25.3782, Calls: Sociolinguistics/Hong Kong

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LINGUIST List: Vol-25-3782. Fri Sep 26 2014. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 25.3782, Calls: Sociolinguistics/Hong Kong

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Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 16:02:47
From: Agnes Kang [makang at LN.edu.hk]
Subject: Articulating Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Asia

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Full Title: Articulating Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Asia 

Date: 03-Jun-2015 - 06-Jun-2015
Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong 
Contact Person: Agnes Kang
Meeting Email: makang at LN.edu.hk

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 28-Sep-2014 

Meeting Description:

Panel Title:

Articulating Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Asia
Sociolinguistics of Globalization conference; HKU, June 2015

Co-organizers: M. Agnes Kang (Lingnan University) and Mie Hiramoto (NUS)
Discussant: Michelle Lazar (NUS)

Research on sociolinguistic approaches to globalization have investigated “the intensified flows of capital, goods, people, images and discourses around the globe” (Blommaert 2010:13), including the circulating images, discourses and representations of language, gender and sexuality. McElhinny (2007), in her introduction to a volume addressing language and gender issues in light of global economic and political change, notes that “gender often becomes a key tool for signaling differentiation, and is used as a form of legitimation, especially at moments of significant social change”(2). In this panel, we explore in particular how social changes may be signaled in social identities, stereotypes and categories emerging in contemporary Asia and consider the influence of globalization in negotiating their meanings. Questions to be discussed include (but are not limited to):

- How do global images/representations of gender, class, and sexuality interact with local ideologies of femininity/masculinity?
- How are gender and sexuality influenced by macro socioeconomic and sociocultural processes of modernization and globalization?
- What connections can be identified between macro social processes and language? 
- How does the de-centering of binaries in gender studies affect emerging social categories linked to gender, class and sexuality within the context of newly forming political economies?
- How are emerging social experiences and gender/sexual identities ideologized in local contexts?

2nd Call for Papers:

We welcome abstracts for the panel proposed below for the conference. Please send abstracts to panel organizers by September 28, 2014. Notifications of acceptance will be issued before the conference abstract deadline.

Panel Organizers:

M. Agnes Kang (makang at LN.edu.hk)
Mie Hiramoto (ellmh at nus.edu.sg)

References:

Blommaert, Jan. 2010. The Sociolinguistics of Globalization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

McElhinny, Bonnie. 2007. Words, Worlds, and Material Girls: Language, Gender, Globalization. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.







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