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2nd Call for papers Monday 6th to Wednesday 8th
June 2011 Keynote speakers Mike
Cormack (Sabhal
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This is the fourth in a series of international conferences organized
around the role of the media in relation to the representation,
construction and/or production of language. Following on from
the previous three conferences, the fourth language in the media
conference seems like a good occasion to take stock of our focus
and revisit some of our basic concepts. Given the mundanity of
media as an unremarkable and integrated part of everyday life,
does it still make sense to delineate particular domains and
activities as ‘media’? Similarly, given the inherent
multimodality of contemporary media and the continuing
deconstruction of ‘language’ as a monolithic concept within
sociolinguistics, can and should we continue to mark out and
focus on a particular set of practices as ‘language’, and if
so, how? With these questions in mind, we invite you to submit
abstracts for papers which explore the representation,
construction and/or production of language in the media, but in
a way which questions and problematises both ‘language’ and
‘media’. One particular area which seems to be ripe for this
type of rethinking is that of minority languages and media, and
given the location of the conference in Ireland and the interests of the local organisers, we would like to call
in particular for papers which address this topic in an
innovative and paradigm-shifting way. Alongside this particular
focus, the 2011 conference will continue to prioritize papers
which address: standard languages and language standards;
literacy policy and literacy practices; language acquisition;
multilingualism and cross-/inter-cultural communication;
language and communication in professional contexts; language
and class, dis/ability, race/ethnicity, gender/sexuality and
age; media representations of speech, thought and writing;
language and education; political discourse; language, commerce
and global capitalism.