34.2499, Calls: From Voicing Dissent to Declaring a Revolution. The Language of Protest

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Subject: 34.2499, Calls: From Voicing Dissent to Declaring a Revolution. The Language of Protest

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Date: 14-Aug-2023
From: Georg Marko [georg.marko at uni-graz.at]
Subject: From Voicing Dissent to Declaring a Revolution. The Language of Protest

Full Title: From Voicing Dissent to Declaring a Revolution. The
Language of Protest

Date: 09-Dec-2023 - 09-Dec-2023
Location: Graz, Austria
Contact Person: Georg Marko
Meeting Email: georg.marko at uni-graz.at

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics;
Text/Corpus Linguistics

Call Deadline: 15-Sep-2023

Meeting Description:

Protest means that people organize to publicly voice and demonstrate
their anger about, their objection to, their dissatisfaction with, and
their desire to influence actions, decisions and measures by
governments and other institutions, which are perceived as unjust,
cruel, and/or ethically wrong. Protests may focus on democracy and
democratic participation, the climate crisis, police violence, sexual
violence, economic aspects (e.g. wages, retirement age), restrictive
measures (e.g. in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic). Protests may
take different forms, ranging from pamphlets and speeches via
demonstrations and marches to strikes and anarchic violence. Protests
may involve – and sometimes also unite – people from different walks
of life, whether it is different classes, genders, ages, professions.
And protests may become ‘brands’, with their own names, hashtags or
acronyms (e.g. Arab Spring, Fridays for Future, BLM, #MeToo).

Protest is supposed to raise the wider public’s awareness of an issue
and mobilize political engagement. But for that purpose it first has
to attract attention, which usually involves some form of disruption
of order. This is why protest is often seen as negative by some or
even by many, at least initially. However, most major social and
political improvements in people’s lives have been initiated by public
protest, so that it is also often seen as positive.

Language has always played an essential role in protest, whether it is
in texts formulating the central ideology of a movement, in slogans
condensing it into readily-available phrases, in debates about the
legitimacy of these ideas, in calls for participation, in messages
organizing joint actions, and in all discourses talking about protest.

The goal of our workshop is to examine how people, organizations,
movements and the media use language to stage, manage, organize, and
represent protest, thereby shaping our conceptions of the topics at
issue.

2nd Call for Papers:

Protest means that people organize to publicly voice and demonstrate
their anger about, their objection to, their dissatisfaction with, and
their desire to influence actions, decisions and measures by
governments and other institutions, which are perceived as unjust,
cruel, and/or ethically wrong. Protests may focus on democracy and
democratic participation, the climate crisis, police violence, sexual
violence, economic aspects (e.g. wages, retirement age), restrictive
measures (e.g. in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic). Protests may
take different forms, ranging from pamphlets and speeches via
demonstrations and marches to strikes and anarchic violence. Protests
may involve – and sometimes also unite – people from different walks
of life, whether it is different classes, genders, ages, professions.
And protests may become ‘brands’, with their own names, hashtags or
acronyms (e.g. Arab Spring, Fridays for Future, BLM, #MeToo).

Protest is supposed to raise the wider public’s awareness of an issue
and mobilize political engagement. But for that purpose it first has
to attract attention, which usually involves some form of disruption
of order. This is why protest is often seen as negative by some or
even by many, at least initially. However, most major social and
political improvements in people’s lives have been initiated by public
protest, so that it is also often seen as positive.

Language has always played an essential role in protest, whether it is
in texts formulating the central ideology of a movement, in slogans
condensing it into readily-available phrases, in debates about the
legitimacy of these ideas, in calls for participation, in messages
organizing joint actions, and in all discourses talking about protest.

The goal of our workshop is to examine how people, organizations,
movements and the media use language to stage, manage, organize, and
represent protest, thereby shaping our conceptions of the topics at
issue.

We invite contributions which report on current research into concrete
protest discourses or which discuss theoretical and methodological
approaches to the study of the relation of protest and language use.
We put great emphasis on interdisciplinarity – researchers from
different academic (and non-academic) backgrounds, working with
different approaches – and diversity – different topics, sociocultural
and political contexts, registers and genres, and languages.
This workshop, supported by verbal, the Association of Applied
Linguistics in Austria, will take place at Karl-Franzens-University
Graz, Austria, on Saturday, 9 Dec 2023, and will be organized by
Hermine Penz und Georg Marko (both University of Graz).

Please submit an abstract of <300 words (excl. references) to
georg.marko(at)uni-graz.at by 15 Sep 2023 (notification will be sent
by 22 September 2023). Individual presentations will be allocated 30
minutes, including 10 min. for discussion. The conference language is
English.

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