32.2788, Calls: Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistics/Belgium

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Subject: 32.2788, Calls: Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistics/Belgium

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Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2021 02:27:20
From: Joseph Comer [joseph.comer at csls.unibe.ch]
Subject: Panel Proposal: ‘Stoner’ Talk: the Sociolinguistics of Cannabis Cultures and Markets

 
Full Title: Panel Proposal: ‘Stoner’ Talk: the Sociolinguistics of Cannabis Cultures and Markets 

Date: 13-Jul-2022 - 16-Jul-2022
Location: Ghent, Belgium 
Contact Person: Rita Vallentin
Meeting Email: vallentin at europa-uni.de
Web Site: https://ss24ghent.be/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 10-Sep-2021 

Meeting Description:

Panel at Sociolinguistics Symposium 24
13-6 July 2022 in Ghent

Panel Proposal: ‘Stoner’ Talk: the Sociolinguistics of Cannabis Cultures and
Markets


This colloquium aims principally to shine a light on people – and/or personae
– who have been featured, both prominently and peripherally, in a great deal
of second- and third-wave sociolinguistic and linguistic anthropological
research (Eckert 2012), but who have also arguably never received as much
attention as they perhaps deserve: ‘stoners’.
 
Here, the term ‘stoner’ is used non-pejoratively, as a term for a person who
enthusiastically or unashamedly uses marijuana recreationally. Although the
term may still be enregistered negatively for some, its contemporary use
stands in contrast to others like ‘pothead’ or ‘junkie’. As well, importantly,
the term ‘stoner’ captures and foregrounds the heretofore commonplace
indexical relations between ways of speaking, personae, and the practice of
marijuana consumption, in a way that ‘marijuana user’ does not. In so many
words, use of the term ‘stoner’ is helpful because it highlights inherent
tensions, and contemporary insufficiencies, in equating practice (getting
‘stoned’) with identity (the ‘stoner’).

This colloquium has as an analytical and theoretical foundation an
understanding that although ‘stoners’ have emerged in discourse for many
reasons and in many ways over recent decades, the discursive construction and
indexical relations of ‘the stoner’ have been left under-examined and
normatively understood: with the individuals in question too-often framed as
othered, undesirable, and unproductive, in line with marijuana’s illegality
and taboo nature. 
Inasmuch as this framework has arguably always been inappropriate, it is now
untenable. As Weiss (2015:n.p) states, “what was once an act of rebellion,
however mild, has become a leisure activity, the best way to make boredom less
boring”. Things have changed for the stoner.

Negative stigma has reduced. Legalization and attempts at legalization gather
pace worldwide. Who stoners are, their relationship to historical and modern
formations of ‘weed culture’, and the political economy (or marketplace) of
cannabis – these have all recently changed dramatically, across many varied
contexts.

Call for Papers:

As marijuana intersects with symbolic practice – through lyrics, scripts, and
policy documents alike – it becomes, clearly, an object of sociolinguistic
examination, along with its users. This colloquium, accordingly, provides a
space for talk about stoners, and talk about ‘stoner talk’.

Some potential orienting questions are listed on the full preliminary (DRAFT)
proposal at the following link: https://tinyurl.com/a86rcdtd

If interested, please email Joe Comer (joseph.comer at csls.unibe.ch) with your
300-word abstract prepared using the conference guidelines. Please contact Joe
Comer before submitting to the conference abstract system. 

Abstracts are due to Joe Comer by September 10, 2021. These will then be
assessed, with confirmation of inclusion in the panel by September 20.




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