International Conference: The Sociolinguistics of Globalization: (De)centring and (de)standardisation School of English, The University of Hong Kong 3-6 June 2015 [ Call for Papers ] Following on a decade from the ‘Language & Global Communication’ conference held at Cardiff University (2005), the sociolinguistics of globalization has emerged and developed as an important, interdisciplinary programme of research. Much excellent work has broadened our understanding of the role of language in the representation, manifestation and spread of the ideologies and material processes of globalization. We invite a reflection and re-assessment of these issues. Specifically, as suggested in the subtitle of the conference, we propose to focus on issues of spatial and symbolic mobility, change and paradigmatic state of flux that appear to characterize much of contemporary social life. With the social, cultural, political and economic processes continuing to destabilize traditional ‘centres’ and normativities, we are interested in identifying new, emerging regimes of language, dominant language ideologies, and the resources that are deployed to maintain and to subvert these ideologies. We continue asking two fundamental and interrelated questions: How are we to continue theorizing language and communication under globalization? How can sociolinguistic theory shed new light on our understanding of globalization? The topics of the papers, colloquia and plenaries include, but are not limited to, the following key themes: communities, networks, groups and individuals organizations, institutions, collectives time and place hubs, margins and peripheries nodes and trajectories work and leisure war and peace heart and mind love and hate thinking beyond the binaries the commodification of social life crisis? what crisis? occupy and activism resources superdiversity, class, privilege creativity, reproduction, appropriation legitimacy, censorship, contestation and (self-)reflexivity mobilities, cultures of (im)mobility and displacement singularity and normativity mediations and mediatizations embodied and multisensory communication affect, pleasure, sensuality technologies, environments, futures art and performance rituals and spectacles [ Important Dates ] 1st call for papers - September 2013 2nd call for papers - February 2014 Submission of abstracts opens - 1 July 2014 Submission of abstracts closes - 30 September 2014 Notification of acceptance - January 2015 Registration opens - January 2015 Conference takes place - 3-6 June 2015 Yvonne Tse Crepaldi, Kelvin Lui, Ruriko Otomo, Rika Yamashita, Jerine Tang, Grace Chew. english.hku.hk/events/slxg2015/
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