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[Commlist] Fourth Middlesex Roundtable on Signs, Language and Communication, 10-11 February 2022 (online): Literacies

Thu Feb 10 19:09:45 GMT 2022





Since 2019 the Language and Communication Research Group at Middlesex University London, in cooperation with ECREA’s Section for Philosophy of Communication, has been hosting the Middlesex Roundtable on Signs, Language and Communication.

The Roundtable is an annual workshop launched to encourage discussion between three paradigms of language and communication theory: the integrationism of Roy Harris and his followers, biosemiotics and philosophy of communication.

These areas of thought and scholarship share assumptions regarding the fundamental role played by communicative interaction in the emergence of signification, meaning and relationality. They also share views of communication and language that are not limited to the understanding of language as a code-based domain.

This year’s Roundtable will focus on the topic of literacy as it is played out in integrationism, biosemiotics and philosophy of communication. This includes reading and writing as they are learned and practiced across social contexts, as well as the interface between reading/writing and general interpretative modes.

As Kate Pahl writes: “Living literacies involves being in and of the world: we move through and within literacy all the time, and the mind, heart and body of each of us play equal roles in the process. Seen in this way, ‘literacy’ naturally conflates felt, sensory experiences with more deliberate ways of thinking and knowing. In the past, literacy has often been framed in terms of its performed, communicational, and informational dimensions at the expense of its more hidden, lived, and sometimes intensely affective dimensions.” (/Living Literacies/, MIT Press, 2020, 1)

All are welcome to attend the Fourth Middlesex Roundtable on Signs, Language and Communication, taking place online on 10 and 11 February 2022. A range of interdisciplinary contributions to the study and utilisation of notions of literacy will be explored in “flipped conference” style: short presentations, long conversations.

Please visit the url below for more information, contact details and joining instructions:

https://www.mdx.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0022/638050/Fourth-Middlesex-Roundtable-on-Signs-Language-and-Communication-2.pdf

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