27.4196, Calls: Ling Theories, Philosophy of Language, Pragmatics/Germany

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Subject: 27.4196, Calls: Ling Theories, Philosophy of Language, Pragmatics/Germany

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Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 14:58:37
From: Jörg Bücker [joerg_buecker at web.de]
Subject: Semiotic Theories of Media?

 
Full Title: Semiotic Theories of Media? 
Short Title: DGS 

Date: 12-Sep-2017 - 16-Sep-2017
Location: Passau, Germany 
Contact Person: Jan Georg Schneider
Meeting Email: schneiderj at uni-landau.de

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories; Philosophy of Language; Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 15-Nov-2016 

Meeting Description:

15th International Conference of the German Association of Semiotic Studies:
“Borders”, September 12—16, 2017, University of Passau, Germany

Panel: Semiotic Theories of Media? Prospects and challenges of combining media
theory and semiotics

The panel aims to discuss prospects and challenges of a closer co-operation
between media theory and semiotics. We intend to focus on the possibilities of
a theoretically and empirically justified delineation between signs, on one
hand, and media, on the other hand. By facilitating a discussion between
epistemologically informed theories of signs and empirically oriented
approaches to the analysis of media, we expect to advance our understanding of
the functioning of signs, media, and multimodal communication, to gain new
impulses to reflect on signs and media, and to develop new methodologies and
methods of their analyses.


Call for Papers:

Contributions can focus, for example, on the relations between semiotic
theories and media theories, or on empirically oriented approaches to
linguistic and non-linguistic sign uses and media practices. As we intend to
encourage a transdisciplinary discussion on signs, media, and multimodality,
we are highly interested in contributions focusing on the interdependences
between sign practices on different levels (word, sentence, text, discourse,
image, sound, film) and the “media infrastructure” they are part of.

We envisage discussing, for example, the following questions:

- Is there a possibility, or necessity, to differentiate between semiotic and
technical media? If yes, how should we conceptualize this differentiation? If
no, how should intertwining of signs and media be conceptualized?
- What are possibilities and challenges of applying a technical understanding
of media in semiotics? What can a semiotic epistemology offer to media
studies? And what are the questions which arise out of these interdisciplinary
approaches?
- How can multimodal texts (in social networks or online magazines, for
example) be described if the differentiation between a technological
understanding and a semiotic understanding of media is suspended?
- What are the prospects of applying a semiotic understanding of media in the
analysis of aesthetic phenomena (in the analysis of design, architecture,
fashion, street art, for example)?
- How can we theorize shifts in the history of media from a semiotic and/or
empirical perspective, and how do shifts in the history of media influence
conceptions of the sign?
- How can we define concepts as “medium”, “materiality”, “sign use” from the
point of view of a epistemologically informed semiotic media theory?
- What do traditional empirical approaches to media studies offer to the
analysis of semiotic practices, and where and how could they be broadened to
include semiotic knowledge?

Please send your abstract as a word document to Jan Georg Schneider
(schneiderj at uni-landau.de) and Stefan Meier (stefan.meier at uni-tuebingen.de) by
November 15, 2016. Your abstract should contain: 

- Title of the presentation
- Name(s) of the contributors
- Abstract (max 300 words)
- Institution
- E-mail address
- A short biography. 

Presentations will be 20 min. We plan to publish selected panel contributions
after the conference.




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