33.3090, Calls: Applied Linguistics/Belgium

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Subject: 33.3090, Calls: Applied Linguistics/Belgium

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Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2022 21:31:07
From: Naomi Orton [naomiorton at hotmail.com]
Subject: Tales from the South: Doing narrative analysis beyond the canon

 
Full Title: Tales from the South: Doing narrative analysis beyond the canon 

Date: 09-Jul-2023 - 14-Jul-2023
Location: Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium 
Contact Person: Naomi Orton
Meeting Email: naomiorton at hotmail.com

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Nov-2022 

Meeting Description:

Scholars in the field of narrative analysis have long argued in favour of a
shift from the study of ''prototypical'' labovian narratives to those that
flout the canon. However, definitions of what may be considered
typical/atypical and worthy of study still tend to be set in the privileged
research centres of the Global North. This panel therefore seeks to unite
those working beyond such boundaries in order to reflect on the shape of
narrative and interaction in the Global South.

The field of narrative research tends to be committed to the social and
political agenda of contemporary applied linguistics, aligned with pragmatic
perspectives of interaction and discourse analysis. We further take the view
that narrative analysis has the potential to stretch disciplinary boundaries,
enabling scholars to unite detailed microanalysis of narrative practice with
methodological tools derived from a range of disciplines, facilitating
collaborations with researchers from beyond their own immediate field of
study.

By zooming in on the sites of engagement in which storytelling takes place,
researchers may thus focus attention on any number of the interactional goals
for which narrative may be exploited: from the production of identity and the
contestation/reinforcement of beliefs, values, labels and political structures
to the creation of coherence, cultivation of relationships/affiliations and
stirring of audiences into action. By understanding narrative as a situated
practice which offers snapshots of the wider discursive struggles in which
social actors are inevitably engaged, narrative analysis as a microanalytical
tool allows scholars to reflect on such issues and the ways in which they may
be indexicalised and negotiated at the level of interaction.


Call for Papers:

With this in mind, this panel welcomes contributions guided by this
perspective and which seek to shift the spotlight from so-called “developed”
countries and the Western discourse and epistemes produced there, to the
fringes of the globalised system, so that the “Master Narratives” and
canonical definitions of the Global North may be reshaped.

We particularly welcome papers from research centres in the Global South which
discuss the ways in which scholars have adapted theoretical contributions from
the field of narrative analysis or have formulated new concepts in order to
prioritise the examination of issues faced by those whose stories have long
been silenced. Sites of investigation may include, but are not limited to:
issues of public health and clinical settings; threats to democracy, state
violence and the erosion of human rights; climate change and forced migration;
protest and social movements; media and newslike narratives; sign language and
visual storytelling, amongst others. We further encourage contributions in
which investigators reflect on the relations of power which inevitably inflect
their own research proceedings and the ways in which these work to shape
interaction in research settings.

For submission info, visit:
https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP




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