Social Dynamics of Language Variation and Change [IPRH Reading Group]
ORGANIZERS: Salvatore Callesano (Spanish & Portuguese); Anna Maria Escobar (Spanish & Portuguese); Zsuzsanna Fagyal (French & Italian); Robin Turner, (Graduate Assistant, French & Italian)
DESCRIPTION: Contact between different types of linguistic varieties in oral, written, and digital communication are impacting uses of languages in the process. We draw from linguistics and the social and behavioral sciences to examine the sociopolitical and ideological contexts and modes of language contact to discuss outcomes of language variation and change in multilingual settings. In addition to newly published readings, we continue to focus on hypothesis formation and hands-on methods of data analysis.
2021 SPRING SEMESTER VIRTUAL MEETINGS: Fridays, 10-11a, every two weeks, starting 2/5, with in-between dates for conference presentation practice. (Write to Robin Turner, if you want to be added to our list). SDLVC RG Meeting ID: 959 8896 5548; Password: SDLVC-2021
TENTATIVE CALENDAR
Reading of the day: Regan, Brendan (2020) The split of a fricative merger due to dialect contact and societal changes: A sociophonetic study on Andalusian Spanish read-Spanish. Language Variation and Change 32,2, 159-190. PDF
Theoretical background reading: Hinskens, F., Auer, P., & Kerswill, P. (2005) The study of dialect convergen ce and divergence: conceptual and methodological considerations. In Dialect Change: Convergence and Divergence in European Languages, ed. by P. Auer, F. Hinskens, & P. Kerswill, 1-48. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. PDF
Reading of the day: Regan, Brendan (2020) The split of a fricative merger due to dialect contact and societal changes: A sociophonetic study on Andalusian Spanish read-Spanish. Language Variation and Change 32,2, 159-190. PDF
Theoretical background reading: Hinskens, F., Auer, P., & Kerswill, P. (2005) The study of dialect convergen ce and divergence: conceptual and methodological considerations. In Dialect Change: Convergence and Divergence in European Languages, ed. by P. Auer, F. Hinskens, & P. Kerswill, 1-48. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. PDF
SDLVC – FRIDAY, 02/05/21, 10 a.m. – TOPIC: Media and Language Change | |
Guest Speaker: Salvatore Callesano, University of Illinois at Urbana, presentation on “Language variation and social media: The ‘Miami Cuban’ Language Index” [no reading, except Androutsopoulos]
Theoretical background reading: Androutsopoulos, J. (2014) Mediatization and sociolinguistic change. Key concepts, research traditions, open issues. In Mediatization and sociolinguistic change, ed. by J. Androutsopoulos, 3-48. De Gruyter. PDF |
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SDLVC – FRIDAY, 02/19/21, 10 a.m. – TOPIC: New speakers and Language Change | |
Guest Speaker: Itxaso Rodríguez-Ordóñez, California State University at Long Beach, presentation on New Speakers and Basque ergativity
Reading of the day: Rodríguez-Ordóñez, I. (draft) The role of frequency in the acquisition of structures variation: The case of Basque ergativity. PDF Theoretical background reading: Kasstan, J. & I. Rodríguez-Ordóñez (2022) Chap. 29: New speakers and their heritage languages. In Routledge Handbook of Variationist Sociolinguistics. PDF |
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SPECIAL EVENT – THURSDAY, 03/04/21, 4:00 p.m. | |
Span & Port Colloquium – Guest Speaker: Daniel Erker, Boston University TBA
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Guest Speaker: Daniel Erker, Boston University
Reading of the day: Erker, D. & R. Otheguy (2020) American myths of linguistic assimilation: A sociolinguistic rebuttal. Language in Society 1-37. PDF Theoretical background reading: Blommaert, J. (2010) Chap. 1: A critical sociolinguistics of globalization. In Sociolinguistics of globalization, 1-27. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. PDF |
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SDLVC – FRIDAY, 03/19/21, 10 a.m. – TOPIC: Raciolinguistics and Language Change | |
Reading of the day: Clemons, Aris Moreno (2021) New Blacks: Language.DNA, and the construction of the African American/Dominican Boundary of Difference. Genealogy 5: 1. PDF
[Background study: Slomanson, P. & M. Newman (2004) Peer group identification and variation in New York Latino English laterals. English World Wide 25:2, 199-216. PDF Theoretical reading: Rosa, J. & N. Flores (2017) Unsettling race and language: Toward a raciolinguistic perspective. Language in Society 46, 621-647. PDF |
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SDLVC – FRIDAY, 04/02/21, 10 a.m. – TOPIC: Dialect Contact and Language Change | |
Reading of the day: Regan, Brendan (2020) The split of a fricative merger due to dialect contact and societal changes: A sociophonetic study on Andalusian Spanish read-Spanish. Language Variation and Change 32,2, 159-190.PDF
Theoretical background reading: Hinkskens, F., Auer, P., & Kerswill, P. (2005) The study of dialect convergen ce and divergence: conceptual and methodological considerations. In Dialect Change: Convergence and Divergence in European Languages, ed. by P. Auer, F. Hinskens, & P. Kerswill, 1-48. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. PDF |
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SDLVC – FRIDAY, 04/16/21, 10 a.m. – TOPIC: Social Indexicality and Language Change | |
Reading of the day: Monka, M, P. Quist & A.R. Skovse (2020) Place attachment and linguistic variation: A quantitative analysis of language and local attachment in rural village and an urban social housing area. Language in Society 49, 173-205. PDF
Theoretical reading: Eckert, P. (2019) The limits of meaning: Social indexicality, variation, and the cline of interiority. Language 95, 4, 751-776. PDF |
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SDLVC – FRIDAY, 04/23/21, 10 a.m – TOPIC: Gender and Language Change |
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Guest Speaker: Gyula Zsombok, Middlebury College, presentation entitled “Resisting gender-inclusive language: the influence of institutional intervention in linguistic practices online”
Theoretical background reading: Knisely, Kris Aric. 2020. Le français non-binaire: Linguistic forms used by non-binary speakers of French. Foreign Language Annals 53, 850-876. PDF |
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SPECIAL EVENT – Thursday, April 29 to Saturday, May 1, 2021 – LSRL SYMPOSIUM
Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, at UIUC – Go to Website |