22.4668, Calls: Pragmatics, Ling & Lit, Discourse Analysis/Romania

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Subject: 22.4668, Calls: Pragmatics, Ling & Lit, Discourse Analysis/Romania

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Date: 22-Nov-2011
From: Razvan Saftoiu [razvansaftoiu at gmail.com]
Subject: Ethos/Pathos/Logos


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Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:50:26
From: Razvan Saftoiu [razvansaftoiu at gmail.com]
Subject: Ethos/Pathos/Logos

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Full Title: Ethos/Pathos/Logos 
Short Title: EPL 2012 

Date: 15-Oct-2012 - 21-Oct-2012
Location: Ploiesti, Romania 
Contact Person: Conference UPG
Meeting Email: conference.upg at gmail.com
Web Site: http://conferenceupg.blogspot.com/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Ling & Literature; Philosophy of Language; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Apr-2012 

Meeting Description:

The Department of Philology, University of Ploieşti
in collaboration with
School of English Communication and Philosophy - Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, Cardiff University, United Kingdom
and
Institute of Advanced Study in the Humanities and the Social Sciences, Bern University, Switzerland

invite you to the international conference

Ethos/Pathos/Logos: The Sense and Place of Persuasiveness in Linguistic, Literary and Philosophical Discourse
15-20 October 2012
Ploieşti, Romania

In Rhetoric, Aristotle defined the act of persuasion as the interaction between three elements: ethos (the image of the self built by the orator to inspire trustworthiness and credibility), pathos (the arousing of emotions in one's audience), and logos (referring both to discourse and reason). While these notions have remained conceptual cornerstones in major intellectual endeavours of western thought, ethos in particular developed in a distinctly different direction (from the individual to the collective or national) in the nineteenth century, from Hegel's understanding of the German word for 'ethics', Sittlichkeit, as what binds the members of a community to a place. Similarly, with the advent of Heideggerian ontology and its rediscovery of pre-Socratic heritage, logos, hitherto restricted to 'logic' and reason, and classically opposed to muthos (fable, fiction, therefore untruth) by philosophy against poetry, was given a more existential dimension as what the Being-in-the-world inhabits ('Language is the house of Being' in Heidegger's 'Letter on Humanism') by the German philosopher, for whom 'Poetically Man Dwells'. While linguists (Austin and, later, various pragmatist schools), sociologists (Bourdieu: his notion of 'habitus' and his critique of a purely linguistic performative in Austinian theories) and rhetoric- or discourse-focused critics (Amossy) mediating between them, have endeavoured to analyze discursive exchanges in oral as well as written situations within this broadly post-Aristotelian framework, no conference has yet explicitly tried to re-address this conceptual triad in the light of more 'modern' philosophical re-orientations.

The aim of this symposium is to investigate how a post-Hegelian (as well as Derridean) construction of ethos as indissociable from a sense of place, coupled with a more extended and generous notion of logos no longer opposed to 'fiction' or synonymous with persuasive truth, can be brought to bear on how both rational ideas and emotions (pathoi) are expressed, both in public forms of address (e.g. political discourses) and literary texts pertaining to different generic conventions. If, as Derrida famously claims in 'This Strange Institution called Literature' - including in defense of persecuted writers - 'literature is the right to say everything/anything' ('le droit de tout dire'), how can this right be exercised with an 'ethical' sense of place and with an awareness of the 'cultural pathologies' of a given audience? More generally, how can one construct a different concept (and pragmatic operation) of 'persuasion' across linguistic and literary genres? 

Call for Papers:

We welcome individual paper presentations, panels and posters that explore topics in the following areas, but are not limited to:

- Ethics and rhetoric of discussion and argumentation
- Techniques of (per)suasion from consensus to coercion
- Alternative constructions of implication, implicature (Grice), 'implicitness' (implied narrator, implied author) in linguistic and literary discourses
- Citation as a 'parasitic' act or as an act of hospitality
- Comparative approaches between 'face-to-face' encounters in oral discursive situations and narrative or dramatic polylogues
- The status of confessional and testimonial narratives: fiction and/or truth?
- The affective role and discursive construction of loci memoriae (Nora's lieux de mémoire)

For more information, including registration and submission guidelines, please see our website:

http://conferenceupg.blogspot.com





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