28.2130, Calls: Anth Ling, Applied Ling, Discourse Analysis, Socioling/Switzerland

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Subject: 28.2130, Calls: Anth Ling, Applied Ling, Discourse Analysis, Socioling/Switzerland

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Date: Mon, 08 May 2017 14:08:09
From: Joseph Comer [joseph.comer at ens.unibe.ch]
Subject: City Talk: Urban Identities, Mobilities and Textualities

 
Full Title: City Talk: Urban Identities, Mobilities and Textualities 

Date: 11-Dec-2017 - 12-Dec-2017
Location: Bern, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Joseph Comer
Meeting Email: joseph.comer at ens.unibe.ch
Web Site: http://www.ens.unibe.ch/research/events/city_talk/index_eng.html 

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

Call Deadline: 01-Aug-2017 

Meeting Description:

In December 2017, the University of Bern will host an interdisciplinary
conference that brings together internationally renowned scholars and young
researchers working in the fields of sociolinguistics, critical discourse
studies and linguistic anthropology/ethnography. In this regard, we invite the
submission of abstracts for presentations. The number of participants will be
limited to 20, in order to facilitate a tightly structured conference that
affords sufficient time for discussion.

As its intellectual foundation and uniting theme, the conference focuses on
the ever-growing web of interdependent urban zones that facilitate the
increased and intensified transnational movement of people, products, and
information that typifies the contemporary world: “the city”. Our aim is to
generate new ideas and advance interdisciplinary knowledge and discussion at
the important interface between language, society and “the city” in a
globalizing world. We define “the city” here as, at once:
- a discursive formation (i.e. as ‘text’);
- an often-potent marker of identity (i.e. through ‘talk’);
- lived-in, moving, embodied and situated space (i.e. ‘place’), and;
- a key site of (global) cultural and economic production, consumption, and
social
inequality.

Society builds cities, but how do cities, in turn, shape society, for better
or worse?


Call for Papers:

We welcome contributions that use a diverse set of analytical and
methodological frameworks. We encourage presentations taking a multimodal
approach to communication – inclusive of, but not limited to, spoken/written
language.

In light of our definition of “the city”, we are committed to exploring a
range of perspectives at this event, with discussions drawing upon research in
the following thematic areas and sub- disciplines: interactional
sociolinguistics; variationist sociolinguistics; linguistic anthropology; the
sociolinguistics of globalization; linguistic/semiotic landscapes; language
policy; language ideologies; language and power; language and mobility;
language and superdiversity; and language in the media (particularly
new/digital media).

Please send abstracts (max. 300 words, excluding references) to
joseph.comer at ens.unibe.ch. 

The deadline for proposals is August 1st, 2017 with anticipated notifications
of acceptance by August 15th, 2017. The principal language of the City Talk
conference will be English.




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