[Ethnocomm] Call for abstracts AAAL 2018 (colloquium on tourism)

[Gavin Lamb]

 Dear Colleagues,

Please consider submitting an abstract for the following colloquium.
Apologies for cross-posting, and feel free to distribute widely.

Kind regards,
Gavin

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American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL 2018).
Chicago, IL
March 24 – 27, 2018

*Colloquium title: *An applied linguistics approach to tourism at the nexus
of language, materiality, and mobility

*Organizers: *Gavin Lamb and Christina Higgins, University of Hawai‘i at
Mānoa

*Abstract:*

This colloquium builds on sociolinguistic research in tourism (Heller,
Jaworski & Thurlow, 2014; Thurlow & Jaworski, 2010), semiotic landscapes
(Scollon & Scollon, 2003; Shohamy & Gorter, 2008), and multilingual and
multimodal practices (Otsuji & Pennycook, 2015; Creese & Blackledge, 2017)
to explore how tourism spaces are formed at the nexus of language,
mobility, and materiality. Through foregrounding how human activities and
practices operate in tourism contexts, we address a number of applied
linguistics concerns, including language learning, language teaching,
ecolinguistics, intercultural communication, and commodification. While
language plays a central role in this dynamic process, the colloquium
focuses on how these applied linguistics issues operate dynamically in
relation to material components such as tourism industries, urban planning,
conservation efforts, and transportation routes. The collection of papers
considers how applied linguistics research on tourism can offer
implications for stakeholders at social, political, ecological, and
economic levels. Key questions the colloquium will address include:

•  In what ways does tourism shape language learning and language teaching,
both in classrooms and “in the wild”?

•  How do discourses and multilingual practices in tourism contexts relate
to efforts to achieve sustainability, including the conservation of
natural spaces?

•  How are discourses and multilingual practices in tourism contexts
involved in the commodification of places?

•  How do tourism practices homogenize or diversify the built semiotic
landscape in particular places or transportation routes?

•  How is intercultural communication in touristic encounters shaped by the
semiotic and material conditions of tourist destinations?

If you are interested in presenting a paper on this colloquium, please
submit a title, institutional information and 300 word abstract to the
organizers, Gavin Lamb (lambg at hawaii.edu) and Christina Higgins (
cmhiggin at hawaii.edu) by July 30th, 2017 for consideration.

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Gavin Lamb
PhD Candidate, Department of Second Language Studies
University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
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