<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Dear colleagues, </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-caps:small-caps;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal">Apologies for crossposting. Please find below a call for papers for the Sociolinguistics Symposium 24, to be held in ghent, 13-16 july, 2022. <u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-caps:small-caps;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal">Many thanks, Daniel.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-caps:small-caps;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal"><br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-caps:small-caps;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Call for Papers for Invited Panel at Sociolinguistics Symposium 24 (13-16 July 2022) on<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Securitisation and surveillance in sociolinguistics </span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Mieke Vandenbroucke (University of Antwerp), Daniel N. Silva (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina), Ben Rampton (King’s College London)</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Driven by claims and suspicions that particular groups or phenomena present an existential threat that calls for special measures, securitization and surveillance are hard to ignore in contemporary life. Socio- and applied linguists are now engaging with these processes in a number of sites where the notion of an ‘enemy’ and/or acute physical insecurity feature prominently. This includes not only conflict zones and post-conflict education but also migration and asylum, social and mass media (see</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><a href="https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.academia.edu%2F33687581%2FWP213_Charalambous_2017_Sociolinguistics_and_security_A_bibliography&data=04%7C01%7CMieke.Vandenbroucke%40uantwerpen.be%7C78ae36a05da94169790108d942a5e224%7C792e08fb2d544a8eaf72202548136ef6%7C0%7C0%7C637614102532021300%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=46BpJ8mjEckzrQO9kJ30QhqDd7YLbVreZ5WjHFvUru0%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank"><span style="color:black"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Charalambous 2017</a></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>for a review). The question arises: are these only niche interests? Or do the links between securitization, security surveillance, language ideology and communicative practice need to be drawn more fully into mainstream sociolinguistics, showing up in, for example, undergraduate textbooks, with (in)securitization as prominent as standardization in accounts of sociolinguistic differentiation?</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Over the years, the broad field of sociolinguistics has demonstrated that language difference often maps into social inequality. With growing global securitization and surveillance, we need to consider the manner and extent to which linguistic difference and hierarchisation undergird the practices that categorise social groups as threats. Where and how is language used to justify violent measures to tackle people framed as “enemies”? And where and how do these measures stifle communicative practices associated with subjects and groups seen as sources of insecurity or violence?</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Bringing together empirical studies of how communicative practice and language ideology connect with (in)securitization and surveillance across a range of contemporary (or historical) sites, this panel seeks to:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom:0cm;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin-top:0cm"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px;color:black;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">chart some of the changing intersections of language, securitization and security surveillance (including Covid-19)<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px;color:black;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">examine language regimes and rationalities underpinning frameworks of securitization, including public security, citizen security, militarized security, de-securisation and digital securitization<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px;color:black;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">identify theoretical and methodological commonalities<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px;color:black;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">reflect on the implications for the political positioning of sociolinguist(ic)s  <u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px;color:black;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">assess the significance of all this for sociolinguistics more generally. <u></u><u></u></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">We are now inviting contributions to this panel, involving a series of 20 minute presentations + 10 minutes of Q&A (potentially in a hybrid digital and on-site format). If you would like to participate, no later than<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Wednesday 15 September, 2021</b>, please send us an abstract of no more than 500 words, indicating:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom:0cm;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin-top:0cm"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px;color:black;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">the title of your paper<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px;color:black;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">the project(s) it draws on<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px;color:black;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">its central focus and location<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px;color:black;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">key theoretical reference points<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px;color:black;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">methods of data collection and analysis<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px;color:black;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">(preliminary) findings and potential significance<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px;color:black;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">your name, contact details, position and institution<u></u><u></u></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Please send your abstract to<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:mieke.vandenbroucke@uantwerpen.be" target="_blank">mieke.vandenbroucke@uantwerpen.be</a></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>by September 15, 2021.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black"><br></span></p></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Daniel N. Silva</font><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Professor at UFSC/PIPGLA-UFRJ, CNPq Fellow</font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">CV: <span><font color="#000000"><a href="http://lattes.cnpq.br/0522724697395740" target="_blank">http://lattes.cnpq.br/0522724697395740</a></font></span></font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Texts: <a href="https://ufsc.academia.edu/DanielSilva" target="_blank">https://ufsc.academia.edu/DanielSilva</a></font><span style="font-size:10px"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></span></div></div></div></div></div>