29.4166, Calls: Anthro Ling, Applied Ling, Disc Analysis, Ling & Literature, Socioling/Sweden

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Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 18:16:54
From: Christina Schoux Casey [casey at cgs.aau.dk]
Subject: Affect in Language and Language in Affect

 
Full Title: Affect in Language and Language in Affect 

Date: 02-May-2019 - 04-May-2019
Location: Gothenburg, Sweden 
Contact Person: Scott Kiesling
Meeting Email: casey at cgs.aau.dk

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Ling & Literature; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 11-Nov-2018 

Meeting Description:

(Session of Lavender Languages and Linguistics 26)

Affect has received increasing interest in a number of fields (special issue
on language/sexuality/affect in Journal of Language and Sexuality 2018; Reeser
& Gottzén 2018; Massumi 2017; Zerilli 2015; Wetherell 2014; Seigworth 2010;
Blackman & Venn 2010; Henriques 2010; Manning 2010). A central insight of
affect theory is that affect and cognition “are not two different systems, but
radically entangled” (Zerilli 2015: 282), with “no neat and easy dividing
lines between physical affect and discourse” (Wetherell 2014: 14). Further,
theorists have questioned the fundamental Cartesian postulate of a Self that
is independent from an Other: Margaret Wetherell suggests that “affect is
distributed. It is an in-between, relational phenomenon” (2014: 20, italics in
original), while Brian Massumi claims that “[e]very encounter is an affective
complex, a patterning of capacities to affect and be affected. This is not a
dualism, but a relational matrix” (2017: 49). Looking at individuals as
discrete speaking subjects misses the larger affective, relational complexes
in which individuals exist. Affects circulate, disrupting or uniting
communities (Kiesling 2018; Henriques, Tiainen, & Väliaho 2014; Stewart 2007;
O’Sullivan 2001), creating relational effects that are crucial to marginalized
communities (Allen 2012; Johnson 2001).

While some scholars have broadened their understanding of the affective,
relational constitution of the self, many of us generally operate under a
Cartesian assumption of an independent speaking subject, whose language can be
fruitfully examined in isolation. The goal of this panel is to bring together
scholars of language who are considering the circuiting of affect in the
language of sexuality and the language of sexuality in affect, or both. Work
can come from any number of fields (e.g., linguistic anthropology,
linguistics, literature, sexuality studies, film theory) as long as affect,
language, and sexuality are part of the story.

We are privileged to have as discussant Prof. Lucas Gottzén of Stockholm
University, who has written extensively about masculinities, affect, and
parenthood (see Gottzén 2017a,b and Reeser & Gottzén 2018).

Contacts:
Scott Kiesling
Christina Schoux Casey


Call for Papers:

If interested, please email Scott Kiesling (kiesling at pitt.edu) or Christina
Schoux Casey (casey at cgs.aau.dk) with your 250-word abstract prepared using the
following guidelines:

https://lavlang26.wordpress.com/abstract-submission/

However, please contact the organizers before submitting to the conference
abstract system. Abstracts are due to the organizers by November 11. If you
have already submitted an abstract that fits the description and are
interested in being part of the panel, please write and let us know.




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