[ecrea] CFP Discourses of Marriage

BAAL/CUP Seminar Series Call for Papers

Discourses of Marriage

University of Liverpool 14-15th September 2017

Due to recent legislation changes in countries around the world, more 
people than ever before can now get married. Hosted in collaboration 
with the Discourses of Marriage Research Group 
<http://discoursesofmarriage.blogspot.co.uk/>, this two-day seminar aims 
to encourage scholarly interest in how marriage is conceptualised, 
normalised, defined, rejected, adapted, and debated through language. 
The seminar has three primary aims:


1. To engage scholars in the close analysis of the discursive 
construction of marriage

2. To take a global perspective on marriage and marriage equality debates

3. To use methods of analysis from linguistics and other disciplines 
such as sociology, politics, history, etc. to investigate attitudes to 
marriage in the twenty-first century

We invite submissions for 20-minute papers to discuss any aspects of 
discourses of marriage in relation to language, but particularly 
encourage submissions in the following areas:


· Historical and/or global perspectives on discourses of marriage

· Marriage and religious institutions

· The language of marriage and equal marriage debates across cultures

· Marriage and identity

· Discourses of (non-heteronormative) family structure and divorce

Abstracts should be up to 300 words long and should contain up to five 
keywords. Abstracts are to be submitted as Word documents to 
(discoursesofmarriage /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:%(3cdiscoursesofmarriage /at/ gmail.com)>by the 20th June 2017. 
Submissions will be anonymised before review. Authors will be notified 
of the organisers’ decisions by mid-July 2017. We encourage applications 
from scholars at all career stages and there will be two fee-waived 
places for student presenters.

The two-day seminar will be an opportunity to establish the 
state-of-the-art for linguistic research on marriage, marriage equality, 
divorce, etc. by bringing together researchers interested in this field. 
It is designed to spark discussion about discourses of marriage by 
acting as a networking event and will hopefully lead to an edited 
collection of papers. For more information, please contact Laura 
Paterson ((laura.paterson /at/ open.ac.uk) <mailto:(laura.paterson /at/ open.ac.uk)>) 
or Georgina Turner ((g.turner /at/ liverpool.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(g.turner /at/ liverpool.ac.uk)>).

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