29.3145, Calls: Discourse Analysis, Philosophy of Language/USA

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Subject: 29.3145, Calls: Discourse Analysis, Philosophy of Language/USA

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Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2018 16:23:30
From: Marika Criss [mqc5785 at psu.edu]
Subject: Integrationism and Philosophies of Language: Emerging Alternative Epistemologies in the Global North and the Global South

 
Full Title: Integrationism and Philosophies of Language: Emerging Alternative Epistemologies in the Global North and the Global South 

Date: 30-Aug-2019 - 02-Sep-2019
Location: University Park, PA, USA 
Contact Person: Sinfree Makoni
Meeting Email: sinfreemakoni at hotmail.com

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Philosophy of Language 

Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2019 

Meeting Description:

The annual International Conference on Integrationism (aka Integrational
Linguistics) will be held at the Pennsylvania State University, August 30 to
September 2, 2019, hosted by the Department of Applied Linguistics and the
African Studies program. Integrationism is a theory of communication that
emphasizes innovative participation within contexts and rejects rule-based
models of language. Integrationism rejects the notion of distinctions between
language and non-language. Ideas about integrationism have permeated
substantial areas of language studies. 

The main objective of the conference is to systematically explore the nature
of the overlap and the disjunctures between core ideas about Integrationism
and certain philosophies of language, including Socio-Cultural Theory,
Critical Discourse Theory, Identity, Translanguaging, and Systemic Functional
Theory, as well as Colonial and Postcolonial Theory.  

Growing out of these disjunctures, we hope to contribute towards the
development of scholarship in Applied Linguistics and African Studies from
decidedly Global South perspectives, that is those regions of the world which
have been the object of colonialism. These perspectives have also been labeled
under the term Southern Theory. The Global South is also found in the Global
North in regions and parts of cities occupied by immigrants and the
socio-politically and economically vulnerable. 

In addressing issues about Southern Theory in Linguistic Theory and African
Studies, participants are asked to address one or more of the following
questions: 

- How can these philosophies of language contribute to our understanding of
Southern Theory?   
- What is the impact of Southern Theory on scholarship in the Global North?
- How can a critique of Eurocentricism be made from a non-Eurocentric
perspective, and how does this perspective differ from Critical Applied
Linguistics?
- What is the nature of the relationship between decolonial theory and
Southern Theory either in Applied Linguistics or African Studies? 

Format of the conference:

The conference will be comprised of presentations of individual papers of 40
to 45 minutes, with 15 minutes for discussion and theme-related round table
discussions. 

Educational Workshops: The conference will begin with two days of workshops
(Friday, August 30, and Saturday, August 31, 2019) for graduate students and
other interested attendees that address theoretical and empirical issues
related to Integrationism. Graduate students who wish to attend the conference
are encouraged to attend the educational workshops, which will be led by these
scholars:  

Adrian Pablé, School of English, University of Hong Kong   email:
apable at hku.hk
Peter Jones, Department of Language and Communication, Sheffield Hallam
University, UK  email: P.E.Jones at shu.ac.uk 
Dorthe Duncker, Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of
Copenhagen, Denmark   email: duncker at hum.ku.dk

Expressions of interest in taking part in the workshop should be made by to
Deryn Verity dpv3 at psu.edu by January 30, 2019.

Full registration details will be available by Nov. 1, 2018. 
  
Conveners of the conference:
Sinfree Makoni:  sinfreemakoni at hotmail.com
Deryn P. Verity:  dpv3 at psu.edu
Katie Masters:  kam693 at psu.edu
Marika Criss:  mqc5785 at psu.edu


Call for Papers:

Abstracts of a maximum of 300 words must be submitted to Sinfree Makoni
sinfreemakoni at hotmail.com by March 31, 2019. Decisions regarding the status of
submission will be made by May 31, 2019.




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