36.2282, Confs: The Language of Sugar (Austria)

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Subject: 36.2282, Confs: The Language of Sugar (Austria)

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Date: 29-Jul-2025
From: Georg Marko [georg.marko at uni-graz.at]
Subject: The Language of Sugar


The Language of Sugar

Date: 06-Dec-2025 - 06-Dec-2025
Location: Klagenfurt, Austria
Contact: Georg Marko
Contact Email: georg.marko at uni-graz.at

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

Submission Deadline: 22-Sep-2025

No wonder sugar is on everyone’s lips (pun intended): it is just an
omnipresent item and a hotly debated topic. But there are many facets
to it: sugar is an agricultural product, a food item, a nutrient, and
a biochemical component of our bodies. The meanings of sugar are thus
constructed in many different discourses, with different aspects being
foregrounded. Many of these aspects are problematic and controversial,
whether the role of slavery and the exploitation of people and the
environment in its production and trade, its dominance in matters of
taste, or its detrimental effects on health, especially in connection
with type-2 diabetes, obesity and dental hygiene. ‘Sugar’, however, is
also word and therefore has semantic relations with other words in the
lexicon, it is part of complex expressions such as compounds and
idioms, and – together with related words such as ‘candy’, ‘honey’, or
‘sweet’ – it is also often used metaphorically and metonymically.
The goal of our workshop is to bring together studies that explore
these different dimensions of the meaning of sugar, both from a
discourse-oriented perspective, looking at how sugar is represented in
texts, and a language system-oriented perspective, examining the word
field and figurative usages.
We invite contributions which report on current research on these
different aspects of sugar. We put great emphasis on
interdisciplinarity – researchers from different academic (and
non-academic) backgrounds, working with different approaches,
preferably in joint projects – and diversity – different topics,
sociocultural and political contexts, registers and genres, and
languages. The workshop language is English, but this by no means
limits the object languages examined.
This workshop, supported by verbal, the Association of Applied
Linguistics in Austria, will take place at the University of
Klagenfurt, Austria, on Saturday, 6 December 2025, and will be
co-organized by Eva Triebl (University of Vienna, Austria), Georg
Marko and Hermine Penz (both University of Graz, Austria).
Please submit an abstract of 150-300 words (including references) to
georg.marko(at)uni-graz.at by 22 September 2025 (notification will be
sent by 29 September 2025). All abstracts have to include references
and follow the guidelines of the Unified Style Sheet for Linguistics
(https://clas.wayne.edu/linguistics/resources/style). Individual
presentations will be allocated 30 minutes, including 10 minutes for
discussion. The workshop language is English.



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