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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><strong><span style="color:black">POLITICAL LINGUISTICS III</span></strong><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><strong><span style="color:black">(Re)construing nationhood in ‘(un)doing Europe’ today?</span></strong><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><strong><span style="color:black">Warsaw, 8-10 May 2014</span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><br>
<b><a href="http://pl.ils.uw.edu.pl/" target="_blank"><span class="yiv2687243618yshortcuts">http://pl.ils.uw.edu.pl</span></a></b></span><b><span style="color:black"><br>
Contact: <a href="mailto:pl.ils@uw.edu.pl">pl.ils@uw.edu.pl</a></span></b><span style="color:black">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="color:black">Conference theme and foci</span></strong><b><span style="color:black"><br>
</span></b><span style="color:black">The conference will examine the current nexus between national and European thinking (in talk and text). Our focus is on the various discursive (re)constructions of national identification vis-à-vis Europe (and the contemporary
world in the background): whether, and if so, then how, where and why, the ongoing discourses of European integration (and disintegration) invigorate, mute, or simply redefine national talk in (semi)public practices and domains, whether domestically or internationally.
Relational, dynamic and integrative perspectives on nationhood are welcome in particular: how does the national element interact with other social dimensions and categories, especially those based in regional, global, political, professional or gender and
age-related variation? What is the role of ideologies and policies of multiculturalism, employment, race and immigration? Do national (and nationalistic) arguments correlate with parameters of social diversification (economic, educational; elitist and egalitarian
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">The conference will address discursive (texts, genres, metaphors, etc.), and more broadly, semiotic (artifacts, images, icons, etc.) manifestations of nationhood in how Europe is being
‘done’, but also‘undone’ today. This, we hope, will reveal various aspects, sites and styles of interdiscursivity and dialogization of difference (in the sense of Bakhtin) over issues involving national, European and international concerns. We welcome contributions
examining interactions marked by power differential (esp. among citizens, politicians, experts and authorities).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">We invite papers exploring various contexts, domains and practices (politics, media, business, research and education, religion, sports and entertainment, tourism, health and environment
protection), as well as different media and technologies (old and new media; translation and interpretation; sign language; school and academic teaching).We envision the conference as an international and interdisciplinary forum of discussion, gathering scholars
working within or (preferably) at the intersection of different methodologies: discourse analysis, critical discourse studies, pragmatics, (new) rhetoric, Systemic-Functional Linguistics, Register & Genre Theory, narrative theory, ethnography, social semiotics,
multimodal analysis, and related approaches with communication at the forefront.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">We are pleased to announce the following plenary speakers:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="color:black">Prof. Peter Berglez</span></b><span style="color:black">, Örebro University, Sweden<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="color:black">Prof. Elżbieta Hałas</span></b><span style="color:black">, University of Warsaw, Poland<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="color:black">Prof. Leszek J. Korporowicz</span></b><span style="color:black">, Jagiellonian University, Poland<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="color:black">Prof. Michał Krzyżanowski</span></b><span style="color:black">, Örebro University, Sweden<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="color:black">Prof. John E. Richardson</span></b><span style="color:black">, Loughborough University, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="color:black">Prof. Carlo Ruzza</span></b><span style="color:black">, University of Trento, Italy & University of Leicester, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">The conference languages are
<strong>English, German and Polish</strong>. Papers will be allocated 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions. Abstracts of no more than 300 words including references should be sent as MS Word attachment to
<strong><a href="mailto:pl.ils@uw.edu.pl"><span style="font-weight:normal">pl.ils@uw.edu.pl</span></a></strong> by
<strong>15 December 2013</strong>. Please include in the body of the email but not in the abstract itself your name, affiliation and email address. Notifications of acceptance will be communicated by
<strong>15 January 2014</strong>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="color:black">Organizers</span></strong><b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">University of Warsaw<br>
Institute of Applied Linguistics<br>
Dept. of Discourse Studies<br>
Prof. Anna Duszak<br>
Dr. Łukasz Kumięga<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">University of Łódź<br>
Institute of English<br>
Dept. of Pragmatics<br>
Prof. Piotr Cap<br>
Dr. Monika Kopytowska<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">In cooperation with the University of Nottingham<br>
School of Sociology and Social Policy<br>
Dr. Christian Karner<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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