35.1857, Calls: Language, Norms and Digital Lives

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Subject: 35.1857, Calls: Language, Norms and Digital Lives

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Date: 21-Jun-2024
From: Kim Ebensgaard Jensen [ebensgaard at hum.ku.dk]
Subject: Language, Norms and Digital Lives


Full Title: Language, Norms and Digital Lives

Date: 28-Nov-2024 - 29-Nov-2024
Location: University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Contact Person: Johanne Kirkeby
Meeting Email: johanne.kirkeby at hum.ku.dk
Web Site: https://engerom.ku.dk/english/calendar/2024/conference-on-la
nguage-norms-and-digital-lives/

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Cognitive Science;
Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Call Deadline: 01-Oct-2024

Meeting Description:

Given the development of the Internet and digital media over the last
three decades and the impact this has had on the way that people
interact both online and offline, these questions are pertinent.
Countless online platforms, many of which can be accessed at any given
point in time via portable app technology, have given birth to
countless communities of practice, ranging from the mainstream to the
fringes. Norms and conventions of interaction come into being, some of
which are transient and some of which are more permanent.

The lines between online and offline life have become increasingly
blurred as it is not only the case that offline practices influence
online ones, but online practices also bleed into the offline world.
This socio-technological evolution has thus had, and continues to
have, ramifications for multiple aspects of language - from structural
ones to socio-cultural ones. Linguistic varieties, including
registers, discourses, and even digital sociolects, have emerged, as
have more generalized conventions. As observed by David Crystal,
language change processes, including language death, take place at an
accelerated pace in online contexts. The Internet has facilitated new
ways of expressing social identity deployed both online and offline,
an example of which could be how the language of social media
influencers has made its way into the everyday speech of people of all
ages. Linguistic interactions in echo chambers on the fringes of the
Internet have had real-life consequences ranging from linguistic
influence on social upheaval and downright acts of crime. The role of
language in people's digital lives has thus become an extremely
important object of linguistic research.

In recognition of this, the first Conference on Language, Norms and
Digital Lives explores language on/around/about/with/through the
internet and invites contributions addressing issues related to
language and the digital. We welcome different theoretical frameworks,
approaches, and methods – qualitative and quantitative – for example,
corpus linguistics, linguistic ethnography, sociolinguistic
interviews, and discourse analysis.

Call for Papers:

We invite 200-word abstracts in English on, but not necessarily
limited to, the following themes:

- language on social media
- moving between online and offline interactions
- digital language practices and everyday Life
- digital multilingualism and identity
- mediascapes
- linguistic variation on- and offline
- discourses in online contexts and their offline ramifications
- language and digital cultures
- how the Internet is talked about
- memes and other cultural artefacts

Please submit a 200-word abstract no later than 1 October 2024 via
email to Johanne Kirkeby. Please note that each paper is allotted 20
minutes for the presentation itself plus 10 minutes for
Q&A/discussion. For inquiries, do not hesitate to contact Johanne
Kirkeby.



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