[Commlist] DN29 Visiolinguistics: Panoramas of Languaging and Visuality Conference

Milton Keynes, UK

Date: 6/08/2023 - 14/09/2023
Registration deadline: 20/07/2023
Call for papers ending on: 16/04/2023

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Welcome to DN29 Visiolinguistics, a virtual conference on panoramas of
languaging and visuality.

In this virtual conference space, you can watch pre-recorded papers and
keynote addresses (from August 2023) and you can join our live discussion
panels (on 13th, 14th and 15th September 2023).

To access this virtual conference space, you must be a fee-paying member of
DiscourseNet and register for the conference. Click on the Registration tab
above to learn how to join.



Conference theme
As ocularcentric animals, humans engage with the world primarily through our
eyes. Using language, i.e. languaging, is deeply mediated by the visual
modality. Although linguists since Saussure have traditionally regarded the
auditory channel of speech as primary in the study of language, in more
recent times we have also recognised the importance of visuality in
languaging, for example in our attention to computer-mediated textual
communication, multimodality, semiotic landscapes, embodied 
sociolinguistics,
matched-guise testing, sign language, translanguaging and raciolinguistics.
Either in the form of printed letters on a page and digital text-signs on a
screen or in the form of signifiers inscribed on and through our bodies,
visuality plays an important role in how we communicate with each other. And
indeed, visuality also seems of utmost importance as a methodological 
tool in
the analysis of languaging, when we think of phonetic symbols and
spectrographs, transcripts of interaction or graphs used in quantitative
analysis of variation, for example. In a word, we hear with our eyes, as 
much
as we see with our ears.

With this online conference, we aim to understand the intersections between
languaging and visuality. We take both a historical and a future-oriented
perspective to unite a wide range of engagements with language and visuality
under a new panorama that could be called visiolinguistics. This is an
approach that conceptualises our visual sense as deeply interconnected with
our auditory and articulatory organs.

We invite individual pre-recorded paper contributions that can provide novel
insights into understanding visiolinguistics. Topics may include, but arenot
limited to:

Language and racialisation • Language and gender identities •
Gerontolinguistics • Crossing • Multimodality and transmodality •
Visual discourse analysis • Visual anthropology • Visual sociology of
knowledge •Language and materiality • Visualising languagesthrough
national flags • Body language, facial expressions and gestures• Sign
language • Captions and text-image interfaces • Written literacy •
Graffiti • Calligraphy •Linguistic and semiotic landscapes •
Geosemiotics • Audiovisual surveillance • Visual narratives •
Computer-mediated communication • Visual methods for analysing languaging
(e.g. concordance lines, spectrographs, quantitative graphs, diagrams, 
tables
and transcripts) • The language of maps and mapping languages and dialects
• Media aesthetics • Translanguaging • Books and print media •
Television • Language in art • Logos and symbols •Iconicity •
Scripts and writing systems • Statistics, numbers, mathematics and
economic figures



Format
DN29 Visiolinguistics will be fully online. However, we do not want to 
simply
emulate an offline conferencing experience, so we have decided to experiment
with alternative virtual formats. We hope that our ideas will facilitate
discussion and interaction among you and help you engage with each other’s
work in mutually productive and non-hierarchical ways.

Pre-recorded presentations by 15 July 2023

In order to give you more control over the way you want to present your 
work,
and to accommodate participants from all time-zones, we invite all 
presenters
to pre-record their presentations and upload them to our virtual platformby
15 July 2023. We will assign each presentation to a thematic panel of four
and publish them on our website in mid-August 2023, one month ahead of the
conference. In this way, all participants will be able to view all
pre-recorded presentations in a time convenient to them.

Live discussions on 13, 14 and 15 September 2023

During the conference days, we meet online to discuss your presentations.We
will invite each presenter to become a respondent to another presentationand
deliver a five-minute commentary on your colleague’s work. We will then
open up a question-and-answer session with all panel audiences. Invited
speakers and other scholars will act as discussants for each panel.



Abstract submissionPlease submit your 300-word abstracts by 17 March 2023,
including title, main argument and methodological orientation (and
references, if any) to the email address: (dn29 /at/ discourseanalysis.net) [5]The
main conference language will be English. Please get in touch with the
organisers, if you would like to present in another language. Paper
presentations should be no longer than 15 minutes, plus 10 minute Q&A. The
academic committee will vet the abstracts and acceptance/rejection letters
will be sent out in early May 2023.


Publications
We are planning to compile an edited volume or a special issue in a journal
on the theme of visiolinguistics. We will invite selected presenters to 
write
up their paper into a full-length article or book chapter. Moreover, all
accepted presenters are automatically invited to write up their paper as a
short DiscourseNet Collaborative Working Paper [6].

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