[Linganth] Sociolinguistic Symposium 22 - CFP: Verbal and visceral: Connections and cracks between expression and experience

[Seran Gee]

Hello colleagues,

Please see below for a CFP for Sociolinguistic Symposium 22 (June 2018).
Please share this call widely and let me know if you have any questions.

Best regards,
Seran
	Call for papers: Sociolinguistic Symposium 22 in Auckland, NZ, June 27-30,
2018 

	Organizer: Seran Gee (York University) 

	Discussant: Professor Tommaso Milani (University of Gothenburg) 

	Verbal and visceral: Connections and cracks between expression and
experience 

	This panel seeks to explore the entanglements that bind and the fissures
that separate affect and discourse. For many proponents of the affective
turn in the social sciences and humanities, affect is an
‘extra-discursive’ (i.e. beyond discourse) phenomenon or instance of
intense feeling (e.g. Massumi 2002). In conceptualizing affect as a
pre-discursive phenomenon, scholars can examine social realities through a
non-representational framework. That is, rather than focusing on how
objects and phenomena are represented, the focus becomes the objects and
phenomena themselves. Opponents of this view, however, contend that affect
and discourse are not easily (or productively) unentangled. For example,
Wetherell (2013), synthesizing empirically driven psychological research
and research in the humanities, argues that affective practice is better
understood as a continuum of meaning-making and that incorporating a
discourse analytic framework more effectively produces rich analyses of
social life. This panel seeks to contribute to this debate by addressing
the role of discourse (if any) in affect studies and the application of
affect theory to the understanding of meaning-making.  Please send your
title and abstract (max 300 words) to Seran Gee (sgee at yorku.ca
(mailto:sgee at yorku.ca)) by August 10, 2017. 
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