 2003. The learning of
sociolinguistic variation by advanced FSL learners: The case of nous
versus on in immersion French. In Studies in Second Language
Acquisition, 25.

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