Plenary speakers:
Marjorie H. Goodwin, UCLA
Celia Kitzinger, Loughborough University
Don Kulick, Stockholm University
Abstract submission deadline: 1 August 1999
In the 1990s there has been much debate about the best way to approach the study of language and gender. The traditional divisions between the deficit, the cultural difference and the dominance models have been disputed. One consequence is that the profound theoretical challenge to how we understand and account for gender - as a dynamic, performative engagement which is never complete - matches with the rich set of tools that have been developed for analysing the complexities of everyday language use, agency and identity in talk-in-interaction. Also, a new domain has opened up that is ripe for study: the relationship of sexuality to social interaction and language use. Recent edited book collections such as 'Language and Masculinity', 'Language and Desire', 'Queerly Phrased', 'Language & Gender', 'Rethinking Language and Gender Research', 'Feminism and Discourse', and 'Gender Articulated' suggest a flourishing research enterprise, but one which has yet to be fully explored.
Attendees of the symposium are invited to present parallel session papers, to organise panel sessions or to conduct workshops on the theory and/or practice of analysing verbal and non-verbal social interaction in a diversity of settings in which participants constitute themselves as gendered and sexed persons or communities. Presentations of research on the following settings are welcome: everyday conversation, institutional talk, talk in the media, computer-mediated communication, and dialogue in popular culture, fiction and written texts. We desire to achieve a relaxed forum for discussion and debate, so accepted presentations will be grouped into thematic sections under the guidance of a section chair and/or discussant. Presenters will be allotted 20 minutes plus 20 minutes for discussion.
Abstracts of max. 300 words in English should be sent with your full contact details by August 1st, 1999 to Paul McIlvenny (see the address below). Electronic submissions are welcome. The language of the symposium is English. Please redistribute this call for papers to interested parties.
For further information, and to pre-register, please see the symposium web site <http://www.sprog.auc.dk/~paul/conf99/> or contact:
Paul McIlvenny (paul@sprog.auc.dk)
Department of Languages and Intercultural Studies
Kroghstraede 3
Aalborg University
DK-9220 Aalborg
DENMARK
Tel: +45 9635 9169
Fax: +45 9815 7887
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