33.955, Calls: Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, Text/Corpus Linguistics, Anthropological Linguistics / Journal of Language and Discrimination (Jrnl)

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Subject: 33.955, Calls:  Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, Text/Corpus Linguistics, Anthropological Linguistics / Journal of Language and Discrimination (Jrnl)

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Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2022 20:18:38
From: Natalia Knoblock [nlknoblo at svsu.edu]
Subject: Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, Text/Corpus Linguistics, Anthropological Linguistics / Journal of Language and Discrimination (Jrnl)

 
Full Title: Journal of Language and Discrimination 


Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Apr-2022 

Massimiliano Demata (University of Turin) and Natalia Knoblock (Saginaw Valley
State University) are inviting additional proposals for a thematic issue of
the Journal of Language and Discrimination. The issue is devoted to the
effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on anti-Asian prejudice and its
representation in digital discourses.

As reported, racism and anti-Chinese sentiments increased significantly after
the start of the pandemic and have been directly linked to it (Vachuska,
2020). Disturbingly, over ¾ of Chinese Americans polled about their
experiences reported being victim of at least one incident of COVID19-related
racial discrimination online and/or in person, and over half reported
experiencing health-related Sinophobia (Cheah et al., 2020; Lee, 2020). Verbal
and physical attacks on Asian Americans have been linked to racism and
xenophobia deeply entrenched in the US society, and to the “us vs. them”
worldview relegating Asian Americans to the bottom of the social hierarchy
(Gover, Harper & Langton, 2020). Such feelings have been at least partly
caused or exacerbated by the inflammatory rhetoric of US politicians (Wu,
2020), and there has been evidence of former president Trump’s tweets causing
an uptick in anti-Asian verbal aggression on Twitter (Ziems et al., 2020).
Researchers have analyzed the victims’ narratives (Satoh & Kaori 2021) and
even identified counter-discourses employing linguistic creativity to oppose
hate (Zhu, 2020)

The JLD thematic issue aims to continue research into racially motivated
anti-Asian hate speech and verbal aggression amplified during the Coronavirus
pandemic. It will expand beyond the US context and explore the effects of the
pandemic on the prejudice and discrimination toward the Chinese, and, broadly,
toward all groups and ethnicities collectively blamed for the outbreak of the
disease. We are especially interested in the links between particular news
reports and/or inflammatory rhetoric of certain public figures and the
increase of verbal aggression toward those blamed for the epidemic. Studies
investigating expressions of hateful attitudes, communicative strategies
involved in blaming and scapegoating, legitimation of hate, and racism
denialism are welcome, as well as evaluation of the role of the digital medium
in shaping and dissemination of hateful content. A variety of topics,
approaches and methods are appropriate, including but not limited to digital
and critical discourse analysis, multimodal analysis, corpus-driven and
corpus-assisted studies. Interdisciplinary studies are particularly welcome.

Please submit an abstract of 350-400 words by April 15 to Natalia Knoblock
(nlknoblo at svsu.edu) and Massimiliano Demata (massimiliano.demata at unito.it). 
In your abstract, clearly state the aims and research questions of your paper,
its theoretical foundations, the data and methods used to analyze the data
chosen, as well as some of your findings. Full articles will be due by July 31
and are expected to go into the March 2023 issue of JLD.




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