34.590, Calls: Discourse Analysis/France

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Subject: 34.590, Calls: Discourse Analysis/France

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Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2023 05:38:24
From: Mohamed Saki [mohamed.saki at univ-brest.fr]
Subject: Identities and Identity Construction in Discourse and Language

 
Full Title: Identities and Identity Construction in Discourse and Language 
Short Title: IIC-DL 

Date: 18-Oct-2023 - 20-Oct-2023
Location: Brest, France 
Contact Person: Mohamed Saki
Meeting Email: mohamed.saki at univ-brest.fr
Web Site: https://www.univ-brest.fr/crbc/menu/Projets_de_recherche/Identites-et-constructions-identitaires-dans-le-discours-et-la-langue 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis 

Call Deadline: 15-Jun-2023 

Meeting Description:

Identities and Identity Construction in Discourse and Language


Call for Papers:

Today, identity is one of the essential values of contemporary societies,
characterized by the growing influence of identity politics and the
multiplication of struggles for the respect of identity. However, the very
notion of identity remains a problematic and elusive category. The dictionary
definition of ''identity'' highlights the internal contradictions of this
concept.  Identity includes both the expression of the same, the identical,
and the expression of specificity and individuality (1). The dual question of
identity and identity-related discourse is complex because it is at the center
of political, social, academic, media, and other issues.  In other words, this
is an issue that is constantly caught up in a multiplicity of dynamics that
make it both omnipresent in the public sphere and at the same time blur its
contours.
This is all the more important because, in reality, identity does not refer
once and for all to an immutable and fixed state. It is a fluctuating,
dynamic, interactive construction, made up at the same time of more or less
stable characteristics. Identity is thus the expression of a state that is
both immutable and transitory.
Of course, all identities are intersubjective and dialogical, grounded in
otherness. Identity is constructed in the relationship, conflictive or not,
with the other and under the gaze of the other.
In addition, identity is shaped by the various developments that are specific
to a society or that affect all contemporary societies in an increasingly
interconnected world. Identity emerges in social interaction and is forged in
the struggles and battles of marginalized, dominated groups, or at least those
who perceive themselves as such.
Profound ideological changes seem to have resulted from the defense and
promotion of identities. Activism has shifted from a focus on social issues
and class to issues of gender, race, and the importance of the recognition of
individual and group identity. Universalism, once defended in the name of a
humanist ideal for its disregard of difference, now seems to be a vector of
inequality and the denial of difference.
Necessarily multiple, cumulative and composed of several dimensions, identity
does not appear as an immediately accessible whole; it unfolds and is revealed
according to the stakes of interaction and the nature of intersubjective
relation. If identity can be seen in the public sphere, the latter is
undergoing profound changes, as digital social networks have become the main
means of interaction and expression of positions on social, societal and
political issues, etc. Digital social networks are thus an additional
repertoire at the disposal of individuals and groups for the construction of
their identities.
Whether individual or collective, whether in the traditional public sphere or
in the digital public sphere, identity must be made public and visible, all
the more so as we are witnessing a visual shift that is playing an
increasingly crucial role in identity constructions and their representations.
In fact, the question of visibility and the diffusion of an identity
representation generates the implementation of strategies of visibility and
identity whose goal is a symbolic, a legal, a political recognition, etc.

Our conference will be an opportunity for researchers to share their findings
and reflections on the following issues:

Axis I: Individual Identity, Collective Identity
- What is identity?
- What is collective identity?
- The tension between individual and collective identity.

Axis II: Linguistic and Discursive Dimensions of Identity
- The intersubjective dimension of identity and the relationship to the other:
linguistic and discursive traces;
- Linguistic identities, social, cultural, and regional affiliations;
- National linguistic policies, recognizing regional languages and questioning
identity;
- Accents, (socio)lects and identity markers;
- Language policies and collective identity between domination and resistance;
- Lan

For submission info visit our website:
https://www.univ-brest.fr/crbc/menu/Projets_de_recherche/Identites-et-construc
tions-identitaires-dans-le-discours-et-la-langue




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