[Linganth] CFP - Language and Affect - Sociolinguistic Symposium

[Seran Gee]

	Hello everyone,

	Given the extended deadline for submissions to Sociolinguistic Symposium
22, we are extending our call for papers for the following panel on
language and affect. 
	Please feel free to share this widely.
	Best,

	Seran
	Call for papers: Sociolinguistic Symposium 22 in Auckland, NZ, June 27-30,
2018 

	Organizer: Seran Gee (York University) 

	Discussant: Professor Tommaso Milani (University of Gothenburg) 

	Verbal and visceral: Connections and cracks between expression and
experience 

	This panel seeks to explore the entanglements that bind and the fissures
that separate affect and discourse. For many proponents of the affective
turn in the social sciences and humanities, affect is an
‘extra-discursive’ (i.e. beyond discourse) phenomenon or instance of
intense feeling (e.g. Massumi 2002). In conceptualizing affect as a
pre-discursive phenomenon, scholars can examine social realities through a
non-representational framework. That is, rather than focusing on how
objects and phenomena are represented, the focus becomes the objects and
phenomena themselves. Opponents of this view, however, contend that affect
and discourse are not easily (or productively) unentangled. For example,
Wetherell (2013), synthesizing empirically driven psychological research
and research in the humanities, argues that affective practice is better
understood as a continuum of meaning-making and that incorporating a
discourse analytic framework more effectively produces rich analyses of
social life. This panel seeks to contribute to this debate by addressing
the role of discourse (if any) in affect studies and the application of
affect theory to the understanding of meaning-making.  

	Please send your title and abstract (max 350 words including bibliography)
to Seran Gee (sgee at yorku.ca (mailto:sgee at yorku.ca)) by August 24, 2017. 
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