Call for papers: Feminisms in discourse

[Christopher Hart]

Hi Michelle,

I have put your call on the CADAAD site under news and announcements.  
Hope this is ok, if not let me know and I cant take it down.

Best,
Chris

Michelle M Lazar wrote:
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> Dear all,
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> I’m putting together a panel titled ‘/Feminisms in Discourse/’ at the 
> next Sociolinguistics Symposium, SS18, to be held in Southampton 
> (United Kingdom), 1-4 September 2010. 
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> Description of panel:
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> The terms ‘feminist’/’feminism’ are viewed in a variety of ways today: 
> with suspicion and antipathy, as outmoded and redundant, or as a 
> rallying self-identity marker for particular purposes, depending on 
> the interactants and the situations.  This panel seeks to explore how 
> notions about ‘feminists’ and/or ‘feminisms’ are construed explicitly 
> in and through discourse i.e. how that gets to be talked about, 
> represented, or acted upon in ways that may be sympathetic, 
> disengaged, hostile, cooptative and so on, in texts and talk of 
> everyday life.  Papers, based on sizeable empirical data, should 
> clearly outline the analytical framework and methodology used in the 
> study, and provide explicit and systematic analysis of the 
> communicative strategies evident in the data.  The panel aims to 
> investigate the myriad ways in which ‘feminists’ and ‘feminisms’ are 
> understood by women and men (and girls and boys) in a variety of 
> communicative settings, and cultural and (inter)national contexts.  A 
> variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives is welcome.
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> If anyone, whose research fits within the concerns of the panel, and 
> would like to participate, please contact me *directly and* 
> *privately* at ellmml at nus.edu.sg <mailto:ellmml at nus.edu.sg>  I’m 
> looking for initial expressions of interest by 26 October, followed by 
> abstracts of 500 words by 4 November.
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> Best,
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> Michelle
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> *Michelle M. Lazar (Associate Professor) *:: Assistant Dean (Graduate 
> Studies and Research),  Dean’s Office, Faculty of Arts & Social 
> Sciences :: National University of Singapore :: The Shaw Foundation 
> Building, Blk  AS7 Level 6, Division of Research and Graduate Studies, 
> 5 Arts Link, Singapore 117570 :: 65-6516 7537 (DID) :: 65-6773 2981 
> (Fax) :: fasmml at nus.edu.sg <mailto:fasmohc at nus.edu.sg> (E) :: 
> www.fas.nus.edu.sg <http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/>  (W)**
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> Academic Convenor, Gender Studies Minor Programme ::  National 
> University of Singapore :: Department of English Language and 
> Literature, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, AS5, 7 Arts Link, 
> Singapore 117570 :: 65-6516 3700 (DID) :: 65-6773 2981 (Fax) :: 
> ellmml at nus.edu.sg <mailto:ellmml at nus.edu.sg>  (E) :: 
> http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/ellmml/ (W)
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Christopher Hart
Lecturer in English Language and Communication
School of Humanities
University of Hertfordshire

www.go.herts.ac.uk/cjhart