RC25 Language and Society

Program Coordinators:

Keiji FUJIYOSHI, Otemon Gakuin University, Japan, fjosh524@hotmail.com

Frida PETERSSON, PhD, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, frida.petersson@socwork.gu.se

Mark Fifer SEILHAMER, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, mfseilhamer@gmail.com

Anna ODROWAZ-COATES, The Maria Grzegorzewska University, Poland, acoates@aps.edu.pl


Sessions:


Living through Precarious Times: Discursive Practices of Hope, Agency and Resistance

AI Large Language Models, Algorithmic Language Policies and Social Stratification

Becoming Victims, Being Victims: Narratives of Collective Illness

Dialogue In the Midst of Structural Dilemmas

How Close, How Separate? Exploring Boundaries and Intersections In the Use of Language across Sociology, Pedagogy, and Psychology

Language and Discourse In Health Sciences and Healthcare: Between Professionals and Patients

Linguistic Instrumentalism and Language Commodification

Making, Managing and Mobilising Emotion: The Language of Feeling In Turbulent Times

Open Session 1

Queer Archival Practices: LGBTQ+ Narratives, Languages, and Communities

Reimagining Social Sciences In Turbulent Times: Colonial Legacies, Linguistic Displacement, and Indigenous Knowledge In Postcolonial Societies

Speaking through Crisis: Youth Languages In Turbulent Times

The Social Semiotics of Global Koreanness

Wor(l)Ds of Regeneration: A Shared Reflection Space on Language As a Multisensory Catalyst for Positive Change