H. Samy Alim

H. Samy Alim

David O. Sears Presidential Endowed Chair in the Division of Social Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles

Publishers

Publishers

Publishers

Across both our Multilingual Matters and Channel View Publications lists, we strive to publish the very best textbooks and research monographs and are proud of our long history of publishing innovative and influential research.Our series editors and authors range from senior professors to dynamic up-and-coming researchers, and include academics working at top tier research institutions, in Indigenous communities, at universities in the Global South, and in classrooms from Australia to Zambia.

Across both our Multilingual Matters and Channel View Publications lists, we strive to publish the very best textbooks and research monographs and are proud of our long history of publishing innovative and influential research.Our series editors and authors range from senior professors to dynamic up-and-coming researchers, and include academics working at top tier research institutions, in Indigenous communities, at universities in the Global South, and in classrooms from Australia to Zambia.

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Fee structure

The following conference fees will be charged to cover partial cost of the online conference platform (licence), as well as administrative and IT staff.

e-SS23

The University of Hong Kong

7–10 June 2021

Invited Panels

Brook Bolander & Joseph Sung-Yul Park

Unsettling language for transnationalism research: Identity, materiality, imagination, and beyond

Rodrigo Borba & Daniel Silva
The sociolinguistics of hope: Unsettling language, affect, and agency

Johan Järlehed, Kellie Gonçalves & Mairead Moriarty

Social semiotics of style: Unsettling oral, written & visual discourse

Jackie Jia Lou

Wearable texts: Language as embodied, material, and mobile semiotic objects

Erez Levon & Brian King
Unsettling assumptions: Intersectionality and the categories of linguistic analysis

Janny Leung

Linguistic justice and justice through language

Marie Maegaard & Martha Sif Karrebæk

Language, value production and the market in (post)nationalism: Production and transgression of national and linguistic borders

Constantine Nakassis

At the threshold and limit of language

Miguel Pérez-Milans

Engaging with urban studies: Language and the infrastructures of global urbanism

Itesh Sachdev

Unsettling language: Communicational concerns of minorities

Olga Zayts & Jo Angouri

The sociolinguistics of health and illness: Unsettling global ‘centres’ and ‘peripheries’ in health communication research