35.2737, Calls: 19th International Pragmatic Association: Panel #78 "Social justice in the Linguistic Landscape"

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Subject: 35.2737, Calls: 19th International Pragmatic Association: Panel #78 "Social justice in the Linguistic Landscape"

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Date: 01-Oct-2024
From: Patricia Gubitosi [gubitosi at umass.edu]
Subject: 19th International Pragmatic Association: Panel #78 "Social justice in the Linguistic Landscape"

Full Title: 19th International Pragmatic Association: Panel #78
"Social justice in the Linguistic Landscape"
Short Title: IPrA2025

Date: 22-Jun-2025 - 27-Jun-2025
Location: The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Contact Person: Patricia Gubitosi
Meeting Email: gubitosi at umass.edu
Web Site: https://ipra2025.exordo.com/login

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis;
Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics

Call Deadline: 01-Nov-2024

Meeting Description:

This panel discussion on Social Justice in the Linguistic Landscapes
looks for proposals that make novel contributions to the field of
pragmatics in action and language advocacy. We welcome papers that
focus on the communicative, interactional, and discursive practices
that social actors adopt to build their linguistic landscapes.

Call for Papers:

A call for social justice in the linguistic arena is not new since
Charity Hudley (2008) proposed that researchers became instruments of
social change. Many applied linguistics have then dedicated their
studies to explore how their research can help minority groups resist
and contest the “invented” homogeneity (Piller, 2016). Social justice
is a necessary reason to reconsider our own perceptions about
linguistic diversity and how to avoid the reproduction of
marginalization and exclusion (Rosa & Flores, 2023) that perpetuate
colonial practices among language users. On the other hand, Bucholtz
et al. (2014: 145), define sociolinguistic justice as advocating for
“self- determination for linguistically subordinated individuals and
groups in sociopolitical struggles over language.” Further, Ramos
Pellicia, MacGregor-Mendoza & Niño-Murcia (2024) explain that
sociolinguistic justice can be applied to community issues,
particularly in multilingual communities, for instance, the erasure
that lack of public signage in their linguistic landscape reflect the
character of the neighborhood where they live (Ramos Pellicia,
MacGregor-Mendoza & Nieto-Murcia (2024 xi).

Linguistic landscapes are non-neutral places where language, culture,
and identity –with all the ideology that they bring together-
unequivocally intertwine (Blackwood, Lanza & Woldemariam, 2016;
Gubitosi & Ramos Pellicia, 2021) showing the complex and dynamic
reality of languages signages in a community as it reflects not only
the hegemonic and minoritized languages but also the agency of those
who produce these signs. Linguistic landscapes are the front line
where social justice is either permitted or denied and, therefore,
should be scrutinized with a new perspective.

This panel discussion will make novel contributions to the field of
pragmatics in action and language advocacy focusing on the
communicative, interactional, and discursive practices that social
actors adopt to build their linguistic landscapes. We intend to answer
the following research questions: how can we promote social change in
the linguistic landscape? How linguistic landscapes can encourage
social equity in multilingual, multi-diverse and/or transnational
settings? We welcome submissions that examine social justice in the
linguistic landscape from a theoretical or empirical point of view
with special emphasis on how social justice is offered/ denied/
rejected in school’s contexts, health providers, religion services,
government facilities, etc.

When submitting an abstract please select “Panel Contributions”. You
will be able to choose the panel you want your contribution to be
considered for; to do that, you will be able at that time to select
from the complete list of accepted panels at the step 4 in the
submission process where you are asked to choose 'Topics.' Please make
sure to select only ONE topic, as you can only submit your
contribution for consideration by the organizer(s) of one panel" More
information can be found at
https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP2025

References:

Blackwood, R., Lanza, E. & Woldemariam, H. (2016). Negotiating and
contesting identities in linguistic landscapes. London: Bloomsbury
Publishing Plc.
Bucholtz, M., Lopez, A., Mojarro, A., Skapoulli, E., VanderStouwe, C.,
and Warner- Garcia, S. 2014. Sociolinguistic justice in schools:
Student researchers as linguistic experts. Language and Linguistics
Compass, 8(4), 144– 157.
Charity Hudley A. H. (2008). Linguists as agents for social change.
Language and Linguistics Compass, 2(5), 923–939.
Gubitosi, P. & Ramos Pellicia, M. (2021). Introduction: Uncovering the
voice of minority groups. In Linguistic Landscape in the
Spanish-speaking World, edited by P. Gubitosi & M. Ramos Pellicia, pp.
1-16. Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, vol. 35.
Cambridge, MA: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Piller, I. (2016). Linguistic diversity and social justice: An
introduction to Applied Sociolinguistics. New York: Oxford University
Press.
Ramos Pellicia, M., MacGregor-Mendoza, P & Niño-Murcia, M. (Eds)
(2024) Advocating for Sociolinguistic Justice in the United States
Empowering Spanish- speaking Communities. Routledge (forthcoming).
Rosa, J. & Flores, N. (2023). Rethinking language barriers & Social
justice from a raciolinguistic perspective. Dædalus. Journal of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences., 52(3): 99-114.

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