Program: Summer School “Language in Social Context”, June 29th – July 3rd 2015

Monday 29 Tuesday 30 Wednesday 1 Thursday 2 Friday 3

09:00-10:30 Lisa Atalianis (Birkbeck, University of London)

Identity (& multilingualism) in applied linguistics research

Sigurd D’hondt et al. (Ghent University)

Language, identity and cross-border mobility in Eastern Congo: How residents of the Congolese bordertown Goma appropriate Lingala for distinguishing them from their neighbors

Kristine Horner (The University of Sheffield)

Linguistic Authority and Regimes of Citizenship in Multilingual Luxembourg

Clare Mar-Molinero (University of Southampton)

Language and return: an invisible presence? Mexicans ‘going home’

10:30-11:00 COFFEE BREAK COFFEE BREAK COFFEE BREAK COFFEE BREAK

Workshop 11:00-12:30

METHOD WORKSHOP Yvette Bürki & Nadine Chariatte (University of Bern)

Research design and data collection in (socio)linguistic studies

METHOD WORKSHOP Kathryn Campbell-Kibler (The Ohio State University)

Experimental sociolinguistics

METHOD WORKSHOP Wolfgang Kesselheim (University of Zurich)

Using eye-trackers to study the role of gaze in interaction

Final Discussion

12:30 DRINKS LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH FAREWELL APERITIF (APPETIZERS)

PhD talks 14:15-15:45

Opening session PhD research presentations (14:00-16:00)

PhD research presentations PhD research presentations

15:45-16:30 COFFEE BREAK COFFEE BREAK COFFEE BREAK COFFEE BREAK

16:30-18:00 Constanze Vorwerg (University of Bern)

Language and social identity – relations to social cognition, mobility and multilingualism

Kathryn Campbell-Kibler (The Ohio State University)

Language variation as a building block for social identity

Johannes Kabatek (University of Zurich)

Constructing identities

David Block (ICREA, University of Lleida)

Migration, language and social class

19:00 WELCOMING EVENING (BOAT TRIP AND DINNER)

DINNER SOCIAL EVENT (SCOOTER RIDE, WINE TASTING, DINNER)

DINNER

Lectures

Lecture 1

Constanze Vorwerg (University of Bern): Language and social identity – relations to social cognition, mobility and multilingualism

Lecture 2

Lisa Atalianis (Brickbeck, University of London): Identity (& Multilingualism) in Applied Linguistics Research

Lecture 3

Kathryn Campbell-Kibler (The Ohio State University): Language variation as a building block for social identity

Lecture 4

Sigurd D’hondt, Michael Meeuwis & Karen Büscher (Ghent University): Language, identity and cross-border mobility in Eastern Congo: How residents of the Congolese bordertown Goma appropriate Lingala for distinguishing them from their neighbors

Lecture 5

David Block (ICREA, University of Lleida): Migration, language and social class

Lecture 6

Kristine Horner (The University of Sheffield): Linguistic Authority and Regimes of Citizenship in Multilingual Luxembourg

Lecture 7

Johannes Kabatek (University of Zurich): Constructing identities

Lecture 8

Clare Mar-Molinero (University of Southampton): Language and return: an invisible presence? Mexicans ‘going home’

Method Workshops

Workshop 1

Yvette Bürki & Nadine Chariatte (University of Bern): Research design and data collection in (socio)linguistic studies

Workshop 2

Kathryn Campbell-Kibler (The Ohio State University): Experimental sociolinguistics

Workshop 3

Wolfgang Kesselheim (University of Zurich): Using eye-trackers to study gaze in interaction

CSLS Summer School 2015 “Language in Social Context”

PhD Presentations Panel 1

Tuesday (Chair: Lisa Atalianis)

Wednesday (Chair: Sigurd D’hondt)

Thursday (Chair: David Block)

Lorna Caputo (University of Bern)

An inquiry into the language development and educational achievement of highly-mobile trilingual children at International Baccalaureate primary schools in Central Switzerland

Didérot Djiala (University of Bayreuth)

Media Sensitisation against HIV/AIDS in Cameroon: A (Socio)linguistic and Communicative Analysis

David Paul Gerards (University of Zurich)

El infinitivo conjugado gallego o la indexicalidad de los signos lingüísticos simbólicos

Mehdi Purmohammad (University of Bern)

Code switching: A touchstone of the models of bilingual language production

Joseph Comer (University of Bern)

(Re)producing, consuming and qu(e)rying the South: A critical discourse study of normativity and dissidence in LGBTQ advocacy and tourism

Cristina Bleortu (University of Oviedo, University of Zurich)

El Habla de Pola de Siero. Variación Lingüística: Descripción y Percepción

Djouroukoro Diallo (University of Bern)

Discourse and discursive constructions: from modern times to the tradition or about the role of the “griot” in traditional and modern societies in West Africa

Alessia Solomon (University of Fribourg, Institute of Multilingualism)

The language of success - Promoting academic language skills in schools

Curtis Gautschi (University of Bern)

General Proficiency Speaking Test Assessment Criteria: A Validation Study

Delia Schipor (University of Stavanger)

Multilingualism in the Late Medieval Material of the Hampshire Record Office

Summer School 2015 “Language in Social Context”

PhD Presentations Panel 2

Tuesday (Chair: Kathryn Campbell-Kibler)

Wednesday (Chair: Johannes Kabatek)

Thursday (Chair: Kristine Horner)

Marie-Anne Morand (University of Bern)

Bivarietal Word Production and Comprehension: A Psycholinguistic Perspective on Diglossia

Sonya Kinsey (Hermann Paul School of Linguistics, University of Freiburg)

Language Variation in Indigenous Canadian English

Nadja Bucheli (University of Bern)

“Neutral dialects” and the salience of dialect features in Swiss diglossia

Janine Lüthi (University of Bern)

The mental representation of linguistic variation: Syntactic processing of (Swiss) German varieties

Christoph Neuenschwander (University of Bern)

Authenticating a Creole: Language Ideological Debates on Tok Pisin

Sandra Widmer (University of Bern)

How to deal with Standard German Aphasia Tests in German Speaking Switzerland

Clara von Essen (Malaga University)

Spanish varieties in contact: A sociolinguistic and perceptive-acoustic analysis of the voiced palatal /ʝ/ among migrant Argentinean speakers in Malaga town. A comparison with Argentinean and Spanish speakers

Laura Alessandra Tresch (University of Bern)

Ideologies in Koinéization: New Zealand English, Identity and Authenticity

Christa Schneider (University of Bern)

Variation and Change in Bernese German – Swiss Dialect Survey 2.0

Summer School 2015 “Language in Social Context”