27.2762, Calls: Pragmatics, Socioling, Discourse Analysis/UK

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Subject: 27.2762, Calls: Pragmatics, Socioling, Discourse Analysis/UK

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Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 13:04:26
From: Angeliki Alvanoudi [Angeliki.Alvanoudi at jcu.edu.au]
Subject: Language, Gender and Cognition

 
Full Title: Language, Gender and Cognition 

Date: 16-Jul-2017 - 21-Jul-2017
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Angeliki Alvanoudi
Meeting Email: Angeliki.Alvanoudi at jcu.edu.au

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 14-Sep-2016 

Meeting Description:

15th International Pragmatics Conference 

Panel on Language, Gender and Cognition 

Belfast, Northern Ireland, 16-21 July 2017 

The role of language in the construction of gender identities has been the
topic of long-standing research in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology,
and conversation analysis. A number of studies within the ‘discourse’ or
‘performance’ turn in the study of language and gender (Eckert and
McConnell-Ginet 2003) examines the role of referential indexing of gender
(Ochs 1992) in producing and maintaining a bipolar asymmetrical gender order
(e.g. Hall and O’Donovan 1996; Hellinger and Bussmann 2001–2002–2003;
Hellinger and Motschenbacher 2015; Kitzinger 2005; McConnell-Ginet 2003; Speer
and Stokoe 2011). In claiming that gender is constructed through linguistic
practices and that language maintains gender inequality, these studies
presuppose or imply that language has a cognitive role, namely, that language
mediates the way in which speakers interpret experience. However, studies on
language and gender do not address explicitly the relation between language
and speakers’ cognition (see Alvanoudi 2014 for an attempt to explore the
interface between grammar, gender and speakers’ cognition in Greek). The panel
aims at filling this gap, by exploring the relation between indexing of gender
and cognition across different languages and cultures. In line with
non-formalist approaches within linguistics, cognition is understood as a
broad notion that encompasses conceptual categorization, common ground,
presuppositions, stereotypes, and inferences, among others, and is
interrelated with language and culture.     

Questions to be addressed in the panel include the following: (i) Does the use
of items that are lexically or grammatically marked as female or male
contribute to the construction of sociocultural gender? (ii) Do referential
indexes of gender categorize referents as ‘women’ or ‘men’ and generate
inferences about the social gender order? (iii) Can we explore
conceptualizations of gender at the micro-level of interaction through
speakers’ public behavior? (iv) Are there affinities between indexing gender,
sociocultural gender practices and speakers’ thinking for speaking (Slobin
1996)? (v) Does the gendered classification of the world introduce and
establish sociocultural gender practices, which then “sustain the cognitive
style […] required by a particular grammar”, in Bickel’s (2000: 185) words?
(vi) How can we use cognition to re-address the concepts of agency,
performativity and power in the study of language and gender? 



Call for Papers: 

Papers working across a variety of frameworks, such as sociolinguistics,
cognitive linguistics, cultural linguistics, linguistic relativity, linguistic
anthropology and conversation analysis are welcome.

If you are interested in presenting a paper in this panel, please send your
abstract (350 words, not including references and data) by 14 September 2016
to the following address: Angeliki.Alvanoudi at jcu.edu.au 

Please note: 
- All abstracts will have to be submitted individually (web-based submission
to IPrA) by 15 October 2016.  
- IPrA membership is required both for the web-based submission and, later on,
for presentation at the 15th International Pragmatics Conference.




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