[Commlist] Sixth Middlesex Roundtable on Signs, Language and Communication

*CALL FOR PAPERS*

*Sixth Middlesex Roundtable on Signs, Language and Communication*

*18-19 January 2024*

*/The laity/*

We would like to invite you to send titles/proposals for your discussion 
at the /Middlesex Roundtable on Signs, Language and Communication/ 
<https://www.mdx.ac.uk/our-research/research-groups/language-and-communication-research-cluster/roundtable-on-signs-language-and-communication>. 
The Roundtable is an annual workshop launched in January 2019 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 the laity as it is 
played out in integrationism, biosemiotics and philosophy of 
communication. Topics include, but are not limited to,

lay philosophies of communication;

lay linguistics;

lay semiotics;

linguistics, communication theory and semiotics as ‘lay-oriented’;

lay metalanguage;

lay discourses vs. professional discourses;

anti-elitism;

the laity in linguistic theory;

laypeople as the subject of empirical linguistics;

semiotic ideology.

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The Roundtable will take place in person at Middlesex University on 18 
and 19 January 2024.

As usual, the Roundtable will be a small-scale workshop, with 10-minute 
presentations and long conversations (flipped conference style). This 
format allows for an in-depth exchange of ideas, open questions, 
speculations and considerations and makes the Roundtable an ideal 
environment to present and discuss work at the frontiers of research in 
our disciplines.

For you to participate, we need a proposed _title_, along with a brief 
(two-sentence) _description_ of what you will discuss, relating to the 
topic of the laity in the context of integrationism and/or biosemiotics 
and/or philosophy of communication, along with your _name and 
institutional affiliation_.

Proposals should be sent to

/Paul Cobley //(p.cobley /at/ mdx.ac.uk)/ <mailto:(p.cobley /at/ mdx.ac.uk)>//

/Adrian Pablé //(adrian.pable /at/ supsi.ch)/ <mailto:(adrian.pable /at/ supsi.ch)>

/Johan Siebers //(j.siebers /at/ mdx.ac.uk)/ <mailto:(j.siebers /at/ mdx.ac.uk)>//

no later than 12pm (C.E.T.) on 15 December 2023.

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