26.4348, Calls: General Linguistics/Austria

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Subject: 26.4348, Calls: General Linguistics/Austria

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Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2015 12:23:16
From: Martin Kaltenbacher [martin.kaltenbacher at sbg.ac.at]
Subject: 26th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference

 
Full Title: 26th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference 
Short Title: ESFLC2016 

Date: 13-Jul-2016 - 15-Jul-2016
Location: Salzburg, Austria 
Contact Person: Martin Kaltenbacher
Meeting Email: esflc2016 at sbg.ac.at
Web Site: http://www.esflc2016.org 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2016 

Meeting Description:

Functional Linguistic and Social Semiotic Approaches to the Media

Beyond their current social hype, the media have long since been of major concern to linguists. Rooted in rhetorical notions of effectiveness and appropriateness, featuring in early models of communication (e.g. JAKOBSON), surfacing in the principled division of speech and writing and a key idea in text theory (cf. register/mode, HALLIDAY/HASAN) and language variation, the concept of medium has recently been gaining ground in discourse/text linguistics and general linguistic theory. Some would go as far as to claim independent disciplinary status to an ever-growing field of media linguistics. Despite the wealth of notions of medium, there would seem to be linguistic consensus on at least three relevant key elements of the concept.

1. Technological: Media are primarily seen as the technological means and infrastructure enabling and shaping the use of language. Technical frameworks like radio, TV, printing, new and social media leave traces in the linguistic styles and the texture of the discourse constructed. Each medium comes equipped with its own material-situational constraints and affordances.

2. Semiotic: Viewing media as sign systems or semiotic modes opens up a multimodal approach to text and discourse, which seeks to describe the patterns of mode co-operation, combination and integration. In this view, we ask for medium-specific multimodal patterns of texture. But fundamental mode differences, like the question of the autonomy or interdependence of speech and writing, also come to the fore.

3. Socio-Cultural/Pragmatic: Finally, from a sociolinguistic and pragmatic point of view, media can be recast as socially constituted forms of textual practice. In this view, what is highlighted is the pragmatic routines and design patterns within media institutions, which affect genres and their linguistic/multimodal styles. Here we must also ask how relations between communicators are shaped by the medium used.

Call for Papers:

SFL - a linguistics working its way from social functions to linguistic or semiotic structures - would seem to be ideally equipped to tackle questions of the interrelation between media and text/discourse. The ESFL Conference seeks to demonstrate this and show up the promising work SFL is doing on all aspects of media language and text. The conference generally invites papers on style, variation and change in media language and media genres of all kinds. To channel contributions and create some order, we plan to set up the following thematic strands:

1. SFL and the Media – Theoretical Aspects
2. Media Genres – Linguistic/Semiotic Textures
3. Multimodality – Medium-specific Mode Combinations
4. Media Change – Genre Change
(for details visit our conference website at www.esflc2016.org) 
	
Abstracts:

We invite high-quality, original research contributions with a clear focus on language in the media. Abstract submissions should be 300 words maximum plus a short indicative bibliography. Abstracts ought to clearly state the aim of the contribution and explain how it relates to previous or current work within SFL/social semiotics or other research frameworks, especially within media linguistics/media studies. Abstracts should also describe the main part of the presentation and give key references. Please, also indicate which of the four thematic strands your paper will best fit into (EasyChair will ask you to provide this information). The exclusive working language of the conference is English; abstracts must be submitted in English via EasyChair at the following address: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esflc2016
All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously. We, therefore, ask you not to include any information about your authorship in the title or body of your abstract.

Conference email: esflc2016 at sbg.ac.at  	
Conference website: www.esflc2016.org




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