Deadline extension – Individual papers/Nueva fecha límite/ Nuova scadenza

The deadline for the submission of individual papers to the Languaging Diversity Conference – Language and Social Class has been extended. The New deadline is March 31st 2017. The results of the review process will be notified to authors by April 30th.

La scadenza per la presentazione di sessioni contributi individuali alla conferenza Languaging Diversity – Lingua e Classe Sociale è stata estesa. La nuova scadenza è il 31 Marzo 2017. I risultati del processo di selezione saranno comunicati entro il 30 Aprile.

El plazo para la presentación de ponencias individuales para el Congreso Languaging Diversity -Lenguaje y Clase Social ha sido postergado al 31 de Marzo de 2017. Los resultados de las selecciones serán comunicados dentro del 30 de Abril.

New deadline for panel proposals/ Nueva fecha límite/ Nuova scadenza

The deadline for the submission of panels to the Languaging Diversity Conference – Language and Social Class has been extended. The New deadline is March 15th 2017. We remind you that panel submissions should be presented as one file, with a general introduction and the description of each individual contribution. Contributors to panels will not need to submit their individual papers separately.

La fecha límite para la presentación de mesas (panel) para el congreso Languaging Diversity – Lengua y Clase Social ha sido extendida. La nueva fecha límite es el 15 de marzo de 2017. Recordemos que las propuestas de las sesiones deberán ser presentadas en un archivo único que incluya una introducción general y la descripción de cada una de las contribuciones. A las/los participantes en las mesas no se pide el envío de su propia propuesta de manera independiente.

La scadenza per la presentazione di sessioni (panel) alla conferenza Languaging Diversity – Lingua e Classe Sociale è stata estesa. La nuova scadenza è il 15 Marzo 2017. Ricordiamo che le proposte di sessioni dovranno essere presentate in un unico file comprendente un’introduzione generale e la descrizione dei singoli contributi. Ai/lle partecipanti alle sessioni non è richiesto l’invio del proprio contributo in maniera separata.

Call for Papers

The University of Cagliari, Italy, and the I-LanD (Identity and Language Diversity) research centre invite researchers and scholars to submit proposals for individual papers and panels on the following theme: Language and Social Class.

Following the three successful events hosted by the Universities of Naples (2013), Catania (2014) and Macerata (2016) where topics such as diversity, alterity and power have been explored with reference to gender, ethnicity and culture, we are now ready to tackle the elephant in the room: Social Class. As Machin and Richardson (2008) stated “discourses may be variously approached as (often simultaneously) reflecting class structures, as a site of class inequalities, as expressive of class identities or class consciousness and/or as a constituent part of more performative class action”. We thus invite contributions that investigate the role of language in reflecting, maintaining, enacting and inculcating ideas of and around social class in literary, non-literary and multimodal texts and discourse in all geographical and linguistic areas.

The following macro-areas and/or methodological approaches are to be understood as a general guideline and can be further extended:

– Critical Discourse Analysis

– Linguistic and cultural mediation

– Linguistic anthropology

– Corpus Linguistics

– Language crossing, switching, and mixing

– Language variation and language change

– Multimodal, digital and audio-visual discourse(s)

– Contrastive Pragmatics

– Ethnographic approaches to language

– Literary studies

– Cultural and postcolonial studies

– Popular culture

– History of ideas

Conference dates: 28-30 September 2017, University of Cagliari (Italy).


Call deadline:

Panels should be submitted by February 28th

Abstracts should be submitted by March 10th

Abstract guidelines:
Subject: Languaging Diversity International Conference Paper/Panel proposal

Title of Presentation
Author(s) names, institution, e-mail address
4 to 6 Keywords (at least 1 detailing the approach taken)

anonymised abstract 250-350 words as an attachment

Conference Languages: English and Spanish

Email: languagingdiversity2017@gmail.com

After a review process, notification of abstract review decision together with presentation guidelines and Conference details will be emailed.