WILA 14: Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas 14 Europa-Universität Flensburg Flensburg, Germany, October 5-7, 2023 |
Conference website | https://www.workshoponimmigrantlanguages.com/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wila14 |
Abstract registration deadline | June 18, 2023 |
Submission deadline | June 18, 2023 |
14th Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA14)
Meeting Location: Europa Universität Flensburg |
Contact Information:
Karoline Kühl, karoline.kühl@uni-flensburg.de
Samantha M. Litty, samantha.litty@uni-flensburg.de
Meeting Dates: October 5–7, 2023
Conference format: We are planning to have both face-to-face and virtual options. There is no registration fee.
Keynote speakers:
Anke Lüdeling, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Mogens Rostgaard Nissen, Dansk Centralbibliotek for Sydslesvig
Anke Lüdeling will deliver the Janne Bondi Johannessen Celebration Lecture. This lecture will be held in memory of Prof. Janne Bondi Johannessen, founder of WILA, and is intended to honor someone who embodies Janne’s values, especially collaboration, involvement with and encouragement of younger scholars, and dedicated contribution to the full spectrum of heritage language linguistics.
Abstract Submission Information: Abstracts can be submitted from now until 18 June 2023. Decisions will be announced in August. Please inform us with your abstract submission if you plan to attend in-person or virtually.
Conference URL: http://www.workshoponimmigrantlanguages.com/
The Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas is an annual conference focused on heritage language research, broadly understood. WILA began in 2010 as a conference on "Investigating Immigrant Languages in America" at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Since then, host universities have alternated between the United States and Europe. Research on migrant and heritage languages in the Americas includes work on bilingual grammars, social correlates of language, factors that drive language transmission and loss, and historical and political factors. Since its inception, WILA has stressed that range and worked to increase cross-linguistic comparisons of all sorts, including different languages / dialects, different contact settings and different historical periods up to the present. The theme of WILA14 is methods in immigrant and heritage language research. We welcome papers on all of these topics mentioned above, with a particular emphasis given to the methodological approaches taken in each research project, how our methods shape research outcomes, and the challenges and opportunities that arise from working with this type of data and these groups of speakers/writers.
We encourage submissions to focus on methods regarding:
- non-standard varieties, e.g., dialects, non-standard orthographies, etc.
- bi- and multilingual language data
- small or mid-sized data sets
- moribund speaker groups with few remaining speakers
- data collection methods or approaches and resulting outcomes; e.g., elicitation tasks
- …
We invite abstracts for 30-minute presentations (20 minutes + 10 minutes for questions) and posters on any aspect of the linguistics of heritage languages in the Americas (e.g., structural, historical, sociolinguistic, or experimental). Abstracts should be no more than 500 words, but may include a second page for data, graphics, and references.
Abstracts should be submitted through EasyChair by following the link below: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wila14
Selected papers from the conference will be published. There will be a separate call for papers for the publication.