30.3971, Calls: Anthro Ling, Disc Analysis, Gen Ling, Pragmatics, Socioling/United Kingdom

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Subject: 30.3971, Calls: Anthro Ling, Disc Analysis, Gen Ling, Pragmatics, Socioling/United Kingdom

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Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2019 22:11:05
From: Natalia Knoblock [nlknoblo at svsu.edu]
Subject: Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines 2020

 
Full Title: Panel on Grammar of Hate 

Date: 07-Jul-2020 - 09-Jul-2020
Location: Panel on Grammar of Hate, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Natalia Knoblock
Meeting Email: nlknoblo at svsu.edu

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

Call Deadline: 20-Nov-2019 

Meeting Description:

(Panel at Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines 2020)

Researchers of verbal aggression, “othering” and dehumanization in discourse,
hate speech, and similar fields are invited to submit proposals for a thematic
panel at the upcoming Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across
Disciplines (CADAAD) conference at the University of Huddersfield, UK on July
7-9 (https://2020cadaad.wordpress.com). The panel aims to examine grammatical
features of hateful, aggressive, and dehumanizing language as the majority of
existing research has concentrated on the lexical aspects of such type of
communication (e.g., Erjavec & Kovačič, 2012; Knoblock, 2017; Leets & Giles,
1997; Lillian, 2007; Musolff, 2015), and its grammatical peculiarities remain
largely unexplored.


Call for Papers: 

We are interested to explore a possible link between hateful intentions or the
speakers, their lexical choices, and the grammatical characteristics of the
speech that aims to hurt, dehumanize, and marginalize groups or individuals. 
We welcome a variety of research approaches and various methodologies,
including quantitative, qualitative, or mixed. We would like to see projects
conducted in different geographic, political, socio-cultural, and economic
settings, and to bring together scholars from several fields, such as
linguistics, discourse analysis, communication and media studies, among
others. We hope to expand the scope of hate speech research by focusing on the
grammatical aspects in addition to the lexical and discursive ones. 

Some of (but not limited to) the possible topics to investigate could include:

- manipulation of personal pronouns
- usage of neuter morphological markings where masculine of feminine are
expected (if used with nefarious intent)
- usage of inanimate morphology where animate is expected (in languages that
differentiate them)
- nontraditional usage of mass/countable nouns if used with nefarious intent
to dehumanize groups of people 
- syntactic patters characteristic of hate speech and “othering”  

This list, of course, is not exhaustive, and other topics not itemized here
are welcome as long as they involve manipulation of grammatical features with
an intent to denigrate, insult, and dehumanize the referent.

Please send your abstract of up to 400 words (excluding references) to
cadaadpanel at gmail.com by November 20, 2019. In your abstract, please clearly
state the aims and research questions of your paper, its theoretical
foundations, the data and methods used to analyse it, as well as some of the
findings.

The panel is organized by Natalia Knoblock (Saginaw Valley State University)
and Magda Stroinska (McMaster University). If you have any questions, please
do not hesitate to contact us at nlknoblo at svsu.edu or cadaadpanel at gmail.com . 

References:
Erjavec, K., & Kovačič, M. P. (2012). “You Don't Understand, This is a New
War!” Analysis of Hate Speech in News Web Sites' Comments. Mass Communication
and Society, 15(6), 899-920.
Knoblock, N. (2017). Xenophobic Trumpeters: A corpus-assisted discourse study
of Donald Trump's Facebook conversations. Journal of Language Aggression and
Conflict, 5(2), 295-322.
Leets, L., & Giles, H. (1997). Words as weapons—when do they wound?
Investigations of harmful speech. Human Communication Research, 24(2),
260-301.
Lillian, D. L. (2007). A thorn by any other name: sexist discourse as hate
speech. Discourse & Society, 18(6), 719-740.
Musolff, A. (2015). Dehumanizing metaphors in UK immigrant debates in press
and online media. Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict, 3(1), 41-56.




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