27.776, Calls: Semantics, Socioling, Syntax, Text/Corpus Ling, Translation/Poland

Wed Feb 10 19:10:36 UTC 2016

LINGUIST List: Vol-27-776. Wed Feb 10 2016. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 27.776, Calls: Semantics, Socioling, Syntax, Text/Corpus Ling, Translation/Poland

Moderators: linguist at linguistlist.org (Damir Cavar, Malgorzata E. Cavar)
Reviews: reviews at linguistlist.org (Anthony Aristar, Helen Aristar-Dry, Sara Couture)
Homepage: http://linguistlist.org

*****************    LINGUIST List Support    *****************
                   25 years of LINGUIST List!
Please support the LL editors and operation with a donation at:
           http://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/

Editor for this issue: Amanda Foster <amanda at linguistlist.org>
================================================================

Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 14:10:27
From: Jarosław Wiliński [jarwili at poczta.onet.pl]
Subject: Norm and Anomaly in Literature, Culture, and Language

Full Title: Norm and Anomaly in Literature, Culture, and Language 

Date: 19-Sep-2016 - 20-Sep-2016
Location: Siedlce, Poland 
Contact Person: Joanna Stolarek
Meeting Email: normanomaly2016 at gmail.com
Web Site: http://www.inibi.uph.edu.pl/o-nas/konferencje/646-norm-and-anomaly-in-literature-culture-and-language 

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics; Sociolinguistics; Syntax; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Translation 

Call Deadline: 30-Jun-2016 

Meeting Description:

Norm and anomaly have long constituted a binary opposition whose boundaries
are becoming increasingly blurry and open to scrutiny. What precisely does the
‘norm’ mean? Which political, economic, and social forces play a decisive role
in producing the ‘norm’? How is the ‘norm’ endorsed through the construction
of the ‘anomaly’? And how does the ‘anomaly’ contest the ‘norm’? Can the
‘norm’ be anomalous when viewed as a discursive practice and a form of
ideological control? And can the ‘anomaly’ be an integral part of the ‘norm’
without losing its subversive and oppositional character?

This conference invites you to explore norm and anomaly from a variety of
disciplinary and methodological perspectives in literary and cultural studies,
linguistics and teaching methodology.

As a theme in literary and cultural studies, norm and anomaly pertain to
representations of transformed and transformative spaces. These include eerie
landscapes, geographies of hope and despair, and sites of post-human activity,
all of which have featured prominently in such modes of writing as
environmental, risk, and speculative fiction. We also invite papers that
address forms of expression and repression in modern and contemporary British
and US culture. The problem and problematic of order and chaos, autonomy and
oppression, harmony and discord open up further avenues for exploring norm and
anomaly through reference to theatre, film, visual arts, television, computer
and video games.

The linguistic aspect of norm and anomaly relates to the regularities and/or
irregularities of linguistic usage, and to the ways in which norms and
anomalies affect linguistic form and meaning or limit language use, its study
and understanding. We invite proposals from intra- and interdisciplinary
perspectives, such as constitute all areas of theoretical and applied
linguistics – from semantics and sociolinguistics through morphology and
historical linguistics to pragmatics, translation studies, and lexicography.

As a concern in teaching methodology, norm and anomaly are inseparable from
the status of English as a global lingua franca. Across the world, English is
part of the school curriculum, which results in the need to test the students’
skills formally. However, the focus on fluency and communicativeness
frequently weakens accuracy requirements, and the gravity of errors is
assessed against non-native speakers’ subjective judgements. The gap between
the ultimate yet not fully attainable goal and the reality of the ELT
classroom calls for redefining the parameters of teaching English in response
to a number of questions: Is there still one set of norms learners should
follow? Or, do norms vary depending on the learner’s progress and learning
environment? Which language is the ‘norm’ – the English of the social media or
the English of the classroom?

Keynote speakers:

Prof. Dr hab. Helga Schwalm, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Prof. Dr hab. Liudmila Liashchova, Siedlce University of Natural Sciences and
Humanities
Dr hab. Ireneusz Kida, University of Silesia in Katowice

Conference organizers

Prof. Dr hab. Leszek Kolek
Prof. Dr hab. Liudmila Liashchova
Prof. Dr hab. Roman Mnich
Dr Joanna Stolarek (conference secretary)
Dr Maxim Shadurski
Dr Jarosław Wiliński
Mgr Agnieszka Wróbel
Mgr Jowita Buńko

Call for Papers:

Norm and Anomaly in Literature, Culture, and Language

Franciszek Karpiński Institute for Regional Culture and Literary Research
Siedlce, Poland 19-20 September 2016

Possible topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Conventionality vs. nonconformity, normativity vs. transgression
- Order vs. chaos and anarchy, hegemony vs. opposition, protest and rebellion
- Evolution and continuity vs. revolution and disruption
- Alienation and appropriation vs. inclusion and communality
- Beauty and body cultivation vs. deformity and mutilation
- Language as a rule-governed system vs. language as a usage-based model
- Morphological, lexical, syntactic, and phonological variation
- Sociocultural norms (formality vs. informality/politeness vs. impoliteness)
- Transparency vs. opacity of meaning
- Equivalence vs. non-equivalence in translation
- Standard vs. non-standard varieties of English
- Idiomaticity vs. non-idiomaticity in the language classroom
- Accuracy vs. fluency
- Testing vs. assessment

Proposals for individual 20-minute papers should include an abstract of
200-250 words, as well as the name, institutional affiliation, a 100-word
biography of the author, and the title of the paper. Please send proposals by
30 June 2016 to: normanomaly2016 at gmail.com. All other enquiries may be
addressed to Dr Joanna Stolarek at: stolarekj at uph.edu.pl. We aim to notify all
applicants by 31 July 2016.

The conference fee of PLN 350 or EUR 80 will cover conference materials,
coffee breaks, 2 lunches, and a wine reception.

Post-conference articles will be put forward for review. Selected articles
will be published in a collective monograph in the 'Transatlantic Studies in
British and American Culture' series by Peter Lang Verlag, or in Studia
Anglica Sedlcensia in 2017.

Further information about the conference can be found at:
http://www.inibi.uph.edu.pl/o-nas/konferencje/646-norm-and-anomaly-in-literatu
re-culture-and-language

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

*****************    LINGUIST List Support    *****************
Please support the LL editors and operation with a donation at:
            http://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/

----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-27-776	
----------------------------------------------------------