Patron: President of Austria, Dr. Heinz Fischer

KCTOS: Knowledge, Creativity and
Transformations of Societies

Vienna, 6 to 9 December 2007
S E C T I O N S

Identity, Authenticity, Locality, Urbanity and Speech Community: A New Sociolinguistic Perspective

 
Identität, Authentizität, lokale- und städtische Veränderungen und Sprachgemeinschaften: Eine neue soziolinguistische Perspektive

Section Chair/ Suggestions, Abstracts to:

Meryem Şen and Imran Karabağ (Kocaeli University, Turkey)

Email: meryem.sen@isbank.net.tr and imran@kou.edu.tr

 
ReferentInnen / Speakers / Orateurs  >>

ABSTRACT:

 

We live in an age of globalization, which presupposes deep transformations in the life of world societies. This is indeed a challenge to them as they are societies of a common culture with a standardized language, and embodied in common economic, political, and educational institutions. This is a functional requirement of a modern economy, with its need for a mobile, educated, and literate work-force. Citizens in such modern societies display the sort of solidarity essential with a strong sense of common identity and common membership. However, it is impossible to keep away from the world surrounding effects of globalization. Like in many other fields of life linguistic behavior and stance could not have stayed neutral to this challenging stimulation. Thus, a new sociolinguistic perspective of globalization that requires a close observation of urban and local transformations in order to understand the sociolinguistic phenomenon can provide reevaluation of local and urban events beyond their own linguistic borders.

Within this frame we would like to discuss identity, authenticity, urban and local transformations and speech community. Besides, understanding the effect of globalization on perception of the other (othering) and sense of belonging or alienation are also of concern to us in this specific debate. Thus, it is expected to find answers to the following questions:

  1. Is globalization a threat to national languages or not?
  2. What does globalization serve for in the context of language and culture?
  3. Would regional languages and variations be able to keep their presence in the globalized world or not?

 

Wir leben in einer Zeit der Globalisierung, die tiefe Änderungen im Leben der Gesellschaften erfordert. Das ist die eigentliche Herausforderung an Gemeinschaften, die eine gemeinsame Kultur mit einer Standartsprache haben, und von einer gemeinsamen Wirtschaft, Politik und Bildungsinstituten geprägt sind, weil die strukturelle Eigenschaften, die sie haben, für moderne Wirtschaft ein funktionierendes Bedürfnis ist. Dieses Bedürfnis bedarf der Mobilität, der Bildung und einer nicht-analphabeten Arbeitskraft. In solchen modernen Gesellschaften wollen die Menschen eine Art der Solidarität, die eines gemeinsamen und starken Identitäts- und Zugehörigkeitsgefühl bedarf. Es ist aber trotzdem unmöglich, von den Wirkungen der die Welt umfassenden Globalisierung entfernt zu bleiben. Das sprachliche Verhalten und die sprachliche Stellung konnte nicht gegen diesen Herausforderer und Warner neutral sein, wie es in vielen Bereichen des Lebens ist.

Aus diesem Grund kann eine globale soziolinguistische Untersuchung die lokalen- und städtischen Ereignisse außer ihrer eigenen sprachlichen Abgrenzungen neu bewerten, die demnächst der Betrachtung der regionalen- und städtischen Änderungen bedürfen, um die soziolinguistische Lage zu verstehen. In diesem Forschungsrahmen wollen wir die Identität, Authentizität, lokale- und städtische Änderung und dabei auch die Sprachgemeinschaft zur Diskussion stellen. Außerdem ist es auch wichtig, dass die Eindrücke der Globalisierung im Kontext des Verstehen des Anderen, der Zugehörigkeit und Verfremdung aus soziolinguistischer Sicht interpretiert zu werden.

Wir wollen das Thema im Rahmen der folgenden Fragen zur Diskussion stellen:

  1. Schützt die Globalisierung die Nationalsprachen oder nicht?
  2. Wozu dient die Globalisierung im Sinne der Sprache und Kultur?
  3. Können Regionalsprachen und die Dialekte in der globalisierten Welt existieren? Und wenn ja, wie lange?

