27.4065, Calls: Disc Analysis, Pragmatics, Semantics, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling/Switzerland

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Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 15:44:35
From: Yvonne Ilg [yvonne.ilg at ds.uzh.ch]
Subject: Language and Health

Full Title: Language and Health 

Date: 10-Sep-2017 - 13-Sep-2017
Location: Zurich, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Daniel Knuchel
Meeting Email: daniel.knuchel at ds.uzh.ch

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Semantics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Nov-2016 

Meeting Description:

Language is crucial in various medical contexts, in numerous challenges and in
different activities in the field of health and illness: Diagnoses are based
on communicative interaction between physicians and their patients,
psychotherapy is based on conversation, health promotion takes place in
various forms of media campaigns, lay-discourses on sickness and well-being in
various internet forums have evolved into platforms where self- and
lay-diagnosis are practiced, public media discourses influence our stereotypes
and common knowledge on medical topics and possible treatment, and healthcare
staff and patients have to deal with multilingual and multicultural
challenges.

In correspondence to these various contexts, a growing number of linguistic
research in the broad field of ''language and health'' has evolved in the last
decades. This field is highly interdisciplinary (with project partners from
medicine, psychology, nursing, social work, communication studies, educational
sciences, health sciences) and covers a broad range of linguistic
sub-disciplines (cf. e.g. Busch/Spranz-Fogasy 2015 for German literature,
Harvey/Koteyko 2013 and Hamilton/Chou 2014 for English literature,
Rubinelli/Camerini/Schulz 2010 for Italian literature): Conversation analysis,
semantics, historical linguistics, corpus linguistics, (critical) discourse
analysis, computer mediated communication studies, translation studies and
intercultural linguistics.

In context of the 50th meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (Zurich
10-13 September 2017) we are submitting a proposal for a workshop called
''language and health''. The workshop shall provide a platform for researchers
to present on-going work in all kind of linguistic subdisciplines. In bringing
together scholars from a variety of linguistic fields we aim for new insights
in the broad context of language and health. Furthermore, the common research
object of health communication may shed light on the functioning of language
use in general. In addition, this workshop is intended to initiate a debate
about the actual and preferable impact of linguistics in the aspiring field of
(critical) medical humanities (cf. Greaves/Evans 2000; Viney et al. 2015;
Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences 2014). Moreover, we ask how linguistic
research results can be transferred into partner disciplines, medical
practice, and medical training. Therefore, we invite the submission of papers
in English on all aspects of language and health including, but not limited to
the following topics:

- Interaction between patients and medical staff
- Terminology in medical and health related context
- Communication about health in the public sphere
- Discursive construction of medical knowledge
- Health literacy
- Inter- and transdisciplinary research combining linguistics and medicine
- Transfer of linguistic research in medical practice and medical training

Workshop Organizers:

Marina Iakushevich (University of Paderborn)
Yvonne Ilg (University of Zurich)
Daniel Knuchel (University of Zurich)
Theresa Schnedermann (Heidelberg University)

Call for Papers:

The workshop is planned to be held at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Societas
Linguistica Europaea (SLE) (Zurich, 10–13 September 2017). Proposals (max. 300
words) for 20-minute paper presentations in English and a short academic vita
should be sent to Daniel Knuchel, daniel.knuchel at ds.uzh.ch.

The deadline for submission is: Nov 1, 2016. The submitted proposals will be
selected and serve to prepare a workshop proposal to be submitted to the SLE.

Important Dates:

01 November 2016: Deadline for submission of 300-word abstracts to the
workshop organizers (submission address: Daniel Knuchel,
daniel.knuchel at ds.uzh.ch)
25 November 2016: Notification of acceptance by the workshop organizers and
submission of the workshop proposals to SLE 
25 December 2016: Notification of acceptance of workshop proposals from SLE
15 January 2017: Deadline for submission of full abstracts to SLE for review
31 March 2017: Notification of paper acceptance
10-13 September 2017: SLE conference 

References:

Busch, Albert/Spranz-Fogasy, Thomas (Eds.) (2015): Handbuch Sprache in der
Medizin. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter.
Harvey, Kevin/Koteyko, Nelya (2013): Exploring Health Communication. Language
in Action. Abingdon: Routledge.
Hamilton, Heidi E./Chou Wen-ying Sivia Chou (Eds.) (2014): The Routledge
Handbook of Language and Health Communication. Abingdon: Routledge.
Rubinelli, Sara/Camerini, Luca/Schulz, Peter (2010): Comunicazione e salute.
Milano: Apogeo.
Greaves, David/Evans, Martyn (2000): Medical Humanities. In: Journal of
Medical Humanities 26/1, p. 1-2, doi:10.1136/mh.26.1.1.
Viney, William/Callard, Felicity/Woods, Angela (2015): Critical medical
humanities: embracing entanglement, taking risks. In: Journal of Medical
Humanities 41(1), p. 2-7, doi:10.1136/medhum-2015-010692.
Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences (2014): ''Medical Humanities'': Über die
Bedeutung der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften für die Medizinal- und
Gesundheitsberufe. Download:
http://www.akademien-schweiz.ch/index/Schwerpunktthemen/Gesundheitssystem-im-W
andel/Medical-Humanities.html.

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