[Linganth] CFP for Panel on Semiotic Landscapes (P055) at the EASA conference

[Jing]

Dear Colleagues,

You are warmly welcome to join us at the 17th European Association of
Social Anthropologists Biennial Conference (
https://easaonline.org/conferences/easa2022/) that will be held in Belfast,
26-29 July, 2022. It is our pleasure to invite you to submit your paper
proposals to our panel, which is sponsored by the EASA network on
Linguistic Anthropology. It will be a great opportunity for all to explore
the theoretical build-ups and ethnographic potentials of the concept
'semiotic landscape'. The conference can accommodate both onsite
participance and online participance.

Here are the panel details:


*Panel Title: *

Potentialities of Semiotic Landscapes: Language Practices, Materialities
and Agency [EASA Network on Linguistic Anthropology]

*Convenors:*
Tatsuma Padoan (University College Cork)
Lijing Peng (Trinity College Dublin)
Julia Sonnleitner (University of Vienna)

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*Short Abstract:*
This panel explores the reciprocal production of place and language: How do
places create specific subjectivities and temporalities through linguistic
practice and material agency? And how do discourse and language ideology
constitute space and endow subjectivities with differing degrees of agency?

*Long Abstract*
In their recent work The Anthropology of the Future, Bryant and Knight
(2019) have strongly connected Aristotle's notion of
"potentiality"—described as the possibility of the future inscribed into
the materiality of the present, as an immanent anticipation of what might
or might not be—to Ernst Bloch's definition of hope centred on the
"not-yet" (Noch-Nicht). In this panel, we would like to stimulate
discussion on the potentialities of semiotic landscapes, not only by
ethnographically exploring the prospective temporalities inherent in
places—using notions like chronotope, semiosphere, affect, etc. to
investigate spaces of hope—but also by pushing the concept of semiotic
landscape itself further, exploring its "not-yet-realised" theoretical
potentials. The concept of semiotic landscape, dealing with the textual and
discursive construction of places and the use of space as a semiotic
resource (Jaworski and Thurlow 2010), has cast light on the interplay
between language, visual discourse, spatial practices, and the spatial
dimension of culture.

In this panel, we wish to extend such interplay by looking more closely at
the role of language practices, language ideologies and material agency
generated along spatial transformations. We welcome papers from linguistic
and social anthropology (and related fields) to present ethnographic and
theoretical discussions that enrich the study of semiotic landscapes. By
connecting language practices, material agency, and language ideologies to
the study of semiotic landscapes, we wish to draw attention to the
potentialities of places to produce specific subjectivities and
temporalities, but also to orient our potential actions, plans, future
expectations and hopes.

You can find the guidelines for submitting your proposal at the following
link: https://easaonline.org/conferences/easa2022/cfp. Please kindly submit
your proposal by March 21.

Looking forward to your paper proposals!

Best wishes,
Tatsuma, Lijing and Julia



-- 
Dr. phil. Lijing Peng

Trinity Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation
Dublin 2, Ireland
+353 877963633
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