29.3092, Calls: Discourse Analysis/Italy
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Subject: 29.3092, Calls: Discourse Analysis/Italy
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Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2018 16:27:31
From: DiscourseNet Bergamo University [discoursenetbergamo at gmail.com]
Subject: 23rd DiscourseNet Conference Discourse, Power and Mind: Between Reason and Emotion
Full Title: 23rd DiscourseNet Conference : Discourse, Power and Mind: Between Reason and Emotion
Date: 06-Jun-2019 - 08-Jun-2019
Location: Bergamo, Italy
Contact Person: DiscourseNet Bergamo
Meeting Email: discoursenetbergamo at gmail.com
Web Site: http://www.dn23.discourseanalysis.net/
Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
Call Deadline: 15-Oct-2018
Meeting Description:
The relationship between discourse and power implies an interaction between
the subjects and their selves. Power positions are often held by influencing
the judgment of other people, which requires dealing with their minds. One of
the factors to be taken into account when targeting one’s self is the
complexity of this entity. The self is not only the set of mental schemes and
operations that enable an individual to make sense of the world. It is also
structured by the living experience of the outer world. This experience of the
world is made possible by the physical propioception of our own body which
becomes, in turn, a tool for understanding the outer world through sensations.
However, reasoning and sensations aren’t the only two ways of knowing and
learning. Emotions also play their part in making sense of the world. They
connect or distance our body and mind from a given reality according to the
positiveness or negativeness a given experience arises in our conscience.
Reasoning, emotions and experiences are all actors of a power relationship:
they are part of our judgmental abilities, which means they can play a
significant role in power handling and in positioning practice in a power
relationship. From a discourse and linguistic point of view, this interaction
between mind and power can be analysed through discursive and textual
production.
Some topics that may be addressed are:
argumentation (up to manipulation)
storytelling
linguistic construction of emotions and feelings
sentiment analysis
linguistic construction of empathy
They all apply to reasoning as well as to emotional and affective dimensions
of the self: for instance, storytelling combines some logical skills (the
conception of a story as a whole, the cause-effect relationship that grounds
the transforming process within a story) with some emotions and feelings due
to some form of empathy with one character rather than some negative feelings
arisen by characters we despise. In the same way, argumentation, and its
extreme form, manipulation, can be based on reasoning as well as pathos and
persuasion. These two examples show how reasoning and emotions, rational and
irrational, are combined in the process of understanding or making a specific
reality understandable. Without being ascribed to these two specific textual
and linguistic constructions, feelings are likely to be present and influence
several kinds of discourse, as demonstrated by the sentiment analysis field of
research. Moreover, empathy can also be taken into account as a way to analyse
the relationship between discourse and power under a linguistic and cognitive
perspective. By adopting an empathic attitude, the speakers are able to
embrace the perspective of their addressees, i.e. to look at a given situation
through the perceptions and/or feelings of another person. The mental
operation consists in a displacement (Rabatel, 2017) from the very discursive
position of the speakers to a fictive discursive position where the speakers
perceive, feel and make sense of a given situation “as if” they were another
person (Pinotti, 2011). As a consequence, discursive and linguistics marks of
this mental operation may be found in their verbal productions.
The different roles and interactions between reasoning, feelings and emotions
we described so far can be applied, to different degrees and in different
ways, to several fields of discourse where power may be taken into account,
such as:
Political discourse
Medical discourse
Corporate discourse
Charity discourse
Media discourse
Pedagogical discourse and practices
Academic discourse
Legal discourse
Everyday and/or interpersonal interactions
Call for Papers:
We welcome all proposals for papers addressing the relationship between power
and mind, focusing on specific cognitive aspects (such as the verbal
expression of reasoning or emotions) and/or linguistic aspects (lexical and
syntactic choices, pragmatic features of communication), possibly showing new
and original interactions between them. Topics and fields listed above are not
exclusive.
Given the variety of topics and fields addressed, we also welcome proposals
constructing and exploring corpora on multiple levels and through different
tools and methodological approaches. For these reasons, statistical,
quantitative and qualitative analysis are all welcome, as well as manual
and/or computer-assisted analysis carried out in the field of Digital
Humanities. We are particularly interested in contributions investigating and
combining these methods and approaches in order to discuss not only questions
about discourse and power but also the ways to build and analyse corpora on
this subject.
Submission:
Proposals can be submitted in different languages (English, French, German,
Spanish, Italian). Participants are free to choose the language they prefer
for their oral communication. In order to guarantee a better comprehension for
all the participants, slides should be prepared in English. The abstracts
should not be longer than 250 words. Each proposal will be subject to a blind
review by the members of the scientific committee.
Key Dates:
Submission of abstracts: no later than 15th October 2018
Notification of acceptance: 15th November 2018
Registration: 15th February 2019
End of registration: 15th May 2019
Registration Fees:
Regular fee (until 15th February 2019): EUR 90.00
Late fee (from 16th February 2019 to 15th May 2019): EUR 105.00
Proposals should be sent to: discoursenetbergamo at gmail.com
For more information, please check the website: dn23.discourseanalysis.net.
Please note you might be asked to register
Proceedings:
Selected papers will be published in a volume and/or journal issue. Further
details will be provided.
Organizing Committee:
Gabriella Carobbio, Università degli Studi di Bergamo
Eduardo Chavez-Herrera, University of Warwick
Cécile Desoutter, Università degli Studi di Bergamo
Aurora Fragonara, Università degli Studi di Bergamo
Scientific Committee:
Guy Achard-Bayle, Université de Lorraine
Patrizia Anesa, Università degli Studi di Bergamo
Johannes Angermuller, University of Warwick/EHESS
Gabriella Carobbio, Università degli Studi di Bergamo
Eduardo Chavez-Herrera, University of Warwick
Luisa Chierichetti, Università degli Studi di Bergamo
Paul Chilton, University of Warwick
Cécile Desoutter, Università degli Studi di Bergamo
Aurora Fragonara, Università degli Studi di Bergamo
Enrica Galazzi, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano
André Petitjean, Université de Lorraine
Susanne Maria Weber, Philipps-Universität Marburg
Franco Zappettini, University of Liverpool
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