65.079-16 - Language and Semiotics Within "New Materialist" Research Methodologies

• In Event: 65.079 - Roundtable Session 23

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

The session explores the status of language and semiosis within ‘new materialist’ thought, and identifies implications for ‘post-qualitative’ methodology. While the material turn has already had important impact upon qualitative research practices, the presenters contend that significant work remains to be done on the question of language within materialist methodologies. The papers work for research practices capable of engaging the materiality of language itself – its affective force and its entanglements in bodies, matter and culture. This is an ethical imperative, germane to the theme of the 2015 Meeting: without better understandings of how language, matter and culture ‘intra-act’, questions of justice are inevitably badly framed.

Sub Unit

• Division D - Measurement and Research Methodologies / Division D - Section 3: Qualitative Research Methods

Chair

• Maggie Maclure, Manchester Metropolitan University

Papers

• The Refrain of the A-grammatical Child - Maggie Maclure, Manchester Metropolitan University

• Speaking Ourselves Into Being: The Material Effects and Affects of Language in Qualitative Research - Lisa A. Mazzei, University of Oregon

• Art, Imagination, and the Future in the New Empiricism - Jerry L. Rosiek, University of Oregon

• The Materiality of Language and Educational Practices for Justice in the Anthropocene - Hillevi Lenz Taguchi, Stockholm University