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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=IT link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span class=zmsearchresult><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white'>[with apologies for cross-posting]</span></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>-----------------------------------</span></strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>Languaging Diversity 2021</span></strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white'>"The Linguistic Construction of Emotional Challenges in a Changing Society”</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><br><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>Online symposium</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>13-15 October 2021</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>University of Lille, France</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>STL (<em><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Savoirs, Textes, Langage</span></em>), Research Lab, UMR 8163 du CNRS</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'><</span></strong><b><u><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:blue'><a href="https://ld2021.sciencesconf.org">https://ld2021.sciencesconf.org</a></span></u></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>Background</span></strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><br></span><em><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>Languaging Diversity</span></em><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'> is the itinerating conference of the <a href="http://www.unior.it/index2.php?content_id=14038&content_id_start=1&titolo=i-land-research-centre&parLingua=ENG" target="_blank">I-Land Interuniversity Research Centre</a>, an international independent and interdisciplinary center for advanced studies in Linguistics, Social Sciences and the Humanities with a focus on the key notions of identity and diversity, from a linguistic, cultural, and gender studies perspective, in and across cultures. </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>The seventh edition of the Languaging Diversity conference (LD2021) will be organized by the University of Lille, France. Due to the COVID-19 ongoing pandemic, the event will be held exclusively online via the virtual conference management platform <a href="https://underline.io/" target="_blank">Underline</a>.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><br><br></span><strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>Conference theme</span></strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>"The Linguistic Construction of Emotional Challenges in a Changing Society”</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><br><br></span><strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>Focus </span></strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;text-align:justify;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>The 7<sup>th</sup> edition of the <em><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Languaging Diversity</span></em> conference focuses on the emotional challenges that result from the most recent social transformations, and on the way such experiences are expressed in discourse. The extreme social innovations of the last two decades, which have also been brought about by digital communication, are fundamentally altering the way we live and relate to one another in the sphere of work, civic participation, education and learning, affect and sexuality, healthcare and well-being. In their scale and complexity, these social transformations inevitably generate emotional experiences that require to be expressed in language.</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;text-align:justify;background:white;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>The LD2021 conference convenors invite papers and posters that investigate the intersection of emotion, communication and social change, also within the framework of digital communication. <span style='background:white'>The contributions presented at the LD2021 conference will explore the expression of emotion(s) at the different levels of linguistic description (phonological, morphological, syntactic, lexical, semantic, pragmatic, discursive), and in texts and contexts related to traditional and digital genres in different domains, including (but not restricted to) health, medicine and science, media, politics, the law, academia, the world of corporate and institutional work, education and learning.</span></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;text-align:justify;background:white;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>Given the high transdisciplinary nature of the LD2021 conference theme, innovative methodological approaches in relation to the macro thematic frameworks listed below are particularly welcome.</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;text-align:justify;background:white;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;background:white;word-spacing:0px'><strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>Subject areas</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;text-align:justify;background:white;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>Discourse Analysis; Critical Discourse Analysis; Systemic Functional Linguistics; Multimodal Semiotics; Corpus Linguistics; Corpus-based discourse studies; Genre Analysis; Pragmatics; Semantics; Cognitive Linguistics; Construction Grammar; Phonetics; Phonology; Psycholinguistics; SLA; Sociolinguistics; Sociolinguistics of Globalization; Intercultural Communication; World Englishes (EIL, ELF); Language crossing; switching, and mixing; Language variation and language change; Linguistic anthropology; Ethnographic approaches to language; Translation Studies; Media Studies; Specialized languages; Forensic Linguistics. </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;text-align:justify;background:white;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;background:white;word-spacing:0px'><strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>Thematic frameworks </span></strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;background:white;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'> LD2021 welcomes proposals addressing the linguistic representation of emotional challenges within one of the following (non-exhaustive) thematic frameworks:</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Digital innovation and transformation</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Creating inclusive societies with digital technology</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>ICT for education, learning and inclusion</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>(Over-)Digitalization of the private sphere</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Information manipulation: democracy and fake news</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Online violence: cyberbullying, digital drama and hate speech</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Disagreement and conflict </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Climate action and the environment</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Sustainability and the bioeconomy</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Health, demographic change and wellbeing</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Palliative care</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Death, bereavement and grief</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>End-of-life law and assisted dying</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Ageing and age-specific issues</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Digital technology for sexual and reproductive health</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Affect and sexuality</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Taboo concepts, curse words and profanity</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Pornography, obscenity and censorship </span><span 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economy and new forms of social inclusion </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Emerging legal issues in the 21st century</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Artificial intelligence and the law</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Intellectual property in the digital age </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Identity-related crime</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Legal and ethical issues in healthcare</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p style='margin:0cm;background:white;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>Conference convenors</span></strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>Giuditta Caliendo, Université de Lille & STL, France</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>Maarten Lemmens, Université de Lille & STL, France</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>Mégane Lesuisse, Université de Lille & STL, France</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><br><br></span><strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>Confirmed keynote speakers</span></strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>Jeannette Littlemore (University of Birmingham, UK)</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>Maïa Ponsonnet (University of Western Australia, AU)</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>Andrea Scarantino (Georgia State University, US) </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><br><br></span><strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>Important dates</span></strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>Deadline for submission of abstracts: 1st March 2021</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>Notification of acceptance: by 23 April 2021</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>Early bird registration opens 23 April and ends 31 August 2021</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>Conference: 13-15 October 2021</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;background:white'><strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>Conference administration</span></strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;background:white;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>Justin Duquesnoy, STL General Secretary: <a href="mailto:justin.duquesnoy@univ-lille.fr" target="_blank">justin.duquesnoy@univ-lille.fr</a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;background:white;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;background:white;word-spacing:0px'><strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>Conference website: </span></strong><strong><u><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:blue;background:white'><a href="https://ld2021.sciencesconf.org"><span style='font-weight:normal'>https://ld2021.sciencesconf.org</span></a></span></u></strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>Contact: <a href="mailto:ld2021@univ-lille.fr" target="_blank">ld2021@univ-lille.fr</a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> 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