31.3138, Calls: Disc Analysis, Hist Ling, Lexicography, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling/Italy

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Subject: 31.3138, Calls: Disc Analysis, Hist Ling, Lexicography, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling/Italy

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Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 21:22:55
From: Alessandra Vicentini [alessandra.vicentini at uninsubria.it]
Subject: Seminar on ''Medical Innovation, Experimentation and Knowledge Paradigm Shifts: Past and Present Discursive Perspectives and Popularizing Strategies''

 
Full Title: Seminar on Medical Innovation, Experimentation and Knowledge Paradigm Shifts: Past and Present Discursive Perspectives and Popularizing Strategies 

Date: 16-Sep-2021 - 18-Sep-2021
Location: University of Catania, Italy 
Contact Person: Alessandra Vicentini
Meeting Email: alessandra.vicentini at uninsubria.it

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Historical Linguistics; Lexicography; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 31-Oct-2020 

Meeting Description:

This seminar will be held as part of the XXX AIA Conference “Experiment and
innovation: branching forwards and backwards”, University of Catania (Italy),
Department of Humanities, 16-18 September 2021.

The seminar aims to provide new insights into the evolution of linguistic and
discursive practices employed to popularize medical knowledge and the
understanding of medicine in the period between the 1650s and the 2000s. 

Scientific and technological advances in medicine, which engender new healing
procedures and medical cures, are characterized and triggered by innovation
and experimentation, and have always been accompanied by important societal,
(sociotechnical) and cultural changes. New knowledge paradigms are spawned by
such transformations and become reflected not only in the discursive and
language practices of the medical community but also of society at large.
Ideological messages and ethical standpoints may also be transferred as a
consequence of novel practices, as knowledge can be manipulated intentionally
and thus transfer possible bias. This applies especially in the process of
popularization, whereby specialist knowledge undergoes changes in order to
become accessible to non-specialists through diverse communicative channels.
The changing roles of experts, non-experts, semi-experts, educated or
non-educated participants add to the issue’s complexity and
multidimensionality. 

All this is to be examined in its linguistic and discursive aspects and
implications. Seminar themes include: 
- changes undergone by specialized medical knowledge in the popularization
process, in different texts, genres and/or media
- ethical and ideological implications in medical discourse popularization,
especially with regard to sensitive issues and advanced technological
developments
- criticality of information transmission for collective or individual
decision-making processes, e.g. medical/health emergencies and subsequent
institutional actions (political, legal, medical/healthcare decisions,
intervention measures, informed consent to clinical treatment, etc.)
- the social construction and representation of medicine through language 
- labelling disease(s) between ‘the normal’ and ‘the pathological’  
- medical issues and the social understanding of diseases through language
- the secularization of medical language and discourse
- the language of pain and suffering over time
- the framing of disease(s) and the sick role
- the discourse of innovative medical procedures and practices
- the language/discourse of pandemics and epidemics over time


Call for Papers: 

Scholars are encouraged to submit papers approaching medical discourse
popularization from different methodological viewpoints. Analytical approaches
based on synchronic, diachronic and/or contrastive, intralinguistic,
interlinguistic and intercultural perspectives are equally welcome. 

Each presentation will last 20 minutes and will be followed by 10 minutes for
discussion.

Abstracts (200/250 words plus max 5 references) should be sent as Word files
to alessandra.vicentini at uninsubria.it and elisabetta.lonati at uniupo.it by 31
October 2020.

Notifications of acceptance will be issued by 31 January 2021.




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