35.2637, Calls: 39th Congress of the German Society for Romance Studies: Language in Film and Series in a Romanic Language – Linguistic Perspectives on Development Trends in Fictional Language

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Subject: 35.2637, Calls: 39th Congress of the German Society for Romance Studies: Language in Film and Series in a Romanic Language – Linguistic Perspectives on Development Trends in Fictional Language

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Date: 25-Sep-2024
From: Mara Papaccio [mara.papaccio at uni-a.de]
Subject: 39th Congress of the German Society for Romance Studies: Language in Film and Series in a Romanic Language – Linguistic Perspectives on Development Trends in Fictional Language


Full Title: 39th Congress of the German Society for Romance Studies:
Language in Film and Series in a Romanic Language – Linguistic
Perspectives on Development Trends in Fictional Language

Date: 22-Sep-2025 - 25-Sep-2025
Location: Konstanz, Germany
Contact Person: Mara Papaccio
Meeting Email: mara.papaccio at uni-a.de

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Pragmatics;
Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics
Subject Language(s): French (fra)
                     German (deu)
                     Italian (ita)
                     Spanish (spa)

Call Deadline: 31-Dec-2024

Meeting Description:

39th Congress of the German Society for Romance Studies

This section focuses on the cinematic representation of romance
languages from the beginnings of sound film, i.e. from the early 1930s
to the present day. In addition to films, series will also be examined
as an object of study, which, especially in times of numerous
streaming services, are of great interest to a wide range of
audiences. This results in diverse and wide-ranging objects of
research that can be examined for development trends from a diachronic
perspective. The following is a small selection of possible research
questions for the section contributions:
- How is the contact of Romance and non-Romance languages depicted on
film?
- How is youth language staged on film?
- What role do dialects play in films and series?
- How are interpersonal conflicts portrayed linguistically in films
and series?
- How is oral language imitated or created in fiction?
- How can film characters be located sociolinguistically?
- Which linguistic registers are used in films and series?
- What possibilities does fictional language offer to reflect new
tendencies in real language?

Methodologically, this results in a broad spectrum in which fictional
language in films and series can be examined, for example, in terms of
variety linguistics, conversation analysis or pragmalinguistics. In
Romance studies, there are linguistic studies on staged French youth
language in feature films (Bedijs 2012), on spoken language in
Francophone cinema (e.g. Chion 2008, Planchenault 2011), on varieties
of Spanish in cinema and television (Moreno-Fernandez 2022) and on
multilingualism in Italian film (Gaudenzi 2016), which has been the
subject of increased research in Italian studies in recent years (see
also Gargiulo 2018, Orrù 2017, Rossi 2020). From a linguistic
perspective, there is still a great need for research on language in
film, especially from a diachronic perspective, not least against the
background that the focus in the field of media language was initially
on the press, radio and television (cf. Helfrich 1998, 6) and that
linguistic terms were or are used metaphorically in the research
literature on film language to describe the nature of films (cf. e.g.
Bedijs 2012, 21-22).

The working languages of the section are German, French, Italian and
Spanish.

Abstracts (max. 4000 characters including spaces and references) are
due by 31st December 2024. Please send an email to
mara.papaccio at uni-a.de and sita-rose.boileau at uni-a.de.

Invited speakers: Marc Chalier (Sorbonne Université) and Fabio Rossi
(Università degli Studi di Messina)



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