LINGUIST List 21.3378 Mon Aug 23 2010 Calls: General Ling, Socioling/Tunisia Editor for this issue: Di Wdzenczny <dilinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.    Chokri Smaoui, Deviation(s) Message 1: Deviation(s) Date: 23-Aug-2010 From: Chokri Smaoui <smaoui2002yahoo.com> Subject: Deviation(s) E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Deviation(s) Date: 06-Apr-2011 - 08-Apr-2011 Location: Sfax, Tunisia Contact Person: Chokri Smaoui Meeting Email: deviation.conferenceyahoo.com Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Sociolinguistics Call Deadline: 30-Nov-2010 Meeting Description: University of Sfax, Tunisia Faculty of Letters and Humanities The English Department and the Research Unit in Discourse Analysis (GRAD) jointly organise on 6-8 April 2011 an international conference on: Deviation(s) Call For Papers The way language is structured as a system of communication and representation with a repertoire of given possibilities shows the extent of its unavoidable participation in the constitution of discourses of power and their subjects. These discourses define our relationship with the world through different forms of subjection, deceptively presented as norms or traditions. Deviating from these established norms and breaking with traditions lead to innovation, experimentation, and plurality. Examples of norms or what Louis Althusser calls the 'Ideological State Apparatuses' include the religious ISA, the legal ISA, the political ISA, the educational ISA, the communications ISA, and the cultural ISA. Through these apparatuses, the subject is disciplined and subjugated. Surpassing these regulatory discourses and departing from what is reasonable and ordered, rigid and dominant, exclusionary and exploitative would necessitate 'an insurrection of subjugated knowledges' in the words of Michel Foucault (Power/Knowledge 80). These are different and new forms of knowledge that are hailed as alternative and subversive discourses. Civil rights activists, feminists, anti-colonial intellectuals, etc. have moved away from the political and cultural Establishment and have carved a different reality with fundamental changes in ways of thinking, writing, and behaving. Different texts, whether they are literary, theoretical, historical, or psychoanalytical, have been written to celebrate deviations from frameworks and rigid structures. In the postmodern world, Brian W. Shaffer argues, 'universal, overarching explanatory systems and ideologies—for example, Enlightenment scientific reality, capitalist or Marxist economic theory, the Christian or Freudian view of the human psyche/soul—have come to be seen as narratives that lack credibility and adequacy.' Deviations from these 'all-encompassing systems' have resulted in 'a plurality of more credible if limited petit recits, discrete micronarratives of only local and particular applicability' (Reading the Novel in English: 1950-2000 7-8). This interdisciplinary conference will focus on the following issues; connected themes will also be welcome as part of the discussion. -Deviations in the use of the linguistic system -Deviations in communicative structures -Learner's deviancies from target language -'Markedness' as deviation -Structural and semantic deviations in a text -Pragmatic error and displacement -'Englishes' as deviations from the official/standard English language -Translation and deviation -Deviation in the arts -Literary theories and the aberrations in meaning construction -Linear forms of narrative vs. literary experimentation -Generic deviations -Shifting postmodern and postcolonial identities -Marginality, plurality, migrancy, cultural and ethnic differences as deviations from dominant hegemonic models -The 'Ecriture féminine': the new female syntax -Historiography and the divergence from the 'official' writing of history -'Democracy' and deviation The editors invite abstracts of 300 words by 30 November 2010, with the submission of the full text when attending the conference. The participants will be notified by 11 December 2010. Please send your abstracts to the steering committee at: deviation.conferenceyahoo.com Steering Committee: Prof. Mounir Triki Prof. Akila Sellami-Baklouti Dr. Henda Ammar-Guirat Dr. Mounir Guirat Dr. Chokri Smaoui Dr. Mohamed Agrebi Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 23-Aug-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.