27.1611, Calls: Anthropological Linguistics; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics/ Punctum (Jrnl)

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Subject: 27.1611, Calls: Anthropological Linguistics; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics/ Punctum (Jrnl)

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Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2016 13:49:52
From: Evangelos Kourdis [ekourdis at frl.auth.gr]
Subject: Anthropological Linguistics; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics/ Punctum (Jrnl)

 
Full Title: Punctum 


Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Sep-2016 

The cross-fertilization between anthropology and semiotics, stretching back to
Levi-Strauss's structural anthropology, has repeatedly reinvigorated both
disciplines, all the while encouraging rapprochements and interdisciplinarity
across a wide range of disciplinary fields. Ethnography, on the other hand,
the once distinctive methodology of anthropological research, was a less
common point of convergence between anthropology and semiotics, even though it
has long been a favorite fieldwork tool of qualitative socio-cultural
researchers. Geertz's 'interpretative anthropology', whereby a semiotic
conception of culture as 'webs of significance' is coupled with the
prioritization of the thick description of the pragmatics of social life,
social semiotics' emphasis on social action, context and use, as well as
critical ethnography's sensitivity to issues of agency, power and reflexivity,
lay down the broad outlines of this special issue's problematics.

More specifically, this special issue of Punctum aims to foreground the
fertile interplay of semiotics and ethnography in the critical analysis and
interpretation of context-bound social action and symbolic interaction,
particularly as it concerns the immersive engagement with sites and microcosms
non-discernible by other means of research, that enriches our non-reductive
understandings of the contemporary. Welcoming both ethnographically based
semiotic research and semiotically informed ethnographies, as well as relevant
theoretical elaborations, we encourage the authors' focus on the lived
experience of meaning, the processes of contestation/negotiation/construction
of meaning, hybridity and performativity, agency and reflexivity, grounded
theory and concept production.

Prospective authors should submit an abstract of approximately 300 words by
mail to Eleftheria Deltsou (eldelt at uth.gr) and Fotini Tsibiridou (ft at uom.gr)
including affiliation and contact information. Αcceptance of the abstract does
not guarantee publication, given that all research articles will be put
through the journal's peer review process.




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