Full Title: Ethnolinguistics – Linguistic Anthropology: history and current trends
Short Title: SHESL Conference 2024

Date: 01-Feb-2024 - 02-Feb-2024
Location: Paris, France
Contact Person: Chloé Laplantine
Meeting Email: [email protected]
Web Site: https://shesl.org/index.php/en/shesl-conference-2024/

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; History of Linguistics; Language Documentation; Linguistic Theories

Call Deadline: 21-Jul-2023

Meeting Description:

The present conference will attempt to bring together the historical, reflexive, and prospective dimensions of research in linguistic anthropology,
— by re-examining the questionings and theoretical foundations on the basis of which the different traditions of ethnolinguistics and linguistic anthropology were built during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including specifically French contributions;
—by providing an overview of the variety of current approaches in this field, from the point of view of their objects, research questions, methods, conceptual apparatuses, and interdisciplinary complicities;
—by seeking to open up new avenues of research.

Call for Papers:

These are some of the questions which the conference proposes to discuss (the list is not exhaustive):
—what does it mean to do ethnolinguistics or linguistic anthropology nowadays?
—what leads ethnologists to be attracted or attentive to linguistic questions, or linguists to be interested in ethnological questions?
—the traditions and theoretical sources of ethnolinguists and linguistic anthropologists, in linguistics, anthropology, or other disciplines;
—national or continental particularities, schools of thought;
—the academic organization of research: linguistic anthropologists most often work in anthropology departments or research groups rather than linguistics departments, where on the other hand sociolinguists are to be found. What are the origins of this disciplinary organization and what consequences has it had on researchers’ modes of approach?
—how do ethnolinguists or linguistic anthropologists approach language? What concepts do they use? What linguistic knowledge and references do they base their work on? Pragmatics, for example, and later cognitive linguistics have been key to the work of ethnolinguists;
—how have ethnolinguists and linguistic anthropologists approached key concepts like “context” and “interaction” which they share with other disciplines in the social sciences?
—how does one do fieldwork in ethnolinguistics or linguistic anthropology?
—the relations with other subfields or disciplinary branches: oral literature, ethnoscience and ecological anthropology, descriptive and typological linguistics, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, ethnomethodology, interactionism, cognition, intercultural psycholinguistics, ethnomusicology, ethnopoetics…;
—the tension between the designations “ethnolinguistics” and “linguistic anthropology”;
—the place of the researcher in society: by envisaging linguistic activity in social situations, linguistic anthropology has worked to reveal situations of minority oppression and has served as a means of action for preserving and valorizing the diversity of human experience;
—ethnolinguistics and linguistic anthropology beyond the human: communication with and between non-humans, communication between human being and machine.

Abstracts should be around 250 words long and include a bibliography.

For submission information visit our website:
https://shesl.org/index.php/en/shesl-conference-2024/