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for cross-posting)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%" lang="EN-US"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%" lang="EN-US">Dear
colleagues,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%" lang="EN-US"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%" lang="EN-US">Alfonso
Del Percio (University of Oslo, Norway) and I, Emanuel da Silva (University of Jyväskylä,
Finland), are seeking paper proposals to round out a panel/colloquium on the
topic of “<b>Language, Mobility and the Sports Economy</b>” that we will submit
to the Sociolinguistics Symposium 21 (Murcia, June 15-18, 2016). </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.um.es/web/sociolinguistics-symposium21/"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%">http://www.um.es/web/sociolinguistics-symposium21/</span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.um.es/web/sociolinguistics-symposium21/"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%"></span></a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%" lang="EN-US"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%" lang="EN-US">Working panel abstract:</span></u></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%" lang="EN-US">Although the academic study of sport and its intersections with national
identity politics, colonial legacies, gender relations, and commercialization
has grown in the fields of sociology, anthropology, and economics, especially
in the last 20 to 30 years, the study of sport within sociolinguistics remains
underdeveloped. This panel strives to advance critical sociolinguistic
reflection on language and discourse in sport, within the complex conditions of
the globalizing economy and mobility.<br>
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Starting from the assumption that circulating communicative resources (e.g.
dialects, registers, styles, multilingualisms), mobile discourses (of the
nation, the body, tokens of authenticity, etc.), as well as moving bodies (of
sports workers, media personnel, agents and fans) are key resources of
globalizing sport industries, this panel will raise the following questions: <br>
<br>
a) What is the status of mobile languages, discourses and bodies within the
framework of a transnational sports industry? i.e., How does the professional
sports economy invest in these resources? For whom? For what purposes?<br>
<br>
b) What are considered prestigious languages, discourses and bodies within local
and globalizing sport economies? i.e., Who gets to produce, circulate and
consume these resources in which commercial sports markets? Under what
conditions?<br>
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c) What tokens of expertise are mobilized to legitimize and authorize the forms
of difference and inequality (re)produced by the sports industries' investment
in language, discourse and mobility?<br>
<br>
By exploring professional sport as a nexus where attitudes or ideologies of
language, localism, (trans)nationalism, migration, gender, the body, labor, and
profit intersect, this panel will gather sociolinguists and ethnographers
working on different sectors of the sports economy to investigate how athletes,
their commodifiers and their consumers negotiate relations of prestige and
power. </span></i><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%" lang="EN-US"><br style="mso-special-character:line-break">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%" lang="EN-US">Panel/paper details:</span></u><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%" lang="EN-US"><br>
Ideally, we'd like the panel/colloquium to include a diversity of professional
sport experiences from a diversity of regions and presenters, therefore
proposals that deal with sports other than white men in football/soccer and hockey
are strongly recommended. We also welcome paper proposals from diverse but
related fields of research (including sociolinguistics, linguistic
anthropology, sociology/anthropology of sports, and sports economics) so as to
shed light on the interrelated linguistic, discursive, social, political and
economic resources in sport. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%" lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">

</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt" lang="EN-US">In order to fill
the remaining panel slots as quickly as possible and finalize the proposal for
submission, we ask that you inform us of your interest to contribute to this
panel within the next few days (or by July 20 at the latest) and briefly
outline, in a few sentences, the topic of the paper you would like us to
consider.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><br><span style="font-size:10pt" lang="EN-US"></span><span style="font-size:10pt" lang="EN-US"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt" lang="EN-US">Please circulate within your networks, but send all responses and questions
to Emanuel da Silva (</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:emanuel.dasilva@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt">emanuel.dasilva@gmail.com</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10pt" lang="EN-US">) and Alfonso
Del Percio (</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:alfonso.delpercio@gmail.com"><span style="font-size:10pt">alfonso.delpercio@gmail.com</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10pt" lang="EN-US">).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt" lang="EN-US"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt" lang="EN-US">Our many thanks,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt" lang="EN-US"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;color:black" lang="EN-US">Emanuel da Silva<br>
<br>
Postdoctoral Researcher <br>
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Discourse Studies | Department of Languages, <i>University of Jyväskylä,
Finland</i><br>
PL 35 - 40014 Jyväskylän yliopisto | Agora D323.1 | Tel 040 805 4867<br>
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<br>
Alfonso Del Percio<br>
<br>
Postdoctoral Research Fellow<br>
<a href="https://uio.academia.edu/AlfonsoDelPercio" target="_blank">https://uio.academia.edu/AlfonsoDelPercio</a><br>
Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan - MultiLing (CoE)
Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies P.O box 1102, Blindern 0317
Oslo, Norway</span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%" lang="EN-US"></span></p></div>