34.864, Calls: Framing Nature: discourses past and present of nature and the environment. A sustainability perspective - A Clavier event

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Subject: 34.864, Calls: Framing Nature: discourses past and present of nature and the environment. A sustainability perspective - A Clavier event

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From: Paola Catenaccio [paola.catenaccio at unimi.it]
Subject: Framing Nature: discourses past and present of nature and the environment. A sustainability perspective - A Clavier event

Full Title: Framing Nature: discourses past and present of nature and
the environment. A sustainability perspective - A Clavier event
Short Title: Framing Nature - Clavier 2023

Date: 23-Nov-2023 - 24-Nov-2023
Location: Sesto San Giovanni - Metropolitan City of Milan, Italy
Contact Person: Paola Catenaccio
Meeting Email: Clavier2023 at unimi.it
Web Site: http://www.Clavier2023.unimi.it

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis

Call Deadline: 15-May-2023

Meeting Description:

The Department of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Mediations at
the University of Milan, and the CLAVIER (Corpus and LAnguage
Variation In English Research) interuniversity research centre are
pleased to announce the Clavier 2023 Conference, devoted to Framing
Nature. The conference will take place in Milan on 23 and 24 November
2023 and will be devoted to representations of nature and the
environment at a time in history when the relationship between human
beings and the natural world is strained to say the least.
This relationship is at the heart not only of extensively debated
problems such as climate change and the depletion of natural
resources,, but also of issues such as the management of the global
economy and the likelihood of the emergence of novel diseases, of
which Covid-19 is only the latest. The very concept of environmental
sustainability – quite possibly one of the defining concepts of 21st
century policy thinking – revolves around this relationship, and it is
on the way we understand it that our approaches to addressing
environmental issues depend.
This understanding is shaped by a broad array of beliefs, assumptions
and convictions which vary, evolve, stratify and cross-fertilize
across times and cultures, all of which come to bear – at least
potentially – on contemporary environmental discourse. Indeed, the
plethora of issues which fall within such discourse make for a complex
scenario riddled with tensions, many of which originate from the
different ways in which environmental problems are “framed,” i.e. how
specific aspects of such problems are selected and given salience in
discourse so as “to promote a particular problem definition, causal
interpretation, moral evaluation, and/or treatment recommendation for
the item described” (Entman 1993: 52).  The multiple framings that can
be identified differ in terms of values, priorities, perspectives and
predictions – and therefore, following Entman, the remedies they
suggest and the recommendations they put forth to avoid what is
increasingly recognised as impending disaster.

The conference will bring together scholars from different fields to
identify and analyse the frames deployed in environmental discourses
past and present. The aim of the conference is to contribute to the
rich field of discourse-oriented scholarship on representations of
nature and the environment by focusing specifically on the notion of
framing as applied to environmental discourse, and on its implications
both in terms of our understanding of nature, and in terms of
practices, behaviors and choices.

Contributions are welcome which address representations of nature and
the environment from different disciplinary perspectives. Linguistic,
discourse-analytical and semiotic (including multimodal) perspectives
are especially welcome, as are interdisciplinary approaches,

Confirmed pleanary speakers:
Jonathan Charteris-Black, UWE Bristol
Giuliana Garzone, Univeristà IULM
Martin Reisigl, Universität Wien
Arran Stibbe, University of Gloucestershire

Call for Papers:

This call for papers invites proposals (original research papers, case
studies, theoretical contributions) that address the framings and
understandings of nature and the environment across time, space, media
and discourses.

Potential topics for submission may include, but are not limited to:

- Framing (of) nature across time and space
- Cultural differences in framing environmental problems
- The role of media in shaping environmental discourse
- Framing climate change
- The politics of framing
- The framing of sustainability
- Framing environmental activism
- The ethics of framing with respect to nature and the environment
- The role of science and ideology in environmental discourse
- The future of environmental discourse

We welcome submissions (max 300 words plus five references) from
scholars and researchers in the fields of linguistics, translation,
and interpreting, discourse analysis, argumentation theory, rhetoric
and related disciplines, as well as from other associated fields.
Interdisciplinary perspectives are especially welcome. As part of the
Clavier event series, the conference will feature a special strand on
corpus linguistics approaches.
Proposals can be submitted for individual papers (20 minutes + 10
minutes for discussion), posters and panels. Proposals for panels for
up to 5 papers (for a 2-hour session) should include a short
description of the panel (150 words max) and the titles of the
individual papers included in the panel. Panel organizers should
pre-select panel contributions. Panels featuring more than five
participants may be arranged upon request subject to space and time
availability. Panel participants should also submit their proposals
individually, following the Submission Guidelines and clearly
indicating the title of the panel they will be presenting on. The
language of the conference is English.

Submission Guidelines:

Proposals should be clearly structured, with theoretical contributions
highlighting the innovative aspects of the proposed models, and
analyses clearly outlining aim, materials, methodological approach and
expected results. Please use the APA citation style for your
references.
All submissions should be made electronically via email to the
conference email-address (Clavier2023 at unimi.it), along with a cover
letter indicating the author's name, affiliation, contact information
and title of contribution.
In their (anonymous) submissions, authors should clearly indicate
minimum 3 and maximum 5 keywords, and they should specify their
preference for paper delivery or poster presentation. The latter may
be especially suited to early-career researchers or to presentations
of work-in-progress.

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