21.4330, Calls: Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistics/USA

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Subject: 21.4330, Calls: Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistics/USA

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Date: 28-Oct-2010
From: Suresh Canagarajah [asc16 at psu.edu]
Subject: 22nd Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition
 

	
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Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 17:17:39
From: Suresh Canagarajah [asc16 at psu.edu]
Subject: 22nd Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition

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Full Title: 22nd Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition 

Date: 10-Jul-2011 - 12-Jul-2011
Location: State College, PA, USA 
Contact Person: Suresh Canagarajah
Meeting Email: rhetoric2011 at mail.outreach.psu.edu
Web Site: http://www.outreach.psu.edu/programs/rhetoric/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Feb-2011 

Meeting Description:

Developments in globalization, new media literacies, and postcolonial
perspectives have called attention to the transnational flow of people and 
texts and to the hybridity of language itself. These developments have 
made scholars in rhetoric and composition aware of the monolingual 
assumptions informing their disciplinary discourses and pedagogical 
practices. With scholars considering such issues, there are calls now to 
understand the cross-language relations of writers and writing in an effort to 
reconfigure the discourses and practices of our discipline.

In light of these disciplinary trends, the 22nd Penn State Conference on
Rhetoric and Composition will focus on defining a multilingual rhetoric and
writing practice. Featured speakers include leading scholars who address
multilingualism in their research and scholarship. We invite you to share 
your reflections and research on this theme.

Sponsored by the College of the Liberal Arts, the conference will take place 
at the historic Nittany Lion Inn on Penn State's University Park campus. 

Scholars in rhetoric and composition have increasingly recognized that
communication today involves an engagement with multiple languages and
literacies. This realization has been motivated by developments in
globalization, new media technology, and postcolonial perspectives, all 
trends in the field that have called attention to the transnational flow of 
people and texts and to the hybridity of language itself. Practitioners now 
acknowledge that developing proficiency solely in Standardized Written 
English is inadequate for contemporary communicative needs. Further, 
practitioners also realize that judging the competencies of second language 
writers and rhetors according to native English speaker norms fails to do 
justice to the rich resources multilinguals bring to communication.

The ability to address these emergent needs is hampered by the 
monolingual assumptions informing our disciplinary discourses and 
pedagogical practices. Such assumptions have included the following: that 
writers acquire rhetorical competence one language at a time; that 
rhetorical proficiency is made up of separate competencies for separate 
languages; that texts are informed by rhetorical values unique to the 
different languages in which they are constructed; and that only one 
rhetorical tradition provides coherence for a text at a given time. In light of 
such trends, scholars in rhetoric and composition now call for the study of 
the cross-language relations of writers and writing in order to reconfigure 
the discourses and practices of our discipline.

To pursue this mission, conference participants are invited to address the
following questions:

- What are the unique strategies multilingual speakers bring to rhetoric and 
writing?
- How can text be conceptualized differently in order to accommodate hybrid 
codes and conventions?
-How do we conceive of rhetorical and written competence if contact 
between languages is the norm in today's society?
-What rhetorical resources help one communicate across language 
boundaries?
-What are the new genres evolving in the linguistic contact zones?
-What pedagogical strategies facilitate productive engagement with 
multilingual texts?
-How should our assessment rubrics, rhetorical norms, and writing 
standards be revised to accommodate language diversity?
-What curriculum and policy changes may help schools and universities 
make spaces for the rhetorical resources multilingual students bring to 
classrooms?

The program committee invites proposals for papers focusing on the 
questions above and on any subject that provides fresh perspectives on 
multilingualism in rhetoric and composition. As was the case in previous 
conferences, the papers presented in the conference will be considered for 
inclusion in a book to be published on this subject.

Submit carefully written abstracts (250 words) that include your name, 
paper title, professional affiliation, institution name, mailing address, phone
number, and e-mail address via e-mail attachment to  
rhetoric2011 at outreach.psu.edu.





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