Word Play: Languaging in the Everyday
We invite graduate students, teachers, and researchers to submit scholarly, reflective, and creative works (e.g., essays, poetry, digital stories) that will explore languaging and its impact on everyday life. This is an opportunity to examine and ponder languaging, particularly how we use language, what we do with language, and how it shapes our interactions, thoughts, and experiences. We seek to explore the nuances and complexities of language as it relates to one of the following areas:
· Memory and History: How stories, myths, and traditions are passed down, and shape our understanding of the world and our words in relation to ourselves and our teaching, research, scholarly, and community engagements.
· Identity: The complex ways that people navigate their identities around languaging. Particularly, how languaging informs our identities as students, teachers, and learners and can cultivate spaces of silence(s) isolation, disunity, unity, as well as belonging.
· Becoming & Personal Reflection: How exploring languaging can lead to a deeper understanding and moments of epiphany that can inform our learning and help us see ourselves and each other’s humanity differently. Also, how language informs how we cultivate relationships, build community, and navigate social worlds.
· The Power of Words: Ponder tensions and joys of our words and the words around us; Particularly, how languaging is used nationally and internationally to position everyday people in impactful ways that transform how they move in the world, how others see them, and/or how they see themselves.