30.781, Calls: Discourse Analysis, General Linguistics, Philosophy of Language, Sociolinguistics / Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio (Jrnl)

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Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 11:02:01
From: Giusy Gakki [giusy.gallo at unical.it]
Subject: Discourse Analysis, General Linguistics, Philosophy of Language, Sociolinguistics / Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio (Jrnl)

 
Full Title: Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio 


Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics; Philosophy of Language; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 05-Jun-2019 

Call for Papers:

There has been a long talk, with ups and downs, about the languages of
politics - which, for its part, in the post-media chattering, is today more
aphasic than ever. A little less it has been discussed the political nature of
language, and even more sporadically the surreptitiously political forms that
the philosophy of language may assume, in its various epistemological patterns
and theoretical features. The two paths, among other things, can easily and
happily meet.

As regards the first line of research, semiotics, above all, has proven to
provide several interesting contributions: starting from the pioneering works
of Eco on political language as a form of communication constituted by a
double recipient, and of Fabbri on political discourse as an arena of
strategic moves and tactical countermoves, passing through the reflections of
Landowski on the abstract configurations of the political theatre and of the
role that passions play in it, up to the most recent research of many authors
around the new forms of politics, often linked to online communication, social
media and (perhaps) the consequent global spread of populism. But there are
other working hypotheses, be they markedly cognitivist (which find their cues
especially in some studies of Lakoff) or in terms of philosophy and sociology
of science (which instead refer to the research of Latour and his school).

The second line of research is, at the same time, more fragmentary and more
rooted. More fragmentary because it is found in different fields: the
political values of language have always been the object of interest of
scholars - philosophers, anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists and
psychoanalysts - who study it in various ways. More rooted because this
problem has very ancient roots and recurs over time: it suffices to refer to
the rhetorical tradition, from Aristotle to Perelman and beyond, which
positions the linguistic forms of communication and argumentation at the core
of the management of public affairs.

In this line, it is rarely included, but it could easily be, a reflection on
the political-ideological outcomes of the philosophy of language, in its
various epistemological and theoretical declinations, as for example the
ideological positions normally left unexpressed by those who deal with tongues
and languages professionally and scientifically. Thus, while the line of
thought of pragmatic-performative studies, by stressing the actual value of
any communicative action, cannot but consider its political outcomes, the
opposite trend, the representative-referential one, denying such outcomes in
the name of a verifiable universality, surreptitiously reaffirms them,
proclaiming itself as a bearer of justice and objectivity.

The whole thing has gone through various forms of connection, interrelation
and integration and so will in the future: the study of political discourse
and that of philosophical-linguistic discourse, thanks to the methods and
models made available by the latter, knows - that is why it must act - how to
rediscover the meaning and profound values of politics as such and of the
diffused political outcomes of social and daily life. In an age like ours,
among other things, it seems to be particularly needed.

Complete call for papers:
http://www.rifl.unical.it/index.php/rifl/announcement/view/21




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