Welcome to the Social Dynamics of Language Variation and Change Reading Group (/IPRH Seminar) page!

We are an interdepartmental group of faculty and students who have been meeting weekly or biweekly, since Spring 2007. Our focus is on multilingualism, sociolinguistics, languages contact, languages variation, and language change. Our focus is on language contact between different types of speakers, and of linguistic varieties in oral, written, and digital communication, and how the social dynamics of the contact is impacting uses of the languages in the process. We draw from linguistics and cognitive science, and from the social and behavioral sciences to examine the sociopolitical and ideological contexts and modes of language contact in order to discuss outcomes of language variation and change in multilingual settings. In addition to discussing newly published readings, we continue to focus on hypothesis formation and hands-on methods of data analysis. [IPRH Reading Group]

Visit the SPRING 2022 page for the tentative calendar for the present semester. During the 2022 Spring Semester we will go back to face-to-face Meetings (unless noted): Wednesdays, 5:00-6:00 p.m., biweekly (unless noted in the calendar), starting February 16, 2022 in Room 3092C FLB Building. In-between dates will be used, when needed, for conference presentation practices or other related events. If you are interested in joining our reading group, please write to Robin Turner, our graduate assistant.

Organizers: Salvatore Callesano, Spanish & Portuguese; Anna Maria Escobar, Spanish & Portuguese; Zsuzsanna Fagyal, French & Italian; Robin Turner, (Graduate Assistant), French & Italian