CFP: Political Linguistics 2007

[Francis M Hult]

Political Linguistics 2007

http://www.ils.uw.edu.pl/pl2007/

Warsaw, 13-15 September 2007

In recent years, 'political-linguistic' studies have been drawing on increasingly bigger 
empirical input from the neighboring domains, including linguistic pragmatics, critical 
discourse analysis, social psychology, sociology and anthropology. Our conference, the 
first international event of its kind and scale in central/eastern Europe, comes as a 
response to this trend. 

It aims at convening scholars from a wide range of disciplines, interested, broadly 
speaking, in the rich and heterogeneous but thus yet to become better demarcated area of 
intersection of language/discourse and the political sphere (i.e. politics, both in its 
institutionalized and everyday dimensions). The general purpose is to explore and deepen 
ways of analyzing language as a political instrument, a political theme, and a political 
domain. 


More specifically, we invite papers addressing the following issues:

the use of language in political rhetoric, advertising, media discourse, propaganda, 
persuasion, etc.;
language and processes of ideological symbolization;
including folk linguistic ideologies, normative use of language and language-based 
reproduction of ideologies;
language of the state, viz. language policies and language planning at various stages of 
the information flow, including the art of document design and press releases; 
societal multilingualism, linguistic pluralism and linguistic minority policies;
language change and variation in political discourse: transformations at the lexical 
(terminology, neologisms, semantic shifts), morpho-syntactic, and text/discourse-pragmatic 
levels; language contact in the political domain: borrowing processes, style-shifting, 
code-mixing;
globalisation of political discourse: homogenisation of social and linguistic knowledge in 
the political milieu; hybridisation of generic/discursive structures, text types, and 
interactive strategies across languages and cultures; mulitimodality and unification 
patterns in political communication;
historical/diachronic transformations in political genres;
intertextuality and mediation in political communication;
axiological aspects of political discourses (valuation in political texts);
language attitude research: social attitudes to political discourse(s);
translating the language of politics;
directions in language training of politicians.
The list is by no means exhaustive.

The language of the conference is English.

Papers

Individual papers (20 min. paper / 10 min. discussion) and workshop proposals are invited. 
Abstracts (300-500 words), with the author's name, affiliation, e-mail address, and paper 
title should be sent electronically by the end of February 2007 to the address 
pl2007 at ils.uw.edu.pl. Notification of acceptance will be sent to the authors by 31 March 
2007.

Selected papers will be published in the Conference proceedings.