LINGUIST List 25.2331
Tue
May 27 2014
Calls: Sociolinguistics,
Semantics, Discourse Analysis/Hong
Kong
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Date: 27-May-2014
From: Nuria Lorenzo-Dus
<n.lorenzo-dus
swansea.ac.uk>
Subject: Specialist Panel:
'Crisis, What Crisis?'
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Full Title: Specialist Panel: 'Crisis, What
Crisis?'
Date: 03-Jun-2015 - 06-Jun-2015
Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Contact Person: Nuria Lorenzo-Dus
Meeting Email:
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Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis;
Semantics; Sociolinguistics
Call Deadline: 15-Jun-2014
Meeting Description:
Specialist Panel: 'Crisis, What Crisis?'
Panel Rationale and Context: Crisis as a
pervasive concept across academic disciplines.
The most recent 'trigger' is the economic
crisis in Europe and North America.
Language-based research into this crisis, or
indeed any crisis, is relatively speaking less
developed than that conducted in other
disciplines, notably sociology and economics.
Extant work is often based on legitimate cases
studies, the discourses of a given political,
news, environmental, language policy, economic
etc crisis.
The panel aim is to take stock and to go back a
few steps into discussing the discourses around
the notion of crisis in order to advance our
understanding of how to carry the term forward
in sociolinguistic / discourse analytic
research. After all, as Castells et al (2012:7)
argue in their sociological work on the
cultures of the most recent economic crisis, a
'crisis, its conflicts and its treatment are
always social processes. And these social
processes, as all others, are enacted and
shaped by the interests, values, beliefs and
strategies of social actors.' That being the
case, language can provide invaluable insights
into the meanings and circumstances of a
'crisis', whether at a local, national or
international level. Williams (2012), too,
highlights the role of language in deepening
our understanding of the notions of crisis and
crisis aftermath. Her historical review of
these two terms reveals, amongst other things,
the discursive, ongoing reconstruction that has
led from treating crisis as a turning point,
something imminent on the historical horizon,
to an immanent condition (see also Kermade
1966, 2000).
Panel Organisers:
- Prof. Nuria Lorenzo-Dus (
http://www.swansea.ac.uk/staff/academic/artshumanities/ell/lorenzo-dusn/)
- Dr. Philippa Smith (
https://www.aut.ac.nz/research/research-institutes/icdc/people/philippa-smith)
Conference: The Sociolinguistics of
Globalization: (De)centring and
(de)standardization
The University of Hong Kong, 3-6 June 2015
This is a major international conference that
will attract language and communication
researchers from across the globe to discuss
their latest research projects and engage in
theoretical debate.
Hong Kong is a key location to meet and the
conference organisers have confirmed five
internationally recognised plenary speakers
from the United States, Europe, Australia,
South Africa and Asia. More details can be
found on the conference website:
http://www.english.hku.hk/events/slxg2015/
Call for Papers:
Call for abstracts for specialist panel titled
'Crisis, What Crisis' within The
Sociolinguistics of Globalisation Conference,
Hong Kong, 3-6 June 2015 (
http://www.english.hku.hk/events/slxg2015/)
The panel's discussion questions are thus:
(i) What are the meanings of the oft-used,
under analyzed term crisis?
(ii) How can methods and theories in
sociolinguistics / discourse analysis advance
our understanding of crisis processes?
Paper contributions should address the
following:
- The latest economic crisis: a non-global
global crisis (cf. Castells et al 2012)
- Permanent crisis: a linguistic oxymoron
- Contexts of crisis: media, economic,
political, linguistic, identity, education,
historical, artistic
- Interdisciplinary approaches to advancing our
understanding of the term crisis
Abstract submission deadline: Please email your
abstract to either n.lorenzo-dus
swansea.ac.uk or
philippa.smith
aut.ac.nz by 15 June 2014.
Abstract submissions should be not more than
300 words, including references. Please also
list up to 5 keywords. Your name and contact
details should precede your abstract, on a
separate page, within the same word
document.
Abstracts will be blind reviewed according to
the following criteria:
- Language in use as main focus, but please
note that interdisciplinary proposals are
welcome, too.
- Relevance to panel. Please note that both
empirical and theoretical papers are welcome.
In the case of empirical papers, please include
either a summary of findings or, if analysis is
presently underway, of the kind of findings to
be expected.
- Academic rigour
- Presentation
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