33.985, Calls: Discourse Analysis, General Linguistics, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics/Austria
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LINGUIST List: Vol-33-985. Mon Mar 14 2022. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.
Subject: 33.985, Calls: Discourse Analysis, General Linguistics, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics/Austria
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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2022 22:20:33
From: Georg Marko [georg.marko at uni-graz.at]
Subject: Sixth International Conference on Ecolinguistics: Language, Time and Sustainability: Ecolinguistics For, With, After and Against the Future
Full Title: Sixth International Conference on Ecolinguistics: Language, Time and Sustainability: Ecolinguistics For, With, After and Against the Future
Short Title: ICE-6
Date: 21-Sep-2022 - 24-Sep-2022
Location: Graz (Karl-Franzens-University Graz), Austria
Contact Person: Hermine Penz
Meeting Email: hermine.penz at uni-graz.at
Web Site: http://ecolinguistics-2022.uni-graz.at/en
Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics
Call Deadline: 30-Apr-2022
Meeting Description:
50 years after Einar Haugen applied the ecology metaphor to language,
ecolinguistics has become a field of linguistics which lies – together with
other areas of the environmental sciences – at the centre of the most pressing
and threatening issues of our times (poverty and inequality, climate change,
environmental degradation, war and conflict, etc.). Broadly speaking, it
investigates the role of language in the development and possible solution of
ecological and environmental problems and examines the influence of language
in the context of life-sustaining relationships of humans with each other and
with other forms of life. Ecolinguistics should therefore be conceived as an
important instrument in developing and achieving sustainable ways of living.
In 2015, the UN adopted the 2030 Agenda of Sustainable Development, which
formulates 17 goals intended to end poverty, protect the planet and improve
the lives and prospects of everyone on earth. These goals have grown out of
the awareness that the future of the planet and the well-being of human beings
is at stake if we continue with our present unsustainable lifestyles. Though
very comprehensive, the goals do not address the basic ecolinguistic question
of what role language has played in causing the current ecological crisis and
what role it could play in making the world a more sustainable and liveable
place.
Time is an essential component of sustainability because its social, cultural,
biological, geographical and economic dimensions require coordination to
achieve the latter. There are also several language-related questions inherent
in the exploration of time and sustainability, questions that ecolinguistics
seeks to answer: How does the linguistic construction of pasts, presents and
futures have an impact on what is perceived and performed as sustainable? How
does the temporal dimension come into play in relation to various ecological
and sustainability issues? How do different temporalities and concepts of time
(natural, physical, cultural, individual, etc.) interact with each other in
different domains but also questions of power? How can language work in favor
of a better future while also including present pasts and past presents? How
are normative temporalities constructed in environmental management, policy or
laws, and are these sustainable? What is the role of generations and their
interrelations in achieving a sustainable future? What role do temporalities
and other issues play in creating more harmonious relationships between
humans, other forms of life and their natural environments?
Confirmed plenary speakers
Alwin F. Fill (University of Graz, Austria)
Miao Xingwei (Beijing Normal University, China)
Peter Mühlhäusler (University of Adelaide, Australia)
2 more are still pending
Academic committee
Hermine Penz (Graz)
Martin Döring (Hamburg)
Alwin Fill (Graz)
Georg Marko (Graz)
Wilhelm Trampe (Osnabrück)
Local organizing committee
Hermine Penz
Eva Katharina Bauer
Anna Aschauer
Lea Pesec
Call for Papers:
Potential topics, areas and themes to be addressed are:
- Linguistic and biological diversity from a sustainable point of view
- Climate change and the language of the pasts, presents and future(s)
- Ethical and temporal dimensions of concepts of a natural en- or convironment
- Contested framings, temporalities and political agendas of environmental
degradation
- Sustainability in the context of natural resources and environmental justice
- Temporalities and intergenerational tensions in the ecological debate
- The role of ecolinguistics for sustainable environmental education
- Features of an ecolinguistic perspective on sustainability communication
- Theoretical ecolinguistics and aspects of a sustainable theory of language
- Ecolinguistics as a transformation science
- Applied and sustaining ecolinguistics: Notes from fields and experiences all
over the globe
We are inviting contributions on these topics and themes in a conference held
in-person at Graz University.
Abstracts (250 words max.) should be submitted to
https://ecolinguistics-2022.uni-graz.at/de/abstract-submission/ by 30 April
2022 (18:00 CET). Notifications of acceptance status will be sent by 31 May
2022. The language of the conference is English.
We are planning to hold the conference in person. If this is not possible due
to the pandemic, the event will be moved online.
The ICE-6 will also host an international workshop for students. Students
currently working on any aspect of ecolinguistics, including, but not
restricted to, those outlined, are invited to submit an abstract. The workshop
will be exclusively online, allowing participation from all over the world.
Specify if the abstract submitted is for the student workshop.
Registration will start in late May 2022. The regular fee will be € 200
(reduced student fee will be available).
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