28.2923, Calls: Applied Ling/USA

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LINGUIST List: Vol-28-2923. Tue Jul 04 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.2923, Calls: Applied Ling/USA

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Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2017 15:54:28
From: Gavin Lamb [lambg at hawaii.edu]
Subject: AAAL 2018 Colloquium on Tourism

 
Full Title: AAAL 2018 Colloquium on Tourism 

Date: 24-Mar-2018 - 27-Mar-2018
Location: Chicago, IL, USA 
Contact Person: Gavin Lamb; Christina Higgins
Meeting Email: lambg at hawaii.edu

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 30-Jul-2017 

Meeting Description:

This is a colloquium to be held at American Association for Applied
Linguistics (AAAL 2018)
Chicago, IL, March 24-27, 2018

Colloquium Organizers: Gavin Lamb and Christina Higgins, University of Hawai'i
at Mānoa

Colloquium title: ''An applied linguistics approach to tourism at the nexus of
language, materiality, and mobility''


Call for Papers:

This colloquium builds on sociolinguistic research in tourism (Heller,
Jaworski & Thurlow, 2014; Thurlow & Jaworski, 2010), semiotic landscapes
(Scollon & Scollon, 2003; Shohamy & Gorter, 2008), and multilingual and
multimodal practices (Otsuji & Pennycook, 2015; Creese & Blackledge, 2017) to
explore how tourism spaces are formed at the nexus of language, mobility, and
materiality. Through foregrounding how human activities and practices operate
in tourism contexts, we address a number of applied linguistics concerns,
including language learning, language teaching, ecolinguistics, intercultural
communication, and commodification. While language plays a central role in
this dynamic process, the colloquium focuses on how these applied linguistics
issues operate dynamically in relation to material components such as tourism
industries, urban planning, conservation efforts, and transportation routes.
The collection of papers considers how applied linguistics research on tourism
can offer implications for stakeholders at social, political, ecological, and
economic levels. Key questions the colloquium will address include:

-  In what ways does tourism shape language learning and language teaching,
both in classrooms and ''in the wild''?

-  How do discourses and multilingual practices in tourism contexts relate to
efforts to achieve sustainability, including the conservation of natural
spaces? 
 
-  How are discourses and multilingual practices in tourism contexts involved
in the commodification of places?

-  How do tourism practices homogenize or diversify the built semiotic
landscape in particular places or transportation routes? 

-  How is intercultural communication in touristic encounters shaped by the
semiotic and material conditions of tourist destinations?

If you are interested in presenting a paper in this colloquium, please send
proposals containing a title, institutional information and 300 word abstract
to the organizers Gavin Lamb (lambg at hawaii.edu) and Christina Higgins
(cmhiggin at hawaii.edu) by July 30th 2017 for consideration.  Questions and
expressions of interest are welcome earlier.




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