31.3180, Calls: Disc Analys, Pragmatics, Semantics, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling/France
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Subject: 31.3180, Calls: Disc Analys, Pragmatics, Semantics, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling/France
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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2020 20:05:44
From: Martine SEKALI [sekali at parisnanterre.fr]
Subject: Dis-orders of meaning: Public service reform and (counter-) discourse/Sens dessus dessous : Réformes du service public et (contre-)discours
Full Title: Dis-orders of meaning: Public service reform and (counter-) discourse/Sens dessus dessous : Réformes du service public et (contre-)discours
Short Title: GREG PLS 6
Date: 01-Oct-2021 - 02-Oct-2021
Location: Université Paris Nanterre, France
Contact Person: Sophie Raineri
Meeting Email: sraineri at parisnanterre.fr
Web Site: https://crea.parisnanterre.fr/groupe-de-recherche-sur-les-grammaires-greg--654115.kjsp
Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Semantics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics
Call Deadline: 05-Feb-2021
Meeting Description:
In this conference, “Dis-orders of meaning : public service reform and
(counter-) discourse”, the GReG (Groupe de Recherche sur les Grammaires/
Grammar Research Group) at the University Paris Nanterre is both following up
on its five earlier conferences and taking a new direction. We will further
reflect on the mapping of linguistic parameters involved in the
(re-)elaboration of meaning, theorized as a dynamic linguistic activity, the
study of which requires the integration of multiple levels of analysis,
including morpho-syntax, phonology, intonation, gesture, semantics and
pragmatics. What sets this conference apart is the theme selected for this
session: it is socially and historically located, political and polemical, and
is part of the movement of opposition to current reforms of the public service
in general, and of (higher) education and research in particular, in France.
Our goal is to react to the short-term time frame of the political arena by
resorting to necessarily long-term (collective) reflection, applying
linguistic research to the written and spoken discourse and counter-discourse
produced as part of, and in reaction to, current policies of public-service
reform in France, in the English-speaking world and beyond. The key issues we
will focus on are the resources, mechanisms and effects of this output. We are
open to contributions focused on any language, ideally covering a broad range
of discourse from every kind of medium and textual genres, including:
- official statements / speeches
- debate and exchange between different types of actors, such as politicians,
members of the media, academics or individual citizens;
- digital communication: web sites, web forums, social networks, Twitter
posts, and so on;
- legal writing such as draft laws, decrees, ordinances and directives;
- expert reviews;
- leaflets;
- the political press;
- any other relevant genre.
While other directions of research are not ruled out, various aspects of this
general theme we would like to see developed can be organized around four
related notions, the inter-relatedness of which can be an object of study as
well:
- Authority: what linguistic parameters define it? How can one differentiate
between a discourse of authority, authoritative speech and authoritarian
speech? What characterizes the discursive genre of expert reviews, which plays
a crucial part in the law-making process? How is a decree constructed as such,
linguistically speaking? What semantic representation emanates from the
constant use of the word “pedagogy” (in French: “pédagogie”) in official
discourse? What authority and/or authorship can counter-discourse have, and
how is it constructed?
- Intersubjectivity: What linguistic forms construct the presence or absence
of the other in a speech? To what extent is the voice of the other taken into
account and integrated in the co-construction of the discourse and projects
under study? What strategies (prise en charge, ie commitment to an utterance,
pragmatic accommodation or intersubjective modalities) can be observed in
these different types of discourse?
- Transparence/Opacity: What is the place of orthophemism, euphemism and
dysphemism in the discourse and counter-discourse under discussion? To what
extent do these types of discourse resort to simplification on the one hand,
and/or to complexification on the other, and what linguistic devices are used
to do so? Can these two strategies be used in combination? Can discourse be
simplified to the point that it becomes devoid of meaning?
- Performativity: How is the relationship between legal texts and the
institutional argumentative discourse that accompanies them articulated? What
speech acts, such as persuasion, promises, reassurance or explanations, are
used and in what form? What forms of staging characterizethese types of
discourse? What are the performative properties of counter-discourse?
Call for Papers:
We encourage the submission of all types of research papers provided they are
based on authentic corpora: qualitative analyses of written texts, speeches
and interactions; papers characterizing types of discourse based on
specifically collected corpora; studies focusing on the meaning and usage of
specific linguistic forms (time, aspect or modal markers, logical connectors,
lexical or semantic neologisms, and so on). Submissions can focus on any of
the dimensions of language and their interfaces (morpho-syntax, lexicology,
phonetics and phonology, prosody, gesture, semantics or pragmatics) and be
based on any theoretical and methodological framework, such as discourse
analysis, conversational analysis, sociolinguistics, speaker-centered theory
of enunciative operations, cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics,
pragmatics, interactional socio-linguistics, or use a combined approach.
Although this conference mainly aims to bring linguists together, we will also
gladly welcome contributions from teams combining two or more fields, such as,
but not limited to, linguistics and sociology, history, political science, and
media or communication studies.
Abstracts, which can be in English or French, should be anonymized, no longer
than one page (3,000 signs; examples and references included) and followed
with 4 keywords, one of them specifying the linguistic domain under study.
Each proposal will be examined anonymously by two members of the scientific
committee. Names of author(s) and affiliations should not be given in the
abstract.
Abstracts should be sent as electronic files (Word .doc or PDF format) to both
of these addresses: sraineri at parisnanterre.fr; hchatell at parisnanterre.fr
Subject of the message: “GReG PLS 6 Conference”
Please specify in the body of the message:
- name of author(s);
- title of paper;
- institution/affiliation;
- email;
- telephone number(s)
Timeline:
Submission deadline: February 5, 2021
Notification of acceptance: Early April 2021
Conference: October, 1-2, 2021
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