AISV 2020: XVI AISV Conference: Language variation under contact conditions: acquisitional contexts, languages, dialects and minorities in Italy and around the world University Club, via P. Bucci, cubo 23b, University of Calabria Rende (Cosenza), Italy, January 29-31, 2020 |
Conference website | http://www.unical.it/dices/AISV2020 |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aisv2020 |
Submission deadline | October 8, 2019 |
The notion of language contact, brought to light by scholars like Weinreich and Haugen in the early
1950s, embraces a vast range of situations, places and contexts, making it a complex and articulated
subject of remarkable and consistent interest for study and research.
Interaction between language systems, in terms of multidirectional interference phenomena, may take
place both in individual speakers’ idiolects and the entire linguistic community of a particular
geographical territory, by flowing into possible functional and/or structural variations, operating at all
linguistic levels, in terms of convergence, drift, attrition or loss, depending on the diachronic (intergenerational
processes) or synchronic (intra-generational) action of the process. The dynamics of
present-day global society expand similar phenomena, because of the extensive contacts between
language systems, also typologically distant, as a result of migratory flows across the world’s countries,
including those away from and towards Italy.
What kind of processes and dynamics rule the coexistence of different varieties in the same time periods
and places? What kind of relations are established between coexisting systems in the individual and in
the group?
The conference aims at stimulating reflection on this theme, encouraging discussion on the following
points:
variability and influences between L1 and L2/LS in acquisitional and migratory contexts;
phenomena of variation in bilingual and multilingual conditions;
situations of contact between official languages, dialects and minority languages;
analysis of the relations between heritage languages and dominant varieties;
relationships between Italian language and dialects in Italy and abroad;
influences between L1 and L2/LS in people with Specific Language Impairments and Learning
Disorders;
technological applications for multilingual speech recognition.
Abstract submissions
Authors are invited to submit abstracts by 16 September. Abstracts should be written in English or
Italian and should be restricted to a minimum of 1000 and a maximum of 1500 words, and two A4
format pages, including graphs and references. Abstracts should be submitted in .pdf format through
the procedure that will be set up on the Congress website (starting from the 15th of July).
Full papers should be submitted by April 6, 2020.
Presentations
Oral presentations, in .ppt or .pdf format, will last 20 minutes and will include a brief Q&A session.
Posters should be printed in A0 format (841mm-1189mm) and in portrait orientation.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to aisv2020@unical.it