International Conference on Linguistic Landscape:
‘Tourism and Cultural Identity’
November 18-19, 2024
Faculty of Philosophy and Arts
University of Granada
* Información en español aquí
Conference timetable
Book of abstracts
Following the past II International Conference on Linguistic Landscape: Reflections of the Past in the Present and the Future (II CIPL, 3-5 June 2024) and as part of the research project ‘PLANEO Granada coast: The linguistic landscape of the coastal towns of Granada’ (Universty of Granada, Vice-Rectorate for Research-MediaLab UGR), the International Conference on Linguistic Landscape ‘Tourism and Cultural Identity’ has been convened.
Landry & Bourhis (1997) have already pointed out the affective and identity role that languages can play in the linguistic landscape of a region (especially in bilingual countries, such as French in Brussels, Belgium, or Quebec in Canada, in contrast to Flemish or English, respectively).
At a time of broad social debate on the repercussions of mass tourism on the living conditions of local populations, this conference seeks to reflect on how this is reflected in the linguistic landscape and how local identity is being reinforced or lost.
Is tourism reinforcing the cultural identity of a place in order to offer it as a distinctive feature in comparison with those of other nations? Or is it diluting and homogenising it with those of other towns in order to attract more people? Is the historical or traditional cultural identity of a place being distorted, bringing it closer to more simplified and marketable models? What role does language or languages play in these models of mass tourism?
The conference is conceived as an interdisciplinary meeting (also open in a complementary way to other non-linguistic aspects, such as artistic and architectural perspectives). Some thematic lines are suggested:
–Multilingualism vs. reinforcement of autochthonous languages.
–Linguistic internationalisation vs. linguistic nationalism.
–Monumentality, urban furniture design and language in the creation or reinforcement of population identities.
–Linguistic landscape of coastal populations and peripheral populations of large urban centres.
CFP / Call for contributions
A call for proposals is issued. These should be 20-25 minutes in length, followed by a further 5-10 minutes of discussion.
Virtual communications are welcome, but priority will be given to face-to-face communications. The conference will preferably be a place for a small number of physical meetings and debates. However, simultaneous broadcasting of the sessions will be offered through Google Meet.
Proposals should be submitted by downloading and completing the form from here. In the case of a proposal submitted by two people, it will be enough for one of them to send it to luispablo@go.ugr.es.
Once the proposal has been received, a receipt will be sent; the scientific committee will then evaluate it within seven days.
The languages of the conference will be Spanish and English.
The sessions will take place in the José Palanco and García Lorca halls of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, University of Granada.
More information on how to submit contributions and register (as an attendee or speaker) can be found on this page:
https://wpd.ugr.es/~luispablo/cfp-jornadas-pl/
Information on how to get to Granada and accommodation can be found on the website of the last II CIPL congress: how to get to the faculty / accomodation.
Publication
There will be a peer review process for the subsequent publication of the contributions.
In addition to the journal Variación/Variation of the University of Granada, a possible publication as a monograph in a journal indexed in Q1/Q2 possitions is being considered.
Organisation
Luis Pablo-Núñez (University of Granada)
Department of Spanish Language
Institute of Migrations (https://migraciones.ugr.es/)
Research Group HUM 265 ‘The Spanish lexicon: description and applications’
Scientific Committee
Carmen Aguilera Carnerero (University of Granada)
Carla Amorós Negre (University of Salamanca)
María Heredia Mantis (University of Granada)
Irania Malaver Arguinzones (University of Granada)
Marta Rodríguez Manzano (University of Sevilla)
Daniel M. Sáez Rivera (University of Granada)
Marcin R. Sosinski (University of Granada)
Mercedes de la Torre (Pablo de Olavide University)
