34.134, Confs: Sociolinguistics/Germany

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LINGUIST List: Vol-34-134. Tue Jan 17 2023. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 34.134, Confs: Sociolinguistics/Germany

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Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2023 02:32:06
From: Valentin Werner [valentin.werner at uni-bamberg.de]
Subject: Sociolinguistcs of Pop Culture

 
Sociolinguistcs of Pop Culture 

Date: 30-Mar-2023 - 31-Mar-2023 
Location: University of Bamberg, Germany 
Contact: Valentin Werner 
Contact Email: valentin.werner at uni-bamberg.de 
Meeting URL: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/en/eng-ling/sociolinguistics-of-pop-culture/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics 

Meeting Description: 

The conference explicitly engages with pop culture, which, in its diverse
manifestations, is a ubiquitous phenomenon where the linguistic sign interacts
with other modes of communication (e.g., text and image, text and music,
etc.). Pop culture can be viewed as a globalized, commercial,
entertainment-related activity with a focus on “the active process of
generating and circulating meanings and pleasures within a social system”
(Fiske 2011). Although pop culture is readily recognized as a major cultural
force in present-day globalizing societies, the academic discipline of
sociolinguistics, with its focus on “real” (i.e., unplanned, natural,
spontaneous) language as the locus of linguistic variation and change, has
traditionally sidelined the study of performed (i.e., scripted, fictional and
mediatized) language. However, we seem to be witnessing a turning point.
Sociolinguists have recently begun to examine pop culture artifacts such as
songs, TV shows, movies, video clips, comics, and various electronic registers
in a systematic manner. This conference, which features more than 30 talks,
acknowledges these developments. It illustrates recent sociolinguistic
approaches to the language of pop culture and how they serve to address core
sociolinguistic concerns from novel perspectives.

Robin Queen (University of Michigan) and Joe Trotta (University of Gothenburg)
have agreed to deliver keynote speeches.

Registration deadline: 15 February 2023
Note that there is limited availability of in-person participation (online
participation option available).

Sociolinguistics of Pop Culture is jointly organized by Cecelia Cutler (City
University New York), Andrew Moody (University of Macau) & Valentin Werner
(University of Bamberg).

This event is supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Universitätsbund
Bamberg & Deutscher Anglistenverband.
 






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