FOS: Two talks on sociolinguistics, discourse this week

[Suzanne Evans Wagner]

FOS,

There will be two external speakers giving talks on sociolinguistics topics
(broadly construed) in the Linguistics & Languages  / Romance & Classical
Studies departments this week. All are welcome.

Suzanne


*Dr. Farzad Karimzad*, Salisbury University

*Presentation title*: "Transnationalism, Mobility, & Migration:  A
Sociolinguistics of Identity, Imagination, and Behavior".
*Abstract*:   Globalization has led scholars of language and migration to
move away from traditional approaches to culture, identity, and language to
more modern approaches that take into account the sociolinguistics of
mobile populations and resources (Blommaert 2010). In this presentation, I
will argue that an ethnography of migration trajectories and lived
experiences along with a chronotopic (Bakhtin 1981; Agha 2007; Blommaert
2015) approach to the analysis of migrant (macro- and micro-level)
discourses can provide a more accurate account of the sociolinguistic
effects of mobility and migration. I will then discuss the implications of
such an approach for our understandings of diversity, multilingualism,
social imagination, and normative behavior.
*Date/time*: Monday, April 9, 3:30-4:30pm, B342 Wells.

*Lydia Catedral, *University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

*Presentation title*:  "Mediating images of citizenship: The discursive
construction of belonging and bilingualism among transnational Uzbek
migrants"
*Abstract*: Focusing on the discourses and linguistic practices of Uzbek
migrant women living in the United States, I claim that migrants’
construction of national belonging is mediated by idealized, raced and
gendered “images of citizenship” associated with the multiple nation-states
of which they are a part. I also demonstrate how these images shape migrant
ideologies of bilingualism and bilingual language use. Finally, in
discussing both present and future work I highlight how data from online
media can give new insight into the scope of these “images of citizenship”
and their consequences for digital biliteracies and transnational belonging.
*Date/time*: Wednesday, April 18, 3:30-4:30pm, B243 Wells
-- 
Suzanne Evans Wagner
Associate Professor & Director of Graduate Studies in Linguistics
B-401 Wells Hall
Department of Linguistics and Languages
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824

Tel: +1 (517) 355-9739
http://www.msu.edu/~wagnersu
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Co-editor, *Routledge Studies in Language Change
<http://www.routledge.com/books/series/RSLC/>*
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