LANGUAGE OF WAR - CALL FOR CONTRIBUTION

[Mima]

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CALL FOR PROPOSALS:
               Edited Volume on LANGUAGE / WAR / CONFLICT




We are working on a project entitled  *AT WAR WITH WORDS*. Several
publishers have expressed preliminary interest. We are looking for
several theoretically-informed essays (25-30 pages finished length, not
including notes or tables) addressing the relationship between
linguistic usage and political competition, conflict, turmoil, and war.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

-- State-imposed language use.
-- Politically inspired language change and language shift.
-- Language of media in a war-torn country.
-- Language of media covering a war.
-- The (linguistic) construction of identities in new political
settings.
-- Language of political speeches, interviews, debates, letters,
documents...
-- Language of personal accounts in the midst of war.
-- Ideology and power vs. language.

Other topics are welcomed as long as the focus of the paper centers on
interdependence of language and politics.

All theoretical approaches are welcome. Scholars involved in discourse
analysis techniques, pragmatics, quantitative studies, and political
writing contexts are especially of interest. Please do not submit work
that is primarily anecdotal or descriptive.

Abstracts of 500-750 words are requested by October 15, 1999,
accompanied by a short bibliography (a couple of paragraphs).

Email submission of abstracts and bios is preferred. Those writers whose
abstracts are selected for inclusion will be notified by December 1,
1999. Completed papers will be expected by May 15, 2000. Any accepted
paper must be in Chicago-style format.

Please send all inquiries/abstracts to:

Dr. Daniel N. Nelson (Editor of International Politics)
and
Mirjana Nelson Dedaic (Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University)

P. O. Box 20046
Alexandria, VA 22320

or

GLOBCON at EROLS.COM

Please, examine the INTERNATIONAL POLITICS, Vol. 36/No. 2 wherein you
will see several articles devoted to the theme of language and politics.

http://www.muohio.edu/~intlpols/IPOL3602.html

You will help us by forwarding this message to anyone who may be
interested. Thank you.