32.3052, Calls: Discourse Analysis/Finland

Wed Sep 29 06:07:58 UTC 2021

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Subject: 32.3052, Calls: Discourse Analysis/Finland

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Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 02:07:49
From: Lotta Lehti [Lotta.Lehti at helsinki.fi]
Subject: Excessive Language in Public Discourse

Full Title: Excessive Language in Public Discourse 
Short Title: exlang 

Date: 10-Mar-2022 - 11-Mar-2022
Location: Helsinki, Finland 
Contact Person: Lotta Lehti
Meeting Email: Lotta.Lehti at helsinki.fi
Web Site: https://www2.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/excessive-language-in-public-discourse 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis 

Subject Language(s): Aasáx (aas)
                     German (deu)

Call Deadline: 15-Oct-2021 

Meeting Description:

International Conference in French, German, Italian, and Spanish, organised by
the CoCoLaC research community at the Univerasity of Helsinki.

Call for Papers:

In the current post-truth era, impoliteness and verbal violence take new
forms. The digital turn in communication and the rise of populism and
extremism in politics are among the reasons behind this new, widely spread
communication culture in which truth is not a high value and in which appeals
to emotion and personal belief are important persuasive devices. Abusive and
threatening remarks both in speech and writing are going viral over social
media. Often such content expresses intense prejudice against individuals or
particular groups, on the basis of ethnicity, gender, nationality, political
ideology, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation. At worst, verbal
aggression leads to violent outcomes.
Indeed, in the present-day public space, we encounter voluntarily excessive
language use that we perceive as something that used to be kept private. The
excessiveness of language use may pertain to the immediate interaction context
in which interlocutors behave in an impolite manner towards each other. Excess
may also characterize language use in which ranting, provoking or slandering
are not directed at a specific interlocutor but at more distant individuals or
social groups, for instance. Such excessive language is produced in public not
only by anonymous internet users but also by people who expose their name and
identity, ranging from private persons to politicians and other public figures
giving speeches or publishing posts in social media. Further, for instance
so-called alternative news outlets publish excessive content in guise of
journalistic articles.
However, linguistic excess, impoliteness, and verbal violence as discursive
strategies are also widely used by various grassroots and emancipatory
political movements. From Vietnam War protests, Black radicals of the Civil
Rights movement, and “Queer Nation” during the HIV epidemic, to contemporary
anti-assimilationist LGBT+ communities, “Black Lives Matter”, Antifa, and
climate activists – breaching the norms of polite speech and civility in
public spaces has been a means of challenging the status quo and empowering
marginalized communities. Thus public online and offline spaces become sites
of discursive struggles in which linguistic excess may be a tool to either
reproduce or contest existing relations of power.

The aim of this conference is to explore, from the perspective of linguistics
and communication studies, the excessive forms and functions that impoliteness
and verbal violence have in public communication. 

Keynote Speakers:

Konstanze Marx (Universität Greifswald)
Simon Meier-Vieracker (Technische Universität Dresden)
Simo Määttä (University of Helsinki)
Sahana Udupa (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
All the keynote lectures will be in English.

Language policy:

The conference is multilingual: you can present your paper in French, German,
Italian, Spanish or English. Please write your abstract in the language of
your presentation. All the keynote lectures will be in English.

Abstract Proposals:

The conference will consist of plenary lectures and regular presentations.
Regular presentations will be given a slot of 30 minutes (20 for presentation
+ 10 for discussion).
Depending on the circumstances, online participation will be made possible.
Please submit your abstract of 1,500 to 2,500 characters (including spaces and
references) in one of the conference languages through
https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/111400/lomake.html by October 15th,
2021.
Notification of acceptance: by the end of October, 2021.

Conference fee:
Regular: 60€
Reduced (for students and PhD students, pensioners, unemployed researchers):
20€

Further information:
Please see the conference call:
https://www2.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/excessive-language-in-public-discourse
/call-for-papers

You can also contact the organisers at exlang at helsinki.fi.

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