29.3815, Calls: Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics/Denmark

[The LINGUIST List]

LINGUIST List: Vol-29-3815. Thu Oct 04 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.3815, Calls: Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics/Denmark

Moderator: linguist at linguistlist.org (Malgorzata E. Cavar)
Reviews: reviews at linguistlist.org (Helen Aristar-Dry, Robert Coté)
Homepage: https://linguistlist.org

Please support the LL editors and operation with a donation at:
           https://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/

Editor for this issue: Everett Green <everett at linguistlist.org>
================================================================


Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2018 03:44:50
From: Peter Kastberg [Kastberg at cgs.aau.dk]
Subject: The Dark Side of Communication - The 2nd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Discourse and Communication in Professional Contexts

 
Full Title: The Dark Side of Communication - The 2nd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Discourse and Communication in Professional Contexts 
Short Title: ICDC 

Date: 14-Aug-2019 - 16-Aug-2019
Location: Aalborg, Denmark 
Contact Person: Peter Kastberg
Meeting Email: Kastberg at cgs.aau.dk
Web Site: http://www.discourse-communication-2019.aau.dk 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2019 

Meeting Description:

The Dark Side of Communication

The 2nd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Discourse and
Communication in Professional Contexts will be held at Aalborg University,
Denmark, August 14 – 16, 2019

We have seen an upsurge in research into organizational communication, PR
communication, corporate communication, branding communication etc. Whereas
this voluminous strand of research has delved ever deeper into the
instrumental nature of organizational/corporate communication, little
attention, outside organizational discourse studies, has been devoted to
examining what happens when we allow organizational/corporate communication to
constitute the reality in which we live. This conference explores our
understanding of what dark side communication activities ‘are’ and what they
‘do’ in or with reference to organizational contexts.

The expression “the dark side” seems to have become a portmanteau term for all
things unwanted. In strategic communication, “the dark side” pertains to
(corporate) communication perceived as intentionally ambiguous – and maybe
unlawfully so. In organization studies, “the dark side” encompasses deviant or
even harmful organizational behavior. In interpersonal communication, “the
dark side” deals with immoral, dysfunctional or malicious communication. In
sum, by calling forth “the dark side” of communication we evoke a sort of
Manichean discourse of light vs. dark, in casu: of good vs. evil
communication. If we look at communication activities in organizational and/or
professional contexts in lieu of this, it seems to be a question of whether
communication is seen as manipulatory, i.e. as “dark”/evil, or emancipatory,
i.e. as “light”/good. This, in turn, effectively stigmatizes dark side
communication activities as vehicles for the (organizational or corporate)
propagation of suppression of unwanted ethical, political, and ideological
voices and discourses.

With The Dark Side of Communication as the conference theme, the Communicating
Organizations Research Group wishes to explore and substantially deepen our
understanding of what dark side communication activities ‘are’ and what they
‘do’ in or with reference to organizational contexts.  

Confirmed keynote speakers for the conference are:

- Professor Dennis Mumby, University of Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
- Professor David Boje, New Mexico State University, USA 
- Assoc. Professor Charlotte Simonsson, Lund University, Sweden
- Dr. Erika Darics, Aston University, UK


Call for Papers:

With this conference, we encourage all interested scholars to explore and
problematize issues such as, but not limited to:

- What may constitute dark side communicating activities? And why?
- Where do we find dark side communicating activities? And why?
- How do we analyze dark side communicating activities?
- Why are organizations (ostensibly) making use of dark side communicating
activities?
- How do we – as scholars as well as citizens – evaluate dark side
communicating activities?

The conference takes place against a backdrop of organizational, corporate and
professional communication, critical management studies, critical discourse
studies, and critical media studies. Needless to say, all interested scholars
from adjacent fields are highly encouraged to attend. 

For further information, please visit the conference website:
www.discourse-communication-2019.aau.dk

Deadline for submission of panel proposals 15 December 2018.
Deadline for submission of individual abstracts 15 January 2019.

Needless to say, PhD students at any stage of their PhD work are also warmly
encouraged to participate. Not only in the pre-conference PhD seminar, which
takes place on August 13th 2019, but indeed also in the conference proper.  

The Communicating Organizations Research Group, Aalborg University, Denmark

EasyChair Submission Link:

https://easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?key=78544688.gt1B0vP05K1B3vaW




------------------------------------------------------------------------------

*****************    LINGUIST List Support    *****************
Please support the LL editors and operation with a donation at:

              The IU Foundation Crowd Funding site:
       https://iufoundation.fundly.com/the-linguist-list

               The LINGUIST List FundDrive Page:
            https://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/
 


----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-29-3815	
----------------------------------------------------------