ReferentInnen / Speakers / Orateurs

  • Die Wirtschaftssprache in der globaliserten Welt
    Imran Karabağ (Kocaeli Universitaet, Fakultaet von Westliche Sprachen und Literaturen)
    ABSTRACT

  • The Effects of Globalisation on Accented Speech
    Meryem Şen (Kocaeli University, Turkey)
    ABSTRACT

  • Language and Thought: Cross cultural understanding of the concept of ‘identity’
    Augustine Agwuele
    ABSTRACT

  • Constructing Modernity through Language: Mixing English and Arabic in Television Programs
    Zahra Awad (Abu Dhabi University, United Arab Emirates)
    ABSTRACT

  • Languages and identities in contact in the globalization era: the italian case
    Monica Barni, Carla Bagna and Sabrina Machetti (Università per Stranieri di Siena, Italy)
    ABSTRACT

  • Gentrification in İstanbul: Will İstanbul People be Gentrified?
    Nazli Baykal (Suleyman Demirel University, Cunur, Isparta / Turkey)
    ABSTRACT

  • Scripting Identity in Post-Soviet Russia
    Brian P. Bennett (Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Niagara University, New York, USA)
    ABSTRACT

  • Combating both sides: The new linguistic-literary identities of the Rajbanshi community of North Bengal, India
    Mithun Narayan Bose (Sarai, Centre for the studies of Developing societies, New Delhi, India) and Dripta Piplai (Department of Linguistics, University of Delhi, India)
    ABSTRACT

  • The Impact of Globalization on the English Teaching in Korea: Representation in Korean EFL Textbooks
    Lee jin Choi
    ABSTRACT

  • Beyond the boarders of the speech communities: Construction of identity as a ‘member’ of the ‘global’ academic discourse community
    Hatice Çubukçu (Çukurova University)
    ABSTRACT

  • English/Kuwaiti Arabic Code-switching as an evidence of the role of English in Kuwait
    Abdulmohsen Dashti (Assistant Professor Chairman of the English department PAAET, College of Basic Education)
    ABSTRACT

  • Reconciling local identities and global aspirations through language use in the Moroccan women’s press
    Marley Dawn (University of Surrey)
    ABSTRACT

  • The Impact of economic development on rural Afrikaans dialects in Kai !Garib
    Mark De vos (Department of English Language and Linguistics Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa)
    ABSTRACT

  • English learning systems in the world: peaceful conquering or cultural terrorism?
    Cristina Dogarel (Police Academy in Bucharest, Romania)
    ABSTRACT

  • A Global Language
    Meena and Vinay Jain (Govt. MLC Girls College, Khandwa, India)
    ABSTRACT

  • Effect of Culture and Society on Language
    Sociology of Language in India
    Vinay Kumar Jain (Govt. Girls College, Khandwa, India)
    ABSTRACT

  • Gender Identity and Expression in an Urban Sound Change
    Steve L. Johnson III (Michigan State University)
    ABSTRACT

  • Creation or preservation? The interplay between identity and language planning on Jersey
    Mari C. Jones (University of Cambridge, UK)
    ABSTRACT

  • Language Learning and the Emergence of New Identities in a Globalized World
    Güray König (Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey)
    ABSTRACT

  • (Il)legitimate linguistic and cultural identities in academic milieus: Ontario’s francophone minority
    Sylvie A. Lamoureux (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada)
    ABSTRACT

  • Russia in XXI century: changes in culture, communication, language
    Tatiana Larina (Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, Moscow)
    ABSTRACT

  • Discourse Variation as a Symbolic Resource:
    Globalization, Indian Outsourcing Firms, and the Construction of Business Identity
    Anup P. Mahajan (Georgetown University, Washington D.C., USA)
    ABSTRACT

  • Post colonial Indigenous language and cultural change in Bangladesh
    Sikder Monoare Murshed (University of Dhaka, Bangladesh)
    ABSTRACT

  • The Anglicization Era – A Global Communicating Dream
    Gina Necula (University of “Dunarea de Jos”, Galati, Romania)
    ABSTRACT

  • New Communication Code – Political Correctness in the Changing World
    Irina Perianova (University of National and World Economy, Sofia/ University of Cambridge, UK)
    ABSTRACT

  • Historic language minorities in the age of globalization: ideology and practice
    Carmela Perta (University “G. D’Annunzio”)
    ABSTRACT

  • Identity and Urbanity in Defining the Multilingual Speech Community
    Tara Sanchez (New York University)
    ABSTRACT

  • Symbolism of Place and Cultural Identity in Cameroon
    Enongene Mirabeau Sone (University of Burundi, Cameroon)
    ABSTRACT

  • The Globalization of Greek Language: the Case of Sociolinguistic Meta-Language
    Irene Theodoropoulou (King's College London)
    ABSTRACT

  • The European migrant worker, the ‘camouflage’ of local-language acquisition, and global interference effects of thought and communication
    Richard Witt
    ABSTRACT

Ehrenschutz: Bundespräsident Dr. Heinz Fischer

KCTOS: Wissen, Kreativität und
Transformationen von Gesellschaften

Wien, 6. bis 9. Dezember 2007