34.2935, Calls: iMean7 - Meaning in Social Interaction: Language and Inclusion

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LINGUIST List: Vol-34-2935. Mon Oct 09 2023. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 34.2935, Calls: iMean7 - Meaning in Social Interaction: Language and Inclusion

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Date: 08-Oct-2023
From: Kate Steel [kate3.steel at uwe.ac.uk]
Subject: iMean7 - Meaning in Social Interaction: Language and Inclusion


Full Title: iMean7 - Meaning in Social Interaction: Language and
inclusion
Short Title: iMean7

Date: 19-Jun-2024 - 21-Jun-2024
Location: Bristol, United Kingdom
Contact Person: Kate Steel
Meeting Email: kate3.steel at uwe.ac.uk
Web Site: https://www.uwe.ac.uk/research/centres-and-groups/bcl/semina
r-series-and-events/imean

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics

Call Deadline: 14-Nov-2023

Meeting Description:

After a protracted pandemic-related pause, the iMean conference
returns in 2024. The conference adheres to its original broad theme of
Meaning in Social Interaction with a particular focus on Language and
Inclusion.

Hosted by the Bristol Centre for Linguistics (BCL), iMean7 will take
place  from Wednesday 19 June to Friday 21 June 2024 at Bristol
Business School located in the heart of UWE Bristol’s Frenchay Campus.

The submission of new papers for iMean7 is now open and we welcome
proposals for papers which address the following questions:
* How is language used in society to promote or inhibit inclusion?
* How does the way that language is used for inclusivity impact on its
structure?

Our website has full details of the conference venue and dinner,
plenary speakers, panels, abstract submission and registration.

We look forward to welcoming you to the iMean7 conference!

Call for Papers:

iMean7 adheres to iMean's original broad theme of Meaning in Social
Interaction, with a particular focus on Language and Inclusion.

THEMES:

I) SOCIAL INCLUSION MEDIATED THROUGH LANGUAGE
Language can (be used to) increase or decrease an individual’s or
group’s sense of social inclusion. The history of the 21st century
thus far shows little evidence of any progress made in the direction
of greater equality or social justice. The conference thus welcomes
papers which analyse the way that language can help or hinder
inclusion, or potentially result in exclusion. This includes, but is
not limited to, empirical studies of:
* the ways that the justice system, politicians, news outlets and
social media use language to cast events in a particular light
* the perceptions of the non-standard language used by language
learners and children with speech and language impairment.

II) LANGUAGE STRUCTURE SHAPED THROUGH SOCIAL INCLUSION
But the desire for inclusion can also shape language, through the
development of particular language policies aimed at promoting greater
equality – the loss of grammatical gender in Dutch and the use of
particular pronouns such as ‘they, them’ in English spring to mind.

The conference thus also welcomes studies which look at such
developments in the language – and in the criticism which is sometimes
evoked by such developments with epithets such as ‘politically
correct’ or ‘woke-ism’, serving to try to undermine legitimate
attempts to combat discrimination.

In a similar vein, we welcome reports of studies which look at the way
that social inclusiveness has an impact on language structure, at
various levels of linguistic analysis.

CALL FOR PAPERS:

We welcome proposals for papers which address the following questions:
* how is language used in society to promote or inhibit inclusion?
(Here we would expect focused studies in e.g. the forensic, media,
educational, health or justice fields.)
* how does the way that language is used for inclusivity impact on its
structure? (Here we would expect detailed studies at the phonological,
grammatical, semantic and discourse-pragmatic levels.)

PLENARY SPEAKERS:

Dr Aditi Bhatia, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Professor Innocent Chiluwa, University of Freiburg
Dr Federica Formato, University of Brighton
Professor Rodney Jones, University of Reading
Professor Yvonne Wren, Bristol Speech & Language Therapy Research
Unit.

PANELS:

The conference will host the following panels to which you can propose
a paper:

- Professor Jo Angouri and Professor Meredith Marra: Advancing
inclusion in the workplace.
- Dr Kate Beeching: Discourse markers and inclusion.
- Dr Kate Steel: Language, inclusion and the law.
- Professor Yvonne Wren: Promoting inclusion through speech and
language therapy.

Panel descriptions can be found on the conference website.

Or you can propose your own panel (with a minimum of four thematically
focused papers). Contact Kate Beeching (kate.beeching at uwe.ac.uk) if
you would like to propose a panel.

POSTERS:
We also welcome proposals for posters.

ABSTRACT STYLESHEET:
Your abstract should be about 300 words long, and may include
citations but no references list.

Abstract submission link:
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=imean7
Deadline: Tuesday 14 November 2023



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