CONFERENCE
ANNOUNCEMENT
Identity is a broad,
complex and increasingly topical issue in a variety of fields such as
sociolinguistics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, linguistic anthropology
and language learning and teaching, where identity is primarily regarded
as a social phenomenon. In other words, the self and other are positioned
in interpersonal communication where the roles and relationships are
expressed, established and negotiated. But how exactly is this done? Some
theoretical and methodological approaches highlight those aspects of
identity that relate the concept to macro-level demographic categories
like class, gender, ethnicity and age, while others focus on identities
emerging in specific interactions. So, what is the role of an abstraction
like social class, on the one hand, and situated meaning-making, on the
other? Which linguistic forms are relevant in identity work? And what kind
of methods can we employ to broaden our understanding of language and
identity?
The conference on Dialogic Language Use
2 aims at understanding the complexity of identity by bringing together
scholars from diverse theoretical and methodological backgrounds and
creating theoretical and methodological interfaces between macro- and
microanalytic approaches, quantitative and qualitative methods, spoken and
written language, and the synchronic and diachronic perspectives. The
conference focuses on English, German and Romance languages.
The conference is
organized by the Modern Language Society of Helsinki and the proceedings
of the conference will also be published by
the Modern Language Society in the series Mémoires de la Société
Néophilologique. The conference languages are English, French, German,
Italian and Spanish.
The first conference
on Dialogic Language Use was organized by the society in March 2004 and
the conference proceedings were published in 2006 as the volume
Dialogic Language Use (Helsinki, Modern Language Society).
The call for papers
will be circulated in the autumn 2008.
The organizing
committee
Minna Palander-Collin,
Minna Nevala, Päivi Sihvonen, Mari Lehtinen,
Marjo Vesalainen and Hartmut
Lenk
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