Programme 2019
4 octobre 2019 - 14h00 - 17h00
Séminaire doctoral – Pratiques langagières – terrains, méthodes, théories
Daniel Suslak, Indiana University Bloomington
Mixe Language Revitalization and the Performance of Generation
Language revitalization is, by definition, an intergenerational activity, one that brings older community members who possess greater fluency, wider repertoires of speaking, and deeper local knowledge into partnership with younger community members who can bring technological savvy, literacy, and youthful energy to the table. In these intergenerational encounters we observe tension and conflict around questions of motivations, goals and broader ideas about language. It follows that to make sense of the phenomenon of language revitalization and to help address the urgent question of how to mount successful and sustainable language maintenance efforts, we need an understanding of intergenerational relations that is every bit as sophisticated as our understanding of language. With this goal in mind, I examine several decades of Mixe language activism in southern Mexico and how the participants in this movement frame their efforts in terms of generational identities. I draw from an emerging area of on generational identities in endangered language communities (e.g. Bauman and Henne-Ochoa 2015; Wyman 2009) and two decades of field research in Mixe-speaking communities.
Programme 2019
30 septembre 2019 - Toute la journée
Accueil de Boubacar Bocoum (Université du Ghana)
Accueil de Boubacar Bocoum (Université du Ghana) pour 3 mois
dans le cadre des bourses de mobilités entrantes Labex EFL
20 septembre 2019 - 10h00 - 12h00
Conseil de laboratoire
Villejuif – Bât. D – S. 511 – 10h00-12h00
Programme 2019
17 juin 2019 - 14h00 - 16h00
Soutenance de doctorat
Katherine Hodgson : Relative clauses in colloquial Armenian: Syntaxe and typology
Inalco – Salle 4.24 – 14h
Cette thèse étudie la syntaxe et la typologie des propositions relatives en arménien parlé. Elle propose une analyse syntaxique et une classification des stratégies de relativisation disponibles en arménien, dans le cadre des approches théoriques et typologiques existantes de la relativisation, ainsi qu’à identifier les facteurs décisifs pour le choix des différentes stratégies. Chaque stratégie ayant des équivalents dans d’autres langues de la région, le contact linguistique peut influencer leur choix. Il est également probable que le rôle de l’élément relativisé dans la proposition relative soit pertinent pour le choix de la stratégie. En particulier, les données présentées dans de précédentes études sur l’arménien suggèrent que la distribution des relatives participiales peut constituer une violation de la hiérarchie d’accessibilité de la relativisation si elle est envisagée comme opérant directement en termes de fonctions grammaticales syntaxiques. L’étude se concentre sur les parlers de diverses régions d’Arménie. Les propositions relatives ont été saisies dans une base de données d’environ 2000 exemples avec des filtres portant sur les paramètres pertinents.
Les résultats montrent que l’accessibilité à la relativisation est déterminée par la saillance liée aux rôles sémantiques (affectivité) et pragmatiques (thematicité) et par de fréquents modèles d’association rôle-référence plutôt que directement par des fonctions grammaticales syntaxiques. Ceci fournit une explication cohérente des violations apparentes de la hiérarchie d’accessibilité trouvées en arménien, ainsi que d’autres phénomènes qui se sont révélés problématiques pour les interprétations de l’accessibilité à la relativisation basées directement sur la structure syntaxiques.
7 juin 2019 - 9h30 - 12h30
Conseil de laboratoire / audition des doctorant.e.s
Villejuif – Bât. D – S. 511 – 9h30-12h30
Programme 2019
17 mai 2019 - 0h00
Séminaire doctoral – Pratiques langagières – terrains, méthodes, théories
James Collins, University at Albany/SUNY
Class, Race and Language in South Africa and the United States: Comparisons and Histories
Education is a social institution that regulates and reproduces social and linguistic differences and inequality. People often resist reproductive processes, however, by subverting or disrupting school practices. Anthropological and sociolinguistic studies also show that local cultural categories and linguistic differences are sensitive indicators of the class and ethnoracial affiliations and alignments through which resistance is organized. Much has been gained from the critique of reproductive determinism and the embrace of complexity through ethnographic and sociolinguistic research. What has suffered, however, is our understanding of dynamics that underlie enduring social and linguistic inequalities.
This talk examines dynamics and tendencies of class, race, and language in two different countries, South Africa and the United States. I treat both countries as capitalist social formations founded on white supremacy, and analyze historical and contemporary interconnections between class and racial inequality and language difference and hierarchy. The argument is grounded in ethnographic and sociolinguistic studies of language education policies, classroom language practices, and staff commentary about the language diversity of their schools and the students and communities they serve. The studies employ the concepts of language ideology and language register to investigate how language policies as enacted reflect economic and ethnoracial differences and produce political and cultural subjectivities. Despites difference in enacted policy, in both countries we find that ideologies of standard and vernacular languages embed assumptions about class and racializing differences and provide metapragmatic frames in terms of which actors make sense of language practices that both conform to and challenge official policies.
8 mai 2019 - Toute la journée
Séminaire en immersion
L’ensemble du laboratoire se réunira du 8 au 10 mai 2019.
6 mai 2019 - Toute la journée
Accueil de Michele Consentino
Accueil de Michele Consentino pour 3 mois
mobilité Erasmus à partir du 6 mai
Programme 2019
12 avril 2019 - 14h30 - 17h30
Séminaire doctoral – Théories et données linguistiques
Jean-Baptiste Lamontre, M2 INaLCO – Iliyana Krapova, University Ca’ Foscari, Venise
Jean-Baptiste Lamontre, M2 INaLCO
La morphologie verbale du kulung : reconstruction interne et comparaison
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Iliyana Krapova, University Ca’ Foscari, Venise
Factives and the left peripheery of the Balkan clause
12 avril 2019 - 14h00 - 17h00
Séminaire doctoral – Pratiques langagières – terrains, méthodes, théories
Tommaso Milani (University of Gothenburg)
Queering multilingualism and politics: Regimes of mobility, citizenship and (in)visibility
In this presentation I investigate the intersections of mobility, sexuality and citizenship, and the role played by multilingualism and multisemioticity in mediating such relationships. In addressing these nexus points, I aim to offer a fresh, queer perspective to the growing scholarship on language and citizenship, an important body of work that has nonetheless largely ignored the gendered and sexual facets of the politics of mobility. Conversely, a tight analytical focus on multilingualism and multisemioticity could constitute an new analytical contribution to the budding field of queer migration (e.g. Lubheid and Cantù 2005), an interdisciplinary enterprise that has however paid relatively “little attention […] to the border-zones of linguistic and sexual contact, and the attendant struggles for meaning and belonging that are produced through this contact” (Murray 2014: 3; see however Cashman (2015) for a notable exception).
I begin with a discussion of the concept of citizenship, and how it has been employed in recent sociolinguistic scholarship. In reviewing existing literature, I highlight the heuristic potential of the notion of belonging as a broad conceptual umbrella that encapsulates the relationships between mobility, sexuality and the domain of the affective. I then move on to offer a concrete example of the ways in which sexuality, multilingualism and mobility intersect in a recent documentary about a group of Palestinian gay men who leave the Occupied Territories. The presentation ends with a discussion of the double-bind inherent in a liberal politics of citizenship that dispenses rights and recognition on the basis of (self-)ascription to pre-determined sexual identity categories.