[Linganth] CFP SS21 panel: Language, Mobility & the Sports Economy (Murcia, June 2016)

[Emanuel da Silva]

(Apologies for cross-posting)


Dear colleagues,


Alfonso Del Percio (University of Oslo, Norway) and I, Emanuel da Silva
(University of Jyväskylä, Finland), are seeking paper proposals to round
out a panel/colloquium on the topic of “*Language, Mobility and the Sports
Economy*” that we will submit to the Sociolinguistics Symposium 21 (Murcia,
June 15-18, 2016). http://www.um.es/web/sociolinguistics-symposium21/


<http://www.um.es/web/sociolinguistics-symposium21/>

*Working panel abstract:*











*Although the academic study of sport and its intersections with national
identity politics, colonial legacies, gender relations, and
commercialization has grown in the fields of sociology, anthropology, and
economics, especially in the last 20 to 30 years, the study of sport within
sociolinguistics remains underdeveloped. This panel strives to advance
critical sociolinguistic reflection on language and discourse in sport,
within the complex conditions of the globalizing economy and mobility.
Starting from the assumption that circulating communicative resources (e.g.
dialects, registers, styles, multilingualisms), mobile discourses (of the
nation, the body, tokens of authenticity, etc.), as well as moving bodies
(of sports workers, media personnel, agents and fans) are key resources of
globalizing sport industries, this panel will raise the following
questions: a) What is the status of mobile languages, discourses and bodies
within the framework of a transnational sports industry? i.e., How does the
professional sports economy invest in these resources? For whom? For what
purposes? b) What are considered prestigious languages, discourses and
bodies within local and globalizing sport economies? i.e., Who gets to
produce, circulate and consume these resources in which commercial sports
markets? Under what conditions? c) What tokens of expertise are mobilized
to legitimize and authorize the forms of difference and inequality
(re)produced by the sports industries' investment in language, discourse
and mobility? By exploring professional sport as a nexus where attitudes or
ideologies of language, localism, (trans)nationalism, migration, gender,
the body, labor, and profit intersect, this panel will gather
sociolinguists and ethnographers working on different sectors of the sports
economy to investigate how athletes, their commodifiers and their consumers
negotiate relations of prestige and power. *

 *Panel/paper details:*
Ideally, we'd like the panel/colloquium to include a diversity of
professional sport experiences from a diversity of regions and presenters,
therefore proposals that deal with sports other than white men in
football/soccer and hockey are strongly recommended. We also welcome paper
proposals from diverse but related fields of research (including
sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, sociology/anthropology of
sports, and sports economics) so as to shed light on the interrelated
linguistic, discursive, social, political and economic resources in sport.


In order to fill the remaining panel slots as quickly as possible and
finalize the proposal for submission, we ask that you inform us of your
interest to contribute to this panel within the next few days (or by July
20 at the latest) and briefly outline, in a few sentences, the topic of the
paper you would like us to consider.


Please circulate within your networks, but send all responses and questions
to Emanuel da Silva (emanuel.dasilva at gmail.com) and Alfonso Del Percio (
alfonso.delpercio at gmail.com).


Our many thanks,


Emanuel da Silva

Postdoctoral Researcher
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Alfonso Del Percio

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
https://uio.academia.edu/AlfonsoDelPercio
Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan - MultiLing (CoE)
Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies P.O box 1102, Blindern
0317 Oslo, Norway
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