LINGUIST List 29.3011
Wed Jul 25
2018
Calls: Applied Ling, Gen Ling, Lang Acquisition, Psycholing,
Socioling/Australia
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Date: 25-Jul-2018
From: Kleanthes K. Grohmann <kleanthi
ucy.ac.cy>
Subject: Multifaceted Multilingualism:
Language, Cognition, and Communication
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Multilingualism: Language, Cognition, and Communication
Date: 10-Dec-2018 - 12-Dec-2018
Location: Adelaide (South Australia), Australia
Contact
Person: Kleanthes K. Grohmann
Meeting Email:
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Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics; Language Acquisition;
Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics
Call Deadline: 15-Oct-2018
Meeting Description:
Multifaceted Multilingualism: Language, Cognition, and Communication
Multilingualism comes in
many forms and situations, and linguistically relevant studies may be conducted on many different
topics: individual and societal multilingualism, multiple languages brought to or taught in school, and
so on. In addition, multilingualism has been argued to benefit cognition (the so-called ‘bilingual
advantage’). Understanding the growing multilingual and multicultural world requires interdisciplinary
approaches to the study of multilingualism.
This workshop focuses on multilingualism through a
multifaceted approach to research on language, cognition, and communication. Apart from the theoretical
linguist’s bread and butter (grammatical description, language-specific analyses, and modelling of
multilingualism), different fields of study and research interests will be represented through the work
of the four invited speakers:
- Development: Multilingualism is relevant for first language
acquisition (L1, also bi- or multilingual) and learning of additional languages (L2), especially in the
context of child bilingualism or heritage languages; experimental research is typically carried in
psycholinguistic studies pursuing theoretically guided questions.
- Education: Multilingualism gains
importance in many areas of education, whether catering for heritage speakers, multilingual students, or
teaching additional languages throughout the school curriculum; from a multilingual perspective, this
requires careful planning of different school curricula and education policies.
- Society:
Multilingualism is an important aspect of most modern societies in a globalized world, complementing
issues in development and education but also beyond (integration of migrants, provisions of services,
policy-making, and so on); beyond qualitative studies, quantitative research in sociolinguistics gains
importance.
- Pathology: Multilingualism has already become a serious issue (even if completely
ignored by policy-makers in most countries) for accurately and positively identifying different types of
language-related pathologies as well as for treating them successfully; this concerns
speech–language–communication difficulties and developmental impairments, but also attrition, breakdown,
and other language situations.
This workshop calls on theoretical, applied, and experimental
(psycho)linguists, speech–language pathologists, neurobiologists of language, cognitive and
developmental psychologists, educationalists, and other researchers to contribute to the rising
challenge of multilingualism for nation states, policy-making, cultural heritage, speech communities,
and individual speakers through the lifetime: from infants and children to adolescents and adults,
including aging populations.
We are interested in novel strategies for multilingual populations
in any of these areas, new datasets, and more. Research can stem from the perspective of a single
language in a multicultural/multilingual setting or from multilingual individuals and speaker groups; we
are particularly interested in minority/migrant languages, dialects/vernacular varieties, and other,
typically understudied aspects of language. Likewise, the research to be reported can be drawn from
small/large population-based or single case studies. There is also a broad spectrum for take-home
messages, ranging from new theoretical analyses or approaches to assess multilingual speakers all the
way to recommendations for policy-makers, to mention just a few.
Call for Papers:
We
solicit abstracts for 30-minute oral presentations at the one-day workshop *Multifaceted
Multilingualism: Language, Cognition, and Communication*, which is part of the 2018 Australian
Linguistic Society Annual Conference (
http://als.asn.au/Conference/Conference-2018/Conference-2018).
In line with our invited speakers, the above general description includes the keywords:
theory;
development; education; society; pathology (in the context of multilingualism)
We are happy to
announce confirmation of the following invited speakers:
Iain Giblin, Macquarie University
(Sydney)
Maria Kambanaros, Cyprus University of Technology (Limassol)
Peter Mickan, University
of Adelaide (Adelaide)
James A. Walker, La Trobe University (Melbourne)
Abstracts should
not exceed 500 words but may in addition include data, diagrams, and references. They should be sent by
email as a PDF attachment directly to the organizer: kleanthi
ucy.ac.cy
Acceptance
decisions will be made by the end of October in order to allow participants to make travel arrangements
in time. A workshop homepage will be added soon. In the meantime, please use the general conference
information from the ALS to find out more about the venue and all other information.
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