Tällaista järjestellään tällä hetkellä…(Päivi, kaksi Minnaa, Marjo, Hartmut ja meitsi):
CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT
Dialogic Language Use 2: Constructing Identity in Interpersonal
Communication
Helsinki, Finland
August 19-21, 2009
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
For more information, contact
[email protected] (English)
[email protected] (German)
[email protected] (Romance languages)