<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear All,</div><div>Gwen Kirk and I are organizing a panel for SLA2020 in April. If interested, please email us a 250-word abstract by Monday, November 25th. </div><div>Best wishes,</div><div>Deina and Gwen</div><div><br></div><div>
<p style="line-height:normal;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background:white;color:rgb(176,0,0);font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><b>Language in Media: Endorsements, Subversions, and Anxieties</b></span><u></u><br></p>
<p style="line-height:normal;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><u>Organizers</u>: </span><u></u><br></p>
<p style="line-height:normal;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Deina Rabie, PhD Candidate, Linguistic
Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin, </span><a href="mailto:drabie@utexas.edu"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">drabie@utexas.edu</span></a> <span style="color:black;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"></span></p>
<p style="line-height:normal;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Gwendolyn Kirk, </span><span style="background:white;color:black;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Assistant
Professor, Gurmani Centre, LUMS, </span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">gwendolyn.kirk@lums.edu.pk</span></a></span><br></p>
<p style="line-height:normal;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><u>Discussant</u>: James Slotta,
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin</span><span style="color:black;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"></span></p>
<p style="margin:12pt 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Now more than ever, media has emerged as a vital site of
engagement in political and cultural life and the circulation of information,
entertainment, and technologies. In this panel, we address language use in
media through two intersecting themes. The first examines the strategic role of
media personalities and questions the ways in which language is deployed to tow
political or corporate agendas, and the ways it is subverted to create
opportunities for social and political contestation. We ask how the multimodal
and rapidly diffusing structures of particular media platforms or spaces serves
state and corporate interests while creating potential opportunities for
appropriation by non-dominant parties and voices. We also question whether
there are particular languages or registers better suited for the semiotic
processes of knowledge circulation and how they come to bear on questions of
origin or authority.</span><span style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"></span></p>
<p style="margin:12pt 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Our second theme explores media as key sites in which linguistic
anxieties emerge and are codified. These especially come to the fore in
neoliberal, globalized spaces such as social media and corporate television,
which are also maximally intertextual and rapidly circulating. Media are
utilized for regulating and policing language and linguistic identity, and are
routinely credited with playing a role in language shift and loss. At the same
time, they create loci of possibility for emergent reconfigurations and
unexpected solidarities. This panel foregrounds the role the affordances of
media play in this process, drawing closer attention to its metadiscursive and
metalinguistic capacities. It also emphasizes the multimodality of media
communication, considering semiotic relationships between visual, sonic, and
linguistic dimensions. </span></p><span style="color:black;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><font face=""Arial",sans-serif"></font><br></span></div><div><font face=""Arial",sans-serif"><span style="color:black;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt">Please send an abstract of <i>250
words</i> to </span><span style="line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><a href="mailto:drabie@utexas.edu">drabie@utexas.edu</a><font color="#b00000"> </font></span><span style="line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><font color="#b00000">by Monday, November 25<sup>th</sup>,
2019.</font></span></font><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br></div></div></div>