Full Title: Fourth International Symposium on Language Attitudes toward Spanish, Portuguese and Related Languages
Short Title: LASPRL-4

Date: 08-May-2025 - 10-May-2025
Location: Olomouc, Czech Republic
Contact Person: Lenka Zajícová
Meeting Email: [email protected]
Web Site: romanistika.upol.cz/lasprl

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics
Subject Language(s): Portuguese (por)
Spanish (spa)
Language Family(ies): Romance

Call Deadline: 31-Oct-2024

Meeting Description:

The symposium will bring together scholars from a wide range of disciplines who are interested in sharing their expertise about language attitudes and in discussing and comparing their empirical and theoretical findings. We aim to reach a synergy of perspectives and approaches that emphasize the role of language attitudes in the face of situations that emerge in intergroup encounters involving Spanish, Portuguese, related languages (in the broadest sense), and different linguistic practices.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
Language attitudes and ideologies
Language attitudes and perceptions
Language attitudes in education
Language attitudes and borders
Language attitudes and indigenous, heritage and minority languages
Language attitudes and language policy
Language attitudes at the workplace
Language attitudes and education policies
Language attitudes and social justice
Language attitudes towards standard and minoritized linguistic practices
Language attitudes and identities
Language attitudes and discrimination
Language attitudes and language maintenance
Language attitudes and social networks
Language attitudes and artificial intelligence
Language attitudes and archives
Research methods in language attitudes

We are happy to announce that the following keynote speakers have accepted our invitation to participate in the conference: Ruth Kircher (European Centre for Minority Issues, Flensburg, Germany), Florentino Paredes García (University of Alcalá, Spain) and Jiří Nekvapil (Charles University, Prague, Czechia).

Important dates:
Call for papers open: May 1, 2024
Call for papers deadline: October 31, 2024
Registration: January 1, 2025–March 31, 2025
Conference: May 8–10, 2025

Conference fee: 150 EUR, doctoral students: 80 EUR

Scientific Committee:
Alba Arias Álvarez (University of Sussex)
Ozouf Sénamin Amedegnato (University of Calgary)
Inmaculada Concepción Báez Montero (Universidade de Vigo)
María Bao (Universidade da Coruña)
Mara Barbosa (Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi)
Isis Berger (Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná)
Virginia Bertolotti (Universidad de la República)
Talia Bugel (Purdue University, Fort Wayne)
Germán Canale (Universidad de la República)
Claudia Crespo Del Rio (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú)
Patricia Gubitosi (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Hilcia Hernández Suazo (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras)
Ellen-Petra Kester (Utrecht University)
Jennifer Lang-Rigal (James Madison University)
David Lasagabaster (University of the Basque Country & Stellenbosch University)
Alex JR Quintanilla (Butler University)
Michelle Ramos Pellicia (California State University San Marcos)
Darío Rojas (Universidad de Chile)
Denise M. Osborne (Cornell University)
Eva-María Suárez (independent linguist)
Inés Vañó García (Saint Anselm College, Manchester)

Standing Committee:
Talia Bugel (Purdue University, Fort Wayne)
Mara Barbosa (Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi)
Patricia Gubitosi (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

Local Organizing Committee:
Lenka Zajícová, Enrique Gutiérrez Rubio, Petra Svobodová, Rosalía Calle Bocanegra, Zuzana Jurajdová

2nd Call for Papers:

Deadline: October 31, 2024

For submission details, please visit the conference website linked below.

Notification of acceptance (2nd Call): December 31, 2024