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REPUBLIC OF ALBANIA

“FAN S. NOLI” UNIVERSITY

INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE

Topic: “Sociolinguistic Studies in Albania: Achievements, Current State and Perspectives”

Organizers:

“Fan S. Noli” University, Korce, Albania (Faculty of Education: Language and Literature Department, Department of Social Sciences, Department of Foreign Languages);

University of Pristine;

University of Tirana (Faculty of Philology: Albanian Language Department); “Aleksander Xhuvani” University, Elbasan, Albania (Faculty of Human Sciences: Albanian Language Department)

Description: Being a branch of linguistics, sociolinguistics has emerged from interdisciplinary research in a number of study domains of the cultural anthropology, in particular sociology and dialectology, psychology, philosophy and language. The two main current trends of theoretical discussion in sociolinguistics may be defined as follows:

1.     Sociolinguistics defined as  an interdisciplinary research discipline;

2.     Sociolinguistics reflecting an enlarged focus of its source disciplines: sociology and linguistics.

These two definitions have specified the object of sociolinguistics, which includes sociolinguistic issues considered either within a narrow research study, i.e. an extended study of language which Labov describes as “linguistic studies in a social context”, as well as within a larger field of study consisting of research drawn alongside Fishman’s perspective “Who speaks, in which dialect, with whom, when, where, what about, under which social circumstances and having what expectations?”

The Conference “Sociolinguistic Studies in Albania: Achievements, Current State and Perspectives” endeavors to highlight the linguistic variety and diversity conditioned by linguistic and nonlinguistic variables which characterize sociolinguistics.

Aim: By valuing what has already been achieved in this field, the conference aims at bringing concrete contributions to the field of sociolinguistics and determining the perspective of these approaches; perspective which is closely connected to the further development of sociolinguistics both within the frame of Albanian linguistics and in a larger context.

Organizing Committee

Prof. dr. Ali Jashari, Fan S. Noli University

Prof. dr. Gjovalin Shkurtaj, University of Tirana

Dr. Elona Çeçe, Fan S. Noli University, Korçë

Prof. as. dr. Ajula Jubani, University of Tirana

Prof. as. dr. Begzad Balliu, University of Pristine, Kosovo

Prof. as. dr. Aleksandra Piluri, Fan S. Noli University, Korçë

Prof. as. dr. Mustafa Ibrahimi, SEEU, Tetovo

Dr. Teuta Toska, Aleksandër Xhuvani University, Elbasan

The Scientific and Editorial Committee

1.     Prof. dr. Ali Jashari, Fan S. Noli University
2.     Dr. Elona Çeçe, Fan S. Noli University
3.     Prof. as. dr. Aleksandra Piluri, Fan S. Noli University
4.     Dr. Anila Maxhe, Fan S. Noli University
5.     Ma. Daniela Stoica, Fan S. Noli University
6.     Dr. Pavllo Cicko, Fan S. Noli University
7.     Ma. Erinda Papa, Fan S. Noli University
8.     Ma. Benita Stavre, Fan S. Noli University

Call for Papers

Papers are welcomed from, but are not limited to, the following fields:

1.     Linguistic disciplines (phonetics, lexicology, semiology, morphology, syntax, etc.) from a sociolinguistic perspective.
2.     Ethnography and ethnology as study methods in sociolinguistics.
3.     Sociology, language philosophy, and psychology as fields within the broader area of sociolinguistic studies.
4.     Developments and progress registered in electronic media and the system of modernizing the Albanian language’s teaching methodology as a source of innovations at the level of the speech and language.

Conference languages: Albanian, English, French. All papers will be considered for publication in the conference proceedings.

Please send your abstracts (about 250 words) for papers (20 min) as an MS word attachment

to the following email-address by 30 September 2011: elona_biba@yahoo.com

Abstracts should include:

1. title of paper

2. name and affiliation

3. e-mail address

4. 3-5 keywords

Directing/Possible Topics:

-        Concerns on language planning , language and identity, language and national consciousness, linguistic identification, linguistic nationalism
-        The influence of the linguistic planning on ethnic identity
-        national and international aspects of  linguistic planning
-        The influence of the new generations on linguistic changes
-        Bilingualism and diglossia as phenomena in multiethnic and multinational societies according to the main postulates of present-day sociolinguistics
-        Bilingualism as a contemporary phenomenon under the focus of European integration
-        The speaker’s social identity
-        The listener’s social identity in the process of communication
-        The social environment where communication takes place
-        The synchronic and diachronic analysis of social dialects
-        Subjective assessments made by speakers concerning linguistic behavior
-        The entity of linguistic variability
-        Opportunities for sociolinguistic research application
-        The quantitative study of the speech, the foreign experience and the Albanian perspective
-        The sociolinguistic development in the Albanian linguistics and beyond

The International Scientific Conference on the topic: “Sociolinguistic Studies in Albania: Achievements, Current State and Perspectives” is hosted by the Faculty of Education at ‘Fan S. Noli’ University between 28 - 29 October 2011.