32.2722, Calls: Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistics/Belgium

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LINGUIST List: Vol-32-2722. Fri Aug 20 2021. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 32.2722, Calls: Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistics/Belgium

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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 23:37:46
From: Rita Vallentin [vallentin at europa-uni.de]
Subject: Socioilinguistic Symposium 24

 
Full Title: Socioilinguistic Symposium 24 

Date: 13-Jul-2022 - 16-Jul-2022
Location: Ghent, Belgium 
Contact Person: Rita Vallentin
Meeting Email: vallentin at europa-uni.de
Web Site: https://ss24ghent.be/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 10-Sep-2021 

Meeting Description:

13-6 July 2022 in Ghent


Panel: Intersections of gender, sexuality and racism in right-wing discourse
in social networks

This panel critically explores the intersections of discursive constructions
of gender, sexuality, nationalism and racism in discourses of the ''(new)
right'' in social media. Digital social media platforms and social networks
play an ever-increasing role in political debate cultures. They are
characterized by low-threshold access to a wide range of audiences and provide
different features for visual and linguistic performance. Right wing movements
make active use of digital social media and form a dense online community by
interconnecting and interlinking specific social media hubs and channels
referencing each other (Arzheimer 2015; Klein/Muis 2019). 
The analysis of online right-wing discursive strategies and of their
production of ‘truth’ is not only relevant as a means to reflect on
traditional and established formats to produce discursive authority (see e.g.
Piller 2019) but also important to deconstruct and counter contemporary
discriminatory and racist discourse. 
Recent research on right wing discourse in social media has focused
specifically on racism, anti-Semitism and (anti-)migration (e.g. Ekman 2019;
Viola/Musolff 2019). The panel we propose considers the entrenchment of
anti-feminist and anti-queer ideologies in right wing nationalist discourses
and racial ideologies (see also Mosse 1985; Lehnert 2015; Köttig et al. 2016).
We explore how anti-feminism, nationalism and constructions of race
interrelate and constitute each other and how this is expressed in discursive
practices, language choices and performances of self. 
While most existing research on these discursive intersections is based on
approaches that do not take into account a linguistic and interactional lens
(e.g. Mosse 1985), this panel advocates analyses of language practices and
interactional agency or positioning of the speakers (Bucholtz and Hall 2005;
Wahlström et al. 2020). Thus, this panel is interested in the discursive and
linguistic practices of producing performances of i. a. 'objective knowledge'
on gender, national culture and race, thus constructing authority, credibility
or persuasion. 

Call for Papers:

We invite research on different social networks and social media platforms and
are both interested in linguistic and discursive means and in overall
multimodal performances and staging, especially in social media formats that
account for visual and video material. Discourse, conversation analytical
and/or multimethod approaches that analyze intersectional connections between
gender, sexuality, nationality and racism are welcome.

If you would like to participate in the panel (with a 20 minute paper
presentation), please send an abstract of 300 words along with the title of
your paper, your name, contact details and affiliation by Friday 10th
September 2021 to Britta Schneider (bschneider at europa-uni.de) and Rita
Vallentin (vallentin at europa-uni.de). 

Don't hesitate to contact us at the above email addresses if you have further
questions. We are looking forward to your contributions!




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