28.517, Calls: Disc Analysis, Historical Ling, Ling & Lit, Philosophy of Lang, Socioling/Germany

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Subject: 28.517, Calls: Disc Analysis, Historical Ling, Ling & Lit, Philosophy of Lang, Socioling/Germany

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Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 18:17:31
From: Jennifer Smith [jennifer.smith at as.uni-heidelberg.de]
Subject: Urban Space Research Network Symposium 2017

 
Full Title: Urban Space Research Network Symposium 2017 
Short Title: USRN 

Date: 09-Nov-2017 - 10-Nov-2017
Location: Heidelberg, Germany 
Contact Person: Beatrix Busse
Meeting Email: usrn at as.uni-heidelberg.de
Web Site: http://www.usrn.de 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Historical Linguistics; Ling & Literature; Philosophy of Language; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-May-2017 

Meeting Description:

The Urban Space Research Network (USRN) was founded in 2009 at the Center for
the Study of Language and Society at the University of Bern. The annual
symposium is a joint cooperation between the Urban Space Research Network
(USRN) and the fields of Interdisciplinary linguistics at the University of
Bremen and English linguistics at Heidelberg University. Welcoming
interdisciplinary contributions, the network sets out to analyse urbanity and
'place' to be socially and linguistically constructed and to investigate
social and cultural phenomena in and of space.

The symposium is interdisciplinary by nature and invites contributions and
topics from the fields of linguistics, literary and cultural studies,
sociology, architecture as well as all related disciplines that focus on
sign-based processes of urban communication. The symposium builds on
discussions of past USRN forums, but is always open to new submissions and
welcomes all researchers who are interested in contributing to the network’s
work.


Call for Papers:

Léfèbvre understood “space as a product of historically specific material,
conceptual and quotidian practices” (Stanek 2007: 62) and it is in urban space
that such practices – as well as semiotic (re)presentations – come to the fore
in their utmost complexity and contrariness (Busse/Warnke 2015).
Practice-based approaches to space and identity have generally been reflected
in linguistics via concepts such as ‘communities of practice’, ‘language as a
local practice’ (Pennycook 2010) and the study of sociolinguistic variation as
“linguistic practice in which speakers place themselves in the social
landscape through stylistic practice” (Eckert 2012: 94). 

However, the notions of practices and representations of/in the city go beyond
the discipline of (socio)linguistics and encompass all “living experiences of
real people in real places” (Wortham-Galvin 2012: 233). This idea(l) evokes
methodological questions of how to grasp both ‘authentic’, ‘real’ practices,
and representations and functions in discourses of/in the city, which continue
to be at the heart of USRNs epistemological impetus to critically reflect
aspects of materiality, mediality and mediatization (Spitzmüller 2014) as well
as human interaction with and in space. 

The symposium, thus, sets out to explore the city as a network of semiotic
representations and practices, which go beyond the spatial production of
place. It seems appropriate, then, to focus on both ‘actions’ and
‘representations’ in and of the city (cf. Busse/Warnke 2015), the boundaries
between them, and how they relate to the idea of performing, for example,
music, in their cultural, social and political production of places (cf.
Lefebvre 1996; Cresswell 2015 [2004]). Since discourses of place in the 21st
century are more often than not reflected and created digitally, they are not
always directly linked to and dependent on space but are mediatized via
channels of different semiotic quality. As a way of tracing the “social life
of cultural value” (Agha 2003) back to mediatized discourses that are not
necessarily rooted in space even though they figure in the construction of
place, the symposium will reflect on these complex developments via three
strands: music and performance; visual culture; mediatized discourse in and of
the city.

Please make sure your submission corresponds to the symposium’s subject matter
and send your abstract (max. 400 words) along with information on your
research areas, institutional affiliation and, ideally, relevant publications
on this topic via email to usrn at as.uni-heidelberg.de. The deadline for the
submission of abstracts is 1 May 2017. All received abstracts will be reviewed
and a notification of acceptance will be sent by 15 May 2017.

Conference languages are both English and German.




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