35.2411, Calls: Workshop: Digital language and online communication - The 24th International Conference of the Department of Linguistics

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Subject: 35.2411, Calls: Workshop: Digital language and online communication - The 24th International Conference of the Department of Linguistics

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Date: 03-Sep-2024
From: Monica Vasileanu [colocviu.lingvistica.2024 at gmail.com]
Subject: Workshop: Digital language and online communication - The 24th International Conference of the Department of Linguistics


Full Title: Workshop: Digital language and online communication - The
24th International Conference of the Department of Linguistics
Short Title: CIDL24

Date: 15-Nov-2024 - 16-Nov-2024
Location: Bucharest, Romania
Contact Person: Bianca Alecu
Meeting Email: digital.language.bucharest at gmail.com
Web Site: https://litere.ro/cidl-en/

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Text/Corpus
Linguistics

Call Deadline: 15-Sep-2024

Meeting Description:

We invite submissions to a workshop on language and communication in
the digital world, organized within the 24th International Conference
of the Department of Linguistics of the Faculty of Letters.

Date:   November 15-16, 2024
Venue:  University of Bucharest, Faculty of Letters, 5-7 Edgar Quinet
St., Bucharest, Romania (hybrid)
Languages of the workshop: English and Romanian
Keynote speaker: Francisco Yus (University of Alicante, Spain)
Convenors:      Bianca Alecu, Andra Vasilescu
(digital.language.bucharest at gmail.com)
Registration fee: 300 RON (60 €) for faculty members; 150 RON (30 €)
for online participation and for PhD students

Call for Papers:

Computer-mediated communication (Herring 1996, 1999, 2007, 2015) or
human interaction using networked devices is one of the key-topics of
current linguistic and interdisciplinary approaches. Considering the
continuous development of textual and audio-visual technologies,
human-AI communication (Dynel 2023) or complex smartphone interactions
(Yus 2021), digital communication has grown into a complex area of
research that draws methods and applications from fields such as
functional linguistics, sociolinguistics and online ethnography,
digital anthropology, philosophy and ethics of the online environment,
new media and internet studies.
        The first wave of research on computer-mediated communication
and online discourse focused on the particular features of language
employed in such mediated interactions, oftentimes compared to spoken
and written communication (Crystal 2001, 2011), while the second wave
showed an ever-growing interest in discursive and pragmatic strategies
employed in cyberspace discourse and dialogue (Androutsopoulos 2006).
The transition from a language oriented perspective to a
discourse-oriented approach was supported by findings on the complex
relationships between language use and the medium or platform of
communication (Herring and Androutsopoulos 2015). Specifically,
particular cybercontexts of language use generate different
conversational structures: private chat interactions and public forum
debates show different functional and structural patterns, while
e-mail, blogs and news platforms represent particular genres of
computer-mediated communication (Hoffmann and Bublitz (eds.) 2017).
Moreover, recent theoretical approaches suggest that pragmatic and
discursive mechanisms of interaction, as well as different graphic or
lexical features are platform-bound: therefore, research topics
include the specifics of language and discourse on Twitter (Zappavigna
2012), Youtube (Dynel 2014) or Reddit (Vepsäläinen 2022), among
others.
        Formal and functional approaches to online language and
communication focused on various aspects: nonstandard graphical
strategies used to convey tone of voice (McCulloch 2020) or the
intended pragmatic meaning (Heath 2018); the management of face and
interpersonal relations in forum and group chats (Arendholz 2013);
relevant verbal and visual resources of coherence and cohesion in
online communication (Yus 2011, Dainas and Herring 2021), memes as
discursive stancetaking devices (Shifman 2014, Wiggins 2018),
intercultural communication in cyberspace (Macfadyen, Roche and Doff
2004), multimodality in online interactions (Sindoni 2014).
        We invite submissions for 30 minutes presentations (including
10 minutes of discussions) on topics including, but not limited to:
•       emergent lexical and semantic resources in different registers
of online communication;
•       the morphosyntax of cyberlanguage;
•       pragmatic strategies employed in interpersonal and group
online communication;
•       distinctive features of online discourse genres;
•       participation frameworks and conversational structures on
various digital platforms;
•       identity and self-presentation in online discussion spaces,
from social media to news distribution platforms and forums;
•       humour, irony, criticism, and protest in memes and other
user-generated content;
•       representations of vernacular languages, multilingualism, and
interculturality in the digital space;
•       linguistic and visual resources used to convey paraverbal and
nonverbal cues (conventional symbols, typeface, emoticons, emojis,
GIFs, etc.);
•       the discourse of online politics, medicine, education and
instruction, counselling, support, commerce, advertising, etc.
Abstracts should be anonymous and no longer than 2 pages, including
examples and references (font size 12, spacing 1.5, page margins 2.5
cm).
Abstract should be sent to digital.language.bucharest at gmail.com
Deadline for submissions: 15 September 2024
Notification of acceptance: 1 October 2024



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