33.2661, Calls: Pragmatics/Belgium
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Subject: 33.2661, Calls: Pragmatics/Belgium
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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2022 23:32:49
From: Maria Sifianou [msifian at enl.uoa.gr]
Subject: Language aggression and conflict in post-digital societies
Full Title: Language aggression and conflict in post-digital societies
Date: 09-Jul-2023 - 14-Jul-2023
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Contact Person: Maria Sifianou
Meeting Email: msifian at enl.uoa.gr
Web Site: https://pragmatics.international/page/Brussels2023
Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics
Call Deadline: 01-Nov-2022
Meeting Description:
We are inviting abstracts for our IPrA panel “Language aggression and conflict
in post-digital societies” to be held in Brussels, 9 – 14 July 2023.
Your abstracts should be submitted individually by 1 November 2022. When you
are ready to submit your abstract, you should visit the conference website
(https://ipra2023.exordo.com/login), click 'Log in', fill in your IPrA
membership user name and password and proceed. As you know, the submission of
abstracts presupposes IPrA membership.
Please see the abstract pasted below.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch with us.
Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich and Maria Sifianou
pgblitvi at uncc.edu and msifian at enl.uoa.gr
Call for Papers:
Language aggression and conflict in post-digital societies
Not long ago Paglia (2010) lamented that, despite the undeniable centrality of
conflict and aggression in human daily life, scholarship in linguistics and
related fields - with few exceptions: (see Grimshaw, 1990; Hutchby, 1992,
1996; Lakoff, 2000; Tannen, 1998; White, 1990), had tended to explain those
away as peripheral oddities and not as fundamental, often essential, to
communal life.
Attitudes, in this sense, started to change in the mid-2000s when, amongst
others, subfields of pragmatics such as impoliteness research experienced
unprecedented growth (Bousfield, 2008; Culpeper, 2011). This mirrored a
similar, burgeoning interest in the social sciences regarding conflictual
phenomena (Hamilton, 2012). Academics’ beginning to systematically look beyond
cooperation, solidarity, and harmony coincided with the pervasiveness of
reality TV, the widespread use of digital technologies and, crucially, with
the launching of the major social media sites (among others, Facebook in 2004,
YouTube in 2005, Twitter in 2006, and Instagram in 2010) which highly
contributed to relocating conflict and aggression from back to front stage, no
longer to be ignored.
About the same time, the Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict (JLAC)
was launched. JLAC aimed to provide a dedicated space for the study of
conflict and aggression phenomena (from disagreements to hate speech) mostly
realized through discourse and to help coalesce an incipient field. In 2023,
coinciding with IPrA 18th, JLAC will celebrate its tenth anniversary.
By convening this panel, and taking stock of the last ten years, we propose to
look forward by bringing together specialists’ views on new directions in
conflict studies. As a common thread, we suggest a focus on theoretical
conceptualizations and empirical approaches that situate conflict and
aggression in the off/online nexus of post-digital societies, whereby “both
‘zones’ – the online and the offline – can no longer be separated and must be
seen as fused into a bewildering range of new online-offline practices of
social interaction, knowledge exchange, learning, community formation and
identity work” (Blommaert, 2019, p. 1). Consequently, on/offline conflict and
aggression are inseparable, synergetic, and thus mutually co-constituting.
We welcome, among others, contributions that look into private – and often
polymedia mediated (Androutsopoulos, 2021) - realizations of conflict; the
potential conflictual role of different types of on/offline surveillance;
algorithmic activity and bias and how these can be conducive to harmful
content and hate speech; the function of conflict minimization/escalation in
digital grooming practices; the fueling of offline polarization activism via
online conspiratorial discourses; the key functionality of on/offline conflict
in the construction of social identities; the understanding of conflict from a
critical and social justice perspective; the role of conflict in on/offline
linguistic landscapes; online red flags indicating potential offline criminal
behavior; and the conceptualization of online spaces as moralizing and
evaluative sites where manifestations of conflict and aggression are subjected
to discursive struggle.
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