LINGUIST List 25.1185
Mon
Mar 10 2014
Calls: General Ling,
Socioling, Discourse Analysis, Ling &
Literature, Text/Corpus Ling/Germany
Editor for this issue:
Anna White <awhitelinguistlist.org>
Date: 10-Mar-2014
From: Jennifer Smith
<jennifer.smith
as.uni-heidelberg.de>
Subject: Urban Space Research
Network Symposion
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Full Title: Urban Space Research Network
Symposion
Short Title: USRN
Date: 23-Oct-2014 - 25-Oct-2014
Location: Heidelberg, Germany
Contact Person: Prof. Dr. Beatrix Busse
Meeting Email:
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Web Site:
http://www.usrn.de
Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis;
General Linguistics; Ling & Literature;
Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics
Call Deadline: 01-May-2014
Meeting Description:
Cities are complex and ever contradicting
symbolic worlds and, therefore, serve as
prototypical examples of multimodal space(s).
Many recent publications on written signs and
semiotic theories of (urban) space in
particular have discussed this multifaceted
issue (e.g. Landry/Bourhis 1997,
Scollon/Scollon 2003, Backhaus 2007,
Jaworski/Thurlow 2010, Warnke 2013). Especially
the field of Urban Linguistics (Busse und
Warnke 2014) has contributed to this debate by
including not only all linguistic aspects of
the city in an urban model but also its
multimodal features.
Thus, urban space is not a mere parameter of
linguistic variation but, in this case,
language and all other semiotic formations (be
they road signs, literature, facebook comments,
pinterest pins, songs, historic maps of cities
or even dialects, advertising and image
campaigns of, in and/or about cities, artistic
interventions or cultures of memory etc.) are
first and foremost viewed as parameters of
declarative acts constituting urbanity, of
urban meanings and, more generally speaking, of
urban worlds.
Conference languages are both English and
German.
Please see the Call for Papers or our website
www.usrn.de
for further information.
Call for Papers:
The symposium sets out to explore the city as
medi-ated representation and to simultaneously
analyse forms, functions and effects of
multimodal semiotic formations, which also
always have to be understood as historically
motivated. This question lends itself to
considering how stable or variable multimodal
urban signs are or can be, and moreover
encompasses the discussion of how the
multimodal city can adequately be analysed by
means of interdisciplinary theoretical models.
In addition, the symposium seeks to examine and
further develop quantitative and qualitative
methods that enhance the process of integrating
the diverse range of heterogeneous signs.
The symposium is interdisciplinary by nature
and invites contributions and topics from the
fields of linguistics, literary and cultural
studies, sociology, architecture as well as all
related disciplines that focus on sign-based
processes of urban communication.
The symposium relies on discussions of past
USRN forums (see
www.usrn.de) but is
always open to new submissions and welcomes all
researchers who are interested in contributing
to the network's work.
Please make sure your submission corresponds to
the symposium's subject matter and send your
ab-stract (max. 400 words) along with
information on your research areas and
institutional affiliation via email to
usrn
as.uni-heidelberg.de.
Deadline for the submission of abstracts: 1 May
2014. All received abstracts will be reviewed
and a notification of ac-ceptance will be sent
by 15 May 2014.
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