Laissez les bon(s) temps rouler: Français et créoles entre héritage(s) et avenir(s)
AFLS 2024 New Orleans
Date: 25-Sep-2024 – 27-Sep-2024
Location: New Orleans, USA
Contact Person: Dalila Ayoun
Meeting Email: AFLS.nouvelleorleans.2024@gmail.com
Web Site: https://afls2024nola.sciencesconf.org/
Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; History of Linguistics; Language Acquisition
Subject Language(s): Creole French, Louisiana (lou)
French (fra)
French, Cajun (frc)
Call Deadline: 01-Apr-2024
Meeting Description:
The annual conference of the Association of French Language Studies (AFLS) will be held at Tulane University in New Orleans (Louisiana). The linguistic and cultural situation of French in Louisiana is unique: Louisiana French varieties and Creole are endangered, and there are public and private initiatives to revitalize the linguistic heritage of the region. The conference will therefore focus on diachronic and diatopic variation of French and French-based Creoles as well as on linguistic revitalization and conservation efforts.
The annual conference of the Association of French Language Studies (AFLS) will be held at Tulane University in New Orleans (Louisiana). The linguistic and cultural situation of French in Louisiana is unique: Louisiana French varieties and Creole are endangered, and there are public and private initiatives to revitalize the linguistic heritage of the region. The conference will therefore focus on diachronic and diatopic variation of French and French-based Creoles as well as on linguistic revitalization and conservation efforts.
Invited plenary speakers
Dr. Anne-José Villeneuve (University of Alberta)
Dr. Kevin Rottet (Indiana University)
The following themes will be of particular interest:
• varieties of French, Creoles and regional dialects
• diachronic, diatopic, diastratic, diaphasic variations
• origins, present state, future of Creoles and regional varieties
• linguistic revitalization and conservation
• language policies
• French, Creoles and regional dialects in immersion
• pedagogy and/or acquisition of French L2, bilingualism
• aspects of theoretical and applied French linguistics
We invite abstract submissions that center around one or more of these themes as well as aspects of theoretical or applied linguistics of French in the broad sense.
You may submit an abstract in French or in English for:
• An individual talk (20 minutes + 10 minutes for Q&A) or
• A colloquium on one the themes listed above that would include up to 4 talks
• In addition, graduate students may submit a summary of the work-in-progress they would like to present at the roundtable designed for that purpose.
Abstracts should be no longer than 300 words + references and written in the language in which the presentation will be made.
Abstracts should be anonymized and submitted on the following website by April 1, 2024: https://afls2024nola.sciencesconf.org/
Deadlines:
• February 1–April 1, 2024: abstract submission
• May 1, 2024: notification of acceptance/rejection
• June 1–August 15, 2024: early-bird registration
• August 16–September 1, 2024: standard registration
Contact: AFLS.nouvelleorleans.2024@gmail.com
Organizing committee:
Nathalie Djako (Tulane University)
Tom Klingler (Tulane University)
Charles Mignot (Tulane University)
Dalila Ayoun (University of Arizona)