<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Call for papers: AAA panel
on language in the Trump era</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">      (Janet McIntosh and Norma
Mendoza-Denton)<span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><br></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Dear colleagues,<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">We’re writing to invite
proposals for a 2017 AAA panel on language in the era of Donald Trump. Since
the subject matter is of some interest beyond linguistic anthropology, we hope
for papers that will be intelligible to all. The provisional abstract below
shouldn’t be taken as a limit on what could be discussed; we are open to
your ideas. </span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:arial,sans-serif">If you’re interested, please be in touch with
Janet (<a href="mailto:janetmc@brandeis.edu">janetmc@brandeis.edu</a>)<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">, and feel </span></span><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">free to forward this message on to others (including
cultural anthropologists) who might be interested. Thank you! <span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Best,<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Janet and Norma<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">The rise of Donald Trump has
shifted the linguistic playing field in American politics and political
commentary. Trump’s campaign, with its racism, Islamophobia, sexism, vulgarity,
and violence, fomented right-wing hostility toward “political correctness” on
college campuses and beyond, while “Trump talk” appears to have emboldened hate
speech and other forms of verbal bullying (Pollock 2016). Trump’s team members
have been accused of a range of linguistic sins: lying, pivoting, leaking.
While some of Trumps detractors have recurrently invoked their own shocked
“speechlessness,” many protesters have engaged in wordplay with creatively
intertextual signs and slogans. Those on all sides, meanwhile, claim a monopoly
on truth while accusing the opposition of deceit and trammeling free speech.
This panel proposes to examine pragmatics and meaning-making in the Trump era,
in the United States and beyond. Papers might explore questions such as: How
have Trump’s brand and “message” (Lempert and Silverstein 2012) hinged upon
juxtaposition with other politicians’ linguistic styles? How have racial,
gendered, class-based, national, and religious identities been semiotically
performed by Trump’s supporters and detractors? When and why has Trump been
“taken literally,” and when and why as a carnivalesque (Brooks 2017) and
entertaining celebrity performer with plausible deniability (Hall et al 2016,
Hodges 2017)? What have been some effects of floating policy ideas, wielding
mock Spanish, and taunting foreign leaders in 140 characters or less? When have
Trump’s spelling errors, solecisms, and empty intensifiers (Hodges 2017) been
taken as indexes of “authenticity,” and when as deep intellectual flaws? How
has social media been implicated in current political possibilities, including
the possibilities for resistance? How have Trump, his supporters, and his
detractors used techniques of framing (Lakoff 2017) to steer the public
conversation? And how have participant frameworks in political communication,
domestically and beyond, shifted since Trump took office? </span><span></span></p><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Janet McIntosh<div>Associate Professor </div><div>Department of Anthropology</div><div>Brandeis University</div><div>PO Box 549110, MS 006</div><div>Waltham, MA 02454</div><div>Tel: 781-736-2215</div><div>Fax: 781-736-2232<br><br></div><div><span style="font-family:times;font-size:16px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,139);text-decoration:none"><a style="color:rgb(0,0,139);text-decoration:none"></a></span><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times;font-size:16px"><br></span></div></div></div>
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