32.2996, Calls: Anthropological Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics/USA

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Subject: 32.2996, Calls: Anthropological Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics/USA

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Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2021 10:09:09
From: Natalia Knoblock [nlknoblo at svsu.edu]
Subject: ADDA3 Panel ''A License to Hate: Anti-Asian Prejudice in Digital Communication''

Full Title: ADDA3 Panel "A License to Hate: Anti-Asian Prejudice in Digital Communication" 

Date: 13-May-2022 - 15-May-2022
Location: St. Petersburg, USA 
Contact Person: Natalia Knoblock
Meeting Email: nlknoblo at svsu.edu
Web Site: https://adda3.org/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 25-Sep-2021 

Meeting Description:

Proposals are invited for a thematic panel on anti-Asian hate in digital
discourses. It is organized by Massimiliano Demata (University of Turin) and
Natalia Knoblock (Saginaw Valley State University). It will be held at the 3rd
International Conference: Approaches to Digital Discourse Analysis (ADDA3),
which will take place at the University of South Florida in St. Petersburg,
FL, USA on May 13–15, 2022.
As reported, racism and anti-Chinese sentiments increased significantly after
the start of the pandemic and have been directly linked to it (Vachuska,
2020). Disturbingly, over ¾ of Chinese Americans polled about their
experiences reported being victim of at least 1 incident of COVID-19 racial
discrimination online and/or in person, and over half perceived health-related
Sinophobia in America and media-perpetuated Sinophobia (Cheah et al., 2020).
Verbal and physical attacks on Asian Americans have been linked to racism and
xenophobia deeply entrenched in the US society, and to the “us vs. them”
worldview relegating Asian Americans to the bottom of the social hierarchy
(Gover, Harper & Langton, 2020). Such feelings have been at least partly
caused or exacerbated by the inflammatory rhetoric by the US politicians (Wu,
2020), and there has been evidence of ex-president Trump’s tweets to cause an
uptick in anti-Asian verbal aggression on Twitter (Ziems et al., 2020).
Researchers have analyzed the victims’ narratives (Satoh & Hata 2021) and even
identified counter-discourses employing linguistic creativity to oppose hate
(Zhu, 2020)
This panel aims to continue and expand the research into the racially
motivated anti-Asian hate speech and verbal aggression, amplified during the
Coronavirus pandemic, and it will examine the role of the digital medium in
their shaping and dissemination. We invite proposals (not limited to the US
context) that address discursive representations of anti-Asian sentiment, the
spread of hateful messages through networks, the role of the hateful rhetoric
by pundits and politicians, denialism and legitimation strategies, discursive
constructing of otherness, counter-hate messages, and similar themes. This
panel has a particular interest in the issues of inequality, prejudice, and
discrimination. A variety of methods and approaches are welcome, and
interdisciplinary studies are appropriate.

Call for Papers:

Please submit your abstract of up to 350 words to Natalia Knoblock
(nlknoblo at svsu.edu) or Massimiliano Demata (massimiliano.demata at unito.it) by
September 25th.  In your abstract, clearly state the aims and research
questions of your paper, its theoretical foundations, the data and methods
used to analyze it, as well as some of the findings. 

References
Cheah, C. S., Wang, C., Ren, H., Zong, X., Cho, H. S. & Xue, X. (2020).
COVID-19 racism and mental health in Chinese American families. Pediatrics,
146(5). DOI: https://doi.org/ 10.1542/peds.2020-021816
Gover, A. R., Harper, S. B., & Langton, L. (2020). Anti-Asian hate crime
during the COVID-19 pandemic: Exploring the reproduction of inequality.
American Journal of Criminal Justice, 45(4), 647-667.
Satoh A. & Hata, K. (2021). The Impact of COVID-19 on Communication:
Immigration, Media Representation, and globalization. Panel at the 17th
International Pragmatics Conference. Retrieved from
https://cdn.ymaws.com/pragmatics.international/resource/collection/3960B891-EE
4B-4DB1-A7F5-47C668E86C8D/Abstracts_book_-_Winterthur_IPrA2021.pdf
Vachuska, K. F. (2020). Initial Effects of the Coronavirus Pandemic on Racial
Prejudice in the United States: Evidence from Google Trends. SocArXiv.
DOI:10.31235/osf.io/bgpk3.
Wu, N. (2020, March 18). USA Today: GOP senator says China 'to blame' for
coronavirus spread because of 'culture where people eat bats and snakes and
dogs'. USA Today. Retrieved from
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/03/18/coronavirus-sen-john-c
ornyn-says-chinese-eating-bats-spread-virus/2869342001/
Ziems, C., He, B., Soni, S., & Kumar, S. (2020). Racism

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