30.1028, Calls: Applied Ling, Cog Sci, Disc Analysis, Psycholing, Socioling/Spain

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Subject: 30.1028, Calls: Applied Ling, Cog Sci, Disc Analysis, Psycholing, Socioling/Spain

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Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2019 01:49:57
From: MIGUEL-ANGEL BENITEZ-CASTRO [mbenitez at unizar.es]
Subject: Languaging Diversity 2019

 
Full Title: Languaging Diversity 2019 
Short Title: LD2019 

Date: 24-Sep-2019 - 27-Sep-2019
Location: Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas, Universidad de Zaragoza, TERUEL, Spain 
Contact Person: Miguel-Angel Benitez-Castro
Meeting Email: ld2019 at unizar.es
Web Site: http://langdiv2019.unizar.es/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Cognitive Science; Discourse Analysis; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 03-May-2019 

Meeting Description:

Following the five successful events hosted by the Universities of Naples
(2013), Catania (2014), Macerata (2016), Cagliari (2017) and Antwerp (2018),
the I-Land Interuniversity Research Centre brings the sixth edition of its
Languaging Diversity annual conference (LD6) to the University of Zaragoza,
Spain, at the Campus of Teruel. The beautiful historic city of Teruel, a
UNESCO world heritage site, boasts mesmerising examples of the Mudejar
architectural style, and is home to the tragic and deeply moving story of
Diego de Marcilla and Isabel de Segura, the so-called ‘lovers of Teruel’.

LD6 builds on the themes of the previous editions (i.e. diversity, alterity,
power, social class and globalisation) to propose a research strand linked to
persuasion, the pragmatic or communicative intention whereby identity is
enacted, power communicated and societal patterns reproduced.

The three Aristotelian modes of persuasion (i.e. ethos, pathos and logos) have
traditionally been associated with such typically persuasive genres as
political speeches, editorials or opinion articles, which are claimed to shape
power relations where those at the helm were a selected few (politicians,
journalists, lawyers, renowned scholars, etc.). The age of social media and
the Internet of Things, however, forces academics to study this phenomenon
from a new perspective and try to answer questions such as the following: Who
holds the power to persuade nowadays? How do certain people become
influential? What channels are most effective when trying to persuade others?
What are the underlying motives behind persuasion nowadays? Which persuasive
strategies work best in each community of practice? Which of our various
identities are most likely to be moulded and/or reinforced as a result of
persuasion? All these questions arise in a world order of increasing
hybridization, at a time when there are fewer boundaries between the written
text and the (audio)visual, between seemingly factual genres and those where
opinion is markedly present; in short, between truth and fabrication. In this
setting, our active participation as global citizens in the consumption,
production and transmission of information, or ‘prosumption’ (Weeks et al.
2017), has also blurred the boundaries between persuader and persuadee.

In LD6, we set out to cast light on the intricacies of persuasive discourse
and the manifold reactions it may engender in today’s globalised and
multicultural societies. At the core of this endeavour is a genuine
willingness and commitment to tease out the nature of persuasion in diverse
contexts (e.g. art, education, business, sport, companies, the private sphere,
etc.), through diverse channels (e.g. face-to-face interaction, on-line
communication, published articles, performances, etc.), and as more or less
relevant to diverse identities (e.g. linguistic, political, gendered, etc.).
As in previous LD editions, interdisciplinarity will also be key for us. This
time, in LD6, the collaboration and cross-fertilisation of knowledge will show
in an organising and scientific team encompassing Philology, Psychology,
Education, Business and Fine Arts, five areas representing the extremely
enriching interdisciplinary make-up of the Faculty of Social and Human
Sciences in Teruel.


2nd Call for Papers:

Languaging Diversity 6th International Conference 2019
24-Sep-2019-27-Sep-2019
Website: http://langdiv2019.unizar.es/
Submissions: http://langdiv2019.unizar.es/submissions/

We are looking forward to a varied programme and invite abstracts in any of
the conference languages (English, Spanish, French and Italian) for full
workshops, papers, posters, short work-in-progress reports in the pecha kucha
format, as well as panels adhering to any of the following broad research
questions:

- Which persuasion strategies predominate in oral, written and multimodal
discourse?
- Which of the three Aristotelian modes of persuasion (ethos, pathos, logos)
stands out in different contexts? How is each communicated? 
- How are the fuzzy boundaries between persuasion and manipulation revealed in
today’s hybrid, multicultural and post-truth societies? How may information
come to be manipulated in various contexts (e.g. political, journalistic,
corporate/management, etc.) to suit and further the interests of “[…] one
party […] against the best interests of the recipients” (Van Dijk 2006: 363)?
- How far does the perceived transparency, efficiency and honesty of certain
power structures contribute to the perceived veracity and persuasiveness of
their messages? How are those messages construed to further enhance and
protect their public image? 
- Does persuasion underlie any communicative event, just as emotion or affect?
- What emotions are most likely to contribute to persuasion in various
contexts? How are persuasive messages construed and conveyed to tap into those
precise emotions? 
- What discursive strategies (verbal and non-verbal) are most effective in
various contexts (professional, public, private) and through various channels
(face-to-face, on-line, etc.)?
- What persuasive strategies seem to prevail in different languages? What
strategies seem to be most effective in particular languages, but not in
others? 
- In an increasingly globalised world, what strategies of intercultural
mediation may work better when conveying persuasive messages that, in some way
or another, may affect or influence people from various origins and with
various L1 backgrounds? 
- What role do sociolinguistic variables such as age or gender play in
persuasion?
- Is there any link between identity and the use of particular persuasive
strategies? How are age or gender identities discursively construed, shaped
and reinforced in persuasive contexts? 
- How and to what extent is persuasion used in today’s highly connected world
as an instrument to boost discrimination on the grounds of ethnicity, age,
sex, sexual orientation, belief, disability, etc.? What persuasive strategies
are used to prevent, counter or remove any kind of discriminatory practice?
- How is (in)equality of any kind reflected, addressed, tackled, promoted etc.
in media discourses constructed and reproduced in various contexts (e.g.
education, sport, art, etc.)? 

The following areas and/or methodological approaches must be understood as a
general guideline that can be further extended:

- (Critical) discourse analysis/studies
- (Critical) genre analysis 
- Appraisal theories of emotion 
- Cognitive linguistics
- Conceptual metaphor theory
- Construction emotion theories
- Content analysis 
- Contrastive and intercultural pragmatics
- Corpus-based/assisted discourse analysis
- Cultural studies
- Film studies
- History of ideas
- Language teaching and learning (Genre pedagogy, CLIL, etc.)
- Linguistic anthropology
- Literacy studies
- Literary studies
- Media studies
- Multimodal discourse analysis 
- Neurolinguistics
- Political communication
- Psycholinguistics
- Relevance theory
- Rhetoric
- Sociolinguistics
- (Corpus) Stylistics
- Systemic-functional linguistics




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