LINGUIST List 21.3427 Thu Aug 26 2010 FYI: Call for Contributions for HIV/AIDS Discourse Book Editor for this issue: Elyssa Winzeler <elyssalinguistlist.org> To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.    Akinola Odebunmi, Call for Contributions for HIV/AIDS Discourse Book Message 1: Call for Contributions for HIV/AIDS Discourse Book Date: 24-Aug-2010 From: Akinola Odebunmi <akinodebyahoo.com> Subject: Call for Contributions for HIV/AIDS Discourse Book E-mail this message to a friend Call for Book Contributions: Face and Identity Construction in HIV/AIDS Discourse This book, tentatively entitled 'Face and Identity Construction in HIV/AIDS Discourse', is the second volume of the project Languages, Literatures and Cultures: A Compendium. It invites papers that address how language and its use situate the condition of HIV/AIDS and the personalities of people living with HIV/AIDS in the social scheme. Also central to its scope is how the people themselves achieve their face wants and set up their personalities in society. In other words, the book is interested in exploring how face and identity are negotiated in HIV/AIDS discourse. This exploration becomes urgent in the current dispensation where comparatively effective medical interventions have alleviated considerably the pathological status of HIV/AIDS sufferers and naturally called for a social-linguistic re-assessment of the condition. Contributions are welcome from scholars working on communication and interaction with respect to people living with HIV/AIDS in the following or related areas: 1. History and sociology of HIV/AIDS 2. The politics of HIV/AIDS 3. The media and the face of HIV/AIDS 4. HIV/AIDS in literary expression 5. HIV/AIDS as a scourge 6. HIV/AIDS as a burden 7. HIV/AIDS and existentialism 8. HIV/AIDS and heterosexuality 9. HIV/AIDS and sexual minorities 10. HIV/AIDS and commercial sex 11. HIV/AIDS and family life 12. HIV/AIDS and proverbs 13. HIV/AIDS and medical communication 14. HIV/AIDS and political life 15. HIV/AIDS and education 16. HIV/AIDS and communal life 17. HIV/AIDS and traditional medicine Every submission, which must tap into language and communication relating to HIV/AIDS, which must be written in English, and which must be theory-driven, should be between 6000 and 10000 words long and follow the APA reference style. Proposals for submissions should reach the editors between October 15 and November 15, 2010. Acceptance of proposals will be communicated to authors by December 1. Full papers are expected to be submitted by March 30, 2011. These should be sent electronically to Akin Odebunmi (akinodebyahoo.com) or Joyce Mathangwane/Akin Adetunji at the addresses below: Joyce Mathangwane, Department of English, University of Botswana, Gaborone. E-mail:MATHANJTmopipi.ub.bw Akin Odebunmi School of Language and Literature, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Freiburg, Germany & Department of English, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. E-mail: akinodebyahoo.com Akin Adetunji University of Texas, United States of America E-mail: adetunjiakinbiyiyahoo.co.uk Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 26-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.