31.3806, Calls: Pragmatics, Socioling, Applied Ling, Disc Analysis, Ling & Lit/Online

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Subject: 31.3806, Calls: Pragmatics, Socioling, Applied Ling, Disc Analysis, Ling & Lit/Online

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Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 19:27:38
From: Ryan Durgasingh [durgasin at uni-muenster.de]
Subject: Stylistics, Critical Discourse Analysis, and Language Use in the Caribbean

 
Full Title: Stylistics, Critical Discourse Analysis, and Language Use in the Caribbean 
Short Title: SCDA 2021 

Date: 02-Apr-2021 - 03-Apr-2021
Location: Online - digital conference, Trinidad and Tobago 
Contact Person: Ryan Durgasingh
Meeting Email: scda at utt.edu.tt
Web Site: https://u.tt/scda 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Ling & Literature; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Feb-2021 

Meeting Description:

The conference is geared towards academics working in the fields of stylistics
or critical discourse analysis focussing on Caribbean discourse types, as well
as practitioners involved in the production of these kinds of texts.

Stylistic and critical discourse approaches to the Caribbean’s language use
are of paramount importance if, for instance, the region wants to adequately
interrogate the evolving nature of power in political and media discourses,
decolonisation or imperialist practices in educational policy documents, or
the complex interplay of meaning and representation in the artistic fields of
literature, film, and television.

Although the Anglophone Caribbean has had a large output in varied and
localised discourse/ text types in the post-independence era, there has been
little linguistic scrutiny of them (exceptions tend to be stylistic analyses
of literary works such as those collected in Lalla, D’Costa and Pollard
(2014), though such work is also not common). There have also been few avenues
where practitioners/creators within the region’s language-related fields can
discuss what they think about the linguistic choices that they make in their
work. This has been the case even though more recent linguistic work done on
English in the Caribbean has clearly shown a tendency towards endonormativity
and more local forms within several countries’ developing standards (Schneider
2011; Deuber 2014; and Hackert, in press). Language varieties which have
histories of being minoritised or peripheral in many spheres of public life
have also gained increasing acceptability – particularly the region’s Creoles.
The present conference recognises the specific, unique, and complex nature of
the evolving Caribbean language milieu, and the need for more rigorous
descriptions of discourse types arising out of this space.

We therefore invite papers and panel presentations applying stylistic or
critical discourse approaches to the analysis of written or oral Caribbean
texts, but also extend our call for experts working in the production of such
texts. This conference’s focus, then, is two-fold: the academic scrutiny of
language use in the Caribbean, and the actual role that practitioners’
language-related choices play in their production.

The conference will be hosted online by The University of Trinidad and
Tobago’s Centre for Education Programmes from April 2 - 3, 2021.


Call for Papers: 

Submission Guidelines
Abstracts of no more than 300 words (excluding references) are to be sent to
scda at utt.edu.tt by February 1st, 2021 in PDF format. The emails, but not the
PDFs, should include: (1) a title, (2) name, status, and institutional
affiliation of the presenter(s), and, (3) a contact email address. Abstracts
should be for either:

Paper presentations (10 minutes long) 
OR
Expert discussion panels focussing on the praxis of language within, but not
limited to, the domains listed below (lasting for 30 minutes).

Topics
Panel presentations are invited which focus on stylistic or critical discourse
approaches to Caribbean texts such as (but not limited to):
 - Educational/pedagogical documents
 - Literary texts (written or oral)
 - New media
 - Political discourses
 - Film and television
 - Press reporting
 - Academic writing
 - Adapted works across media
 - Translated texts
 - Historical documents
 - Popular writing

Publication: 
The organisers envision a prospective volume of selected papers arising out of
the conference.

Registration fee: 
Registration will be free.

References
Deuber, D. (2014). English in the Caribbean: Variation, Style and Standards in
Jamaica and Trinidad. Studies in English Language. Cambridge University Press.
https://books.google.tt/books?id=9MwNAwAAQBAJ 
Hackert, S. (2021). Standards of English in the Caribbean. In N. Eberle (Ed.),
Varieties of English Around the World: G64. Bermudian English (G57, pp.
85–112). John Benjamins Publishing Company.
https://doi.org/10.1075/veaw.g57.05hac
Lalla, B., D'Costa, J., & Pollard, V. (Eds.). (2014). Caribbean literary
discourse: Voice and cultural identity in the Anglophone Caribbean. The
University of Alabama Press. 
Schneider, E. W. (2011). English around the world: An introduction. Cambridge
introductions to the English language. Cambridge University Press.




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