32.869, Calls: Gen Ling, Ling & Lit, Philos of Lang, Text/Corpus Ling, Translation/Belgium

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Subject: 32.869, Calls: Gen Ling, Ling & Lit, Philos of Lang, Text/Corpus Ling, Translation/Belgium

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Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2021 15:26:07
From: Lobke Ghesquière [lobke.ghesquiere at umons.ac.be]
Subject: Resistance/Language

Full Title: Resistance/Language 

Date: 09-Dec-2021 - 10-Dec-2021
Location: Mons, Belgium 
Contact Person: Lobke Ghesquière
Meeting Email: colloqueresistance at umons.ac.be

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Ling & Literature; Philosophy of Language; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Translation 

Call Deadline: 30-Jun-2021 

Meeting Description:

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE “Resistance/Language” 
Research Institute for Language Science and Technology (LANGUAGE Institute) 
University of Mons (UMONS) and Ciéphumons Research Centre 
December 9 – 10, 2021

A multidisciplinary conference in language science will be held on December 9
– 10, 2021 at the University of Mons. The conference will be centered around
the theme of resistance, which will be declined in 4 Rs: Robustness,
Resistance, Reluctance, and Reservation. This paronymous chain includes all
the disciplines represented within the LANGUAGE Institute and all the
specialists that we wish to mobilise during our first international
conference.

Scientific committee: Michel Berré, Damien Darcis, Lobke Ghesquière, Pierre
Gillis, Catherine Gravet, Bernard Harmegnies, Christine Michaux, Myriam
Piccaluga, Alain Piette, Bénédicte Van Gysel, Gudrun Vanderbauwhede.

Call for Papers: 

Please send an abstract (max 500 words, including references), your contact
information and a short CV to colloqueresistance at umons.ac.be before June 30.
Please make sure to mention which area your presentation will focus on:

1. Linguistics: Language can describe resistance and also give it form. Hence,
one can study the expression of resistance, or more generally the power
relations between natural languages, as well as the acts of resistance they
allow users to perform. Studying (non)resistance within discourses requires
analysing how social, cultural or political constraints to which the subject
conforms are reflected in the discourse, linguistically, psycho- and
socio-linguistically, or how they sometimes oppose and resist to these norms
and prescriptions.

2. Translation studies: Trump’s designated translator, Bérangère Viennot,
stated that she had to “resist” the urge to smooth out the former president’s
words or to translate them into good French. Only an analysis of the speeches
can help tackle this issue. Interpreting can also be studied within the scope
of reservation, as diplomatic language involves a “duty of reservation” or
discretion, which the professional interpreter must be able to perceive and
transpose adequately. How can we prepare translators for this kind of
performance? How can we evaluate said performance? Texts and discourses can
also be “resistant” in that they defy reading, understanding, or meaning
construction, and, hence, translation. All languages offer specific linguistic
forms, idiomatic (or even idiosyncratic) frames and phrases, which can cause
translation difficulties (e.g. intensifiers, exclamative and polysemic
markers). Moreover, the fact that translation and interpreting can be hindered
by target linguistic and cultural constraints must also be taken into account.
The history of literary translation and the circulation of works across
linguistic and cultural borders can, in turn, be understood within the scope
of resistance. For example, fascist Italy was reluctant to welcome foreign
(esp. American) writers, whilst China embraced Belgian symbolism (incl. texts
by Maeterlinck, the Nobel laureate). A study on the critical editing of these
texts should make it possible to shed light on this.

3. Literature: Lionel Duroy claimed about his novel Nous étions nés pour être
heureux (2019): “[In] the same way that a book can save you from despair,
allow you to exorcise suffering, writing as a way of expressing oneself is the
act of resistance to oblivion and loss par excellence.” Whole sections of
world literature can be analysed in this sense. Thanks to their mastery of
language, scholars, even if they are not writers, can appear as a bulwark
against a worldwide collapse.

4. Didactics: Every teacher knows to which extent learners can develop forms
of “resistance” to texts but also to forms of teaching. What/who resists, the
text or the learner? Why? Can teacher explanations overcome this resistance or
do they give rise to new forms of resistance?

5. Brachyology: If reluctance is “the character or quality of a person or
thing that omits what could or should be said”, brachylogy researchers will
find this an ideal field of study.

6. Gender Studies: Reservation is a quality that is (was?) especially
attributed to women. This statement could be a starting point for gender
studies on how women resist the stereotypes that the patriarchal system has
long imposed on them.

7. Psychology: In psychoanalysis, resistance refers to “the forces that are
deployed by the subject in order to oppose themselves to the efforts made to
uncover repressed complexes or feelings”. This definition provides an entry
point into the conference theme. In neuroscience, brain imaging shows that
memory is proved more resistant in Alzheimer’s patients if they have studied
music or have played an instrument.

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