29.4348, Confs: Applied Linguistics/USA

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Subject: 29.4348, Confs: Applied Linguistics/USA

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Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2018 17:15:36
From: Alexander Mendes [alexmendes at emory.edu]
Subject: Green Applied Linguistics

 
Green Applied Linguistics 

Date: 26-Jun-2019 - 30-Jun-2019 
Location: Davis, CA, USA 
Contact: Alexander Mendes 
Contact Email: alexmendes at emory.edu 
Meeting URL: https://asle.submittable.com/submit/126630/green-applied-linguistics 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

(Session of Association for Studies of Literature and Environment)

Applied linguistics is a subfield of sociolinguistics which takes as a central
concern an applied approach to language-related issues such as: language
pedagogy/assessment, second language acquisition, curricular design, language
policy, language in public space, linguistic rights,
translation/interpretation, intercultural communication, and communication in
health care/medicine, law, and government, among others. But, how can language
save our earthly paradise?

Given the social justice focus of much applied linguistics work (e.g., Piller,
2016), applied linguistics is a prime arena for engagement with questions of
environmentalism and environmental justice as they relate to language. What’s
more, Pennycook’s (2018) timely critical posthumanist applied linguistics
marks a shift in applied linguistics foci to those already central in
ecocriticism, including new materialisms and relationships between humans, the
environment, and other inhabitants of the planet.

This panel invites submissions on work in applied linguistics-related areas
(above) and their intersections with issues including but not limited to:
environmental activism; environmental law; ecology, biology, or other “hard”
science disciplines; climate change; species endangerment, extinctions, or
wildlife conservation; traditional ecological knowledge (TEK); built spaces
and natural environments; the languages of animals or plants. Presentations
might also focus on a range of topics from “studies of place and semiotics,
linguistic landscapes, geosemiotics, nexus analysis and language ecology to
sociocultural theory, sociomaterial approaches to literacy and
poststructuralist accounts of [sociolinguistic] repertoire” (Pennycook, 2018:
8).

This panel seeks to stoke interdisciplinary conversation to show the potential
and “incendiary creativity” of applied language work in response to ongoing
environmental crises and planetary degradation.
 






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