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Subject: 23.678, Calls: Sociolinguistics/ Social Semiotics (Jrnl)

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Date: 09-Feb-2012
From: Mark Robinson [mark.robinson at tandf.co.uk]
Subject: Social Semiotics


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Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:43:17
From: Mark Robinson [mark.robinson at tandf.co.uk]
Subject: Social Semiotics

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Full Title: Social Semiotics 


Call Deadline: 02-Mar-2012 

Special Issue of 'Social Semiotics'
www.tandfonline.com/csos

Topic: Objects and language in trans-contextual communication

Guest editors:
Gabriele Budach (Southampton), Catherine Kell (Cape Town) & Donna Patrick 
(Ottawa)

The study of objects has a long history in modern philosophy, anthropology 
and in semiotics. Central to this work has been the study of objects and their 
meanings in relation to material culture, the arts, fashion, and design. This 
special issue adds to this research with a specific focus on 'objects and 
language' and the role played by non-linguistic objects in shaping linguistic 
communicative and social processes across contexts.

The study of objects has not been at the centre of linguistic study so far, but 
can shed new light on central questions of sociolinguistic enquiry. Objects 
carry meaning and instantiate power and ideology in situations of 
communication. As objects move, they enter into new ensembles of 
participant frameworks, bundles of semiotic and discursive resources and 
associated artefacts. They thereby elicit shifting social interactions and 
language practices and recontextualise knowledge and social hierarchies in 
different environments. Studying such practices offers new ways to 
understand how material culture and language practices are connected and 
how power and ideologies are distributed across contexts. This new approach 
benefits both studies on material culture and linguistics. More broadly, this 
special issue will contribute to a new area of study for social semiotics which 
addresses the call for a 'spatialisation of social sciences' and for which we 
propose to develop a framework for 'trans-contextual' analysis.

We invite papers that explore the role of objects and their associated social 
and socio-linguistic interactions across space and time.  Papers should 
consider the role of objects in terms of their impact on shaping broader social 
processes, language ideologies, and relations of power. Such objects can 
include linguistic texts (both analogue and digital), together with non-animate 
objects (like jewellery, concrete blocks, fishing rods, toys and so on) and 
other culturally assembled pieces, like fashion items and artistic productions 
which are recontextualised as they cross time and space. We welcome 
papers, from a broad and interdisciplinary range of conceptual frameworks 
(e.g. New Literacy Studies, social semiotics and multimodality, discourse 
analysis, social geography, linguistic ethnography, communication and 
cultural studies) that study the role of objects in trans-contextual encounters 
and their social impact.

Deadlines:

Submission of abstract: March 2, 2012.

Submission of manuscript: August 27, 2012

If you wish to contribute to this special issue, please submit an abstract of 
500 words including a title and key references to Gabriele Budach 
(G.Budach at soton.ac.uk)





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