33.2405, Calls: Pragmatics/Belgium

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LINGUIST List: Vol-33-2405. Wed Aug 03 2022. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 33.2405, Calls: Pragmatics/Belgium

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Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2022 08:16:58
From: Manfred Kienpointner [Manfred.Kienpointner at uibk.ac.at]
Subject: Re-considering Discourses of War and Peace: 21st Century Transcultural Perspectives

Full Title: Re-considering Discourses of War and Peace: 21st Century Transcultural Perspectives 
Short Title: RDOWAP 

Date: 09-Jul-2023 - 14-Jul-2023
Location: Brussels, Belgium 
Contact Person: Manfred Kienpointner
Meeting Email: Manfred.Kienpointner at uibk.ac.at
Web Site: https://pragmatics.international/general/custom.asp?page=Brussels2023 

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 20-Oct-2022 

Meeting Description:

18th IPrA 2023 panel: 

Re-considering Discourses of War and Peace: 21st Century Transcultural
Perspectives

History has shown that ideological struggles, political polarizations, armed
conflicts, and counter-peace processes are impacting not only the
international power balance and peace, but also individual and collective
beliefs articulated in interpersonal and intergroup interactions. This is why
this panel sets out to explore and discuss the underpinnings, implications and
consequences of diverging / shifting discourses of war and peace that extend
across time and space. Such discourses often reveal divergent perceptions,
biased interpretations, and strong disagreements, reinforced by antagonism,
resentment and aggression (Allan / Zelizer 2004, Dardis 2006, Herber / Filak
2007, Lule 2004). Exploring the ways in which war is portrayed discursively,
scrutinized rehetorically, and debated argumentatively, both offline and
online, can help us understand the interactional and socio-psychological
mechanisms, as well as the immediate or medium/long-term outcomes of pro-war
and anti-war discourses, belligerent rhetoric, political propaganda and
overt/covert manipulation on the mindsets of individuals and public opinion
(Bugarski 2009, Hodges 2013, Rampton / Stauber 2003).

Going beyond traditional conceptualizations and definitions of the terms
war-peace, we encourage cross-disciplinary approaches (Zaman (2009) for a
deeper understanding of war in a historical, political and cultural
perspective. The panel invites researchers, scholars and practitioners in
fields such as linguistics, discourse analysis, media communication,
anthropology, rhetoric and argumentation, to contribute to the investigation
of issues regarding discourses about war and peace. The issues participants
are called upon to reflect on, analyse and debate include, but are not limited
to, the following:

- Discursive mis/representations of war and peace in a cross-cultural
perspective
- Metaphorical ways of imagining, understanding and representing war and peace
- Concepts and definitions of conflicts in changing geo-political and
historical paradigms
- Writing and re-writing history through re-descriptions and
re-interpretations of war narratives
- Discourses of, about, and against war in literature and drama across
cultures
- Generating and spreading fake news in times of war and unpeace
- Oral/written discourses on collective memory of war and peace
- Hidden agendas in the mediatisation of narratives about war and peace
- Emotional discourses of love and hate triggered by war and other armed
conflicts

Call for Papers:

Submissions of panel contributions should take the form of a bbrief abstract
(min. 350 and max. 500 words).
The deadline for abstract submissions is 1 November 2022, but in the case of
panel contributions, the abstracts should be first submitted for acceptance to
the panel organizers by 20 October 2022 at the latest (Cornelia Ilie
(cornelia.ilie at gmail.com) and Manfred Kienpointner
(Manfred.Kienpointner at uibk.ac.at)).

Conveners: Cornelia Ilie, Strömstad Academy, and Manfred Kienpointner,
University of Innsbruck
Discussant: Diana Boxer, University of Florida

Confirmed participants:

Aditi Bhatia:”India’s War on its History of Humiliation: A Discourse of
Illusion Approach”
Patricia Dunmire:Permanent War and the Futurity of Peace
Georg E. Frerks:”‘Rajapakse’s peace’: Deconstructing a president’s discourse
on post-war Sri Lanka”
Helmut Gruber:”Two Open Letters to the German Federal Chancellor: Public
Authorial Voices and Legitimation Strategies for and against Arms Supply for
Ukraine”
Cornelia Ilie:”War and peace redefined: Shifting neutrality and (national)
security discourses in Sweden”
Chiara Jermini-Martinez Soria:”Reframing from interpersonal to intractable
conflicts: an argumentative approach”
Zohar Kampf:”How do States Reminisce? Performing interstate Friendship through
Bonding Narratives”
Manfred Kienpointner:”Argumentative Patterns in Peace Discourse”
Natalia Knoblock:”Pragmatic Aspects of Doxxing during War”
Martin Reisigl:”Nationalist Rhetoric in Political Speeches as a Strategic
Manoeuvre to Mobilise for War. A Discourse-Historical Approach”
Jana Valdrová:”Toxic Masculinity and War”
Charles Webel:”Redefining peace”
Daniel Weiss:”Vladimir  Putin’s war rhetoric: between cold reflexion and loss
of control”

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