30.1914, FYI: Discourse Analysis and Conflict/Peace Studies

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Subject: 30.1914, FYI: Discourse Analysis and Conflict/Peace Studies

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Date: Mon, 06 May 2019 15:56:47
From: Innocent Chiluwa [innocent.chiluwa at covenantuniversity.edu.ng]
Subject: Discourse Analysis and Conflict/Peace Studies

 
Call for Papers for an edited book tentatively entitled:
Discourse Analysis and Conflict Studies: Applying discourse approaches to
studying conflict and conflict resolution

The editors are in talks with John Benjamins Publishing Company (Amsterdam)
and plan to publish the edited volume in the Benjamins’ Discourse Approaches
to Politics, Culture and Society (edited by Jo Angouri and Andreas Musolff).
This book series is peer-reviewed and indexed in Scopus.  
Discourse Analysis and Conflict Studies
Interest in the broad subject of conflict studies by linguists and language
scholars has increased over the years with the growing incidents of conflicts,
wars and political violence around the world. There have also been increasing
and interesting studies that applied linguistic and discourse approaches to
the study of violent protests, activism and political struggles. These studies
have given significant insights to the role of language use or discourse in
conflict initiation and conflict resolution. From these burgeoning studies, it
is clear that there is a strong connection between how what is said or written
and how conflict may develop and escalate. 
Discourse theorists generally believe that oral or written discourse produced
by different people vary with recognizable patterns, depending on their social
domains of life (see, for example, Laclau & Mouffe, 1985). The work of a
discourse analyst is to analyze these patterns and identify their significance
and consequences. Critical discourse analysis (CDA) for example, shows how
language works in sociocultural and political contexts, focusing on power
relations and ideological perspectives reflected in discourse texts, and their
wider implications for the society.

Hence, a critical discourse study of subtle texts such as news reports (or
“fake news”), editorials, propaganda, social media publications, etc. in the
form of writing, visual or multimodal/video streaming will be very important
in contemporary times.

This collection of essays will aim to show the synergy between discourse
analysis and conflict studies by showing how topics in conflicts studies and
conflict resolution may be researched using methods and approaches in
discourse analysis (e.g. CDA, multi-modal discourse analysis, conversation
analysis etc.)

This study will attempt to cover all conflict-related topics within the fields
of political science, international relations, sociology, media studies,
applied linguistics etc., which will include:

- Terrorism and extremism
- Conflict and war
- Political crisis
- Ethnic violence/sectarian crisis
- Activism and violent protest
- Hate speech and verbal war (in the media and the Internet etc.)
- Conflict resolution techniques
- Discourse and peace processes
- Etc. 

Contributors are invited to submit chapter proposals (about 200 words) not
later than 30th June 2019.
Kindly send Abstracts or questions as email attachment to Innocent Chiluwa:
innocent.chiluwa at covenantuniversity.edu.ng
 



Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis

Subject Language(s): English (eng)





 



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