Viadrina Languaging Winter School. Methods in Studying Language as Multilingual, Embodied and Mediated Practice

Host Institution: Europa-Universität Viadrina
Coordinating Institution: Europa-Universität Viadrina
Website: https://www.kuwi.europa-uni.de/de/lehrstuhl/sw/sprachgebrauch-und-migration/lehre/Languaging-Winter-School/index.html

Dates: 10-Jan-2024 - 12-Jan-2024
Location: Frankfurt (Oder), Germany, Brandenburg

Focus: The event invites PhD students from all fields of linguistics, anthropology, media studies and other disciplines whose work includes the analysis of data in verbal and/or multimodal communication and interaction.

Day one focuses on methodological inputs:
• Language Ideological Approaches to Data (Britta Schneider)
• Analysing Coconstruction (Konstanze Jungbluth & Rita Vallentin)
• Gesture & Languaging (Cornelia Müller)
• Media Analyses of Video Data (Sarah Greifenstein & Cornelia Müller)

Day two is reserved for joint data sessions of participants’ projects.
Minimum Education Level: MA

Special Qualifications:
For PhD students from all fields of linguistics, anthropology, media studies and other disciplines whose work includes the analysis of data in verbal and/or multimodal communication and interaction. All participants should prepare a 20-minute presentation of their project with a special focus on the methods they apply. To apply, send a motivation letter (max. 1 page) and an abstract of 500 words that describes your PhD project.

Description:
The Linguistics Department at European University Viadrina invites applicants for a PhD winter school. The Viadrina Languaging Winter School will take place from 10th to 12th January 2024 at Frankfurt (Oder), Germany, in the vicinity of Berlin. In the tradition of culturally-oriented language research at European University Viadrina, our winter school teaches methods that allow to study language as an interactive, socially embedded and multimodal cultural practice. In line with current posthumanist language theory (Schneider & Heyd to appear) and embodied multimodality (Müller 2018; Müller & Kappelhoff 2018), “coconstructions” (Fernández-Villanueva & Jungbluth 2016), and border thinking (Höfler 2020), we question body/mind dualisms and understand language as languaging, that is, as “everyday multimodal communicative acts” (De Meulder and Kusters et al. 2019), which bring about meaning and social relationships.

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
Discourse Analysis
Linguistic Theories
Philosophy of Language
Pragmatics
Sociolinguistics

Financial Aid: Applications accepted until 15-Sep-2023
A limited number of travel grants will be available, please indicate in your letter if you want to apply for these.

Registration: 01-Dec-2023 to 01-Dec-2023

Contact Person: Britta Schneider
Email: [email protected]

Apply by Email: [email protected]

Registration Instructions:
To apply, send a motivation letter (max. 1 page) and an abstract of 500 words that describes your PhD project. A limited number of travel grants will be available, please indicate in your letter if you want to apply for these.