Culture, identity, cognition:
Insights from conceptualization of diasporic place
Insights from conceptualization of diasporic place
“Physical space becomes relevant and meaningful as human place” through talk, (Johnstone, 2010), revealing situational and more general systems of thought and social relations. Shared understandings of place and meaning are drawn from collective and individual experience, with implications for culture, identity, and cognition. Depictions of space, time, and experiences using context-embedded structural elements, language codes, and practices are an important means of understanding these relationships in real time and diachronically.
Diaspora challenge traditional notions of space as static and geographically bounded, with tension between the continued ideological relevance of notions of liminality, and the ways in which speakers’ language practices, related to their concrete experiences and senses of self, construct dynamic new understandings of the world. These practices give new insight into diversity and commonality in culture, cognition, and the human experience.
This workshop brings together innovative and well-known scholars working on diasporic place from a variety of perspectives to share insights and raise questions for new directions in the field. The workshop will explore concepts of language and identity, culture, and cognition together in context of different world diaspora, with leading scholars investigating topics such as place, race, and time in Korean social media, differences in colonial-period Indo-European and African language diaspora, and the interrelation of language and place identity in emergent U.S. Latino identities. The workshop relates directly to the Linguistic Society of American Summer Linguistics Institute’s 2017 theme of “Language Across Space and Time”, draws on the varied expertise of renowned 2017 Summer Institute faculty, and will allow students to draw connections between the workshop and Institute coursework on social and linguistic aspects of language variation and contact, hybrid grammar, pidgins and creoles, ideology, etc. to the interrelation of culture, cognition, and identity.
Diaspora challenge traditional notions of space as static and geographically bounded, with tension between the continued ideological relevance of notions of liminality, and the ways in which speakers’ language practices, related to their concrete experiences and senses of self, construct dynamic new understandings of the world. These practices give new insight into diversity and commonality in culture, cognition, and the human experience.
This workshop brings together innovative and well-known scholars working on diasporic place from a variety of perspectives to share insights and raise questions for new directions in the field. The workshop will explore concepts of language and identity, culture, and cognition together in context of different world diaspora, with leading scholars investigating topics such as place, race, and time in Korean social media, differences in colonial-period Indo-European and African language diaspora, and the interrelation of language and place identity in emergent U.S. Latino identities. The workshop relates directly to the Linguistic Society of American Summer Linguistics Institute’s 2017 theme of “Language Across Space and Time”, draws on the varied expertise of renowned 2017 Summer Institute faculty, and will allow students to draw connections between the workshop and Institute coursework on social and linguistic aspects of language variation and contact, hybrid grammar, pidgins and creoles, ideology, etc. to the interrelation of culture, cognition, and identity.
Workshop and book raffle sponsored by Multilingual Matters.
Coffee and a light breakfast will be provided.
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