29.784, Calls: Disc Analysis, Ling & Lit, Pragmatics, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling/Ireland

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Subject: 29.784, Calls: Disc Analysis, Ling & Lit, Pragmatics, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling/Ireland

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Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 15:57:28
From: Anne Marie Devlin [amdevlin at ucc.ie]
Subject: (dis)Covering Discourses

 
Full Title: (dis)Covering Discourses 

Date: 18-May-2018 - 19-May-2018
Location: University College Cork, Ireland 
Contact Person: Anne Marie Devlin
Meeting Email: discoursescfp at gmail.com
Web Site: https://www.facebook.com/discovering.discourses.1 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Ling & Literature; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 28-Feb-2018 

Meeting Description:

Transdisciplinary Conference in University College Cork, Ireland
School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies / MA Applied Linguistics
18/19 May 2018

Mikhail M. Bakhtin argued that “verbal discourse is a social phenomenon”
constituted by speakers within a concrete situation with a very specific
purpose. Since then, concepts surrounding the formation, structures and
functions of discourses have held a central position in academic research.
Following Foucault discourses are part of a “heterogeneous ensemble”
consisting of “institutions, architectural forms, regulatory decisions, laws,
administrative measures, scientific statements, philosophical, moral and
philanthropic propositions – in short, the said as much as the unsaid.”

Given the symbiotic relationship we have with discourses whereby we are
unremittingly surrounded by, embedded in and informed by discursive ensembles,
whilst simultaneously actively shaping them, the aim of this transdisciplinary
conference is to offer researchers a space to explore and challenge current
discourses. We wish to think not only about current hierarchies and the power
they affirm, but also about what is absent in the current discursive regimes.
Since discourse is perceived as having formative, regulatory and authoritative
characteristics, in this conference we aim to cover ongoing discourses and to
peel back layers and thus dis-cover discourses hidden in society.

Plenary Speakers:

Prof. David Machin, University of Orebro, Sweden.  
Prof. Nicole Müller, University College Cork 


2nd Call for Papers:

Deadline for submissions extended to 28 February 2018

Membership fee: €85/€55 (students)

We would like to invite researchers from various disciplines to submit
abstracts to this transdisciplinary conference (dis)Covering Discourses in
University College Cork.

Potential themes on Discourse that we would like to address:
Architecture/Arts, Borders, Body, Class, Gender, Health, Identity,
Institutions, Integration, Knowledge, Literature/Literary Critique Economy,
Migration, Multilingualism, Nature/Animals, Precarity, Religion, Silence,
Social Media, Space, Violence.

The conference may be of interest to scholars from various disciplines,
including: Linguistics, Literature, Cultural Studies, Social Studies,
Migration Studies, Religious Studies, Gender Studies, Philosophy, Sociology,
Government and Politics, Economy, Anthropology, Human-Animal Studies,
Medicine, Clinical Therapies, Media Studies, Digital Humanities.

Please submit your abstract (max. 300 words) and a brief biography (max. 70
words) to discoursescfp at gmail.com by 28 February 2018.

Organizers:

Anne Marie Devlin
Michael Hofer
Dragan Miladinovic
Barbara Siller
Sara Lis Ventura
Hanna Völker




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