7.408, Calls: English & Islam, Ling anthropology

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-7-408. Tue Mar 19 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines:  207

Subject: 7.408, Calls: English & Islam, Ling anthropology

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Date:  Fri, 15 Mar 1996 08:56:55 CST
From:  llerwin at prairienet.org (Linda L. Erwin)
Subject:  Call for Papers: English & Islam

2)
Date:  Sat, 16 Mar 1996 18:10:47 PST
From:  gbp at nevada.edu ("Gary B. Palmer")
Subject:  Call for Papers for Session at AAA meetings

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Date:  Fri, 15 Mar 1996 08:56:55 CST
From:  llerwin at prairienet.org (Linda L. Erwin)
Subject:  Call for Papers: English & Islam

CALL FOR PAPERS

"English and Islam: Creative Encounters"
An International Conference organized by the Department of English
Language and Literature of the International Islamic University,
Malaysia, December 20-22, 1996

The important historical links between literature in English and
Islamic creativity and thought have been long established. In
addition, the relationship between the English language and Islam has
great significance in contemporary times as the English language
continues to play an important role as a conveyer of knowledge about
Islam to the international community. Further, Western and global
cultures, often accessible in English, will no doubt continue to
connect with the Muslim world in diverse ways.

This international conference hopes to explore both the historical and
contemporary manifestations of these linguistic, literary, and
intercultural connections, to provide a platform for exchanging ideas,
knowledge, and aspirations, and to project future directions for
relating English language/literature and Islamic creativity. Topics of
interest might include (but are not limited to):

Critical assessment of literature in English by Muslim authors;
interpretations of the image of Islam in different eras of English-
language literature; the impact of Islamic culture on the development
of the English language; the genesis, development, and prospects of
"Islamic English"; a critical survey of translations of the Quran;
analyses of the style and content of Islamic religious texts in
English (translated and original works); the influence of Islamic
texts on English-language writers; the application of Islamic literary
theory and criticism to English-language literature; Islamic
perspectives on linguistic theory and the Muslim scholar's
contribution to this field; the teaching of English language and
literature in an Islamic educational environment; the teaching of
Islamic literature in an English-language educational environment;
English-language works and the Muslim author: a study in
intertextuality; Islamic input into the field of comparative literary
theory and criticism; the contribution of English language and
literary studies in developing awareness of self- and social
responsibility among Muslim students.

The conference will be held in Kuala Lumpur at the new permanent site
of the Institute of Islamic Understanding--Malaysia.

Abstracts of approximately 250 words and the applicant's biodata of
not more than 50 words (both in English) should be sent by April 30,
1996 to:

Dr. Nur Nina Zuhra, Acting Head, Department of English Language and
Literature, International Islamic University Malaysia, Jalan
Universiti, 46350 Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia

OR e-mail to:

english at its.iiu.my

Visit our web page at:

http://www.iiu.my/IIUM/nina.htm

Notification of acceptance will be sent by June 15, 1996. Inquiries
may be addressed to Dr. Nur Nina Zuhra, fax (03) 757-6045.
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Date:  Sat, 16 Mar 1996 18:10:47 PST
From:  gbp at nevada.edu ("Gary B. Palmer")
Subject:  Call for Papers for Session at AAA meetings

  Dear members of linguist list:
  Debra Occhi and I are organizing a session
  on "Languages of Sentiment" for the AAA meetings
  to be held in San Francisco Nov. 20-24, 1996.
  and we are looking for participants.  If you
  would like to join our session please send me
  an abstract of 250 words or less and I will
  respond with complete information within one working day.
  Our session proposal has to be submitted by April 1.
  Gary Palmer

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  Gary B. Palmer
  Department of Anthropology and Ethnic Studies (5003)
  University of Nevada, Las Vegas 89154

  fax:  702-895-4357, phone: 702-895-3379
  http://www.nevada.edu/home/6/gbp
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  Volunteered Session on Languages of Sentiment for the 95th
  Annual Meeting of the AAA, submitted to the Society for
  Linguistic Anthropology.

  Organizers:  Gary Palmer and Debra Occhi
  Chair:  Debra Occhi

  LANGUAGES OF SENTIMENT

  ABSTRACT

  Since Radcliffe-Brown's 1922 study of social sentiments in
  the ceremonial life of the Andaman Islanders, culturally
  defined emotional dispositions have been studied by
  anthropologists from various perspectives.  In addition to
  the structural-functionalism of Radcliffe-Brown,
  anthropologists have studied emotions from the standpoints of
  configurationalism and psychological anthropology.  In
  general, previous studies of emotions in non-Western
  societies have been criticized by Lutz (1988) for
  essentializing emotions as psychobiological universals and
  reifying a culture-bound distinction between emotion and
  cognition (Lutz 1988; Abu-Lughod and Lutz 1990).

  During the 1980s and 1990s, cognitive and cognitive
  linguistic approaches have argued for emotional relativism in
  which emotions are not regarded as mere feeling states, but
  are governed by dimensions of cognition or rationality (Lutz
  1988; White 1992; Kovecses, 1987, 1988, 1990; Lazarus 1995;
  D'Andrade 1995; Wierzbicka 1986) and pragmatism (Lutz 1988;
  Abu-Lughod and Lutz 1990).  Meanwhile, interpretivist and
  postmodernist anthropologists have studied the ideology of
  sentiments and the relationships between sentiments and
  perceptions of identity.  For example, they have described
  the veiled sentiments of longing for forbidden lovers
  experienced by Bedouin wives and anger-like emotions of
  Ilongot headhunters (Abu-Lughod 1986; Rosaldo, M. 1989;
  Rosaldo, R. 1980, 1989).

  Cognitive approaches are often criticized as static,
  ignoring the crucial role of discourse as the locus of
  meaning.  On the other hand, interpretivism and postmodernism
  are regarded by many as subjective, solipsistic, and
  methodologically unsystematic.  These tensions in
  contemporary theory suggest interesting problems:  How might
  they be reconciled to provide a more comprehensive
  understanding of feeling states, emotions, and social
  sentiments?  And how might cognitive approaches contribute to
  the study of questions raised by postmodernists concerning
  the inscription of culture on the feeling body, the social
  diffuseness of identity, and the hegemony of discourses of
  power over human abilities to feel and express emotions?

  The papers in this session begin with the premise that
  emotions are represented cognitively as culturally
  constructed discourse scenarios that comprise social actions,
  speech, and feeling states.  It is these "scenarios of
  sentiment" that underly performance in the discourses of
  politics, economics, kinship and religion.  Scenarios of
  sentiment enable us to appraise events and participate as
  performers in emotional discourses.  Our identities as social
  agents are embedded in these scenarios of sentiment.
  Depending upon the location of communities and persons at
  privileged or marginalized sites in our increasingly diffused
  and distressed world culture, such scenarios, and the
  identities that exist through them, may be either clearly
  formed or fragmented, multifarious, and indistinct.  The
  emotional meanings that emerge in actual discourses depend on
  the clarity of reigning scenarios of sentiment.  If clearly
  formed, scenarios of sentiment may be abstracted and
  organized by schemas such as personal honor (dangal) and
  social respect (galang) in the Philippines.

  The papers present pertinent data obtained through
  interviews or participant observation.  Such data may
  include, but is not limited to, verbal descriptions of
  emotion language, narratives of emotional events, patterns of
  metaphor and metonymy, and segments of actual discourse.
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