29.302, Calls: Disc Analysis, Lang Acquisition, Pragmatics, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling/Italy

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Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 18:10:43
From: Volker Eisenlauer [volker at eisenlauer.com]
Subject: 1st Colloquium on Multimodal Literacies

 
Full Title: 1st Colloquium on Multimodal Literacies 

Date: 06-Jul-2018 - 06-Jul-2018
Location: Pavia, Italy 
Contact Person: Volker Eisenlauer
Meeting Email: volker at eisenlauer.com
Web Site: http://www-7.unipv.it/28esflc/index.php/events/ 

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

Call Deadline: 19-Feb-2018 

Meeting Description:

1st Colloquium on Multimodal literacies – media affordances, semiotic
resources and discourse communities

The emergence of literacy practices in multimodal discourse interrelates in
various ways with innovations in media technologies. Mobile phones afford
novel textual practices, such as swiping taking photos, or location tagging,
while books and journals afford paper perusing and turning pages. As Kress
(2009, 55) has shown “social action and affordances of material (Gibson, 1986)
together produce semiotic resources which are the product of the potentials
inherent in the material, of a society’s selection from these potentials and
of social shaping over time of the features which are selected”. In this
sense, a newspaper is not likely to afford the act of reading to a toddler,
but would be a suitable object for crumpling up or ripping apart. In a similar
way, the affordances of information technologies interrelate with distinct
hypertextual and multimodal practices that have emerged over time and in
response to particular discourse  communities.

Though researchers agree that meaning making spreads by default across
different semiotic modes, it is less clear what modes are made of. Approaches
in social semiotics view mode as a “resource for making signs in a
socio-cultural group” (Kress & van Leeuwen 2002) while more categorical
approaches connect mode to specific sign-related properties in different
semiotic systems, cf. image, language, sound (Stöckl 2004, Bucher 2013).


Call for Papers:

This colloquium invites contributions that explore multimodal literacy
practices by looking at the interplay of media affordances, semiotic resources
and discourse communities. We welcome both theoretical and empirical
contributions that explore a vast range of topics, including but not limited
to the sub-themes indicated below.

1.) Theoretical contributions:

How can we define and measure multimodal literacy?

How can SFL and social semiotics help to uncover the concept of multimodal
literacy?

What is a mode and how can we examine its stratified systems of meaning?

What is the meaning making potential of sound/music, image, text and other
semiotic resources?

2.) Empirical contributions:

How can different modes/semiotic resources be integrated into a cohesive and
coherent whole, i.e. a song, text, film, blog/vlog, meme, text message, etc.?

How does a given medial environment enable and constrict multimodal meaning
making? In what ways do individual users and discourse communities adapt to
the semiotic affordances of different media environments?

What skills and competencies are required for a critical and fruitful
engagement with multimodal texts and their underlying media technologies, cf.
television, movies, music, surfing the Internet, social networking, talking on
a cell phone, texting, magazines, newspapers, fiction and video games?

Submission Guidelines:

Abstracts must follow the general conference abstract submission guidelines
(250 words maximum plus a short indicative bibliography). In addition, please
also indicate that you want your abstract to be considered for the colloquium.
Abstracts should be sent via email to volker at eisenlauer.com .




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