Hello all!
This week’s Sydney SFL Friday seminar is from Annabelle Lukin – abstract below.
We are to face at Sydney Uni, from 4-5:30pm Fridays in the Oriental Room of the
Quad at Sydney Uni, followed by our regular catch up at the pub.
We will also be livestreaming each seminar at:
https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/84002530042
(If you cannot make face to face or the live stream and you wish to see the
talk, please contact the speaker who will have access to a recording).
Below is the abstract for this week’s talk, and the schedule for the semester.
If you can, it’d be wonderful to see you all in person!
Yaegan
Masculine power in international war law: A (preliminary) linguistic inquiry
Annabelle Lukin
Macquarie University
Mégret argues that international war law is a “precarious” project which seeks
to “assert masculine rule over masculine violence” (2018: 203). The discourse
of international war law, he argues, produces “not only a simple opposition to
the feminine” but also ideologies of “virule man” as “the site for an
impossible synthesis between violence and restraint” (2018: 203, 207 – see also
Lukin 2019, 2020). Drawing on the newly created Macquarie Corpus of
International War Law (Lukin and Araújo e Castro, 2021, 2022), consisting of
all 110 documents in the International Committee of the Red Cross’ “Treaties,
States Parties and Commentaries” database (beginning with the 1856 Paris
Declaration Respecting Maritime Law, up to the most recent 2019 amendments to
the Rome Statute), this paper is a preliminary investigation into Megret’s
claims. Drawing on Halliday’s “architecture” of language (2003), combined with
some techniques from corpus linguistics (e.g. Brezina et al), I will consider
the kind of textual evidence that might be recruited to test Mégret’s thesis.
Brezina, V., McEnery, T., & Wattam, S. (2015). Collocations in context: A new
perspective on collocation networks. International Journal of Corpus
Linguistics, 20(2), 139-173.
Halliday, M. A. K. (2003). On Language and Linguistics. Volume 3 in the
Collected Works of M.A.K. Halliday.Continuum.
Lukin, A. (2019). War and its Ideologies: A Social-semiotic Theory and
Description. Springer.
Lukin, A. (2020). How international law makes violence legal: a case study of
the Rome Statute. Language, Context and Text: The Social Semiotics Forum, 2(1),
91-120.
Lukin, A and Araújo e Castro, 2021. Macquarie Corpus of International War Law.
https://sydneycorpuslab.com/corpora/<https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsydneycorpuslab.com%2Fcorpora%2F&data=04%7C01%7Cyaegan.doran%40acu.edu.au%7C1c7eac561f7649bddc9408da03009007%7C429af009f196448fae7958c212a0f2ce%7C0%7C0%7C637825598265342974%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=zKb8L6tR86lueyC%2F1eWw1B%2B5W5EOqkBZi8r2uZzIFFM%3D&reserved=0>
Lukin, A., Araújo e Castro, R, 2022. The Macquarie Laws of War Corpus (MQLWC):
Design, Construction and Use. Int J Semiot Law (2022).
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-022-09889-3
Malešević, S. (2010). The Sociology of War and Violence. Cambridge University
Press.
Mégret, F. (2016). Theorizing the laws of war. In A. Orford & F. Hoffman
(Eds.), Oxford Handbook on the Theory of International Law. Oxford University
Press. DOI: 10.1093/law/9780198701958.003.0038
Mégret, F. (2018). The laws of war and the structure of masculine power.
Melbourne International Law Journal, 19(1), 200-226.
Date
Presenter
Topic
11th March
Yaegan Doran
Sundanese nominal groups: Text and textual meaning
18th March
Annabelle Lukin
Masculine power in international war law: a (preliminary) linguistic inquiry
25th March
Joshua Han
Examining social media 'content creation' from a social semiotic perspective
through a multimodal rhythmic analysis of a TikTok video
1st April
Mary Macken-Horarik
Building a knowledge structure in school English: Troubles and (potential)
triumphs
8th April
Rosemary Huisman
Temporal meanings and SFL worlds of experience
Usyd Mid-semester break
29th April
David Rose
Four ways to tell a story
6th May
Alison Moore & Aurélie Mallet
#RecoverSouthCoast: how can SFL/SFS inform the study of social media use for
rebuilding community after bushfire and other disasters
13th May
Dragana Stosic &
Sally Humphrey
Negotiating the validity of health information on social media
20th May
Georgia Carr
Doing the heavy lifting: Technicalising and iconising attitude in sex education
27th May
Len Unsworth
Analysing Affiliation in Infographics for High School Science
