32.3121, Calls: Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling/France
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Subject: 32.3121, Calls: Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling/France
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Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2021 16:29:38
From: Martine SEKALI [sekali at parisnanterre.fr]
Subject: GReG P.L.S. 6 “Dis-orders of meaning: crisis discourse and counter-discourse”
Full Title: GReG P.L.S. 6 “Dis-orders of meaning: crisis discourse and counter-discourse”
Short Title: GReG P.L.S. 6
Date: 06-May-2022 - 06-May-2022
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; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics
Call Deadline: 01-Dec-2021
Meeting Description:
In this conference, “Dis-orders of meaning: crisis discourse and
counter-discourse”, the GReG (Groupe de Recherche sur les Grammaires/ Grammar
Research Group) at Paris Nanterre University 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. This session is
directly related to the time of the crises we are currently going through,
first with the movement – nationwide and beyond – of opposition to ongoing
reforms of the public service, then with the global health crisis induced by
the COVID-19 pandemic.
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, reforms, crises and breaking points
in France, in the English-speaking world and beyond.
The policies designed to transform the public service in France, and
specifically (higher) education and research, have produced a considerable
amount of institutional discourse and counter-discourse that deserve attention
by the scientific research community. Likewise, the pandemic crisis has led to
unprecedented forms of institutional discourse. These, in turn, have sparked a
wide range of counter-discourse, counterfeiting, caricatures and
conspirational discourse, all worth investigating for their linguistic, but
also sociological, philosophical and historical dimensions.
We will focus the resources, mechanisms and effects of this output, in any
language, ideally covering a broad range of discourse, 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;
- session minutes and progress reports;
- leaflets;
- the political press;
- any other relevant genre.
Keynote speakers:
Johannes Angermuller (Open University/EHESS)
Joanna Thornborrow (Université de Bretagne Occidentale)
- The languages of the conference are French and English.
- Venue: University Paris Nanterre (France)
Call for Papers:
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 are
pivotal in institutional discourse and counter-discourse alike? 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 and/or complexified 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 characterize these types of
discourse? What are the performative properties of counter-discourse?
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,
phraseological units, 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, media or communication
studies and education sciences
References
Adam, M. & Kotzee, B. (2019) The rhetoric of the UK higher education Teaching
Excellence Framework: a corpus-assisted discourse analysis of TEF2 provider
statements, Educational Review. DOI: 10.1080/00131911.2019.1666796
Angermuller, J. (2013) « Discours académique et gouvernementalité
entrepreneuriale. Des textes aux chiffres », in J. Angermuller, F. Lebaron &
M. Temmar (dir.), Les discours sur l'économie, Paris, PUF, p. 71-84.
Angermuller J. & Scholz, R. (2013) « Au nom de Bologne ? Une analyse comparée
des discours politiques sur les réformes universitaires en Allemagne et en
France », Mots. Les langages du politique 102: 22-36. URL :
http://journals.openedition.org/mots/21245
Askehave, I. (2007) The impact of marketization on higher education genre
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