29.183, Confs: English, Disc Analysis, Gen Ling, Pragmatics, Socioling/Czech Republic

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Subject: 29.183, Confs: English, Disc Analysis, Gen Ling, Pragmatics, Socioling/Czech Republic

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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 18:05:03
From: Isabel Ermida [iermida at ilch.uminho.pt]
Subject: 14th ESSE Conference - Seminar 04: The Language of Cyberbullying: Verbal Aggression in Online Communication

14th ESSE Conference - Seminar 04: The Language of Cyberbullying: Verbal Aggression in Online Communication 

Date: 28-Aug-2018 - 02-Sep-2018 
Location: Brno, Czech Republic 
Contact: Isabel Ermida 
Contact Email: iermida at ilch.uminho.pt 
Meeting URL: http://www.esse2018brno.org/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Meeting Description: 

Today’s massive use, and misuse, of the Internet has spread socially
problematic behaviour to the virtual world. Attitudes of intolerance and
prejudice, together with disguised or outspoken forms of hate speech, as well
as other aggressive phenomena, such as bullying, stalking and trolling, form a
spectrum of hostility that asks for linguistic examination. This seminar aims
to analyse the linguistic forms and the discursive strategies of what can be
generally regarded as persecution and segregation in computer-mediated
communication. It invites approaches to a variety of linguistic indicators,
not only at the lexical-semantic, stylistic and rhetorical levels, but also
(inter)actionally and pragmatically, including instances of conflict talk,
disagreement and offense. In particular, it welcomes insight into the
sociolinguistic variables in which the topic finds transversal expression,
such as age, gender, ethnicity, nationality and, more broadly, identity (be it
sexual, social or religious), as voiced in various electronic discussion
forums.

Convenors:

Isabel Ermida, Minho University, Braga, Portugal, iermida at ilch.uminho.pt
Minna Palander-Collin, Helsinki University, Finland,
minna.palander-collin at helsinki.fi

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