31.2620, Calls: Anthro Ling, Disc Analys, Pragmatics, Socioling/Switzerland

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Subject: 31.2620, Calls: Anthro Ling, Disc Analys, Pragmatics, Socioling/Switzerland

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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2020 14:16:56
From: Li-Chi Chen [leszek.chen at gmail.com]
Subject: The Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Practices of Gay Roles, Gay Characters, and Gay Men: A Multimodal Perspective

 
Full Title: The Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Practices of Gay Roles, Gay Characters, and Gay Men: A Multimodal Perspective 
Short Title: IPrA17 

Date: 27-Jun-2021 - 02-Jul-2021
Location: Winterthur, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Li-Chi Chen
Meeting Email: leszek.chen at gmail.com
Web Site: https://pragmatics.international/general/custom.asp?page=CfP 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 25-Oct-2020 

Meeting Description:

Organizers: 
Chie Yamane-Yoshinaga (Sanyo Gakuen University, Japan)
Li-Chi Chen (Kazimierz Wielki University)
Eryk Hajndrych (Kazimierz Wielki University)

Abstract:
The proposed panel will focus on the so-called gay language or gayspeak in
both the fictional and the real worlds. Burgess (1949: 234) has asserted that
the urban “homosexual world has its own language, incomprehensible to
outsiders.” However, it is problematic to generalize how gay men talk, as
their sexual identity interacts with their age, ethnicity, and social class
(Cameron and Kulick 2003), as well as with the moments when they speak (Chen
2017). The proposed panel, thus, will critically discuss whether there is
gayspeak by scrutinizing how the linguistic and non-linguistic practices of
gay roles (e.g., in stage dramas, in movies, on television series, etc.) and
gay characters (e.g., in comic books, in animations, etc.) are different from
or similar to those of openly gay men on the social media platforms.


Call for Papers: 

We welcome submissions on how multimodal analysis facilitates the examination
of the created, performed, and naturally-produced gayspeak in various genres.
As pointed out by Seyfeddinipur and Gullberg (2014: 1): “Language is
fundamentally multimodal.” More specifically, visible bodily actions are often
used to complement, to supply, to substitute for, or to alternate with spoken
words (Kendon 2004). While speech interacts with gestures, text and image also
multiply each other in constructing various meanings (Bateman 2014), and their
relationship can be taken as a case of multimodality (McCloud 1994; Cohn 2016;
Cohn et al. 2017). Overall, the proposed panel intends to bring together
scholars from various disciplines whose work is on the linguistic and
non-linguistic practices of gay roles, gay characters, and gay men from a
multimodal perspective. We hope to offer a platform for a highly-specialized
discussion on both theoretical and empirical grounds.

Please see https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP for submission
instructions.

References:
Bateman, John A. 2014. Text and Image: A Critical Introduction to the
Visual/Verbal Divide. London: Routledge.
Burgess, Ernest W. 1949. The sociological theory of psychosexual behavior. In
Paul H. Hoch and Joseph Zubin (eds.), Psychosexual Development in Health and
Disease, pp. 227–243. New York, NY: Grune and Stratton.
Cameron, Deborah, and Don Kulick. 2003. Language and Sexuality. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
Chen, Li-Chi Lee. 2017. Taiwanese and Polish Humor: A Socio-Pragmatic
Analysis. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Cohn, Neil. 2016. A multimodal parallel architecture: A cognitive framework
for multimodal interactions. Cognition 146: 304–323.
Cohn, Neil, Ryan Taylor, and Kaitlin Pederson. 2017. A picture is worth more
words over time: Multimodality and narrative structure across eight decades of
American superhero comics. Multimodal Communication 6(1): 19–37.
Kendon, Adam. 2004. Gesture: Visible Action as Utterance. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press. 
McCloud, Scott. 1994. Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art. New York, NY:
HarperCollins.
Seyfeddinipur, Mandana, and Marianne Gullberg. 2014. From gesture in
conversation to visible action as utterance. In Mandana Seyfeddinipur and
Marianne Gullberg (eds.), From Gesture in Conversation to Visible Action as
Utterance: Essays in Honor of Adam Kendon, pp. 1–12. Amsterdam & Philadelphia:
John Benjamins.




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