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Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 09:36:04
From: Tom Van Hout [tom.vanhout at gmail.com]
Subject: Political Humor as Social Action

 
Political Humor as Social Action 

Date: 16-Jul-2017 - 21-Jul-2017 
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 
Contact: Tom Van Hout 
Contact Email: politicalhumorpanel at gmail.com 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics 

Meeting Description: 

Political humor as social action: verbal-visual attitudes towards politicians
in late modernity

Convenors: 
Tom Van Hout (University of Antwerp)
Peter Burger (Leiden University)
Otto Santa Ana (University of California Los Angeles)

At the intersection of discourse and media studies lies media linguistics
(from German Medienlinguistik), an umbrella term for the study of mediated
language in society. Two approaches can be discerned within media linguistics.
Work on language of the media examines how (news) media use language to
represent social life. Work on language in the media investigates how language
standards, ideologies, and change are represented in the media. The popularity
of media linguistics is spurred on by two developments: the shifting ecology
of media organizations and their fragmented audiences, and the proliferation
of mediated communication in society, or mediatization (Van Hout & Burger
2016). 

This panel invites researchers to address the relationship between political
humor and media(ted) language. In keeping with the conference theme of
‘Pragmatics in the real world’, this panel examines the distinctive nature of
the pragmatics of humor as this involves 

- news events such as sound bites (Lee 2012), bloopers (Silverstein 2011), or
talk scandals (Ekström & Johansson 2008)
- media genres such as cartoons (Swain 2012), fake news (Waisanen 2011),
late-night comedic monologues (Santa Ana 2009) or internet memes (Milner 2013)
- types of humor such as irony (Sanina 2014), and political satire (Reilly
2012)

This panel welcomes empirically grounded contributions that show what social
action is accomplished when political discourse and media discourse are
juxtaposed. We expect relevant contributions to explore political humor from a
variety of analytical approaches such as discourse analysis, rhetorics,
multimodality, and linguistic ethnography. We welcome other participants to
join this panel with their contributions and look forward to pooling our
interests and insights with the aim to publish the papers presented during the
panel.
 
References
Ekström, M., & Johansson, B. (2008). Talk scandals. Media, Culture & Society,
30(1), 61-79.
Lee, F.L.F. (2012). The Life Cycle of Iconic Sound Bites: politicians’
transgressive utterances in media discourses. Media, Culture, & Society 34(3),
343-358.
Milner, R. M. (2013). Pop Polyvocality: Internet Memes, Public Participation,
and the Occupy Wall Street Movement. International Journal of Communication,
7, 2357-2390.
Reilly, I. (2012). Satirical Fake News and/as American Political Discourse.
The Journal of American Culture, 35(3), 258-275. 
Sanina, A. G. (2014). Visual political irony in Russian new media. Discourse,
Context & Media, 6, 11-21.
Santa Ana, O. (2009) Did you call in Mexican? The racial politics of Jay Leno
immigrant jokes. Language in Society, 38(1), 23–45.
Silverstein, M. (2011a). Presidential Ethno-blooperology: Performance Misfires
in the Business of ''Message''-ing. Anthropological Quarterly, 84(1), 165-186.
Van Hout, T., & Burger, P. (2016). Mediatization and the language of
journalism. In O. García, N. Flores & M. Spotti (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of
Language and Society. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Waisanen, D. J. (2011). Crafting Hyperreal Spaces for Comic Insights: The
Onion News Network's Ironic Iconicity. Communication Quarterly, 59(5),
508-528.
 






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