IDEOLING International Symposium on Language Ideologies and Attitudes

Language ideologies and attitudes have been the focus of various works, particularly in recent years, which have covered a diverse range of topics. Studies have analysed language ideologies and attitudes in language policy and planning (Blommaert, 2006; O’Rourke & Hogan-Brun, 2013; Ó Giollagáin, 2014), other studies have focused on how language ideologies and attitudes reflect power relations (Kroskrity, 1998; Pujolar, 2001; Del Valle 2003; Gal, 2006, etc.) or how they account for particular culturally-specific mental representations (Irvine, 1998; Gal & Woolard, 2001; Woolard, 2016), etc. In fact, the perspectives shown in the works range from critical sociolinguistics to linguistic anthropology, without forgetting glottopolitics. All of this has given rise to different theoretical and methodological approaches to the topic and has led to a large amount of varied and diverse research.

This diversity of approaches and the amount of research relating to ideologies and attitudes has motivated us to organise the International Symposium on Language Ideologies and Attitudes at the University of the Balearic Islands, Mallorca, on October 18 and 19, 2024. The symposium aims to serve as  a meeting place for various researchers to share their work in this area, along with the epistemological and methodological challenges it presents. Potential avenues for research include (although they are not limited to):

• Epistemological and theoretical approaches to language ideologies and attitudes (tensions between structure and agency, critical realism, etc.)
• Language ideologies and attitudes and language policy and planning (revitalisation language strategies, standardisation processes, etc.)

• Language ideologies and attitudes in education and language learning (teachers’ language ideologies and attitudes towards minority students, students’ attitudes towards language diversity, etc.)
• The effect of language ideologies and attitudes on language use (linguistic insecurity, standard/non-standard varieties, shifting registers, contact varieties, etc.)
• The influence of language ideologies and attitudes on language variation and change (dialect shift/levelling, teaching language variation and change in school environments, effects of gender roles on linguistic patterns, adoption or rejection of specific linguistic/lexical patterns, etc.)
• Language ideologies and attitudes of heritage speakers (language maintenance, family language policy, language brokering, etc.)

We welcome contributions from different areas of study, such as sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, glottopolitics, social psychology, etc. We invite you to send applications for 20-minute papers (to be followed by ten minutes of discussion). We ask that each participant only submit one proposal as an individual or a maximum of two proposals as a coauthor. The symposium will involve a keynote lecture, presentations by participants, and a final colloquium that will bring together the various contributions. The deadline for submitting a proposal is February 29, 2024. The acceptance of submissions will be sent during the month of May 2024. Proposals should be sent via this form. We welcome oral presentations in English, Catalan and other languages. As the main language of the symposium is English, we ask those presenting in a language other than English to provide visual support for their presentation in English (e.g. PowerPoint slides), and to be prepared to discuss their work in English in the post-paper discussion.

For further information, please contact us at ideoling@uib.cat or visit our web site.