34.1796, Confs: IADA 2023 Conference: The Dialogicity Continuum - Rethinking the Value-ladeness of Communication and Discourse [Online]

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Subject: 34.1796, Confs: IADA 2023 Conference: The Dialogicity Continuum - Rethinking the Value-ladeness of Communication and Discourse [Online]

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Date: 04-Jun-2023
From: Chaim Noy [chaim.noy at biu.ac.il]
Subject: IADA 2023 Conference: The Dialogicity Continuum - Rethinking the Value-ladeness of Communication and Discourse [Online]

IADA 2023 Conference: The Dialogicity Continuum - Rethinking the
Value-ladeness of Communication and Discourse [Online]
Short Title: IADA 2023 Conference

Date: 12-Jun-2023 - 15-Jun-2023
Location: Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
Contact: Chaim Noy
Contact Email: iada2023conference at gmail.com
Meeting URL: https://www.iada-web.org/conferences/

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Discourse Analysis;
Philosophy of Language; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics

Meeting Description:

With the background of a tidal spread of neoliberal ideologies, in
recent decades we have witnessed the global flourishing of populist
leaders and governments, leaning towards totalitarian and fascist
regimes. These regimes share the tendency for personal veneration,
moral corruption, excessive use of oppressive methods, and types of
governmentality that employ separationist and exclusionary discourses
and divisive rhetoric. They also share a global spread, including
within liberal democracies.

Moreover, such tendencies have been fueled during the last two decades
by the related pervasive rise of social media and social network
sites. These pervasive, private owned technologies, further echo,
magnify, and enhance radicalism and separationist ideologies,
deepening social exclusion of ever-growing marginalized publics and
populations. Radical reactionary discourse and social media networks
are viewed as reactionary in relation to civic ideas and ideals, and
hyper-conservative in terms of potential emancipatory and democratic
social change.

At the same time, social media platforms and social network sites
specifically act as online spaces of and for support, communality and
solidarity. At times they supply arenas for radical social activism,
which may spill over from cyberspaces to offline spaces of protest and
defiance. Scholars of public discourse have in the past focused mainly
on negative rhetoric and discourse. Yet recently, we have experienced
an emerging tendency to emphasize the implications and ramifications
of positive and hopeful communication and discourse in the public
sphere.

At this point in time, we wish to intervene, and to position the
discussion of positive and negative modes of communication and
rhetoric in center-stage. We offer to do so by proposing a conceptual
continuum, whereon different value-laden communication and discourses
may be arranged, arching between positive and negative types of
communication and discourse.

In the part of the continuum that concerns positive communication and
discourse, we may offer such discursive themes and genres as hope,
trust, support, solidarity, community, social justice and social
activism, civility, politeness, and amicable communication. On the
other side of the continuum, we may see communication practices and
discourse strategies associated with despair, disappointment,
alienation, impoliteness, hate speech, and racism.

We propose an exploration into this continuum and into these
discursive and value-laden themes, by applying the concepts of
dialogue and dialogicity; and vice versa, we seek to interrogate and
develop the conceptual and methodological vocabulary of dialogue
studies, through examining these contemporary, powerful and pervasive
discourses. Indeed, the tensions between negative and positive
discourses shed light on the role of negotiations and dialogue across
a myriad of environments and of scholarly disciplines. Questions may
be addressed as to the genre-dependent and culture-dependent relations
between the negative/positive ends of the continuum through such
notions as:

- power and solidarity
- social and interactional rights and obligations
- self- and other positioning
- social and interactional relations between speakers
- audience- and shadow audience-construction, addressivity and
responsiveness
- co-construction of collective action
- conflict management
- conflict resolution
- coexistence of social groups holding contrasting views in an
institutional setting
- praise and blame, exhortation or repudiation, and other rhetorical
modes

We contend that the notion of continuum suggests not only edges and
extremes, but also overlaps, similarities, intermixtures, and tensions
between and along different types of discourses and rhetoric
positioned on this continuum. We seek to explore and ask of the
mechanisms of these types of public discourses and rhetoric, as well
as the spaces in which they flourish (or from which they have been
barred) in malevolent and benevolent alleged capacities. We are
particularly interested in empirical and theoretical studies that
address dialogical contexts and settings, including face-to-face and
mediated communication, health and educational environments, social
movements and social activism, media and new media studies, museum
studies, organizational studies, and so on.

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