2nd International VariaR Conference 2022

Theme: Linguistic variation: (con)text and methodology

Organising committee: Vanessa Meireles, ReSO Team (University Paul Valéry Montpellier 3- UPVM) & Marcia dos Santos Machado Vieira (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ)

Support team: Pedro Poppolino (Computer Science), Morgana Kropf (Faculty of Letters, UFRJ), Mariana Meireles (LLCER, University Paris Nanterre)

Dates: 22 June (hybrid event), 23 and 24 June (distance) 2022

Deadline for submitting proposals in e-poster format: 30 April 2022

Scientific committee decision: 30 May 2022

Submission of accepted posters: 10 June 2022

Registration for workshops: until 10 June 2022

Registration of listeners: until 20 June 2022

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Call for submissions

This second edition of the international colloquium on variation in Portuguese mainly and in other Romance languages is part of an institutional and scientific exchange of confirmed researchers from different universities and countries.

The aim of this meeting is to promote dialogue between theoretical and methodological approaches to phonological and syntactic variation, as well as their interfaces, in Portuguese (especially between the varieties: Brazilian Portuguese, Mozambican Portuguese, Angolan Portuguese, in contrast to European Portuguese, and/or other languages). It also aims to promote inter(action) on mapping this variation on a textual-discursive level.

What we propose is bringing together specialists in the field to discuss the topic through the following (non-exhaustive) avenues of reflection on the phonetic-phonological level:

- Consonant variation;

- Variation in the vocalisation of unstressed vowels;

- Diphthongisation and monophthongisation within words;

- External vowel sanding phenomena.

And in terms of syntactic variation:

- Referencing/anaphora, predication and sentence/text connection;

- Gradation/intensification-attenuation constructions, aspectualisation, modalisation, temporality;

- Concordance (verbal, nominal) and variation in the order of constituents.

In the light of sociolinguistic theories on variation, language change and multilingual contact, we hope to contribute to a better understanding of varieties of Portuguese and, by extension, of the Lusophone linguistic area in general. We also welcome research centered on a more transversal axis around variation in other Romance languages, in order to establish common ground on contemporary dialectal variations.

This conference will therefore be a space for exchanging knowledge, experiences and research interests for those dedicated to the linguistic mapping of Portuguese or other languages centred on the phenomena of linguistic variation and change.

In addition to the conferences, we plan to organise poster communication sessions and training sessions (workshops).

These sessions will also include the presentation of two books that are the fruit of the VariaR project (Variation in Portuguese and other Romance languages; Variation and the teaching of Portuguese around the world) and talks with the authors of chapters in these works.

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