[Linganth] AAA CFP: Youth Language Practices in Digital Media and Performing Arts

[Suzie Telep]

Hello everyone,

Asif Agha and I are putting together a AAA panel on 'Youth Language
Practices in Digital Media and Performing Arts', with a focus on
multimodality and intersectional approaches crossing race, gender,
sexuality, ethnicity and/or class (abstract below). If your research fits
well with this topic and if you are interested in participating, please
email me (sutelep at sas.upenn.edu) with a short description of your paper
idea by *next Friday, March 3*.

Best wishes,

Suzie Telep

*AAA CFP: Youth Language Practices in Digital Media and Performing Arts*

*Organizer*: Suzie Telep (University of Pennsylvania & University of Paris)
*Discussant*: Asif Agha (University of Pennsylvania)

This panel focuses on youth language practices and their key role in the
construction of youth identities through digital media and performing arts.
It also aims to contribute to a more global and comparative perspective
between youth language practices worldwide. By studying youth languages in
mediatized practices, our goal is to describe the role these latter play in
the stabilization of new linguistic practices through enregisterment
processes (Agha 2007), their social indexicalities, and the linguistic
ideologies they are associated with. The analysis should take into account
issues of production for and reception by a targeted audience (Bell 1984,
2001), and show how these different parameters impact language choices in
media and artistic practices.We can also describe how language practices in
these “staged performances” (Bell and Gibson 2011) by young speakers can
trigger social change and have an impact on everyday language practices.
The multimodality of these practices should be addressed, with an attention
to the physicality of performance (Bell and Gibson 2011). The analysis can
focus on the relationships between language, music and other non linguistic
modalities such as settings, appearance, movement and gesture, etc., and
show how these semiotic registers or styles (Eckert 2000) contribute to the
enregisterment of new social indexicalities associated with the youth in a
given society.

This panel also aims to adopt an intersectional approach to youth language
practices in mediatized performances. We want to shed light on the
(re)production of gender identities through youth language practices, in
relation with race, class, ethnicity, sexuality, and space (Bucholtz 2009,
Maribe & Brookes 2014, Smalls 2018, Telep 2022). Youth languages are often
socially perceived as male practices, but few studies have shown so far how
these practices function to produce and maintain gender divisions. How
mediatized and artistic representations of these languages, in particular,
tend to (re)produce, maintain or challenge this gender ideology? We also
suggest adopting a more intersectional perspective illuminating how these
practices can be performed in order to challenge other social hierarchies
such as race and class power relations, thus contributing to
socio-political change.

Finally, with the spread of communication technologies, young users in
cities around the world have access to global cultural forms in
unprecedented ways and to new language communities of practice which are
anchored in multiple
local and global networks. Therefore, through the study of youth language
practices in social media and performing arts, we aim to rethink the
notions of “community of practice” and “linguistic community”, by
discussing how these practices on “virtual” spaces modify the parameters
that are typical of a traditionally local or regional community of practice.
-- 
Suzie Telep
PhD in Linguistics, University of Paris
*Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow*
*University of Pennsylvania, Department of Anthropology*
*National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations (Sedyl -
CNRS), Paris, France*
Suzie Telep | Department of Anthropology (upenn.edu)
<https://anthropology.sas.upenn.edu/people/suzie-telep>
Suzie Telep – Sedyl (cnrs.fr)
<https://sedyl.cnrs.fr/membres/post-docs-et-cdd/suzie-telep/>

*Recent publications:*



*Penser la race dans les approches sociales du langage: Revue Langage et
société 2022/3 | Cairn.info
<https://www.cairn.info/revue-langage-et-societe-2022-3.html>Performing an
ethos of a dominant Black woman in Paris through body and language: passing
at the intersection of race, gender, and class | CFC Intersections
(liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk)
<https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/cfci.2022.6>*
Performing Whiteness, Troubling Blackness: Afropolitanism and the Visual
Politics of Black Bodies in YouTube Videos | Signs and Society: Vol 9, No 2
(uchicago.edu) <https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/714423>
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