45th DGfS 2023 AG14: 45th DGfS 2023 AG14: Exploring Novel and Routine Patterns in Heritage Language Narratives University of Cologne Cologne, Germany, March 8-10, 2023 |
Conference website | https://dgfs2023.uni-koeln.de |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=45thdgfs2023ag14 |
Abstract registration deadline | August 21, 2022 |
Submission deadline | August 21, 2022 |
Exploring Novel and Routine Patterns in Heritage Language Narratives (AG14, Short Workshop at the 45th DGfS 2023)
Date: 08-Mar-2023 - 10-Mar-2023
Location: Cologne, Germany
Contact Person: Mareike Keller
Meeting Email: m.keller (at) uni-mannheim.de
Website: https://dgfs2023.uni-koeln.de/en/
Topic: Linguistic creativity and routine
Linguistic Field(s): multilingualism, emerging grammars, sociolinguistics
Call Deadline: 21-Aug-2022
Meeting Description:
The aim of this workshop is to explore how heritage speakers dynamically move between creative and routine language in narrations. Research on heritage speakers has led to varying conclusions regarding their language competence and performance. Oftentimes, what we now consider to be creative language use, was considered to be sub-standard, even erroneous. More recently however, researchers embrace the view that non-canonicity does not result from lack of proficiency but indicates linguistic reanalysis and the formation of a new system (Polinsky 2008: 161). While experimental and corpus studies show that heritage speakers may differ from both monolingual and L2 speakers, e.g. with respect to syntactic structure, realization of grammatical categories or the lexicon, emerging patterns fall within the spectrum of natural language design. Kopotev et al. (2020: 1) hypothesize that "heritage speakers deploy fewer probabilistic strategies in language production compared with native speakers and that their active knowledge of and access to ready-to-use multiword units are restricted compared with native speakers". Extending the idea of probabilistic strategies from the lexicon to other areas of linguistic investigation we invite contributions presenting heritage data, preferably narratives, which investigate the field between creativity and routine, for example (but not limited to) register sensitivity, discourse openings and closings, formulaic language and/or collocations. We want to discuss how we can use the relative role of canonic and creative means of expression to better understand and explain heritage language developments and general developments of languages in contact.
References
Kopotev, Mikhail, Olesya Kisselev & Maria Polinsky. 2020. Collocations and Near-Native Competence: Lexical Strategies of Heritage Speakers of Russian. International Journal of Bilingualism. doi: 10.1177/1367006920921594 (accessed April 10 2022).
Polinsky, Maria. 2008. Heritage Language Narratives. In Donna M. Brinton, Olga Kagan & Susan Bauckus (eds.), Heritage Language Education: A New Field Emerging, 149-164. New York & London: Routledge.
Organizers:
Keller, Mareike, University of Mannheim
Zürn, Nadine, University of Mannheim
Katsika, Kalliopi, TU Kaiserslautern
Tausch, Johanna, University of Mannheim
Call for Papers:
Time for talks: 20 min presentation, 10 minutes discussionGroup Language: English
Abstracts should be anonymously submitted at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=45thdgfs2023ag14 in PDF format and not exceed 300 words excluding references. Abstracts should clearly address the topic of the workshop, state the research question(s), the method, and the (expected) results. Please also include a list of up to 5 keywords.
The workshop will most likely take place in person. Please be prepared to travel to the conference to be able to take part in it.
A limited number of travel grants of up to 500 Euro are available for accepted contributions by DGfS members without/with low income.
Dates:
Deadline for abstract submission: August 21, 2022, 23:59 CET
Notification of acceptance: Mid September, 2022
Please note that the regulations of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS) do not allow that workshop participants present two or more papers in different workshops. However, you are allowed to be nam