International Conference
LANGUAGE IN THE NEW MEDIA: TECHNOLOGIES AND IDEOLOGIES
Thursday 03 to Sunday 06 September 2009
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
ONLINE ANNOUNCEMENT
http://www.com.washington.edu/lim/
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Naomi Baron, American University, USA
Jannis Androutsopoulos, Kings College London, England
Theo van Leeuwen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
BACKGROUND
This is the third in a series of conferences organized around the role of the
media in relation to the representation, construction and/or production of
language. The first two conferences were held at Leeds University, England: in
2005, Language in the Media: Representations, Identities, Ideologies, and, in
2007, Language Ideologies and Media Discourse: Texts, Practices, Policies. In
2009, the conference will be leaving Leeds and coming to Seattle.
CONFERENCE THEME
We invite you to submit abstracts for papers which explore the representation,
construction and/or production of language through the technologies and
ideologies of new media - the digital discourse of blogs, wikis, texting,
instant messaging, internet art, video games, virtual worlds, websites, emails,
podcasting, hypertext fiction, graphical user interfaces, and so on. Of equal
interest are the ways that new media language is metalinguistically
represented, constructed and/or produced in print and broadcast media such as
newspapers and television (see below).
With this new media theme in mind, the 2009 conference will continue to
prioritize papers which address the scope of the AILA Research Network on
Language in the Media by examining the following types of contexts/issues:
- 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 & 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.
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
Please submit abstracts for papers (20 minutes plus 10 for discussion) by email
to lim2009@u.washington.edu no later than Thursday 26 February 2009. Abstracts
should include a title, your contact details (name, mailing address, email) and
a description of your paper (250 -350 words). The conference committee will
begin reviewing abstract submissions immediately after the deadline;
notification of acceptance will be Thursday 19 March. (Please send your
abstract as a Word document or in the body of your email.)
PUBLICATION
Conference co-organizer Crispin Thurlow is planning to edit a volume
provisionally titled "Language in the New Media: Technologies and Ideologies"
and is in discussion with the editors of the Oxford University Press' series
Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics. His goal would be to publish this volume in
2011. To this end, Crispin would like to receive good quality, previously
unpublished chapters which may or may not be based on papers presented at the
conference. Contributions should be of no more than 7,000 words in length and
should conform to APA format, please. More information about the scope of this
volume will be made available nearer to the conference; in the meantime, the
anticipated deadline for submission of chapters for review will be 31 January
2010.
SENT BY: Crispin Thurlow
University of Washington
lim2009@u.washington.edu
