Language Latitudes: Expanding Our Understanding of Language Attitudes
You are invited to the Language Latitudes Two-Day Workshop (April 13-14, 2023) at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. This workshop is a collaboration between the University of British Columbia (Department of French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies and Department of Linguistics), and the University of Bern (Center for the Study of Language and Society).
The Language Latitudes Workshop is an opportunity to engage with scholars interested in language attitudes and their social consequences. For this workshop, we focus on three specific domains: (1) social opportunities, (2) multilingualism, and (3) public voices. We invite research questions about how language attitudes may perpetuate the idea of a monolingual standard (e.g., in research and in the public), adversely affect life outcomes (e.g., in accessing education, employment), impact intergenerational language transmission (e.g., as a result of social bias against particular languages) and limit the public visibility (or audibility) of a diverse range of voices (e.g., in news and speech technology). We encourage submissions that engage with the causes and effects of language attitudes across these domains, with the goal of learning from each other and reflecting on how language attitudes could elevate some voices while marginalizing others.
Invited Presenters
- Marie-Eve Bouchard (University of British Columbia)
- Andrew Cheng (Simon Fraser University)
- Ethan Kutlu (University of Iowa)
- Naomi Nagy (University of Toronto)
- Rachael Tatman (Language Technology Educator)
- Kristin Snoddon (Ryerson University)
The final session of the workshop is a working session with the goal of a large-scale collaborative project on language attitudes. As a result, we expect all attendees to join us for the full two days as our collective work will be most productive by active participation in all sessions. We will send out more information for those papers accepted ahead of time to inspire your own thinking process about this workshop.
A special issue on the above themes is in the works and will be announced on a later date.
Call for Abtracts
You are invited to submit an abstract for an oral presentation (20 minutes, with 10 minutes for questions). Maximum one-page abstracts should be submitted as .pdf. Abstracts will be reviewed for their suitability given the theme of the workshop. Work-in-progress that are ready for comments are welcomed. The deadline to submit abstracts is January 16th, 2023.
Abstract Submission
To submit your abstract, please click on the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=languagelatitudes23
Important Dates
- Deadline for submission: January 16th, 2023
- Notification of acceptance: March 1st, 2023
For any enquiries please contact: languagelatitude23@outlook.com