Languaging Diversity 2021

The Linguistic Construction of Emotional Challenges in a Changing Society

Languaging Diversity is the itinerating conference of the I-Land Interuniversity Research Centre, an international independent and interdisciplinary center for advanced studies in Linguistics, Social Sciences and the Humanities with a focus on the key notions of identity and diversity, from a linguistic, cultural, and gender studies perspective, in and across cultures.

Following the six successful events hosted by the Universities of Naples (2013), Catania (2014), Macerata (2016), Cagliari (2017), Antwerp (2018) and Teruel (2019), the seventh edition of the Languaging Diversity Conference (LD2021) will be organized by the University of Lille, France. Due to the COVID-19 ongoing pandemic, the event will be held exclusively online via the virtual conference management platform Underline.

Focus

The 7th edition of the Languaging Diversity Conference (LD2021) focuses on the emotional challenges that result from the social innovations of the last two decades, and on the way such experiences are expressed in discourse. Conference convenors invite papers and posters that investigate the intersection of emotion, communication and social change, also within the framework of digital communication. The contributions presented at the LD2021 conference will explore the expression of emotion(s) at the different levels of linguistic description (phonological, morphological, syntactic, lexical, semantic, pragmatic, discursive), and in texts and contexts related to traditional and digital genres in different domains, including (but not restricted to) health, medicine and science, media, politics, the law, academia, the world of corporate and institutional work, education and learning.

Conference convenors

• Giuditta Caliendo, Université de Lille & STL, France
• Maarten Lemmens, Université de Lille & STL, France

• Mégane Lesuisse, Université de Lille & STL, France

Scientific Committee

• Giuseppe Balirano, Università degli Studi di Napoli ‘l’Orientale’, Italy
• Henry Hernandez Bayter, Université de Lille & STL, France
• Stéphanie Caët, Université de Lille & STL, France
• Giuditta Caliendo, Université de Lille & STL, France
• Bert Cappelle, Université de Lille & STL, France
• Paola Catenaccio, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
• Emmanuelle Canut, Université de Lille & STL, France
• Stefania D’Avanzo, Università degli Studi della Campania ‘Luigi Vanvitelli’, Italy
• Ilse Depraetere, Université de Lille & STL, France
• Emilia Di Martino, Università degli Studi ‘Suor Orsola Benincasa’, Italy
• Antonio Fruttaldo, Università degli Studi di Napoli ‘l’Orientale’, Italy
• Dariusz Galasiński, Uniwersytet Wrocławski, Poland
• Kim Grego, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
• Siria Guzzo, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy
• Geert Jacobs, Universiteit Gent, Belgium
• Samantha Laporte, Université de Lille & STL, France
• Maarten Lemmens, Université de Lille & STL, France
• Mégane Lesuisse, Université de Lille & STL, France
• Jeannette Littlemore, University of Birmingham, UK
• Julien Longhi, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, France
• Corinne Oster, Université de Lille & CECILLE, France
• Paolo Mairano, Université de Lille & STL, France
• Antonella Napolitano, Università del Sannio, Italy
• Maria Cristina Nisco, Università degli studi di Napoli ‘Parthenope’, Italy
• Annick Rivens Mompean, Université de Lille & STL, France
• Margaret Rasulo, Università degli Studi della Campania ‘Luigi Vanvitelli’, Italy
• Catherine Ruchon,Université Sorbonne Paris Nord -Pléiade, France
• Hans-Jörg Schmid, LMU München, Germany
• Jerome Tessuto, Università degli Studi della Campania ‘Luigi Vanvitelli’, Italy

Organizing Committee

• Giuditta Caliendo, Université de Lille & STL, France
• Justin Duquesnoy, Université de Lille & STL, France
• Océane Foubert, Université de Lille & STL, France
• Lola Marinato, Université de Lille & STL, France
• Maarten Lemmens, Université de Lille & STL, France
• Mégane Lesuisse, Université de Lille & STL, France
• Sayf-Eddine Mohamed, Université de Lille & STL, France

Keynote Speakers

Maïa Ponsonnet

Jeannette Littlemore

Andrea Scarantino