"Gender and language: the signs of equality and diversity" announced a call for papers addressed to scholars in social, linguistic and psycho-pedagogical sciences and professionals in the fields of language and gender in their multiple analytical dimensions.
Human languages - often mistakenly perceived as neutral instruments in labelling reality - significantly influence the symbolic systems of the speakers and are influenced in turn by the latter. This ensures the stability of the representations of the same cultural and social behaviours.
The classical approach, from the Weberian idea of power to Foucault’s bio-power, is located in a dimension of "violence of the word”. This reaffirms the asymmetries between men and women, as well as between homosexual, transsexual and heterosexual individuals. The linguistic violence is proportional to the social affirmation of genders "different” from the heterosexual male.
These asymmetries show up in every aspect of the practices of everyday life (work, education, family, sexuality ...) and are both reflected and preserved through linguistic uses. The Conference arises from a debate within the Section Gender Studies of AIS on how genders and sexual orientations are represented through language.
The deep - although still incomplete - transformations of social representations of gender and sexual orientation occurred in the last decades have modified the language use. These changes, however, are not always satisfactory and not yet stabilized on the public and institutional level, or on the social and individual one.
The Congress aims to further explore the consideration of the mutual relationships between the socio-cultural change and the evolution of linguistic uses, starting from the idea that words can be an effective tool in the fight against inequalities based on gender and sexual orientation.
On the background of these considerations, scholars and researchers have been invited to submit their contribution.
The analytical tracks of the Conference.
Contributions may relate to one of the following thematic dimensions:
Genders and languages during childhood and adolescence (mass media, teenagers-parents relationships, peer relationships)
Genders and languages in primary and secondary education (teacher training, educational tools, school organization, pupils-teachers interaction)
Genders, languages and parenting
Genders, languages and L2-learning
Grammatical genders and social genders in modern languages
Genders, sexual orientations and politically correct language
Diageneric variations in sociolinguistics (pronunciations, conversational dynamics, rhetorical uses, etc.).
Genders and silence
Sexist and heterosexist linguistic usage
Linguistic usage in the LGBT communities
Representation / construction of gender language in the media
Visual sociology, visual languages and genders
Legal language from a gender perspective
Language and Medical Communication
Language and Institutional Communication
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