31.2337, Calls: Disc Analys, Pragmatics, Socioling/Switzerland

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Subject: 31.2337, Calls: Disc Analys, Pragmatics, Socioling/Switzerland

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Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2020 11:32:23
From: Daria Dayter [daria.dayter at unibas.ch]
Subject: Negotiating masculinities across media: community, context, and discourse

 
Full Title: Negotiating masculinities across media: community, context, and discourse 

Date: 27-Jun-2021 - 02-Jul-2021
Location: Winterthur, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Daria Dayter
Meeting Email: daria.dayter at unibas.ch

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

Call Deadline: 25-Oct-2020 

Meeting Description:

This panel is organised by Daria Dayter, Mark McGlashan, Alexandra Krendel and
Robert Lawson.

Understandings and (re)negotiations of masculinity have increasingly become
part of the conversation in contemporary language, gender and sexuality
research, partly in reaction to ongoing public debates around toxic
masculinity, online male identities such as incels and pick-up artists,
misogyny, and institutionalised sexism. Dominant discourses of masculinity
place a number of cultural constraints on men, including, for example, the
ideals of stoicism, risk-taking, competitiveness, the need to “man up”, and
the value of sexual promiscuity. In the research fuelled by the controversy
about toxic masculinity, however, the positive connotations of masculinity are
often neglected in favour of foregrounding in-group and out-group boundaries.
The masculine qualities that speakers can claim for themselves through
language also include loyalty, agency, independence, self-reliance, and so on.

This panel considers how discourse (as social practice) operates in media,
media platforms, and communities designed for and marketed to men. The panel
considers how these discourses relate to and enable (re)negotiations of
identity and community membership - as well as representations and
metadiscourse about these identities and communities - within and across
contexts. The panel contributes to the conference theme of pragmatics of
inclusion by asking questions about discursive gatekeeping, facework in
negotiating masculinity, and forms of inclusion in speech communities.


Call for Papers: 

We invite contributions that address the following themes from the perspective
of linguistic pragmatics, discourse analysis, and conversation analysis. 
-Masculinity and ideology (toxic masculinity, misogyny, positive masculinity)
-Masculinity and intersectionality (gender and sexuality, ethnicity, class,
age, disability)
-Masculinity and community (homosociality, male solidarity)

Abstracts of 250-500 words incl. references should be submitted via IPrA’s
submission system https://ipra2021.exordo.com/ before 25 October 2020 (for
further instructions, see https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP). The
format of the presentation will be 20 min talk followed by 10 min Q&A time.




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