31.2555, Calls: Applied Ling, Disc Analys, Lang Acq, Pragmatics, Socioling/Switzerland

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Subject: 31.2555, Calls: Applied Ling, Disc Analys, Lang Acq, Pragmatics, Socioling/Switzerland

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Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2020 09:33:10
From: Eleonora Sciubba [m.e.sciubba at tilburguniveristy.edu]
Subject: EM/CA and Social Change: Addressing race and racism in EM/CA research and teaching

 
Full Title: EM/CA and Social Change: Addressing race and racism in EM/CA research and teaching 

Date: 27-Jun-2021 - 02-Jul-2021
Location: Winterthur, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Eleonora Sciubba
Meeting Email: m.e.sciubba at tilburguniveristy.edu
Web Site: https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Language Acquisition; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Oct-2020 

Meeting Description:

Organizers: Eleonora Sciubba, Natasha Shrikant

The murder of George Floyd and the uptake of the Black Lives Matter movement
worldwide has confronted EM/CA scholars with questions about the ways
whiteness is embedded in EM/CA theory, method, and pedagogy. Although Sacks’
(1984; 1986) work did highlight ways that EM/CA can study the relevance of
race and racism in interaction, only a handful of scholars have used EM/CA
approaches to do so (e.g., Rawls & Duck, 2020; Robles, 2015; Shrikant, 2018a,
2018b, 2020a; 2020b; Stokoe & Edwards, 2007; Whitehead, 2017; 2020; Whitehead
& Lerner, 2009). These studies highlight the strength of EM/CA theories and
methods to analyze how macro processes like “racism”, “discrimination”, or
“resistance” occur in mundane, interactionally specific ways.

Despite the fact that EM/CA can be used to study these issues, and other forms
of -isms, these issues are often positioned (through teaching, in data
sessions, and by some scholars) as tangential to ‘mainstream’ EM/CA work. The
purpose of this panel is to provide a public platform to a) interrogate the
pervasiveness of whiteness in EM/CA and b) to propose ways to enact social
change – particularly in regard to race and racism – in EM/CA research and
teaching.

To that end, we request three 90 minute sessions:
+  A roundtable inviting panelists and audience to discuss the past, present,
and future of EM/CA as it relates to addressing or ignoring questions of race
and racism. 
+  A research panel inviting papers that extend EM/CA theorizing to address
questions of race, ethnicity, and inequality. 
+ A research panel inviting empirical papers that illustrate the utility of
using EM/CA to study race and racism as it occurs in different cultures and
countries. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
      - Ways in which ‘whiteness’ is embedded into EM/CA theorizing; 
      - Ways in which ‘whiteness’ pervades pedagogy – in the classroom or
during data sessions; 
      - How EM/CA can be used to analyze traditionally conceptualized ‘macro’
processes, such as  resistance, identity, race, or activism; 
      - How EM/CA theorizing can be extended through centering studies on
minoritized groups in different cultures and countries; 
      - EM/CA studies that document the variety of overt and implicit ways
that racial, ethnic, or cultural identities are made relevant in interaction.


Call for papers:

If you would like to contribute to this panel, please send your 250-500 word
abstract to Eleonora Sciubba, m.e.sciubba at tilburguniversity.edu, for
pre-approval by October 1.

All abstracts will ultimately have to be submitted individually through the
IPrA submission system (https://ipra2021.exordo.com/) by 25 October 2020.
Please prepare your abstracts for submission with a reference to the IPrA Call
for papers & Submission guidelines at
https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP and select the panel “EM/CA and
Social Change: Addressing race and racism in EM/CA research and teaching.”




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