31.2621, Calls: Disc Analysis/Switzerland

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Subject: 31.2621, Calls: Disc Analysis/Switzerland

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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2020 14:21:53
From: Monica Cantero-Exojo [mcantero at drew.edu]
Subject: Going Viral, Activism and Change: New Studies on Iconic Communication in a Shared World

 
Full Title: Going Viral, Activism and Change: New Studies on Iconic Communication in a Shared World 

Date: 27-Jun-2021 - 02-Jul-2021
Location: Winterthur, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Monica Cantero
Meeting Email: mcantero at drew.edu
Web Site: https://pragmatics.international/general/custom.asp?page=Winterthur2021 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis 

Call Deadline: 25-Oct-2020 

Meeting Description:

This panel continues the investigative approach that began in a similar
fashion at the 15th International Pragmatics Conference, Belfast 2017. Within
this framework of study, this panel explores how knowledge and
political/social call to action is perceived, shared and used by the
individual and/or social groups with diverse backgrounds across separated
geographies. We believe that the term iconic communication proposed by Barker
and Yazdani (2000) defines the types of communications that occur mainly in
social media. The main feature of these relationships is that individuals may
not share the same socio-cultural background or geographical space, but still
they share experiences embedded in the verbal-visual discourse.

The panel welcomes presentations on the study of iconic communication from a
diversity of theoretical perspectives including Systemic Functional
Perspectives (O’Halloran 2004), Semiotic Approaches (Kress and Van Leeuwen
2001) and Conceptual Metaphor theory (Lakoff 1980, 1984; Kövecses, 2010,
2020). This panel is open to research taking any perspective, but it should
focus on one of the following points: 
- the interaction between images and words or other modes of communication in
social media. 
- the present impact of social media and iconic communication in politics and
especially in the enacting of social change. 
- the relationship of iconic communication to the increase of online
communication through different platforms in the context of the CoVid-19
pandemic and social movements: MeToo, Black Lives Matter, Global Warming and
Climate Change. 
-How cinema, television and the visual arts reflect on and/or disseminate
discourses of social change. 

In sum, this panel welcomes studies that consider the dynamics of discourse in
the adaptable and multimodal context of those social media, studies that focus
on the processes that lead those interactions such as framing or reframing
(cf. Lakoff 2009 and Semino et al. 2018) communicative structures and
intentionalities. 


Call for Papers: 

If you would like to contribute to this panel ''Going Viral, Activism and
Change: New Studies on Iconic Communication in a Shared World'' please send a
250-400 word abstract to both, mcantero at drew.edu and
eduardo.urios-aparisi at uconn.edu for consideration. Ideally, we would like to
have your contribution by October 10, 2020. 

Important: All abstracts will ultimately have to be submitted individually
through the IPrA website (https://ipra2021.exordo.com/) by 25 October 2020.

Cited works: 
Barker, Philip G., and Masoud Yazdani (Eds.) (2000) Iconic Communication. Vol.
199. Intellect Books. 
Forceville, Charles and Eduardo Urios-Aparisi (2009) Multimodal Metaphor,
Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 
Kress, Gunther R., and Theo Van Leeuwen (2001). Multimodal discourse: The
modes and media of contemporary communication. London: Arnold. 
Lakoff, G. (2009). The Political Mind: A Cognitive Scientist's Guide to Your
Brain and Its Politics. Saint Lucia: Penguin Books. 
O'Halloran, K. (Ed.). (2004). Multimodal discourse analysis: Systemic
functional perspectives. A&C Black. 
Semino, E., Demjén, Z., & Demmen, J. (2018). An integrated approach to
metaphor and framing in cognition, discourse, and practice, with an
application to metaphors for cancer. Applied linguistics, 39(5), 625-645.




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