Plenary Speakers
* Jannis Androutsopoulos, University of Hamburg
* Naomi Baron, American University
* Susan Herring, Indiana University
* Deborah Tannen, Georgetown University
* Crispin Thurlow, University of Washington
Electronic media have come to dominate our linguistic lives. Social media such as Facebook and Twitter are reshaping people’s interactions. Texting and instant messaging are transforming the very meaning of “conversation,” while blogs and websites are gradually replacing newspapers and television as the primary news outlets.
These new worlds of words occasion innovative uses of language and new spaces for constructing identities, forming relationships, and expressing social meanings. GURT 2011 will explore how these ever-changing technologies affect ever-adapting discourse. The conference will bring together leading researchers from around the world and from various analytic perspectives, including anthropological linguistics, conversation and discourse analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, multimodality, variation analysis, and visual analysis.
Explorations into the discourse of new media place this year’s GURT at the frontier of discourse as well as media studies.
Submission Deadline: NOVEMBER 10, 2010
We invite submissions in all areas relevant to language and new media, including:
* The language of facebook, twitter, and other social media
* The language of texting, hypertext, and other new technologies
* Identity, Indexicality, and Intertextuality
* Language and gender, performance, and narrative
Possible themes may include
* How the medium shapes language and social interaction
* How language and social interaction affect media
* Intergenerational/intercultural communication
* Language in medical, educational, legal, workplace, and other contexts
We welcome a range of approaches, including:
* Anthropological linguistics
* Conversation or discourse analysis
* Interactional sociolinguistics
* Multimodality
* Variation analysis
* Visual analysis
Organisers:
Deborah Tannen and Anna Marie Trester