30.4190, Calls: Applied Ling, Disc Analysis, Gen Ling, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling/United Kingdom

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Subject: 30.4190, Calls: Applied Ling, Disc Analysis, Gen Ling, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling/United Kingdom

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Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 07:14:54
From: Nick Moore [n.moore at shu.ac.uk]
Subject: 30th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference

 
Full Title: 30th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference 
Short Title: ESFLC 2020 

Date: 01-Jul-2020 - 03-Jul-2020
Location: Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Nick Moore
Meeting Email: esflc2020 at shu.ac.uk
Web Site: https://www.esflc2020.org.uk/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 10-Jan-2020 

Meeting Description:

The theme of the 30th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference is
'Social Semiotics and Social Justice'

Venue:
Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, U.K. 


Call for Papers:

Calls for greater social justice appear to be ignored in an age of increasing
economic inequality (Piketty & Goldhammer, 2014), particularly in many of the
leading and growing economies around the world where we find the rising forces
of nationalism and xenophobia, climate change denial and the normalisation of
radical right-wing ideologies. At the same time, the recognition of the key
role that language plays in establishing and maintaining relations of power
has never been greater, with discourse now recognised in popular culture and
in a range of disciplines as a major force in social change. The need to apply
the analysis of discourse and other forms of meaning-making to the improvement
of social justice has never been more urgent.

Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) has a long tradition of analysing
language with the aim of reducing social inequity, reaching back to one of its
original aims of promoting linguistic equality (Halliday, 2015). The
analytical toolbox offered by SFL has been instrumental in establishing
reliable frameworks of analysis in critical discourse analysis, in multimodal
semiotics and in educational linguistics.  Consequently, in recent years we
have exponentially improved our ability to identify how meaning-making
resources are deployed in written, spoken, visual and multi-channel modalities
across a range of contexts, often with the aim of exposing hegemonic power
structures. For instance, SFL has had a significant impact on narrowing the
attainment gap for children in schools combining functional grammar with
social realism in order to expose how the language of schooling works to the
advantage of dominant social groups (Rose & Martin, 2012).

This conference aims to explore the many ways that language and other modes of
meaning-making play an integral role in preventing or promoting social
justice. The conference expects SFL and associated disciplines to bring
diverse perspectives to bear on the understanding, intervention and disruption
of embedded power relations and ideologies through the analysis of semiotic
processes. We especially welcome papers that connect the theme to these areas
of research:

- Multimodality and social semiotics
- Critical & positive discourse analysis
- Appliable linguistics
- Political economy & social structure
- Education & applied linguistics 

We also welcome other papers that relate to the theme of 'Social Semiotics and
Social Justice' and as always we aim to provide a forum for all SFL research.
Our experienced scientific committee will review submissions for 1-hour
workshops, single-themed symposia with multiple speakers, and 30-minute talks
(including 10 minutes for questions & discussion).

For information on how to submit, visit:
https://www.esflc2020.org.uk/submission-guidelines/

References:

Halliday, M.A.K. (2015) The Influence of Marxism. In J. Webster (Ed.) The
Bloomsbury Companion to M.A.K. Halliday. London: Bloomsbury
Piketty, T. & Goldhammer, A. (2014). Capital in the Twenty-first Century.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Rose, D. & Martin, J.R. (2012) Learning to Write, Reading to Learn. Sheffield:
Equinox

Submissions can be classified within one or more of these strands:

- Advances in SFL research
- Advances in SFL theory
- Analysis of political discourse
- Applied & Appliable linguistics
- Critical &/or Positive Discourse Analysis
- Discourse analysis
- Ecolinguistics
- Education & pedagogy, including multi-literacies 
- Legitimation Code Theory
- Multimodality
- Political economy
- Synthesis of SFL with other approaches




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