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

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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