LINGUIST List 26.180
Tue Jan 13 2015
Calls: Ling Theories, Discourse Analysis, Semantics, Text/Corpus Ling, Discipline of Ling/Germany
Editor for this issue: Anna White <awhitelinguistlist.org>
Date: 05-Jan-2015
From: Ognyan Seizov <bremm15
uni-bremen.de>
Subject: 2nd International Symposium on the Theory and Practice of Multimodal Research
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Short Title: BreMM15
Date: 21-Sep-2015 - 22-Sep-2015
Location: Bremen, Germany
Contact Person: Ognyan Seizov
Meeting Email:
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Linguistic Field(s): Discipline of Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Linguistic Theories; Semantics; Text/Corpus Linguistics
Call Deadline: 15-Feb-2015
Meeting Description:
BreMM15:
Second International Symposium on the Theory and Practice of Multimodal Research
Interdisciplinary Conference at Bremen University, Germany
The second edition of the Bremen multimodality conference takes differences in national and international perspectives on multimodality as a starting point of discussion and analysis and invites further inquiry into the specific theories and practices of multimodal research today. By making explicit which aspects of description, terminology, and methodology vary and which difficulties result from these variations in daily academic life, it expands the discussion of applicable approaches to multimodal document analysis.
Multimodality is one of the most influential semiotic theories for analyzing media artefacts nowadays, and it enjoys growing popularity globally. However, this popularity does not imply universality: the empirical application and even the conceptual anchoring of multimodality often remain nationally and regionally grounded. Definitions of modality and even mediality thus differ from each other in terms of their starting points. From a German national perspective, language remains the main point of description. International, mostly Anglo-Saxon approaches, in contrast, no longer take language as the main semiotic resource of communication but treat it as one more part of the multimodal ensemble carrying meaning.
The second edition of the Bremen multimodality conference takes these differences in national and international perspectives as a starting point of discussion and analysis. In addition, whereas outside Germany multimodality is already firmly anchored in BA- and MA-level courses as well as a highly discussed topic in international conferences, its counterpart in Germany is still situated in a small niche within branches of applied linguistics. The 2014 symposium in Bremen uncovered a large potential for multimodality’s expansion in the German-speaking context, and the 2015 meeting will keep up with this theme. The multimodal analysis of documents which are not predominantly anchored in verbal text, such as film, comic books, or Web material, offers fruitful ground for international exchange and is, thus, of particular interest to the 2015 conference.
Call for Papers:
We invite papers with high interest in combining empirical analysis with thoughts on theoretical questions about the concept of multimodality. Research questions which might be addressed in these papers are:
- How is multimodality defined in the authors’ home discipline? What other disciplinary concepts help define multimodality in theory and practice?
- What disciplinary and methodological synergies promote comprehensive multimodal empirical analysis?
- Which terminological specifications or analytical improvements are needed to bring together the concepts which shape multimodality as a theoretical and empirical approach?
Application:
Abstracts of 300 words must clearly indicate the analytical focus of the paper as well as its connection to the theoretical background.
We also explicitly invite students to participate in the conference by presenting an analytical approach as examined in final papers or theses in the poster panel to be organized on the second day of the conference.
Please submit your abstract or a short poster description including name, affiliation, and email address to ''bremm15 (at) uni-bremen.de'' before February 15, 2015. All acceptance and rejection notices will be out by the beginning of May.
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