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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Queer Applied Linguistics: Potential & Limits (AILA 2023)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Short Title: AILA 2023 (Symp62)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black;background:white;mso-fareast-language:DE">Date: 17-Jul-2023 - 21-Jul-2023 </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"><br>
<span style="background:white">Location: Lyon, France </span><br>
<span style="background:white">Contact: Martin Stegu<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black;background:white;mso-fareast-language:DE">Contact Email: </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black;background:white;mso-fareast-language:DE"><a href="mailto:martin.stegu@wu.ac.at"><span lang="EN-US">martin.stegu@wu.ac.at</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black;background:white;mso-fareast-language:DE"><br>
Meeting URL: </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black;background:white;mso-fareast-language:DE"><a href="https://aila2023.sciencesconf.org/browse/author?authorid=952106"><span lang="EN-US">https://aila2023.sciencesconf.org/browse/author?authorid=952106</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black;background:white;mso-fareast-language:DE">
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Linguistic Fields: Queer Linguistics ; Applied Linguistics ; Queer Applied Linguistics ; Folk Linguistics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Symposium Description<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">About 20 years ago – after and in addition to Feminist / Gender / Gay & Lesbian and Lavender Linguistics – the term “Queer Linguistics” (QL) also began to gain more and more acceptance. QL contains elements from the previously
mentioned “subdisciplines” but goes beyond them and takes a heteronormativity-critical position – known from general queer studies – and examines how heteronormativity is expressed in and by language and discourse, but also how it can be overcome (at least
linguistically). It further appears that the mentioned norm-critical attitude has a potential that can also go beyond the criticism of the assumed superiority of heterosexual desire.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">On the one hand, there are many possible connections to applied linguistic concerns, e.g., the avoidance of discriminatory communication and respect for diversity (an aspect also mentioned in the welcome address of this
conference). On the other hand, already due to the poststructuralist heritage and also many other factors, the issues raised in queer theoretical and queer linguistic discussions still seem to be very far away from (and at first glance hardly compatible with)
most of the still prevailing folk conceptions of sex/gender and sexuality and the discourses related to them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">If we see it as a main task of Applied Linguistics to mediate between folk and academic language-related theories and views, we should ask more precisely which special functions Queer Applied Linguistics could take over
with such an agenda: For which concrete "real world problems" would applied approaches of Queer Linguistics be useful? What kinds of solutions could or should they offer? How can the often very abstract queer theoretical concepts be translated into the everyday
world experiences of "lay people"?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The symposium has two aims: to deal with basic questions of existing or possible points of contact and overlaps between Queer and Applied Linguistics and to discuss interesting examples from concrete fields of application.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Contributions can also be given in the other conference languages (French, Spanish or German, but the accompanying slides should be in English (or bilingual with English).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">References:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Motschenbacher, Heiko / Stegu, Martin (2013): „Queer Linguistic approaches to discourse</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">“</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">,
in: Motschenbacher, Heiko / Stegu, Martin (eds.): <i>Special Issue on Queer Linguistics</i> [<i>Discourse & Society</i> 24.5], Los Angeles, Sage,
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">519-535</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Stegu, Martin (2021): „Queere Linguistik: Potenzial, Probleme, Grenzen“, in:
<i>Muttersprache</i> 131 (2), 159-171.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Wilton, Antje / Stegu, Martin (2011): „Bringing the ’folk‘ into applied linguistics: An introduction“, in:
<i>AILA Review</i> 24 (2011), 1-14<br>
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</span><span lang="EN-US"><br>
<span style="color:black;background:white">We are welcoming abstracts for individual papers (20-minute presentation and 10-minute discussion) for the symposium on "</span>Queer Applied Linguistics: Potential & Limits<span style="color:black;background:white">“
at the AILA World Congress 2023 in Lyon.</span><span style="color:black"><br>
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<span style="background:white">Proposals should be 500 words maximum and must follow the AILA style sheet (see website). Full submission instructions can be found on the website:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><a href="https://aila2023.fr/call-for-papers"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#2176F5;text-decoration:none">https://aila2023.fr/call-for-papers</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;background:white">.
All authors whose submissions are accepted will have to make a recording of their presentation before the conference (because of the planned hybrid character of the whole conference); this video will be put online on the dedicated platform. However, there
will be room for face-to-face as well as online discussion. For now, the online submission platform is not available yet, but it will be in the next few weeks.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(In any case, proposals should be submitted via the central
platform and not directly to the organisers of the various symposia. Martin Stegu will of course be happy to answer any questions concerning the symposium presented here).<br>
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><br>
<span style="background:white">Submission deadline: June 26, 2022<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br>
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<span style="background:white">Symposium coordinator: Martin Stegu (martin.stegu@wu.ac.at)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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