28.4193, Calls: Socioling, Ling & Lit/France

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Subject: 28.4193, Calls: Socioling, Ling & Lit/France

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Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 14:21:35
From: Rémi Digonnet [remi.digonnet at univ-st-etienne.fr]
Subject: Sensory Manifestations in Contemporary Urbanities

 
Full Title: Sensory Manifestations in Contemporary Urbanities 

Date: 05-Apr-2018 - 06-Apr-2018
Location: Saint-Étienne, France 
Contact Person: Rémi Digonnet
Meeting Email: remi.digonnet at univ-st-etienne.fr

Linguistic Field(s): Ling & Literature; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 10-Jan-2018 

Meeting Description:

Keynote speakers:

Zoltán Kövecses – Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
Mylène Pardoen – Institut des Sciences de l’Homme, Lyon

This collaborative conference aims to study sensory experience in urban space
and to analyse its contemporary manifestations and representations from a
linguistic perspective. 

As the five senses are engaged by the city, the multiple sensory elements
generated by the city will first have to be identified. The city is a source
of visual and gustatory pleasures but also of sound or air pollution. On the
other hand, although the city gives rise to sensations, as a living
environment, it also forges our perception. Sensory experience can be
experienced as sensation, “a conscious yet passive feeling”, or as perception,
“an active judgemental representation” (Legallois, 2004: 5). This duality, as
well as the expression of sensation, be it behaviourist, linguistic or
literary will be our focus here. 

How much is it possible to know about past sensations in the city (cf.
Pardoen’s work on “the historical sound of Paris”) through the study of texts
(novels, travel writings, diaries, guide books, etc.)? How have these
sensations and their linguistic counterparts evolved (cf. Corbin 1982 on
smells)? How much do writers rely on sensations when they describe a city (cf.
Auster’s New York Trilogy or Mendoza’s Ciudad de los prodigios)? Do Modiano,
McEwan or DeLillo’s writings betray sensation when they deal with perception? 

The interrelation between sensation, perception and expression will be at the
core of this conference. How, on the basis of a sensory feeling, can a human
being develop a specific mental representation and how does he or she signify
this construction? Starting from an auditory, visual, tactile, or olfactory
landscape, we will try to analyse how mental representations of the stimuli
are created and, more importantly, how this representation is expressed
(literature, discourse analysis, oral speech, etc.) and signified? Are the
three poles – sensation, perception and expression – always in line with one
another? 


Call for Papers:

Some of the following subjects could be analysed:

- Intimacy (sensation) and collectivity (urbanity)
- Expression of the city through the senses 
- The body and the city: the city as a body and the body in the city
- Sensory metaphors and urban expression
- Baudelairian and urban synaesthesia
- Sensory manifestations, a manifesto for contemporary urbanities?
- Sensitive or sensible urban landscapes?
- The sensory and emotional expressions of the city
- Contemporary reviewing of sensory urbanities

Please send your proposals (about 300 words, English or French and a short
bibliography) to Rémi Digonnet (remi.digonnet at univ-st-etienne.fr) and
Stéphanie Béligon (stephanie.beligon at paris-sorbonne.fr) before January 10,
2018. Authors will be notified by February 5, 2018.

Scientific committee:

Hélène Alfaro – Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée
Sylvain Farge – Université Lumière Lyon 2
Olivier Glain – Université Jean Monnet Saint-Étienne
Zoltán Kövecses – Eötvös Loránd University
Christelle Lacassain-Lagoin – Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour
Mylène Pardoen – CNRS Institut des Sciences de l’Homme Lyon 
Silvana Segapeli – École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Saint-Étienne
Emmanuel Vincenot – Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée

Organisation: 

Rémi Digonnet – Lecturer in English linguistics at Université Jean Monnet –
Saint-Étienne (remi.digonnet at univ-st-etienne.fr) 
Floriane Reviron-Piégay – Lecturer in English literature at Université Jean
Monnet – Saint-Étienne (floriane.reviron.piegay at univ-st-etienne.fr)
Stéphanie Béligon – Lecturer in English linguistics at Université
Paris-Sorbonne (stephanie.beligon at paris-sorbonne.fr)




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