26.2451, Calls: Ling & Literature/Tunisia

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LINGUIST List: Vol-26-2451. Tue May 12 2015. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 26.2451, Calls: Ling & Literature/Tunisia

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Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 13:06:19
From: Mongia Arfa [Mongiaarfa at yahoo.fr]
Subject: Space and Identity

Full Title: Space and Identity 

Date: 29-Oct-2015 - 31-Oct-2015
Location: Tunis, Tunisia 
Contact Person: Mongia ARFA
Meeting Email: mongiaarfa at gmail.com

Linguistic Field(s): Ling & Literature 

Call Deadline: 15-Jun-2015 

Meeting Description:

The significance of the academic questions raised by the issue of space-reference in the last three decades lies in the outcome of a paradox that seems to emanate from this given. Identity, therefore, is built on the duality between stability and movement and defined by self-representation. P. Tap’s definition of the concept of identity, based on conferring it a set of representations and feelings that may be developed by a subject about his/her own self, is regarded as more accurate than other definitions (P. Tap, Identités collectives et changements sociaux, 1986). It means that identity “springs from a voluntary effort continuously made by the subject in order to manage its own continuity and its coherence in the form of a perpetual change […]” (C. Dubar, La socialisation: construction des identités sociales et professionnelles, 1991).

A similar approach that translates an urgent need to adjust the subject’s situation, as far as his/her identity is concerned, risks to incite a persistent disorientation on the individual as well as on the collective levels. The same initiative can provoke a distortion of the real and the virtual. As a result, the subject appropriates space in which he/she exists. He/she can get into a process of identifying his/her original space as he/she can immigrate or be exiled in a movement of (un)conscious rupture that can be concretized through virtual reading or social networks.

Taking into consideration the complexity of the paradigm “space and identity”, participants are encouraged to scrutinise and develop diverse approaches. The first approach examines present-absent referential space, its value, its function and its action concerning identity in its different contexts and epochs. The second considers the relationship of the so-called paradigm, its influences and/or implications and how they enter into a state of play within its composition. These influences may be conscious or unconscious, positive or negative.

A multidisciplinary reading of diverse domains, i.e. literary, linguistic, psychological, anthropological and social, allows the essence of the relation “space - identity” to be scrutinized, and their continuity and discontinuity inherent in the act of adaptation-readaptation and appropriation-reappropriation to be examined. This reading proves to be fundamental at once to self-construction and to acknowledging the other. 

Call for Papers:

Axes of Reflection: 

1. Space and Identity in Literature

- The city as an “identitarian” space
- Travel literature
- The real and the fictional
- The private and the public

2. Space and Identity in Linguistics

- The notion of space in the case theory
- The expression of spatial cognition in language
- Mental spaces in cognitive semantics
- Space and identity in sociolinguistics

3. Space and Identity in Human Sciences

- Space and Culture
- Ethnicity and Ideology
- Individuality and communal membership

Please fill in the attached application form and send it with the abstract of your proposition (300 words) via email no later than June 15, 2015 at the address of the conference: espace-identité2015 at gmail.com

Reading committee’s reply: June 30, 2015
Sending articles for publication: September 1, 2015
Reading committee’s reply: September 30, 2015
Final list of participants: October 15, 2015

Participation Form:

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