ISA: Research Committee 25 Language and Society. Deadline (September 30th 24GMT, 2015)

This is a reminder from Research Committee 25 Language and Society of the deadline (September 30th 24GMT, 2015) to submit your abstracts (maximum 2 to all ISA RC/TG/WG, 300 words) to the ISA 3rd Forum of Sociology (Vienna, 10-14 July 2016). No extension of the deadline is expected.

The objective of the Research Committee on Language and Society is to advance sociological knowledge concerning language in interaction and in systems of representation. The RC welcomes all theoretical and methodological frameworks that can be used to create sociological analyses of language. As scholars who conceptualize language and its problems differently, we make use of an extraordinary range of methods and focus on an equally wide range of topics. In RC 25, scholars whose research on language ranges from sociolinguistics to poststructural discourse analysis are united by the desire to look at rather than through systems of communication.

Research Committee 25 Language and Society in collaboration with other ISA Research Committees (RC05 Racism, Nationalism and Ethnic Relations, RC15,Sociology of Health RC32 Women in Society & RC53 Sociology of Childhood) has prepared a comprehensive program that we hope that fulfill key research avenues through 15 focused sessions on the following topics (attached, details of the sessions and organizers):

– Academic discourse.

-Classifications of Otherness.
-Discourse in Practice: Microsociology of Social Exclusion and Control.

-Discourses on Risk.

-Ethnic Minority Mobilization: Intersections of Distribution and Recognition.

-Representation, Agency and Identities in Media Arenas.

-Language Diversity and Social Cohesion.

-Neutrality in Language Policy.

-Sociological Studies of Language: Theory & Method.
-Virtual Workplace Talk.

-Language and Childhood Socialization.

-Language on Health and Disease.

-Re-Imagining Gendered & Raced Representations in the Public Sphere.
-Innovation in Discourse: Promotion, Defensiveness, Reflexivity and Hidden Fears.

-The Use of Language and Silences in Coping with Everyday Nationalism, Racism and Sexism.

Abstract submission:

To take part on the RC25 Program you must submit your abstract (300 words) through the ISA Online system:

https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/forum2016/webprogrampreliminary/Symposium303.html

Deadline for abstracts submission: 30 September, 2015

Acceptance, registration, membership and grants:

Acceptance notification letters will be sent to authors by 30 November, 2015.

Authors of accepted abstracts must be registered and, in regular sessions, be ISA/RC25 members before April 6th 2016.

A limited number of ISA registration grants will be available after abstracts acceptance. See:

http://www.isa-sociology.org/forum-2016/deadlines-and-rules-for-presenters.htm

Hope to see you in Vienna!

Amado Alarcón, Rovira i Virgili University, amado.alarcon@urv.cat
Federico Farini, University Campus Suffolk, f.farini@ucs.ac.uk
Keiji Fujioshi, Miwako Hosoda, fjosh524@hotmail.com
RC25 Program Coordinators.


Amado Alarcón Alarcón
Last publications: http://webfacil.tinet.cat/amado

President Research Committee 25 Language and Society
International Sociological Association
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Professor Titular de Sociologia
Coordinador de Sociologia
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Facultat d’Econòmiques
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43204 Reus. Spain
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