31.2526, Calls: Anthro Ling, Applied Ling, Disc Analys, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling/Switzerland

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Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2020 12:37:57
From: Kristin Kuck [kristin.kuck at ovgu.de]
Subject: Inclusion and Exclusion in the Discourse on Covid-19

 
Full Title: Inclusion and Exclusion in the Discourse on Covid-19 

Date: 27-Jun-2021 - 02-Jul-2021
Location: Winterthur, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Kristin Kuck
Meeting Email: kristin.kuck at ovgu.de

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 25-Oct-2020 

Meeting Description:

The rapid spread of the previously unknown coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has led to
political decisions in many countries which have had a profound impact on the
lives of all people in societies. In the public discourse on the Covid-19
pandemic these political decisions and their consequences for certain social
groups are vividly discussed. The panel aims at investigating and (critically)
discussing facets of inclusion and exclusion in the public discourse by the
means of discourse linguistic analysis. The discourse on Covid-19 is taken as
exemplary object of investigation, because this global discourse seems to
allow general insights into the social standing of groups and linguistic
practices of positioning and of speaking about social groups (that may differ
from society to society). 

The analysis of linguistic means in discourse can provide insight into
unexpressed, stereotypical knowledge, which is presupposed as shared and
commonly accepted knowledge and therefore does not need to be verbalised.
Discourse is understood to be the discussion of a topic by larger social
groups, which is reflected in texts of various kinds, not only reflecting the
attitudes of those involved in the discourse, but at the same time guiding the
future handling of the topic.


Call for Papers: 

We invite scholars working on one or more of the above-mentioned aspects to
participate in our panel. As there is lively pragmatic research activity
related to Covid-19 (corpus collections in several languages, popular
scientific information series on neologisms in this discourse, an ongoing
essay-project of the scientific journal Aptum, edited by Kersten S. Roth and
Martin Wengeler) we look forward to reaching a broad international community
of possible contributors.

Subjects of talks in the panel may address but are not limited to the
following research questions:
- In which way do social groups that are otherwise often marginalized in media
discourse, gain visibility in the Covid-19 discourse (for example people with
disabilities, elderly people)?
- How is the differentiation between groups of people who need to be protected
to a greater extent than others (so-called “risk groups”/people at higher risk
for severe illness) linguistically represented, and which social groups are
made a subject of discussion?
- Which discourse topics are in which way linked to aspects of gender, age,
ethnicity or social origin, and which stereotypes emerge if applicable?
- What similarities/differences between Covid-19 discourses in different
languages and countries can be identified by contrastive discourse analyses?
- In which way do the protests around Covid-19 reflect inclusion or exclusion
of certain groups? How do protesters linguistically construct their social
position?
- Which lexical features and metaphors shape the discourse, and how do they
reflect inclusion or exclusion? 
- Which topoi are used in arguments regarding Covid-19 measures, especially
concerning lockdown and curfew rules in general and for certain social groups?
- What insights does the discourse on freedom vs. health protection provide
regarding the inclusion or exclusion of groups in societies? 

Please submit your abstract until October 25, 2020 via the IprA website
(https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP). Abstracts should contain min. 250
and max. 500 words, providing information on the research question, data and
methodology and (first) findings.




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