The COMELA 2020 - The (Annual) Conference on Mediterranean and European Linguistic Anthropology 2020

The COMELA 2020 - The (Annual) Conference on Mediterranean and European Linguistic Anthropology 2020 The American College of Greece, September 2—5, 2020 https://comela2020.acg.edu General The COMELA, the Conference on Mediterranean and European Linguistic Anthropology. The COMELA seeks to redefine scholarship on Mediterranean and European Language, the Anthropos, and Society. Location American University of Greece Athens, Greece Purpose and Structure Over 500 scholars from around the world will gather to present papers and to engage in progressive discussion on Mediterranean and European Linguistic Anthropology, Linguistics, Anthropology, and related fields. The COMELA is a fully Non-Profit Organization, and all connected publishing undergoes a free blind reviewed system. The COMELA sources funding/grants to assist people who need funding to access the Conference. All conference proceedings and publications (journal issues/monographs) will be indexed with SCOPUS and will hence contribute to ranked and cited publications for all those accepted to present. Keynote and Plenary Speakers Professor Jan Blommaert - Tilburg University Professor Alexandra Georgakopoulou - King's College London Professor Dimitris Dalakoglou - Vrije University Amsterdam Partners - Taylor and Francis Global Publishers (Official Publishing Partner) - SOAS London - Over 120 major academic institutions globally - Scientific Committee of 120 academics Publications Several Special (Top-Tier/SCOPUS/ISI/ACHI/SSCI) Journal issues and monographs, with high-ranking Publishers only, from papers submitted to the COMELA, that meet the requirements of review. Ample assistance is provided to revise papers for publication. Dates Abstract and poster proposal submission: June 1, 2019 – November 15, 2019 Notification of acceptance: No later than December 30, 2019 (for those submitting prior to this) Registration Early bird - October 30, 2019 – January 21, 2020 Normal bird – January 22, 2020 - May 25, 2020 Presenters must register by April 25, 2020, to guarantee a place in the program. Registration will remain open after this, but conference organizers cannot guarantee placement in the conference. Late bird - May 26, 2020 - September 5, 2020 (Conference end) Conference dates Wednesday September 2, 2020 – Saturday September 5, 2020 Final day comprises optional Anthropological excursion Abstract submissions The Call for Abstracts is now open, at https://comela2020.acg.edu, with all information Anthropological Excursion Athens, Attica, Greece Theme Bounded Languages ... Unbounded The politics of identity are central to language change. Here, linguistic boundaries rise and fall, motivating the ephemeral characteristics of language communities. The Mediterranean and European regions are replete with histories, and with power struggles, that demarcate nation, ethnicity, and community. For this, cultural and political identities, language ideologies, as well as the languages themselves, have sought boundedness, the dynamics of which have influenced change over eons, effected through demographic movements, through geopolitics, and through technological innovation. In the current era of technological advancement, transnational fluidity, intellectual power, capitalism, and revised sexualities, then, we again question the boundedness of language and identity, and ways in which to unbound these languages and ideologies. We now need to increasingly unbind these languages, and their ideologies, so to rectify, or at least see and move past, the segregations of old. The COMELA 2020 theme, 'Bounded languages ... Unbounded,' encapsulates the ongoing struggle throughout Mediterranean and European regions. As tensions between demarcation and legitimization of languages, language ideologies, and language identities, enter a new era, flexible citizenship now operates well within, and not only across, language communities, to unbind languages, and to create new boundaries, unlike those ever seen throughout history. The COMELA 2020 invites work which addresses the shifting boundedness of Language Communities of The Mediterranean and Europe. Papers and posters should acknowledge and describe processes of language shape, change, and ideology, pertinent to social, cultural, and political histories and futures, of Mediterranean and European regions. Strands Abstract and poster proposals should address the following key strands pertinent to Mediterranean and European countries and regions: – Anthropological Linguistics – Applied Sociolinguistics – Buddhist studies and discourses – Cognitive Anthropology and Language – Critical Linguistic Anthropology – Ethnographical Language Work – Ethnography of Communication – General Sociolinguistics – Islamic Studies and discourses – Language, Community, Ethnicity – Language Contact and Change – Language, Dialect, Sociolect, Genre – Language Documentation – Language, Gender, Sexuality – Language Ideologies – Language Minorities and Majorities – Language Revitalization – Language in Real and Virtual Spaces – Language Socialization – Language and Spatiotemporal Frames – Multifunctionality – Narrative and Metanarrative – Nonverbal Semiotics – Poetics and Parallelism – Post-Structuralism and Language – Semiotics and Semiology – Social Psychology of Language – Text, Context, Entextualization Presentation lengths - Colloquia – 1.5 hours with 3-5 contributors (Parts A and B are possible, thus 6-10 contributors) - General paper sessions – Approx. 20-25 minutes each, including 5 mins for questions/responses - Posters – to be displayed at designated times throughout the COMELA 2020 Submission Guidelines (via online submission in the website, or by email (see below)) General session papers - 18-word maximum presentation title - 400-word maximum abstract, including references Colloquia - Submission of only the main abstract for the colloquium is required - The abstract must contain the colloquium main description/theme, and a summary of each individual paper within the colloquium. Evaluation of proposals All abstracts for general sessions will be double blind reviewed. Main parent abstracts for colloquia will be double blind reviewed. All abstracts for individual presentations within each colloquia will not be peer reviewed, but are expected to be at a standard commensurate to the colloquium parent abstract. Review criteria are as follows: - Appropriateness and significance to COMELA themes - Originality/significance/impact of the research - Clarity/coherence of research concerns - Theoretical and analytical framework(s) - Description of research, data collection, findings/conclusions, rhetoric, and exegesis as a whole - For colloquia, importance/significance of the overarching topic and/or framework(s) addressed, and its coherence of and with individual presentations For more information, please contact: Chair Professor Helena P. Maragou, PhD Dean, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences The American College of Greece Head of Communications Ms. Nhan Huynh comela@acg.edu