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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