28.955, Calls: Anthro Ling, Gen Ling, Socioling/Bulgaria

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Subject: 28.955, Calls: Anthro Ling, Gen Ling, Socioling/Bulgaria

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Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 19:05:04
From: Esther Pascual [esther at estherpascual.com]
Subject: Dialogues without Borders: Strategies of Interpersonal and Inter-group Communication

Full Title: Dialogues without Borders: Strategies of Interpersonal and Inter-group Communication 
Short Title: 4th ESTIDIA conference 

Date: 29-Sep-2017 - 30-Sep-2017
Location: Sofia, Bulgaria 
Contact Person: Ivanka Mavrodieva
Meeting Email: i.mavrodieva at gmail.com
Web Site: http://www.estidia.eu 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; General Linguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 20-Mar-2017 

Meeting Description:

The 4th ESTIDIA conference is hosted by Sofia University “St. Kliment
Ohridski”, Sofia, Bulgaria, on 29-30 September, 2017.  The conference serves
as a discussion forum for researchers and practitioners to showcase their
dialogue-oriented work on current societal and community-related issues, and
on methodological approaches to dialogue and strategies of interpersonal and
inter-group communication. The aim is to bring together senior and junior
scholars and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines and professional
orientations to critically explore, through dialogue, different perspectives
on human thinking, communication strategies, interpersonal relations,
socio-cultural traditions, political processes and business interactions by
means of theory-based and practice-driven investigations.

Most of the world’s population – and Europe is a case in point – lives in
contexts that are becoming increasingly multi-ethnic, multi-lingual,
multi-cultural. Travel across national boundaries is becoming an everyday
activity for many, and new technologies allow individuals to communicate
easily and cheaply across such boundaries, even if they stay at home.
Meanwhile, hostilities between ethnic, national, religious, and other groups
do not seem to be decreasing, but on the contrary, are being kindled by
extremist groups and totalitarian leaders. To prevent and do away with such
negative and dangerous developments in the 21st century, it is more important
than ever to acquire an in-depth understanding of how individuals communicate
based on group or community memberships, and how communication allows or
encourages group segregation or harmony. 

The major goal of this conference is to offer a forum for interdisciplinary
and multi-level dialogue among researchers and practitioners in interpersonal
and inter-group communication across social-cultural contexts and fields of
activity. The questions to be explored and debated include, but are not
limited to, the following:

- How are interpersonal and intergroup relations constructed, de-constructed
and re-constructed through multilingual, multi-level and multidimensional
communication?
- To what extent can social rituals and cultural traditions enable, promote or
prevent ingroup harmony/disharmony and outgroup inclusion/exclusion?
- How do the groups people belong to influence the (positive and negative)
ingroup-outgroup stereotypes they develop/hold? What role do language and
linguistic representations play in spreading or exposing stereotypes?
- What types of pro-migrant and anti-migrant arguments are being put forward
in official media coverage and in the social media? In what ways do they
differ and how do they affect individual and group reactions?
- How do media programmes, advertisemensts, online networking, and other types
of multimodal communication impact the (positive and negative) attitudes and
emotions of the viewers? 
- What commonalities and what differences can be noticed in the terminology
and discourse used to describe individuals and/or groups migrating within or
between countries? Which are the recurrent collocations used with regard to
categories of people referred to as refugees, migrants, immigrants, expats,
asylum seekers, and/or displaced people?
- What is the role played by digital platforms in reproducing, reinforcing or
challenging class and gender systemic inequalities within and across groups?
- In what ways can translation and interpreting serve as bridge-builders
across generations, genders, and a wide range of different or mixed cultures?

Keynote Speakers:

Prof. Cornelia Ilie , Malmö University, Sweden
(http://www.zu.ac.ae/main/en/colleges/colleges/__college_of_business/faculty_a
nd_staff/_profiles/Cornelia_Ilie.aspx)
Prof. Helen Spencer-Oatey, University of Warwick, UK
(http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/people/spencer-oatey/)

2nd Call for Papers:

We welcome contributions from diverse fields of inquiry, including
linguistics, media studies, journalism, cultural studies, psychology,
rhetoric, political science, sociology, pedagogy, philosophy and anthropology.

Submissions: 

We invite submissions of abstracts for paper presentations (20 minutes for
presentation, 10  minutes for questions) to  be  scheduled  in  parallel
sessions. Proposals for thematic workshops are also invited. They should cover
a topic of  relevance to the theme of the conference. Proposals should contain
relevant information to enable evaluation on the basis of importance, quality,
and expected output.

Important Dates:

- Submission of abstracts: March 20, 2017
- Submission of workshop proposals: March 30, 2017
- Notification of acceptance: April 20, 2017
- Registration (early bird): July 31, 2017

Email submission to:

Ivanka Mavrodieva – mavrodieva at phls.uni-sofia.bg; i.mavrodieva at gmail.com
Todor Simeonov – teo.simeonov at gmail.com
Anita Nikolova – anitapn at uni-sofia.bg; ani_2307 at abv.bg

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