RC25 Language & Society – Call for abstracts
International Sociological Association
XVIII World Congress of Sociology. Yokohama, 2014 13-18 July (Japan)
Dear RC25 members and colleagues,
This a reminder of the call for abstracts by the RC25 Language and Society for the upcoming ISA XVIII World Congress of Sociology to be held in Yokohama.
Link for abstracts submission: https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc2014/cfp.cgi.
To submit an abstract for the ISA World Congress, you must select a Research Committee and a Session. You can see below the list of sessions organized by RC 25 and a link to detailed descriptions of each session.
Abstracts are limited to 300 words. While RC 25 supports a wide variety of scholarship, please keep in mind that papers must look at language in interaction and in systems of representation. Please identify the theoretical/methodological approach that you will use in your papers.If you have questions about any specific session, please feel free to contact the Session Organizers or Program Coordinators for more information.
Please, remember the deadline for abstracts submission: September 30, 2013 (24 GMT).
Best regards,
Amado Alarcón (Rovira & Virgili University) and Celine-Marie Pascale (American University), RC25 Program Coordinators
RC25 Program Theme: The Language of Inequality.
List of RC25 Sessions & Session Organizers:
– Migrations and Conditions of Belonging. Organizer: Erzsébet Barát, University of Szeged, zsazsa@lit.u-szeged.hu
– Online interaction: The changing meanings of social context. Organizer: Anders Persson, Lund University, anders.persson@soc.lu.se
– Popular & Sociological Discourses on Inequality. Organizer: Frédéric Moulène. University of Strasbourg, frederic.moulene@voila.fr.
– Identity and institutional categorization. Organizer: Frida Petersson, University of Gothenburg, frida.petersson@socwork.gu.se
– Activism, Media and Justice. Co-organized by Roberta Villalon, St. John’s University, villalor@stjohns.edu and Natalie Byfield, St. John’s University, byfieldn@stjohns.edu
– Old and new conditions of language endangerment. Organizer: Olga Kazakevich, Lomonosov Moscow State University, kazakevich.olga@gmail.com
– Producing Counter-Hegemonic Knowledge. Organizer: Nadezhda Georgieva-Stankova, Trakia University, nadyageorgieva@abv.bg
– The Language of Borders: Exclusion and Resistance. Organizer: Trinidad Valle, Fordham University, valle@fordham.edu
– Privilege and Stigma. Organizer: Thomas Horejes, Gallaudet University, Thomas.Horejes@gallaudet.edu
– Markets, Power and Language. Organizer: Laura García Landa. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, garlanster@gmail.com
– Current debates in Japanese Scholarship on Language & Society. Co-organized by: Amado Alacón , Rovira & Virgili University, amado.alarcon@urv.cat, and Keiji Fujiyoshi, Koyasan University, fjosh524@hotmail.com
– Sociological Analyses of Language. Organizer: Celine-Marie Pascale, American University, USA, pascal@amercian.edu
– Language and Work: Representations of Psychosocial Health at Work Joint Session: RC 25 and RC 30 Sociology of Work. Co-Organizers: Stéphanie Cassilde, Centre d’Études en Habitat Durable, stephanie.cassilde@cehd.be, Adeline Gilson, Laboratoire d’Économie et de Sociologie du Travail, adeline.gilson@univ-amu.fr
– Naming Marriage as Gendered. Joint Round table session: RC32 Women in Society and RC25. Co-Organizers: Shobha Gurung, Southern Utah University, gurung@suu.edu, and Melanie Heath, McMaster University, mheath@mcmaster.ca
Full description of the RC25 sessions: http://www.isa-sociology.org/congress2014/rc/rc.php?n=RC25