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Date: 04-May-2010
From: Dorien Van De Mieroop < dorien.vandemieroop at lessius.eu >
Subject: Rhetoric in Society III
 

	
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From: Dorien Van De Mieroop [dorien.vandemieroop at lessius.eu]
Subject: Rhetoric in Society III

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Full Title: Rhetoric in Society III 
Short Title: RIS III 

Date: 26-Jan-2011 - 28-Jan-2011
Location: Antwerp, Belgium 
Contact Person: Hilde Van Belle
Meeting Email: RIS3 at lessius.eu
Web Site: http://www.lessius.eu/tt/ris 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 30-Jun-2010 

Meeting Description:

Since Aristotle, the study of rhetoric has focused on the persuasive aspect 
of discourse in the political, forensic, and ceremonial domains. Rhetoric 
deals with doxa, the shared opinions and reasons people consider plausible 
and acceptable in a specific situation. It involves decisions taken by 
participants in public discourse on the basis of common deliberation and 
free choice in domains in which there can be no absolute truth, e.g. as in 
social and political life. Nowadays, we have come to realize the importance 
of rhetoric in all forms of discourse. There is no communication without 
some form of rhetoric.

Rhetoricians examine how people use arguments and language in order to 
convince or persuade an audience. But there is a lot more to rhetoric than 
that. It comprises more than sets of advice; in fact it is an art. It is the art of
discovering what is persuasive in a given situation. This inventiveness 
points to how rhetoric has a heuristic function as well. It appeals to our 
creativity in our search for relevant questions and answers to specific 
matters. And as our discourse and arguments develop in interaction with 
other discourses (Voloshinov / Bakhtin), the hermeneutic aspect of rhetoric 
should not be overlooked. There is no rhetoric without analysis, 
interpretation and theoretical reflection. The art of speaking and writing 
'well' can be considered a cornerstone of our cultures and our educational 
systems.

The conference Rhetoric in Society aims to present and discuss different
approaches to rhetoric. It will address this basic question: in what ways can
the study of rhetoric function and provide an insight into our postmodern 
world? Consequently, what can it claim about discourse in the public 
domain, how is it related to empirical sciences, what can it say about the 
ever increasing amount of information and opinion that pervades our lives? 
Conversely, it can also be asked in what way actual language and 
communication theories and disciplines draw on ancient rhetoric. 

Contributions to the conference will cover a wide range of both themes and
theories. They will cover a broad spectrum of academic fields and thus 
favour interdisciplinary research not only within the fields of rhetoric, 
rhetorical criticism, rhetorical citizenship, argumentation studies, pragmatics, 
critical discourse studies, text linguistics, art and literature, but also the 
fields of communication studies, journalism studies, political, social and 
educational studies, history and philosophy. 

Call For Papers

We welcome papers or panel proposals on the role of rhetoric and 
argumentation in written and oral discourse and genres, on topics such as: 
public deliberation, controversies, legal decision-making, spin, hyphenated 
writing, social change, political campaigning, social movements, public 
relations, publicity, advertising, management, corporate internal 
communication, art and literature, visual rhetoric and public media 
discourse.
The core themes of the conference are:

Rhetoric in journalism and new media
Rhetoric in political discourse
Rhetoric in organizational discourse
Rhetoric in legal discourse
Rhetoric in education
Rhetoric in visual communication
Theoretical, historical and (inter)cultural perspectives on rhetoric

Abstracts:
Please send your abstract of max. 300 words edited in MS Word to 
RIS3 at lessius.eu.
The abstract should include a title, a research question, an indication of the
theoretical framework, at least three bibliographical references, 
methodology, results and conclusion. The academic committee will review 
the abstracts (blind reviewing).

Deadline for abstracts is June 30thth 2010, 12 a.m. Central European time.

All contributions should be presented in English only.

Please mention in your abstract the conference theme(s) within which you 
wish to present your paper.

Please put your name in the subject of your mail, and your further 
references in the mail message (affiliation, university or institution, e-mail, 
phone number, most important publications on the topic if possible, and the 
title of your paper).

Notification of acceptance will be sent before September 15th 2010.





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