[Gandur] Nov 18th Deadline! Register

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Call for papers
 
Register: Intersections of Language, Context and
Communication
An international colloquium, 23rd–25th May 2012, Helsinki, Finland.
 
‘Register’ originated as a term in linguistics for
contextual variation in language, or language as it is used in a particular
communicative situation.  This term and concept has become important
across several intersecting disciplines, particularly in discussions of genre
and approaches to language in written versus oral communication.  As a consequence, ‘register’ has been used by
folklorists, linguists and linguistic anthropologists with varying fields of
inclusion and exclusion, ranging from the purely verbal level of communication
to all features which have the capacity to signify (props, gestures, etc.). Uses
of ‘register’ have become highly diversified within the scholarship of each
field, and the different fields have not opened a discourse with one another on
this topic. This colloquium is intended to bring together representatives of diverse
perspectives in order to open cross-disciplinary discussion of the term and
concept ‘register’.
 
Keynote speakers:
Asif Agha, Professor of Anthropology, University of
Pennsylvania, USA
Ruth Finnegan, Professor of Sociology and
Anthropology, Open University, UK
John Miles Foley, Professor of Classical Studies and
English, University of Missouri, USA
Jim Wilce, Professor of Anthropology, Northern Arizona
University, USA
Susanna Shore, Adjunct Professor of Finnish Language,
University of Helsinki, Finland
 
We welcome participant presentations on register and
variation from all disciplines. Presentations are requested to be accessible to
participants from other fields and open to cross-disciplinary discussion. If
you would like to take part in this event by presenting a paper, please send an
abstract of no more than 500 words to Kaarina Koski (kaarina.koski at helsinki.fi)
by Friday, 18th November 2011.  Papers presentations should be twenty minutes in length allowing ten
minutes for discussion.  If you would
like to participate without presenting a paper, please let us know by the end
of February, and also whether you would be interested in moderating a session.
 
The colloquium is organized by Folklore Studies of the
University of Helsinki and the research project “Oral and Literary Culture in
the Medieval and Early Modern Baltic Sea Region” of the Finnish Literature
Society.  The event will be held in the
Great Hall of the Finnish Literature Society (2nd floor,
Hallituskatu 1, Helsinki).
Please see also our webpage at http://www.helsinki.fi/folkloristiikka/register/information/index.htm