[MGSA-L] COMELA 2020 CFP : Mediterranean and European Linguistic Anthropology

[June Samaras]

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From: secretariat at comela.me <secretariat at comela.me>
Date: Mon, May 25, 2020, 08:28



*Apologies for cross-posting*

Dear Colleagues,

This is a Call for Papers / Abstracts for The COMELA 2020 (Conference on
Mediterranean and European Linguistic Anthropology) in Athens, Greece
(September 2-5, 2020):

*Title*:

*The Conference on Mediterranean and European Linguistic Anthropology 2020:
Bounded Languages… Unbounded*
*Organizer:*
Helena Maragou
Professor
American University in Greece

*Theme: *

*Bounded Languages … Unbounded*
The politics of identity are central to language change. Here, linguistic
boundaries rise and fall, motivating the ephemeral characteristics of
language communities. The Mediterranean and European regions are replete
with histories, and with power struggles, that demarcate nation, ethnicity,
and community. For this, cultural and political identities, language
ideologies, as well as the languages themselves, have sought boundedness,
the dynamics of which have influenced change over eons, effected through
demographic movements, through geopolitics, and through technological
innovation. In the current era of technological advancement, transnational
fluidity, intellectual power, capitalism, and revised sexualities, then, we
again question the boundedness of language and identity, and ways in which
to unbound these languages and ideologies. We now need to increasingly
unbind these languages, and their ideologies, so to rectify, or at least
see and move past, the segregations of old.

The COMELA 2020 theme, ‘Bounded languages … Unbounded,’ encapsulates the
ongoing struggle throughout Mediterranean and European regions. As tensions
between demarcation and legitimization of languages, language ideologies,
and language identities, enter a new era, flexible citizenship now operates
well within, and not only across, language communities, to unbind
languages, and to create new boundaries, unlike those ever seen throughout
history.

The COMELA 2020 invites work which addresses the shifting boundedness of
Language Communities of The Mediterranean and Europe. Papers and posters
should acknowledge and describe processes of language shape, change, and
ideology, pertinent to social, cultural, and political histories and
futures, of Mediterranean and European regions.

Strands
– Anthropological Linguistics
– Applied Sociolinguistics
– Buddhist studies and discourses
– Cognitive Anthropology and Language
– Critical Linguistic Anthropology
– Ethnographical Language Work
– Ethnography of Communication
– General Sociolinguistics
– Islamic Studies and discourses
– Language, Community, Ethnicity
– Language Contact and Change
– Language, Dialect, Sociolect, Genre
– Language Documentation
– Language, Gender, Sexuality
– Language Ideologies
– Language Minorities and Majorities
– Language Revitalization
– Language in Real and Virtual Spaces
– Language Socialization
– Language and Spatiotemporal Frames
– Multifunctionality
– Narrative and Metanarrative
– Nonverbal Semiotics
– Oral heritage
– Poetics
– Post-Structuralism and Language
– Semiotics and Semiology
– Social Psychology of Language
– Text, Context, Entextualization

Official Partners, Taylor and Francis Global Publishers, Elsevier Global
Publishers, with over 180 global Higher Institution affiliates. All
proceedings and publications are SCOPUS / ISI / AHCI indexed.

We invite scholars with significant work on the Linguistic Anthropology,
and the Language and Society of The Mediterranean and Europe to submit
abstracts (400 words max) to the following link:
https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcomela2020.acg.edu%2Fsubmit%2F&data=02%7C01%7CCLASSICS-L%40lsv.uky.edu%7Cbf63778793eb42d42dc608d800a5be3a%7C2b30530b69b64457b818481cb53d42ae%7C0%7C1%7C637260059164949691&sdata=nkCSFh7yN3Dpk2A0LtvDhuD7xMYXp6j%2BQ1joWVjqY78%3D&reserved=0
by Jun 1, 2020. Decisions about
acceptance of abstracts will be sent no later than June 20. For authors who
wish to submit after the submission deadline, please contact The COMELA
2020 through the email comela at acg.edu


Anastasia Tsantes
Communications Coordinator
COMELA 2020
comela at acg.edu

for

Helena P. Maragou, PhD
Dean, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences
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