LINGUIST List 25.3090
Wed
Jul 30 2014
Calls: Sociolinguistics,
Anthropological Linguistics/Denmark
Editor for this issue:
Anna White <awhitelinguistlist.org>
Date: 29-Jul-2014
From: Eeva Sippola
<linesippola
dac.au.dk>
Subject: Language Ideologies
and Music in Contact Situations
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Full Title: Language Ideologies and Music in
Contact Situations
Date: 18-Sep-2014 - 18-Sep-2014
Location: Aarhus, Denmark
Contact Person: Eeva Sippola
Meeting Email:
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Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological
Linguistics; Sociolinguistics
Call Deadline: 07-Aug-2014
Meeting Description:
This workshop examines language ideologies in
contact situations taking language in music as
the focus of our analysis. The talks present
case studies of different contact settings from
around the world, such as Pacific reggae,
Philippine creole rap, and the
Caribbean/Jamaican reggae.
Language choice and change are always
intertwined, both in terms of the codes
themselves and the indexical association
between language elements and social meanings.
The study of language ideologies permits
analysing sociolinguistic situations in
transformation of which contact situations
constitute a pertinent example. A potential
entry point to understanding present-day
language use and language discourse in such
contexts is the study of language in popular
music. Popular music is an important means of
negotiating and establishing local identity in
contemporary social life. Impacting on
evaluations of what is considered ‘correct’ but
also of what is seen as ‘cool’, language
discourse in popular music often blurs the
traditional distinctions between ‘overt’ and
‘covert’ prestige.
Call for Papers:
We aim to find out how language ideologies are
construed and negotiated and how ideologies
affect and are likewise affected by language
use in music. We want to examine which language
discourses are activated in popular music
productions in contact settings, by asking the
following questions: Which languages are used?
How are linguistic resources drawn on and
appropriated creatively to index local,
national or non-territorial types of identity?
What does this tell us about language
ideologies? How are language and discourse of
different social actors present in the contact
situation and current global culture
reinforced, resisted or reappropriated?
Send your abstract (300 words) to Eeva Sippola
(linesippola
dac.au.dk) by August 7. You will be
informed of acceptance by August 12, 2014.
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