28.3497, Calls: Applied Linguistics, Historical Linguistics/USA

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LINGUIST List: Vol-28-3497. Wed Aug 23 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.3497, Calls: Applied Linguistics, Historical Linguistics/USA

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Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 10:38:05
From: Heiko Motschenbacher [motschenbacher at em.uni-frankfurt.de]
Subject: Historical Dimensions of Language and Sexuality

Full Title: Historical Dimensions of Language and Sexuality 

Date: 20-Apr-2018 - 22-Apr-2018
Location: Providence, RI, USA 
Contact Person: Heiko Motschenbacher
Meeting Email: motschenbacher at em.uni-frankfurt.de
Web Site: https://lavenderlanguages.wordpress.com/sessions-under-development/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Historical Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 20-Oct-2017 

Meeting Description:

The relationship between language and sexuality has been investigated from a
number of angles to date, but historical investigations still form the
exception rather than the rule. However, from a queer linguistic perspective,
documenting the diachronic variability of this relationship plays a key role
in deconstructing contemporary sexuality-related discourses, as it highlights
the historical instability even of discourses that are highly dominant today.
Theoretical debates in language and sexuality studies have placed great
emphasis on the desire-identity shift in the conceptualisation of sexuality
(Cameron & Kulick 2003), which is claimed to have taken place at the end of
the 19th century. Still, we know only little about how this conceptual shift
has changed the way we use language to talk and write about sexuality.

Echoing the conference theme “Future Directions for Language and Sexuality
Inquiry”, the panel on “Historical Dimensions of Language and Sexuality” seeks
to collate work that empirically engages with the question how language use
about sexuality has changed across time periods and invites contributions
which address this issue. The historical desire-identity shift is just one
significant change whose linguistic repercussions can be studied. Other
potentially relevant work may address, for example, sexuality-related language
use pre-dating this shift (for example, in Old English, Middle English or
Early Modern English times; e.g. Calvo 2005, Frank 2003, Nevala & Hintikka
2009, Oncins-Martínez 2006), language use before (and after) Stonewall (Leap
forthcoming), linguistic representation before and after a person’s coming out
(e.g. Chirrey 2003, Wong 2009), the influence of changing sexuality-related
legislation on language use (for example, legalisation of same-sex marriage or
prostitution; e.g. Love & Baker 2015, McEnery & Baker 2017), changing textual
representations of sexually defined social groups (e.g. Koller 2013), changes
in sexually relevant text types (e.g. Wyss 2008), developments in academic
language use about sexuality (e.g. Baker 2013), and the linguistic effects of
any other sexuality-related normative historical shifts. (For the references,
see full call for papers here:
https://lavenderlanguages.wordpress.com/sessions-under-development/)

The historical study of language and sexuality can be approached with a range
of methodologies, including corpus linguistics, (critical) discourse analysis,
linguistic ethnography, sociolinguistics, pragmatics and historical
linguistics. What is important for this panel is that papers have an explicit
contrastive historical dimension which highlights how sexuality-related
discourses and language use have changed due to – and in support of – certain
social changes.

Call for Papers:

Researchers who are interested in contributing to this panel are invited to
submit an abstract to the panel organiser by 20 October 2017
(motschenbacher at em.uni-frankfurt.de). Abstracts should be no more than 250
words (excluding references) and include the presentation title, the
presenter’s name, affiliation, and email address. Abstracts must explain which
sexuality-related shift is addressed, and sketch out theoretical foundations,
data type, research method and basic findings. Paper presentations are 20
minutes, plus 10 minutes for discussion.

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