<div dir="ltr">apologies for cross-postings<div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div> 500-word abstracts should be sent to <a href="mailto:rodrigoborba@letras.ufrj.br" target="_blank">rodrigoborba@letras.ufrj.br</a> no later than november 10.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">"TURNING TRICKS": POSSIBILITIES AND CHALLENGES FOR A SOCIOLINGUISTICS OF SEX WORK</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:right"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"> </span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">Research on language and sexuality within sociocultural linguistics has produced a voluminous literature which has enriched our understandings of the sexual realms of our social lives. However, the field has been surprisingly timid with regards to a context where both language use and sexuality play a central role, namely sex work. Commercial sex has, however, been a major area of investigation within social scientific research: anthropologists, sociologists and feminists have all produced accounts of different aspects of the sale of sexual services. To a great extent, this literature considers sex work as a microcosm which constitutes and is constituted by a multitude of macro-sociological phenomena such as globalization (Kempadoo and Doezema, 1998; Brennan, 2004), neoliberalism (Bernstein, 2007), identity and state regulation (Weitzer, 2000; Sanders, 2005) to name but a few. In this scenario, this <span class="">panel</span> aims to advance discussions of the analytical possibilities and methodological challenges the study of sex work poses to sociolinguists. To do so, it welcomes research that deals with any aspect of the semiotics of sex work. Investigations may focus on any commercial sex venue (saunas, street-based and indoor prostitution, phone sex, web sites etc.) and focus on the multitude of actors in the business (i.e. female, male and transgendered workers as well as clients). The <span class="">panel</span> aims to discuss how the sociolinguistic study of commercial sex may “turn tricks”, as it were, to our understandings of sexuality, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">identity categories, desire, linguistic power, agency, the commodification of sex and intimacy as well as the commodification of gendered language use. </span></p></div></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div dir="ltr"><p> <b> </b></p></div></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p> <b> </b></p><p><b><br></b></p><img src="cid:ii_13b8547d2af40e3a" alt="Imagem inline 1"><div><div><img src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/images/cleardot.gif"></div></div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></div></div></div>
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