34.1758, Calls: DGfS 2024 AG4 - The Language of Extremist Narratives: Cross-disciplinary Approaches

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Subject: 34.1758, Calls: DGfS 2024 AG4 - The Language of Extremist Narratives: Cross-disciplinary Approaches

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Date: 01-Jun-2023
From: Stefan Hartmann [hartmast at hhu.de]
Subject: DGfS 2024 AG4 - The Language of Extremist Narratives: Cross-disciplinary Approaches


Full Title: DGfS 2024 AG4 - The Language of Extremist Narratives:
Cross-disciplinary Approaches

Date: 28-Feb-2024 - 01-Mar-2024
Location: Bochum, Germany
Contact Person: Stefan Hartmann
Meeting Email: hartmast at hhu.de

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

Call Deadline: 15-Aug-2023

Meeting Description:

Recent years have arguably seen an unprecedented rise in the spread of
extremist narratives. Crises such as the Covid-19 pandemic or the war
in Ukraine have fostered misinformation and conspiracy theories, and
across different countries, we are currently experiencing a
re-emergence of populist language and rhetoric. Investigating
extremist narratives is therefore a highly relevant cross-disciplinary
enterprise in which linguistic approaches can play a major role:
extremist narratives have to rely on language, from the use of
rhetoric devices to the linguistic framing of events and situations.
This workshop aims at bringing together researchers from different
disciplines investigating the language of extremist narratives from a
broad variety of theoretical and methdological perspectives.
Following the working definition of the EU-funded consortium “Analysis
of and Responses to Extremist Narratives” (ARENAS), which the
convenors are part of, we conceive of extremist narratives as
‘counter-narratives’ in the sense that they challenge mainstream
worldviews and mainstream interpretations of periods of social change
and major events. While they are strongly ideological, they tend to
depict mainstream views as distorted by ideologies or even as
influenced by conspiracies. Importantly, extremist narratives are
linked to the specific socio-cultural contexts where they are
constructed, circulated, and reproduced.

The questions to be discussed include, but are not limited to:
- How exactly can ‘extremist narratives’ be defined, and how can they
be detected?
- How are extremist narratives conveyed linguistically?
- Which methodological approaches (e.g. corpus linguistics,
ethnography, discourse linguistics, etc.) are appropriate for studying
extremist narratives?
- Which rhetoric devices are used to spread misinformation, illiberal
ideologies, and/or conspiracy theories?
- Which impact do extremist narratives have on ‘mainstream’ discourse,
and how can this impact be assessed and measured?
- How do extremist narratives differ depending on different (spatial,
temporal, etc.) contexts?

This workshop will be part of the 2024 conference of the German
Linguistic Society (DGfS).

Keynote speakers:
Julien Longhi, Cergy Paris
Darja Fišer, University of Ljubljana

Call for Papers:

We invite contributions from researchers from all relevant disciplines
investigating linguistic aspects of extremist narratives. Please send
your abstracts (max. 1 page incl. references) to the workshop
convenors until August 15.

Convenors:
Ana Yara Postigo Fuentes, ana.postigo.fuentes at hhu.de
Stefan Hartmann, hartmast at hhu.de
Rolf Kailuweit, rolf.kailuweit at hhu.de
Alexander Ziem, alexander.ziem at hhu.de



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