32.1968, Calls: Socioling/Online

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Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2021 15:36:42
From: Angeliki Alvanoudi [aalvanoudi at enl.auth.gr]
Subject: Social and cultural aspects of language and their figurative potential

 
Full Title: Social and cultural aspects of language and their figurative potential 

Date: 28-Jan-2022 - 29-Jan-2022
Location: Thessaloniki (Online), Greece 
Contact Person: Angeliki Alvanoudi
Meeting Email: aalvanoudi at enl.auth.gr

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 30-Sep-2021 

Meeting Description:

Online workshop organized by Thessaloniki Cognitive Linguistics Research Group
(www.enl.auth.gr/tclr)
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of English, 54124 Thessaloniki,
Greece

The aim of the workshop is to carry out research on the cognitive and
sociocultural aspects of languages also accounting for the figurative
extensions. Cognitive Linguistics has mainly analyzed majority languages
(English in particular) from a synchronic perspective showing limited interest
in social and multimodal aspects of communication (Divjak et al. 2016). In
recent years there has been growing interest in socially and culturally
situated cognition and empirically grounded cognitive linguistic research, as
is evidenced, inter alia, by studies on cognitive sociolinguistics (Geeraerts
et al. 2010; Kristiansen & Geeraerts 2013; Pütz et al. 2014), social cognitive
linguistics (Croft 2009), cultural linguistics (Sharifian 2017), and studies
on cognitive linguistics and interactional discourse (Zima & Brône 2015). The
proposed workshop considers figurative thought and language as a promising
area of research within the ‘sociocultural turn’ of the Cognitive Linguistics
framework, and aims to shed light into data from languages for which research
on the cognitive and sociocultural aspects also exploring the figurative
perspective remains limited. More specifically, the workshop aims to examine
the role of figurative thought in the interplay between social, cognitive and
cultural aspects of language use, focusing on language variation, cultural
models in speech communities, the ideological dimensions of
political/parliamentary discourse and the press, the relation between
multimodal discourse, culture, and ideology/power, to name some aspects of the
broad sociocultural field of research.


Call for Papers: 

The workshop brings together researchers working across Cognitive Linguistics,
sociolinguistics, critical discourse analysis, pragmatics, and multimodal
communication. We invite contributions including, but not limited to, the
following topics: 
- the ideological dimensions and the power of figurative language (metaphor,
metonymy, irony) in all aspects of social and cultural practice, such as the
medical discourse on the covid19 pandemic, fake news and the emotions evoked,
strategies of crisis discourse; 
- figurative language in linguistic landscapes; 
- figurative language in usage-based approaches; 
- figurative language in social varieties and registers; 
- figurative language and racial/gender discrimination; 
- figurative language and creativity in constructions revealing verbal
aggression/impoliteness.  

The workshop will include a roundtable discussion especially focusing on the
social and cultural aspects of Greek language together with figurative
idiosyncrasies. A list of invited speakers will be announced in due course.  

There will be no fees for participation.

If you are interested in presenting a paper in the workshop, please send your
abstract (min. 350 and max. 500 words) by 30 September 2021 to:
aalvanoudi at enl.auth.gr 
Notification of acceptance will be sent by 31 October 2021. 

References 
Croft, W. A. 2009. Toward a social cognitive linguistics. In New Directions in
Cognitive Linguistics, ed. by V. Evans & S. Pourcel, 395-420. Amsterdam: John
Benjamins.
Divjak, D., Levshina, N. & Klavan, J. 2016. Cognitive Linguistics: Looking
back, looking forward. Cognitive Linguistics 27(4): 447-463. 
Geeraerts, D., Kristiansen, G. & Peirsman, Y. (eds.). 2010. Advances in
Cognitive Sociolinguistics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Kristiansen, G. & Geeraerts, D. (eds.). (2013). Contexts in Use in Cognitive
Sociolinguistics. Special Issue of Journal of Pragmatics 52: 1-104.
Pütz, M., Robinson, J. A. & Reif, M. (eds.). (2014). Cognitive
Sociolinguistics: Social and Cultural Variation in Cognition and Language Use.
Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 
Sharifian, F. (2017). Cultural Linguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 
Zima, E. & Brône, G. (eds.). (2015). Special issue on Cognitive Linguistic
applications to the study of interactional discourse. Language and Cognition
7.




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