28.4540, Calls: Lexicography/Slovenia

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Subject: 28.4540, Calls: Lexicography/Slovenia

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Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 11:49:22
From: Eva Nossem [e.nossem at mx.uni-saarland.de]
Subject: Queer(ing) Lexicography: towards truly inclusive dictionary-making?

 
Full Title: Queer(ing) Lexicography: towards truly inclusive dictionary-making? 

Date: 17-Jul-2018 - 21-Jul-2018
Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia 
Contact Person: Eva Nossem
Meeting Email: e.nossem at mx.uni-saarland.de

Linguistic Field(s): Lexicography 

Call Deadline: 26-Nov-2017 

Meeting Description:

The role of dictionaries in society at large has been theorized and critiqued
also with respect to hidden ideologies (e.g. Kachru & Kahane, 1995). Due to
the fact that Unidentified Authorising Dictionaries (Moon, 1989) are often
drawn on to legitimize and naturalize discriminatory discourses, they have
been subjected to critical linguistic scrutiny. While feminist critique has
yielded somewhat satisfactory results (Hoem Iversen, 2005), insights into
constructions of sexuality are scarce (Pakuła, 2018). The few studies
exploring non-heterosexual aspects of macro- and megastructures point to the
inherent positioning of heterosexuality as an unquestioned norm and thus – in
the educational context – might inhibit language learning, as is the case with
textbooks and in-class interactions (see Pavlenko, 2004; Nelson, 2009).
Somewhat disappointingly, there seems to be little resonance between what is
done in the field of critical applied linguistics and metalexicography, as
each camp preaches to the already converted (cf. Russell, 2012). This panel
sets out to bridge these two (seemingly distant) worlds.

“’Queer’ is one of a handful of terms in English that establish references by
opposition and exclusion, not just by simple description. That is, instead of
identifying properties that the object under discussion contains, calling
something ‘queer’ suggests that it is out of place in some sense, that is
excessive and overextended, that it disrupts and subverts an otherwise
tranquil domain.” (Leap 1996: 101). The tranquil domain queer aims at
disrupting and subverting in this panel is lexicography and the related
disciplines involved in the mono- and interlingual dictionary-making. This
panel on “Queer(ing) Lexicography” (Nossem 2018) aims at showcasing
possibilities to overcome the apparent opposition between the anti-normative
‘queer’ that resists definition and can be seen as a “linguistic experiment,
namely as a signifier without a stable signified” (Barrett 2002: 27), and the
theory and practice of lexicography, with its focus on definitions and
classifications (Nossem 2018). 

In accordance with Motschenbacher, who explains that “Queer Linguistics
transfers ideas from Queer Theory to linguistics” (2011: 6), we aim at further
developing the field of Queer Lexicography by uniting ideas and concepts from
Queer Theory and Queer Studies, and lexicography, i.e. by integrating an
interdisciplinary heteronormativity research in the field of lexicography. By
introducing queer approaches, and in the spirit of action research (Burr,
1995) we want to question normalized practices in lexicography,
metalexicography, lexicology, semantics, corpus linguistics, and other
linguistic fields, especially in their relation to dictionary-making. We
propose to examine the linguistic manifestation of heteronormativity and,
connected with it, binary gender and sexual identity discourses (Bing &
Bergvall 1996 in Motschenbacher 2011: 21) as well as the instrumental use of
dictionaries in public and media discourses with view of appreciating the
multitude of sexual and gender identities of dictionary users (and compilers).


Call for Papers:

“Queer(ing) Lexicography: towards truly inclusive dictionary-making?”

We invite abstract submissions for papers on the topic of “Queer(ing)
Lexicography” for the Euralex 2018 conference in Ljubljana, 17-21 July 2018
 
Please send abstracts no longer than 300 words (excluding references) to Eva
Nossem (e.nossem at mx.uni-saarland.de) and Łukasz Pakuła (l.pakula at gmail.com) by
26 November 2017.




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