29.4509, Confs: Anthro Ling, Applied Ling, Disc Analysis, Gen Ling, Socioling/Italy

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Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 15:24:11
From: Antonio Fruttaldo [afruttaldo at unior.it]
Subject: 5th ESTIDIA Conference

 
5th ESTIDIA Conference 
Short Title: ESTIDIA 2019 

Date: 19-Sep-2019 - 21-Sep-2019 
Location: Naples, Italy 
Contact: Antonio Fruttaldo 
Contact Email: estidia2019 at gmail.com 
Meeting URL: http://www.unior.it/ricerca/18780/3/5th-estidia-conference-hybrid-dialogues-transcending-binary-thinking-and-moving-away-from-societal-polarizations.html 

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

Meeting Description: 

5th ESTIDIA Conference
Hybrid Dialogues: Transcending Binary Thinking and Moving Away from Societal
Polarizations 

19 September 2019 (Pre-Conference Workshops)
20-21 September 2019 (Conference)
University of Naples 'L'Orientale' (Italy)

The 5th ESTIDIA conference, to be held on 19-21 September 2019, is organised
together with the I-LanD Interuniversity Research Centre and hosted by the
University of Naples 'L'Orientale'. The conference welcomes a wide variety of
thematic and disciplinary approaches to hybrid dialogues in various
communities of practice across time and space. The theme of the conference was
prompted by the risks and challenges posed by the increasing use of virulent
polemics both on- and off-line that are constantly shifting the boundaries
between traditionally dichotomous forms of communication (e.g.,
public/private, face-to-face/virtual, formal/informal, polite/impolite) and
types of mindsets (e.g., trust/distrust, liberal/illiberal,
rational/emotional, biased/unbiased). The dangers of dichotomy run parallel
with a blurring of the distinction between real and unreal, true and false,
genuine and fake, etc., in terms of both what people say and do, and what they
say they do. At the same time, conflicting, and often contradictory,
understandings of socio-political issues, cultural concepts and historical
events are fostered by a proliferation of binary thinking, whereby one side of
the divide is set up as positive/right, and the other as its negative/wrong
counterpart
Binary or dichotomous thinking is responsible for producing and/or maintaining
historically unsustainable hierarchies and inequitable power relations. As a
counterbalance of dichotomy-based beliefs and ways of thinking, new and hybrid
forms of dialogue are needed to cross the frontiers of established
dichotomies, questioning the legitimacy of increasingly conflictual,
aggressive and divisive encounters conducted both offline (in public meetings,
TV debates, political and parliamentary debates, etc.) and online (on social
media, such as Twitter, YouTube, Snapchat). The boundaries between online and
offline discourse may sometimes become fuzzy, allowing newly integrated and/or
overlapping forms of discourses and uses of language to emerge.

This international ESTIDIA conference, like the preceding ones, offers an open
forum for cross-disciplinary and multi-level dialogue among researchers and
practitioners interested in exploring dialogic and discursive interaction
observable across communities of practices and various social-cultural
contexts.

You are warmly welcomed to propose contributions from diverse fields of
enquiry, including linguistics, media studies, journalism, cultural studies,
psychology, rhetoric, political science, sociology, pedagogy, philosophy and
anthropology.

Conference website:
http://www.unior.it/ricerca/18780/3/5th-estidia-conference-hybrid-dialogues-tr
anscending-binary-thinking-and-moving-away-from-societal-polarizations.html 

Keynote speakers:

Marina Bondi, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Cornelia Ilie, Strömstad Academy, Sweden
Lucy Jones, University of Nottingham, U.K.
Majid KhosraviNik, University of Newcastle, U.K.

Contact:

Please check the Conference website periodically or send inquiries to:
estidia2019 at gmail.com
 






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