28.3690, Calls: Disc Analysis, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling/UK

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Subject: 28.3690, Calls: Disc Analysis, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling/UK

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Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2017 16:18:37
From: Michael Kranert [m.kranert at napier.ac.uk]
Subject: Political Discourse - Multidisciplinary Approaches 2: New Discourses of Populism and Nationalism

 
Full Title: Political Discourse - Multidisciplinary Approaches 2: New Discourses of Populism and Nationalism 

Date: 21-Jun-2018 - 22-Jun-2018
Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Michael Kranert
Meeting Email: populism2018 at gmail.com

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 30-Jan-2018 

Meeting Description:

Since the Brexit vote in the United Kingdom and the rise of Trump, Orbán and
Le Pen, to name but a few, ‘populism’ has re-emerged as a common keyword in
international news coverage. This term has become highly contested, often used
to stigmatise political opponents. The current conflation of new right-wing
politics with ‘populism’ backgrounds leftist mass movements such as Syriza in
Greece and Podemos in Spain, despite a rich history of left wing populism.
Others have argued that recent populisms transcend ideological orientations of
left and right and open up a new political divide: ‘Farewell, left versus
right. The contest that matters now is open against closed’.  (The Economist
on 30 June 2016).

The central common denominator of these diverse movements is an appeal to ‘the
people’, often defined in ethno-national terms, which is contrasted with a
corrupt, privileged and out-of-touch elite. Yet differences persist in how we
understand populism, both in populist political approaches and in
epistemological terms.  What do politicians in different countries mean by
‘the nation’ and ‘the people’ and how are these signifiers discursively or
rhetorically constructed? Which social and political conditions are conducive
to the emergence of populist movements? Which policies are suggested in the
name of ‘the people’ today and which discursive or rhetorical strategies are
now employed to justify them? What exactly do we, as discourse and rhetoric
researchers, mean by ‘populism’ and how can we analyse it? Does populism refer
to a specific political/linguistic/rhetorical practice (style), ideology or
political logic (antagonisms)? What are the social, discursive and political
conditions of the so-called politics of ‘post-truth’?

In collaboration with Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Brussels Office, and
DiscourseNet, we are calling for contributions for a two-day conference to
explore these questions. In order to understand the mechanisms of populist
discourses, their rhetoric as well as their contextual conditions, we invite
contributions from all fields involved in the study of discourse and rhetoric.
This conference aims to generate a conversation among the diverse approaches
to studying political discourse and rhetoric as well as to promote a
comparative approach to the study of populism and nationalism as a global
phenomenon. 

Keynote Speakers:

Prof Michael Billig (Loughborough University) 
Prof Yannis Stavrakakis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Prof Felicitas Macgilchrist (Georg-Eckert-Institut, Braunschweig)


Call for Papers:

World Cafe Contributions:

This conference seeks to build bridges between academia and the world of
political practice.  In support of an open discourse between academics and
political activists the conference will feature a World Café (see for example
http://www.theworldcafe.com/key-concepts-resources/world-cafe-method/) in
addition to regular conference panels. All participants will be invited to
produce a very short text (no more than 500 words) in ‘plain English’ to
communicate key concepts and issues of populist and nationalist
discourse/rhetoric from their research/work to a wider audience. These serve
as the basis for discussions in the World Café and will later appear on the
conference website alongside other items. Deadline for submission of the 500
words for accepted participants is 29 May 2018. 

Standard Conference Panels:

We invite contributions on (but not restricted to):

-  The language and rhetoric of populist and nationalist leaders and parties
-  ‘Post-truth’ and ‘post-shame': Political conditions of populist, nativist
and nationalist discourse
- Mediatisation of populism and nationalism
- Populist, nativist and nationalist narratives
- Populism as political style
- Elements of populist and nationalist discourse in mainstream party-political
discourse
- Populism and political theory
- History of populism, nativism and nationalism
- Persuasive effects of populist discourse
- Pedagogical implications of discourse theory and studies on political
discourse 

Papers will be 20 minutes in length, with 10 minutes after each paper for
questions and discussion. 

The deadline for abstracts of 250-300 words (excluding bibliography) is 30
January 2018. Please also indicate, whether you would be prepared to produce a
short introductory text (no more than 500 words), introducing a key term or
key concept for analysing populist discourse to a wider audience.

Abstracts and queries about the conference should be sent to the conference
organiser, Michael Kranert (populism2018 at gmail.com).




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