Call for audience
Call for audience
Online workshop
Language Thought and Society: an exploration of identities
through Cognitive (Socio)Linguistics
Saturday-Sunday 15, 16 March, 2025
Workshop organizer: Dr. A. Vogiatzis
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of English
Email: ltsworkshop365@gmail.com,
For updates: https://ltsworkshop365.blogspot.com/
Registration fee: Free
Registration form: https://forms.gle/BcBzw83Z8psdsb5N9
An issue that has been of extreme interest and has gained momentum the last decades is the
exploration of identities in the anthropological (Vargas-Cetina, 2013) and sociolinguistic paradigm
(Edwards, 2009; Omoniyi & White 2006). Individuals have challenged the idea of identity, and from
being characterized by one identity are now bearers and creators of different identities. Identity is
viewed as a dynamic trait of an individual, shaped and expressed through language interactions
(Deckert & Vickers, 2011), it“is locally situated; who we are is, at least partially, a product of where
we are and who we are with”(Schiffrin, 1996: 198).
This online workshop aims to intersect sociolinguistic research on identities with the Cognitive
(Socio)Linguistic (CL) view to language. In terms of cognitive linguistics, the workshop aims to
investigate how metaphor, metonymy and other less represented figures in CL research are reflected,
or contribute to the creation of a person’s or a group’s identity/ies in different social, economic,
political etc., contexts. Apart from figurative language, other areas of interest for exploration in their
interaction with identities are Cognitive Grammar, image schemas, frame semantics, construction
grammar, (Geeraerts, 2006: 2) and political discourse (Lakoff, 2004; Musolff et al., 2022).
References
Deckert, S., K. & Vickers, C., H. (2011). An Introduction to Sociolinguistics Society and Identity.
London & New York: Continuum International Publishing Group.
Edwards, J. (2009). Language and Identity: An introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Geeraerts, D. 2006. A rough guide to cognitive linguistics. In Cognitive Linguistics: Basic readings. D.
Geeraerts, R. Dirven, & J., R. Taylor, R., W Langacker (Eds). Berlin & New York: Mouton de
Gruyter. Lakoff, G. (2004). Don’t think of an elephant. Vermont: Chelsea Green.
Musolff, A., Breeze, R., Kondo K., Vilar-Lluch, S (Eds). 2022. Pandemic and Crisis Discourse.
Communicating COVID-19 and Public Health Strategy. Blumsbury.
Schiffrin, D. (1996). Narrative as self-portrait: Sociolinguistic constructions of identity. Language
in Society, 25(2), 167–203.
Omoniyi, T., & White, G. (Eds.). (2006). The Sociolinguistics of Identity . London : Continuum.
Vargas-Cetina, G. (Ed.). (2013). Anthropology and the Politics of Representation. Tuscaloosa, Alabama:
The University of Alabama Press
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