LMB 2017

LANGUAGE, MOBILITY AND BELONGING

Linguistic Anthropology Conference

23-25 March 2017 | University of Oxford | Somerville College

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REGISTRATION CLOSES ON MARCH 18th!

 

Organising Committee: Dr Kinga Kozminska, Leonie Schulte, Dr Nancy Hawker, Rosemary Hall

 

What is the role played by language in the conceptualisation and regulation of belonging in contexts of migration and global movement? Following the 2016 Language, Indexicality and Belonging Conference, the 2017 conference seeks to continue to bring together leading scholars and graduate students in linguistic anthropology and related fields in order to discuss the linguistic aspects of social and spatial mobility in the contemporary world.

 

At the conference we are interested in addressing such questions as:

 

• How are national and transnational forms of belonging constructed through legal language? And to what extent can the multiplicity of voices be secured in state-sponsored language policy?

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• How do the linguistic practices of different groups challenge existing categories of belonging and how do they participate in the creation of new socio-cultural formations?

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• How do forms of ‘citizenship education’ and ‘naturalisation’ language policies further or impede the development of polities within and across borders?

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• How do migration and increased global movement affect existing language ideologies and norms? And how do these call into question existing structures of socioeconomic mobility?

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19 selected papers across four dedicated conference panels will contribute to the debates surrounding language policy and legal language, immigrant integration and ‘naturalization’ policies relating to language, and the relationships between forms of citizenship, socioeconomic mobility and belonging, language ideology and linguistic practice.

 

Registration for Participants and Auditors is now open. Please visit the Registration page for more information. 

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