The University of Hong Kong, 3–6 June 2015
Sociolinguistics of Globalization (De)centering and (De)standardization
The University of Hong Kong, 3–6 June 2015
Sociolinguistics of Globalization (De)centering and (De)standardization
2015
•communities, networks, groups and individuals
•organizations, institutions, collectives
•time and place
•hubs, margins and peripheries
•nodes and trajectories
•work and leisure
•war and peace
•heart and mind
•love and hate
•thinking beyond the binaries
•the commodification of social life
•crisis? what crisis?
•resources
•superdiversity, class, privilege
•creativity, reproduction, appropriation
•legitimacy, censorship, contestation and (self-) reflexivity
•mobilities, cultures of (im)mobility and displacement
•singularity and normativity
•mediations and mediatizations
•embodied and multisensory communication
•affect, pleasure, sensuality
•technologies, environments, futures
•art and performance
•rituals and spectacles
•occupy and activism
Sociolinguistics of Globalization,
3 – 6 June 2015
June 3, 2015
We are asking two fundamental and interrelated questions: How are we to continue theorizing language and communication under globalization? How can sociolinguistic theory shed new light on our understanding of globalization?
Deadline for abstract submission is 30 September 2014.
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Plenary speakers
Professor Nikolas Coupland
University of Technology, Sydney and Copenhagen University
Professor Christopher Hutton
University of Hong Kong
Professor Michelle Lazar
National University of Singapore
Professor Christopher Stroud
University of the Western Cape
Professor Kathryn Woolard
University of California, San Diego
School of English
The University of Hong Kong,
Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
Email: slxg2015@hku.hk
Tel: + (852) 3917 2749
Fax: + (852) 2559 7139