24.1089, Calls: Anthropological Ling, Discourse Analysis, Socioling/USA

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Subject: 24.1089, Calls: Anthropological Ling, Discourse Analysis, Socioling/USA

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Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2013 10:16:16
From: Nathaniel Dumas [ndumas at linguistics.ucsb.edu]
Subject: Troubling and (Re)making the Masculine Voice of Publics: Language Variation as a Semiotic Resource for Competing Masculinities

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Full Title: Troubling and (Re)making the Masculine Voice of Publics:  Language Variation as a Semiotic Resource for Competing Masculinities 

Date: 20-Nov-2013 - 24-Nov-2013
Location: Chicago, IL, USA 
Contact Person: Nathaniel Dumas
Meeting Email: ndumas at linguistics.ucsb.edu

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 05-Mar-2013 

Meeting Description:

Troubling and (Re)making the Masculine Voice of Publics:  Language Variation as a Semiotic Resource for Competing Masculinities
Co-Organizers: Nathaniel W. Dumas (University of California, Santa Barbara) and Qiuana Lopez (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Discussants: Asif Agha (University of Pennsylvania) and Scott Kiesling (University of Pittsburgh)

Ethnographic studies of publics from sociocultural and linguistic anthropologists have demonstrated the complex nature in which publics are ongoingly experienced, constructed, and deployed as powerful mechanisms for recruiting (dis)identification with particular subjectivities (e.g., Amrute 2010; Briggs 2005; Gal and Woolard 2001; Subijanto 2011). From the beginning, scholars underscored the idea that publics are racialized, sexualized, and engendered in diverse and conflicting ways, particularly around the question of male hegemony. As Warner (2002) observes, publics operate as resources for (gendered) poetic world-making, which includes the production of selected masculine voices and evaluation of those voices as preferred, natural, and, at times, unmarked. At the same time, sociolinguists and linguistic anthropologists of variation have reconsidered masculinity as a metapragmatic label that does not always refer to communicative practices exclusively done by men (e.g., Kiesling 2005, 2011; Milani 2011; see also Halberstam 1998). Masculinity has come to be seen as a social accomplishment by social actors through culturally recognized performatives, including variation, that competes with other masculinities for dominance in communicative contexts. However, most of this work privileges the language ideology of the vernacular as a private and authentic site for researching the construction of masculinity, with little detail to the leaky boundaries between public and private (Hill 2001) for the construction of identity. 

In this vein, this panel brings understandings of variation as indexing multiple masculinities in conversation with research on the complex dynamics of publics. In particular, we seek to bring together scholars that continue to complexify the heuristic of ‘publics’ by shifting the discussion away from publics as male-dominated to a focus on publics as arenas of competing performatives of masculinities, particularly voicing via variation and its combination with other semiotic resources by social actors within and beyond conventional gender dichotomies.

Call for Papers:

We are seeking possible papers on topics that may include but are not limited to:

- How do social actors use sociolinguistic variation, as an indexical field (Eckert 2008), for constructing multiple and, at times, conflicting masculinities within publics?
- In what ways do social actors and institutions draw on discourses of metapragmatic regimentation (Silverstein 1993) for legitimizing and delegitimizing (non)acceptable masculinities in publics?
- How do publics restrict different masculinities from being displayed through discourses on variation that seem to be gender-less? 
- In what ways do publics differentially value racial, sexual, and class masculinities performed by men, women, and transgendered persons through variation and other semiotic resources?
- How do social actors negotiate and/or contest the leaky boundaries between publics and private space (Hill 2001) while doing various masculinities via variation?

Please send a 200-word abstract by March 5 to ndumas at linguistics.ucsb.edu for consideration. If you have any further questions, email the same address as well. NOTE: We may consider extensions up until March 10 if contacted in time.







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