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SUMMARY:CSLS Labs in Sociolinguistics: Guest Lecture Monica Heller
DESCRIPTION:Wed 27 April 2022 | 17.15-19.00 | UniS | S003 | University of B
 ern\n\nOn the post WWII “origins” of “sociolinguistics”: a slightly revisio
 nist genealogy\n\nThe usual story about the origins of the field of socioli
 nguistics emphasizes a USbased critique of Chomskyan linguistic theory and 
 its evacuation of the social. In this talk I will reframe this story in the
  context of the Cold War, situating anglophone sociolinguistics in neo-colo
 nial development projects meant to counter Communism as a means of wealth r
 edistribution. This sociolinguistics was a liberal one focused on nation-bu
 ilding through modernization in such forms as management of linguistic vari
 ability, and standard language literacy. The result was an evacuation of a 
 political economic understanding of inequality and difference. This genealo
 gy contrasts with the emergence of the field in France, shaped by Communist
  Party emphases on class, at the expense of colonialism or multilingualism.
  I will suggest that such a reflexive re-assessment of the conditions of so
 ciolinguistic knowledge production allows us to better grasp the relationsh
 ip between what we want to accomplish and the conditions of our work, as we
 ll as to critically assess our theories and methods.\n\nMore information, i
 ncluding on how to register, is availble here.\n\nProf. Dr. Monica Heller i
 s professor emerita at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education and t
 he Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. Her research ha
 s focused on the role of language in the construction of social inequality,
  ideologies of language, nation and state, as well as linguistic commodific
 ation in the globalized new economy.
LOCATION:Center for the Study of Language and Society | CSLS
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