28.1850, Confs: Anthro Ling, Applied Ling, Socioling/Germany

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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 11:27:41
From: Helena Uthoff [zfi.gsw at mailbox.tu-dresden.de]
Subject: Taboo and Transgression. The Power of the (Un)Told

 
Taboo and Transgression. The Power of the (Un)Told 

Date: 22-Jun-2017 - 22-Jun-2017 
Location: Dresden, Sachsen, Germany 
Contact: Katharina Tietze 
Contact Email: katharina.tietze at tu-dresden.de 
Meeting URL: http://www.tu-dresden.de/zfi/tabooandtransgression 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Applied Linguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Meeting Description: 

The international conference ''Taboo and Transgression. The Power of the
(Un)Told'' takes place on 22 of June 2017. Organized by the Center for
Integration Research the conference focuses on questions of how taboo and
transgression are effective in processes of integration and how they can cause
transformational processes in societies.

Host: Center for Integration Research, TU Dresden

Location: Lecture hall of the Saxon State Library - Dresden State and
University Library (SLUB), Zellescher Weg 18, 01069 Dresden, Level 1

Registration open until 31 of May 2017 via
www.tu-dresden.de/zfi/tabooandtransgression

Overview over the topics of the conference:

The topic of taboo and transgression is relevant for different aspects in
society because it is effective on different levels in social life: on the
level of action (“tabooed” actions, transgressive acts), the level of
communication (taboos in communication, transgressive communication) and the
level of language (linguistic taboos, transgressive language). Therefore, it
is evident to analyse these phenomena and processes by means of an
interdisciplinary approach that includes the fields of linguistics,
pedagogics, sociology, as well as cultural and social anthropology.

Taboos are the unwritten rules regulating social cohesion. They exist in every
community, each community having different taboos. Without taboos society
could not function. Taboos are acquired by socialization and learning
processes, the purpose of which is to establish (the) identity (of groups
against continuous progress and transformation.) Accordingly, the breaking of
taboos can threaten or even disrupt the identity of groups and cultures.
However, the breaking of taboos can also stimulate development and new
processes of societal self-negotiation. Similarly, transgression in form of
verbal abuse, hate speech or any kind of insult can fundamentally undermine
social cohesion and inclusion processes and reveal disintegration, but by
provoking counter reactions they can also generate processes of negotiation
and communication which have become necessary.

In particular, the simultaneity of taboos and transgression in democratic
societies needs to be explained, phenomena of concealment and transgression
manifest conflicting values and norms in contrast to the moral concepts of a
free, democratic value-system and inclusive society. Precisely this
simultaneity of the non-simultaneous has influence on processes of integration
in a diverse society – an ambivalent situation that needs to be explained in
detail with regard to its causal and contextual conditions, functions and
effects as well as its consequences.

Against this background, the question of how taboo and transgression influence
processes of inclusion is highly relevant both in their protective function as
well as in examining how to overcome them to allow societal development. In
the context of the conference the following questions will be studied:

What kind of taboos and acts of transgression emerge in the context of
migration and integration processes?
What kind of taboos and acts of transgression inhibit integration processes?
What kind of taboos are effective in societies that seem to be free of taboos
like for example in Germany?
What kind of taboos and acts of transgression arise in the context of flight
and migration?
Who is capable to break taboo boundaries and to capture transgression?
How do taboos and transgression relate to one another?
What are the consequences of transgressive acts for whom? And how do they
relate to social power structures?
 

Programme: 

www.tu-dresden.de/zfi/tabooandtransgression





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