32.522, Calls: Disc Analys, Ling & Lit, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling, Translation/Online

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Subject: 32.522, Calls: Disc Analys, Ling & Lit, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling, Translation/Online

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Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2021 11:08:52
From: Emilio Amideo [texturalities2021 at gmail.com]
Subject: Textu(r)alities: Semiotics, Bodies, Texts

 
Full Title: Textu(r)alities: Semiotics, Bodies, Texts 

Date: 28-May-2021 - 28-May-2021
Location: University of Naples (Microsoft Teams), Italy 
Contact Person: Emilio Amideo
Meeting Email: eamideo at unior.it

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Ling & Literature; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Translation 

Call Deadline: 24-Mar-2021 

Meeting Description:

Both the terms ‘text’ and ‘texture’ derive from the Latin stem texere (for ‘to
weave’), suggesting the idea of weaving together individual threads to form
larger units that take the form of a network, a patchwork, a structure.
According to M. A. K. Halliday and Ruqaiya Hasan, the concept of texture
expresses precisely the property of ‘being a text’: “A text has texture, and
this is what distinguishes it from something that is not a text. It derives
this texture from the fact that it functions as a unity with respect to its
environment” (1976: 2). Texture is what makes a text a semantic unit, through
linguistic features that give it cohesion and coherence, and it is also what
structures discourse in its different forms: narratives, prayers, sonnets,
operating instructions, news, formal correspondence, conversation, films, and
so on (Halliday and Hasan 1976: 326).

Discourses originate from contextualized and embodied experiences, even when
they end up becoming naturalized and widespread in society. This recalls
another type of texture, that is the one that is experienced through the
phenomenological interaction with one’s surroundings, through the body’s
interaction with other bodies, or in general with other objects. This
experience is emblematically reflected in Sara Ahmed’s discussion on the
relational form of reorientation characteristic of emotions and the way
certain bodies (e.g., the queer body, the black body, the non-conforming body)
are made to feel out of place in certain hegemonic contexts: an
out-of-place-ness and estrangement that involves “an acute awareness of the
surface of one’s body, which appears as surface, when we cannot inhabit the
social skin, which is shaped by some bodies, and not others” (Ahmed 2014:
148). If on the one hand being comfortable means being able to fit in the
environment so much that it becomes hard to distinguish where one’s body ends
and the world begins, Ahmed suggests that pain and discomfort on the other
hand return one’s attention to the surface of the body, which appears as
surface, its texture made ever so present through instances of material and
discursive violence alike.

Keynote speakers: 
Rodrigo Borba (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
Crispin Thurlow (University of Bern)


Call for Papers: 

Starting from these premises around the relationship between bodies and texts,
on the way bodies and discourses are mutually capable of doing and undoing one
another, this conference seeks to open a reflection around the concept of
texture and its many reverberations across discourses and disciplines:
linguistics (including CDA, MCDA, Ecolinguistics, Corpus Linguistics,
translation, AVT, multimodality), literature, anthropology, performance
studies, history, philosophy, cultural studies, and so on.

Possible topics include but are not limited to:
 - Linguistic texture
 - Narration and texture
 - Corporeality and texture
 - Texture in multimodal discourse
 - Food narratives and texture
 - Intersectionality and texture
 - Texture and emotions
 - Texture and new materialism
 - Textures of sound
 - Texture in translation
 - Translating bodies
 - Texture in environmental discourse
 - Texture in quantitative analysis

We invite contributors to send their proposals (a 250-word abstract, title,
author’s name, a 150- word bio, and contact) to texturalities2021 at gmail.com by
24 March 2021. Each presentation will be 20 minutes (followed by discussion
time). Notification of acceptance will be sent by 31 March 2021. A selection
of papers will be considered for publication.

Venue: University of Naples “L’Orientale”, to be held online via Microsoft
Teams
Date: 28 May 2021
Language: English
Deadline for submitting proposals: 24 March 2021
Notification of acceptance: 31 March 2021
Contact information: texturalities2021 at gmail.com




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