29.1218, FYI: CfP: Language use in the drama series SKAM (SHAME)

Fri Mar 16 18:52:06 UTC 2018

LINGUIST List: Vol-29-1218. Fri Mar 16 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.1218, FYI: CfP: Language use in the drama series SKAM (SHAME)

Moderators: linguist at linguistlist.org (Damir Cavar, Malgorzata E. Cavar)
Reviews: reviews at linguistlist.org (Helen Aristar-Dry, Robert Coté,
                                   Michael Czerniakowski)
Homepage: http://linguistlist.org

Please support the LL editors and operation with a donation at:
           http://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/

Editor for this issue: Kenneth Steimel <ken at linguistlist.org>
================================================================

Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 14:51:53
From: Marianne Rathje [rathje at sdu.dk]
Subject: CfP: Language use in the drama series SKAM (SHAME)

Call for Papers: Language use in and about the net drama series SKAM

A special issue of Scandinavian Language Studies

We are pleased to invite you to contribute to the special issue that
investigates linguistic perspectives of the Norwegian net series SKAM (Eng.
translation SHAME). Contributions may be short (with a maximum of 4000 words)
or full articles (with a maximum of 7000 words). 

The series represents the everyday life dramas of a group of Norwegian
teenagers and has quickly become extremely popular allover Scandinavia which
online fan groups illustrate. On the whole, SKAM may be viewed as a media
phenomenon in Scandinavia as the series represents teenagers’ use of online
technologies, and as various online platforms such as Instagram and Messenger
are used to communicate with SKAM viewers outside of the episodes. 

This special issue explores language use in and about SKAM, an area to date
only sparsely investigated. Language use is understood in a broad sense to
include not only use of speech and writing, but also other semiotic resources
such as images, emojis, music, gestures, and the multimodal combinations of
various semiotic systems in and across media platforms. 

Additionally, the special issue will pay attention to the roles and functions
of language use in the innovative ways that SKAM combines the classic
television format of TV with young people’s use of digital and social media
such as Instagram, Messenger etc. Further, the special issue seeks to
illuminate how linguistic and multimodal representations of Norwegian youth
language and social practices are received and drawn upon by viewers, e.g. as
part of a fan culture, and/or as linguistic knowledge about Norwegian
language.

Papers included in the special issue may also investigate the linguistic means
used by teenagers to communicate feelings and discuss whether language and
other communicative resources aid to help the target audience (16 year old
girls) to boost their self-esteem by breaking down taboos, make them aware of
communication between people in contemporary society and show them the
benefits of confronting their fears.

We invite contributions from researchers working within any theoretical or
methodological perspective that contribute to investigating language use in
and around SKAM. Articles that report original research related to the theme
of the special issue may include, but are not limited to:

- Language use in SKAM
- Expressions from SKAM used in other contexts
- SKAM as a resource for understanding Norwegian
- Swearing and emotional expressions in SKAM
- The interaction in the fan culture, e.g. on Facebook
- Language and identity
- Multimodal interaction

Submission of Abstracts

Please prepare your abstracts following these guidelines:

- 300 words maximum
- At the bottom of the abstract, please include four to six keywords and a
list of the references cited in the abstract (keywords and references are not
included in the word count; references in APA format).
- Names and affiliations of the author should not appear in the abstract, but
should be clearly indicated in the accompanying email.
- For formatting, please use Times New Roman 12 point, single space, and save
in .doc.
- Submit abstracts by the deadline by email to rathje at sdu.dk
- Include ‘abstract submission’ in the subject of the email 

April 30  2018 – deadline for submission of abstract

September 24 2018 – 1st draft of articles

December  – 2 draft of articles
January/February 2019 – publication

On behalf of the guest editors

Marianne Rathje, PhD and PostDoc, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Elisabeth Muth Andersen, PhD and Assistant Professor, University of Southern
Denmark, Denmark
Søren Vigild Poulsen, PhD and Assistant Professor, University of Southern
Denmark, Denmark

https://tidsskrift.dk/sss

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

*****************    LINGUIST List Support    *****************
Please support the LL editors and operation with a donation at:
            http://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/

----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-29-1218	
----------------------------------------------------------