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SEMIOTICS, BODIES, TEXTS</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;text-indent:36pt;line-height:150%;margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Emilio Amideo (University of Naples “L’Orientale”)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;text-indent:36pt;line-height:150%;margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Rodrigo
Borba (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;text-indent:36pt;line-height:150%;margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">In the last
couple of decades, our embodied actions with others have become uncircumscribed
and the materiality of social life filtered through texts and other semiotic
modes that bind people together while keeping them apart. Such a phenomenon has
been bolstered by the COVID-19 pandemic. The need for distancing measures and
isolation has intensified processes of semiotization that significantly affect how
we relate to and communicate with others and ourselves. The ways individuals
work, study, exercise, love, party, have sex, protest, etc. have all been
reshaped and their relationships with their surroundings have turned even more
textually grounded. Such a context necessitates a rethinking of seemingly
well-defined phenomena such as corporeality and matter and their relationship
with both virtual and physical environments. Making sense of the information we
receive through our embodied interaction with our surroundings is not only
shaped by a bodily memory of certain stimuli, but also by the way we culturally
and socially contextualize those experiences (Di Benedetto 2010: 71-72).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:1cm;line-height:150%;margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">This unprecedented enmeshment of knowledge, bodies, and texts is the
focus of this special issue. Of particular interest to our purposes is an
interdisciplinary rethinking of the ways individuals phenomenologically and
semiotically experience their surroundings through a variety of texts,
producing new social and (inter)subjective textures along the way. For the
purposes of this special issue, this double-bind is captured by the notion of
“textu(r)alities” whereby the idea of texture as something that can be <i>apprehended</i> through the senses recalls
the capacity to create texts and narratives to make sense, literally, of that
experience. Tellingly, “to apprehend” in English means “to seize, either
physically or mentally” (Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary 2021) therefore
highlighting the interconnectedness of thought, action, and embodiment through
the idea of grasping with the mind and/or the hand.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:1cm;line-height:150%;margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">At this juncture, we invite submissions that aim to tackle the various
dimensions of the central questions of the special issue:</span></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 54pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">How do individuals find ways to
seize (physically, mentally, subjectively, affectively) ever-changing and
elusive surroundings and, in turn, how do these surroundings shape individuals’
capacity to make sense of themselves in the world?</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 54pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">How do the interweaving and
crisscrossing of bodies, texts, and several modes of meaning-making in highly
semiotised societies forge textures that bind people together?</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 54pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">How do cracks in well-established
textures appear and disappear?</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 54pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">How does the textual warp and weft
of social life get established and changed?</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 54pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">How does matter contribute to
(re)shaping semiotic practices and narrative processes?</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 54pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">How do bodies inhabit or challenge
the “social skin”? </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Broad in
scope, these questions are framed to encompass the ways bodies, minds, and
texts get interwoven in people’s daily undertakings with others and themselves.
The terms ‘text’ and ‘texture’ derive from the Latin stem <i>texere</i> (for ‘to weave’), suggesting the idea of weaving together
individual threads to form larger units that take the form of a network, a
patchwork, a structure. Texture is precisely what makes a text a semantic unit,
through linguistic (or multimodal) features that give it cohesion and coherence
and it is also what structures discourse in its different forms: narratives,
prayers, sonnets, operating instructions, news, formal correspondence,
conversation, films, and so on (Halliday and Hasan 1976: 326). Discourse, in
turn, originates from contextualized and embodied experiences. Through the
co-articulation of their discreet components, text and body shape
meaning-making practices enabling us to think about texture as something
stemming out of our phenomenological interaction with our surroundings, through
our body’s interaction with other bodies, or in general with other objects. In
other words, texts help moor bodies to the surroundings that, in turn, (in)form
both bodies and texts. Tethering bodies to their surroundings is inherently a
phenomenological and semiotic process. As individuals orient to
signs-in-the-world, such signs (re)orient their being with others and their
understanding of themselves and the contexts in which they act.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:1cm;line-height:150%;margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Bodies, minds, and texts, of course, are, to different extents, the main
concern of (socio)linguists, anthropologists, sociologists, historians,
psychologists, queer theorists, philosophers, and literary scholars (to name
but a few) who we invite to submit a <b>300-word abstract</b> to be considered
for inclusion in the special issue. Submissions should also include a <b>100-words
bio</b> and directly address the questions above. They should be sent to Emilio
Amideo (<a href="mailto:eamideo@unior.it">eamideo@unior.it</a>) and Rodrigo Borba (<a href="mailto:rodrigoborba@letras.ufrj.br">rodrigoborba@letras.ufrj.br</a>) no
later than <b>September 15<sup>th</sup>, 2022</b>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="PT-BR" style="line-height:107%"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Prof. Dr. Rodrigo Borba</font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, sans-serif">PPG Interdisciplinar em <a href="http://www.poslaplicada.letras.ufrj.br/pt/" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff">Linguística Aplicada</font></a><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Co-editor <font color="#0000ff"><a href="https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/GL" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff">Gender & Language</font></a> </font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Núcleo de Estudos em Discursos e Sociedade - <a href="http://www.nudes.letras.ufrj.br/" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff">NUDES</font></a></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#0000ff" face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://ufrj.academia.edu/RBorba" target="_blank">Publicações</a></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Currículo <a href="http://lattes.cnpq.br/4245787890844219" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff">Lattes </font></a></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#0000ff" face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4348-1812" target="_blank">Orcid</a></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"> </span><b style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"> </b><br></p><p><b><br></b></p><div><div><img src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/images/cleardot.gif"><br></div></div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>