28.2919, Calls: Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling/New Zealand

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Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2017 15:51:24
From: Nick Wilson [nick.wilson at mq.edu.au]
Subject: The Sociolinguistics of Sport

 
Full Title: The Sociolinguistics of Sport 

Date: 27-Jun-2018 - 30-Jun-2018
Location: Auckland, New Zealand 
Contact Person: Nick Wilson
Meeting Email: nick.wilson at mq.edu.au

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

Call Deadline: 01-Aug-2017 

Meeting Description:

Sport is a much under-rated site for sociolinguistic research, yet it can
provide access to a rich source of data for sociolinguistic study. In this
colloquium we argue that sociolinguistics should pay attention to sport due to
its potential to inform sociolinguistic theory. Some potential topical areas
for research include:

- The interactions that take place within sports teams and player-coach dyads
can be analysed in terms of how identity and power are negotiated in
interaction.
- The way in which sports players, coaches and fans are represented (and
represent themselves) in televisual, print, and on-line media help construct
sport as a culture that individuals draw upon in the construction of their
individual identities can be investigated.
- Sports organisations can be a useful site for workplace and organisational
discourse researchers to investigate leadership and organisational learning of
discourse practices.
- Sports teams can be a site of multilingual interaction and translanguaging,
and often provide a means for people from different linguistic backgrounds to
interact.
- From a variationist perspective, language used whilst preparing for sport or
that discuss sport can also provide a useful source of authentic linguistic
data for quantitative analysis, particularly following third wave approaches
to variationist sociolinguistics. 
We see sport as a topic that can bring together sociolinguists from a range of
methodological and theoretical areas to exchange ideas and propose this
colloquium at Sociolinguistics Symposium 22 as a forum for just this.


Call for Papers:

We seek abstracts from anyone working on sociolinguistic research that is
concerned with sport. Please submit your abstracts to the colloquium
co-convenors, Nick Wilson (Macquarie University) and Kieran File (University
of Warwick): nick.wilson at mq.edu.au or k.file at warwick.ac.uk Abstracts should be
no more than 350 words (including references) and titles should be no more
than 20 words.

We will review the abstracts and submit them as a colloquium to the
conference. Since the deadline for submission to the conference is 14 August
2017, we request anyone who is interested in taking part in this colloquium to
submit an abstract to us by 1 August 2017, to enable us sufficient time to
review and collate these into a colloquium proposal.




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