International Conference “Fifty Shades of Language”

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Category interdisciplinary; international conference; language; linguistics

Deadline: September 20, 2021 | Date: November 27, 2021-November 28, 2021

Venue/Country: London/online, U.K.

Updated: 2021-09-03 16:34:54 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

International Conference

27-28 November 2021 - London/Online

organised by

London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research

The Conference invites scholars from the humanities and social sciences to explore whether language is, indeed, a meta-narrative that orderly homogenizes intellectual endeavors and contains self-validating, universal, prescriptive principles, or is itself replete with differences that reflect disciplinary, cultural, gender, ideological, and political interests. Is language, indeed, bewitching human intelligence? What can scholars prescribe for an apparent paradox: Disputes and conflicts are couched in language and, at the same time, language is the axis of their resolution?

Papers are invited on topics related, but not limited, to:

The Neurology and Anthropology of Language Acquisition

Languages as Variations on a Cognitive Matrix of Human Speciation

The Limits of Meaning Transference: Lost in Transition

Language as Vocalization of Thoughts

Language and Violence

Language and Laws: Is Free Speech in Trouble?

Labels as Cultural Artefacts: The Case of Racial Classification

Gendering and Language: Holy Texts, Biology, and Society

Men, Women, and Communication

Language as Representation of Reality

Language as Imagination Unbound: Literature and Poetry

Proposals up to 250 words should be sent by 20 September 2021 to: languagelcir.co.uk. Download paper proposal form.

Registration fee – 90 GBP