29.311, Calls: Disc Analysis, Gen Ling, Pragmatics, Socioling/Czech Republic

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Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 18:24:36
From: Isabel Ermida [iermida at ilch.uminho.pt]
Subject: 14th ESSE Conference - Seminar 04: The Language of Cyberbullying: Verbal Aggression in Online Communication

 
Full Title: 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 Person: Isabel Ermida
Meeting Email: iermida at ilch.uminho.pt
Web Site: http://www.esse2018brno.org/ 

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

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2018 

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


Call for Papers:

This seminar invites papers addressing the broad topic of online aggression
from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives, such as
discourse analysis, intercultural pragmatics, corpus linguistics and media
studies, among others. It welcomes insights into various sociolinguistic
variables that shape and influence verbal aggression online in electronic
discussion forums, such as age, gender, ethnicity, nationality and, more
broadly, identity (be it sexual, social or religious). In particular, it
intends to discuss those linguistic forms and discursive strategies that
persecution, segregation, and discrimination assume in computer-mediated
social platforms. The aim is thus to establish the linguistic trends and the
social motifs that Internet talk exhibits when prejudice is voiced. 

Possible topics include:

- Lexical, stylistic, rhetoric, and morpho-syntactic features of online
prejudice
- Sociolinguistic variation in the expression of hostility online
- Cross-cultural variation in hostile CMC
- Ethical responses to cyberaggression: intervention, correction, repair
- (Im)polite aggressiveness, disagreement, and confrontation online
- Implicitness in online conflict talk: presuppositions and implicatures
- Multimodal swearing and insulting on the Internet
- Online aggression and humour
- Political incorrectness online
- Online aggression, ideology, and power: in/out-group dynamics and the
majority/minority duality  

Please send a 250-word abstract (excluding references) to both convenors
(iermida at ilch.uminho.pt; minna.palander-collin at helsinki.fi) by 31 January
2018. 
Acceptance will be notified by 28 February 2018.




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