sociolinguistics symposium micro and macro connections 3+4+5 April 2008 Amsterdam – Papers – Posters – Themed panels and Workshops Book of Abstracts Sponsors www.meertens.knaw.nl/ss17 ABSTRACTS Sociolinguistics Symposium 17 Amsterdam 3-5 April 2008 3 SS17: MICRO AND MACRO CONNECTION S The 17th edition of 'The Sociolinguistic Symposium', Europe's leading international conference on language in society, will be held in Amsterdam from 3-5 April 2008. The chairing Institute is The Meertens Institute (Department of Language Variation). The theme of this conference is Micro and Macro Connections. The conference will be held at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU). Sociolinguistics is about the relationship between language and society. By proposing Micro and Macro connec- tions as the conference's theme, we want to invite researchers who generate insights into the interplay between language and society by examining the ways social structure is oriented to and affected by verbal practices. Language does not just reflect social facts. The connections between language and social organization are multi- layered, dynamic and reflexive and they are accomplished at many different levels of language use. When people use language, they are actors engaging in some interactional project that defines the ground for the ways param- eters such as identity, community and culture are shaped. Therefore, we have welcomed in particular proposals that explore the ways verbal practices display and contribute to social organization. About the Sociolinguistics Symposia The Sociolinguistics Symposia are organized bi-annually since the 1970s by a group of sociolinguists who rec- ognized the need for a forum for discussing research findings and for debating theoretical and methodological issues concerning language in society. Until 2000, most participants came from within the UK, but ever since the symposium has developed into the leading international conference on language in society in Europe, at- tracting 400-500 participants on average. The first symposium on the continent was organized in April 2002 by the University of Ghent and from then on the intention has been to alternate between the UK or Ireland and a continental venue. 4 I S BN 978-90-70389-76-5 The abstracts in this book have been included in the exact way they were submitted. Please note, however, that the abstracts that were too long were abbreviated and that a number of diacritics might have gone wrong in the process of multiple conversions of files. We also took the liberty of removing all references to keep the size of the book within limits. References can easily be obtained from the authors, whose details can be found in the program book and in ConfTool: the conference's webtool for managing the conference program. The abstracts that have been cancelled after the printer’s proof was ready, have been crossed out. For the production of this book of abstracts, the hard work and commitment of our colleague Ineke Meijer (Meertens Institute) was indispensable. 5 TABLE OF CONTENT S Commitees 7 Abstracts - Plenary speakers 11 - Papers 17 - Posters 169 - Themed panels and Workshops 201 Index 355 Last update 361 6 7 Conference Chairs Leonie Cornips - chair (Meertens Institute, Amsterdam) Jacomine Nortier - vice chair (Utrecht University) Harrie Mazeland - vice chair (University of Groningen) Alies MacLean - vice chair (Meertens Institute) Organizing committee Abderrahman El Aissati (University of Tilburg), Durk Gorter (Fryske Akademy, Leeuwarden), Roeland van Hout (Radboud University Nijmegen), Laura Rupp (Vrije Universiteit), Hetty Garcia (Meertens Institute, Amsterdam), Margreet van der Ham (Meertens Institute, Amsterdam). Scientific committee Ingrid van Alphen University of Amsterdam Umberto Ansaldo University of Amsterdam Peter Auer University of Freiburg Piet van Avermaet Ghent University Ad Backus Tilburg University Csilla Bartha Linguistics Institute, Budapest Jan Blommaert Ghent University Kees de Bot University of Groningen Jenny Cheshire University of London Karen Corrigan Newcastle University Nikolas Coupland Cardiff University John Edwards Saint Francis Xavier University Nick Enfield Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics Felix Etxeberria Univ of the Basque Country, San Sebastián Guus Extra Tilburg University Paz Gonzalez Leiden University Charlotte Gooskens University of Groningen François Grin University of Geneva Frans Hinskens Meertens Institute/Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Gabrielle Hogan Brun University of Bristol Nancy Hornberger University of Pennsylvania Erica Huls Tilburg University Alexandra Jaffe California State University Long Beach Barbara Johnstone Carnegie Mellon University Jeffrey Kallen University of Dublin, Trinity College