This document discusses occupied social movements as important sites for understanding contemporary language practices, ideologies, and communication methods. It argues that these movements can be investigated to provide details on the role of semiotic practices, and that they offer opportunities to create more equal spaces through protest, participation, and international cooperation. The document also suggests that occupied movements challenge sociolinguistic methods by highlighting the need to consider both their linguistic dimensions and potential for transformation.

1. WE SHOULD NOT IGNORE SIGNIFICANT AND
CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, on the
contrary, WE MAY WANT TO CONTRIBUTE TO ITS
LEGITIMACY BY USING LEGITIMATED SPACES
(like academia)

2. SOCIAL MOVEMENTS ARE IMPORTANT SITES IN
ORDER TO UNDERSTAND CONTEMPORARY
LANGUAGE PRACTICES AND IDEOLOGIES

3. Occupied movements
- as a site for investigating communicating
practices
- Microblogging
- Flash Mobs
- Participative meetings
- Multimodal semiotic spaces
=> They offer a detailled account of the role of
semiotic practices within the movements

4. Occupied movements
• as a site for investigating new attempts of
creating equal spaces
– through protestation
– through participative actions
– through mobilization
– through internationalization

5. Occupied movements
• As a site for questionning the role of the
circulation of messages, persons, symbols and
ideas within a transnational spaces
– What circulates?
– What is particular and localized?
– What is dialogical?

6. Occupied movements
• As a site for challenging methods in
sociolinguistics

7. As such the panel highlights the importance of
taking seriously the linguistic dimension of the
movements and to both consider the «occupied
movements» as a site of investigation and as a
site for potential transformation

8. Different questions
• Historicity ?
• Critique and this analysis of reflexivity?
• Social class, differences and hierarchies?
• Embodiement?
• Political economy and the transcendency of the
dichotomy between global and local?
• Commodification of language within the
movement?
• Intrumentalization of the movement?

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