29.1379, Confs: Discourse Analysis/Belgium

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LINGUIST List: Vol-29-1379. Wed Mar 28 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.1379, Confs: Discourse Analysis/Belgium

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Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 17:13:21
From: Paul Sambre [paul.sambre at kuleuven.be]
Subject: Languaging Diversity 4: Discourse and Diversity in the Global City

 
Languaging Diversity 4: Discourse and Diversity in the Global City 

Date: 27-Sep-2018 - 29-Sep-2018 
Location: Antwerp, Belgium 
Contact: Paul Sambre 
Contact Email: languagingdiversity2018 at kuleuven.be 
Meeting URL: https://www.arts.kuleuven.be/ling/languagingdiversity2018 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis 

Meeting Description: 

Discourses in/of/about the city vibrantly conceptualize, narrate and imagine
the past, present and future of a city and its citizens. The city's status,
character, spirit and image are constantly imagined, reproduced and framed in
private and public communication. In urban discourse languages, identities and
subcultures meet, as old and new inhabitants interact with temporary visitors
and guests. Accordingly, alternative city images may arise, as existing
discourse representations of cities are recontextualized and transformed in
other visions about the city and citizenship. This process implies utopian or
dystopian views on the city, as discourse zooms in on challenges, problems and
possible solutions over time. Discourse as such displays different social
actors evolving around urban life, which gives an insight into to attitudes,
opinions and sentiments about the city. In global cities, social experience,
spaces and activities are lived through the linguascape of complex
multilingual, multisensory and multimodal repertoires, as citizens' identities
and (absence of) interactions cross borders which connect different languages,
time, space and semiotic modes.
 
This conference brings together interdisciplinary research about discourse(s)
in global cities, and wishes to analyze and discuss commonalities and
distinctiveness between urban areas, conceived of as networks of spatial and
symbolic nodal points and peripheral zones. The interdisciplinary focus looks
for discussions and connections which involve the broad field of discourse
studies and correlated issues.
 
Keynotes:

Giuseppe Balirano (University of Naples ''L'Orientale'')
New criminal borderscapes in old urban  cityscapes
 
Jan Blommaert (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
Contingency and structure in a superdiverse Antwerp neighborhood
 
Christopher Hart (Lancaster University, United Kingdom)
Discourses of Disorder: Representations of Riots, Strikes and Protests in
Globalised Cities
 
Maria Cristina Paganoni (University of Milan, Italy)
Heritage in diverse cities: a discursive perspective
 






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