Call for papers – Languaging Diversity International Conference

The University of Naples "L'Orientale" invites researchers and scholars to submit proposals for individual papers on the theme "Language and Diversity Discourse".
The Conference, scheduled on 10-12 October 2013 in Naples, will prompt a reflection on:

• the relationship between language and ethnic and cultural identity
• the relationship between language and gender and/or sexual identity, and
• any form of language diversification arising from contamination/hybridization/migration of genre(s), discourse(s) and text typologies.

Abstracts (250-350 words) for 20-minute presentations should refer to any field related to:

• Critical Discourse Analysis
• Linguistic and cultural mediation
• Translation perspectives
• EFL, ESL, ELF, ESP and Corpus Linguistics
• Language crossing, switching, and mixing
• Language variation and language change
• Multimodal, digital and audio-visual discourse(s)
• Contrastive Pragmatics.

Deadline to submit abstracts: 30 June 2013. For more information, please visit the website.