LINGUIST List 33.3799
Sun Dec 11 2022
Summer Schools: Panel: Multimodality in the past, present and future: Entanglements between Africa and its diasporas (ECAS9 2023) / Germany
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Date: 18-Nov-2022
From: Tatjana Schnellinger <tatjana.schnellinger
ntnu.no>
Subject: Panel: Multimodality in the past, present and future: Entanglements between Africa and its diasporas (ECAS9 2023) / Germany
E-mail this message to a friend Panel: Multimodality in the past, present and future: Entanglements between Africa and its diasporas (ECAS9 2023)
Host Institution: University of Cologne
Website:
https://ecasconference.org/2023/ Dates: 31-May-2023 - 03-Jun-2023
Location: Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Focus: Call for Papers:
The panel ‘Multimodality in the past, present and future: Entanglements between Africa and its diasporas”’ is organised as part of the “the ninth European Conference on African Studies (ECAS9)”, which will be held at the University of Cologne from May 31 to June 03, 2023.
The panel unites theoretical and methodological approaches to multimodal meaning-making in Africa and its diasporas to map changes to these practices over time. It is aimed at researchers interested in multimodality, (social) semiotics, linguistic anthropology and socio-cultural linguistics. Themes could include but are not restricted to the following lines of enquiry:
- The relationship and interplay of semiotic systems and multiple modalities
- Gestural repertoires, paralanguage and embodied resources
- Signed languages and gestures in sign languages
- New communication technologies and digital social media spaces
- Multimodality of material objects
Panel convenors: Susanne Mohr (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Dorothy Pokua Agyepong (University of Ghana) and Tatjana Schnellinger (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Please submit a short abstract of fewer than 300 characters and a long abstract of fewer than 250 words via the online form by 09 January 2023.
The full CfP is available here:
https://ecasconference.org/2023/programme#12365 Minimum Education Level: No Minimum
Description:
Social and communicative practices are contingent on notions about the past, present and future. In view of “a post-modern era characterized by intense mobility, not only across spaces but also across linguistic and other semiotic systems” (Dyers 2015: 1), expressive forms in African and African diaspora communities are constantly emerging, changing and transforming. These expressive forms refer to all types of movement, sound and material objects
that involve interactional meaning upon being perceived by a person (Norris 2004). Human interaction is thus essentially multimodal and multichanneled as individuals employ various modalities (e.g., visual, vocal-auditory and bodily-tactile) and a range of channels (e.g., hands, smartphones, textiles etc.) (Ferrara & Hodge 2018).
Registration: Open until 09-Jan-2023
Contact Person: Tatjana Schnellinger
Email: tatjana.schnellinger
ntnu.no
Registration Instructions:
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