Kendall King Georgetown University Folkert Kuiken University of Amsterdam Elizabeth Lanza University of Oslo Miriam Meyerhoff University of Edinburgh Clare Mar-Molinero University of Southampton Marilyn Martin-Jones University of Birmingham Stephen May University of Waikato Melissa Moyer Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Sonja Novak Lukanovic Institute for Ethnic Studies, Ljubljana Tadhg Ó HIfearnáin University of Limerick Pádraig Ó Riagáin Trinity College, Dublin Ben Rampton King's College London, University of London Gisela Redeker University of Groningen Vincent de Rooij University of Amsterdam Mark Sebba Lancaster University Magret Selting University of Potsdam Elana Shohamy Tel Aviv University Stef Slembrouck Ghent University Marja-Leena Sorjonen Research Institute for the Languages of Finland Patrick Stevenson University of Southampton Jan ten Thije Utrecht University Hans van de Velde Utrecht University Ton Vallen Tilburg University Johannes Wagner University of Southern Denmark Alastair Walker University of Kiel Ruth Wodak Lancaster University Scholarships The Sociolinguistics Symposium 17 Committee has awarded 14 scholarships. 12 Were made possible by registration fees of all participants of SS17. The University of Limerick (host of SS16) awarded the other 2. 8 Abstracts Plenary speakers PLENARY SPEAKERS 11 PLENARY SPEAKERS Jasone Cenoz University of the Basque Country Multilingual education for minorities: research methods and achievements Traditionally there has been a division between elitist bi/multilingualism understood as foreign language learn- ing at bi/multilingual schools and different types of bilingual education for minority languages. This plenary address looks at the relationship between these two types of education by focusing on multilingual education for minorities. Multilingual education is understood as going beyond bilingual education by teaching more than two languages in the school curriculum and aiming at the development of multilingualism. The first part of the paper explores the nature of the relationship between multilingual education and society. Multilingual education is a real-life dynamic laboratory of language acquisition, language contact and language use. These characteristics of multilingual education will be represented in the ‘Continua of Multilingual Educa- tion’ model which highlights the relationship between schools and their sociolinguistic context. The second part of the paper will provide a critical review of research in multilingual education. This review will focus on the limitations of the theoretical approaches and research methodologies and will analyse the re- sults achieved so far. The paper will end by proposing a research agenda for addressing crucial gaps in the study of multilingual education. Charles Goodwin Applied Linguistics, UCLA, United States of America The categories speaker and hearer as interactive processes The mutual orientation of speaker to hearer constitutes a central point of departure for investigation of the social life of language. The speaker-hearer relationship is intrinsically social in that it requires the coordinated actions of multiple participants, is pervasive in language practice, and creates the environment where language structure, in the form of endogenous utterances, emerges in the natural world. However, frequently this rela- tionship, in which consequential differences between participants are central, is flattened into a homogeneous unity, as in Chomsky’s (1965:4) notion of an ideal “speaker-hearer”, and being a speaker is reduced to being able to construct complex grammatical syntactic structures. On the other hand many discourse approaches to lan- guage organization implicitly treat speaker and hearer as separate, analytically distinct individuals. Thus, even a scholar as exquisitely tuned to the nuances of human interaction as Erving Goffman, developed in “Footing” a powerful framework in which the speaker was described with one analytic system, while hearers were investi- gated with a completely different one. A focus on discrete individuals and their mental lives obscures the way in which the complementary positions of speaker and hearer both emerge within, and continuously structure, a dynamically unfolding interactive field constructed through ongoing public semiosis. The public structure of this field, and the way in which it is organized through situated action, makes it possible for even someone left with a three word vocabulary because of a stroke to nonetheless act as a powerful speaker. As he does so the notion that what constitutes a speaker can be equated with the ability to produce complex syntax, or identified with a single body, is called into question. Here I will focus on the practices through which speakers and hear-