Introduction

Mon Jun 18 20:09:42 UTC 2001

Dear Rolf  Wolfenbettel,

Did the Call for papers"  in attachment and below ever reach you? Do send an
abstract.
Best,
Rene Dirven

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From: "Rolf Wolfenbettel" <kierkegaard10 at HOTMAIL.COM>
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Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 1:52 PM
Subject: Introduction

> Hi
>
>
> I'm researching about Philosophy, Psychology and Cultural Studies: my
> project is to study the relationships between Society, Ideology and
Violence
> and which is the Discourse underlying about.
>
> I get a Doctorate in Theology, a Master in Law and Philosophy.
>
> Kindly,
>
> Ralf

CALL FOR PAPERS

Circular No. 1

29th International LAUD Symposium
University of Koblenz-Landau
in Landau, Germany

March 25-28, 2002

THE LANGUAGE OF POLITICO-SOCIAL IDEOLOGIES

Of the many possible types of ideology, the symposium wants to concentrate -
for reasons of methodology - on one major category, namely, politico-social
ideologies. It is hoped that the symposium will be a meeting ground for
cognitive linguistics, critical linguistics and ecolinguistics.
Hereby 'ideology' is taken in the sense of Hodge & Kress, Language as
Ideology (1993: 6):

. language, typically, is immersed in the ongoing life of a society, as the
practical consciousness of the society. We can call it ideology, defining
'ideology' as a systematic body of ideas, organised from a particular point
of view. Ideology is thus a subsuming category which includes sciences and
metaphysics, as well as political ideologies of various kinds, without
implying anything about their status and reliability as guides to reality.

Some of the important questions to be discussed in 3 sections are the
following:

Section 1: The linguistic and conceptual interplay between language and
ideology
The most fundamental question seems to be whether there is any conceptual
connection between language and politics, whereby politics is broadly
conceived as the political organisation, social welfare and well-being of a
people or culture. The success of a multi-disciplinary discourse appears to
rest on some common understanding of the data under consideration. In the
case of ideology without any link to language, those data seem quite
difficult to identify. With the combined analysis of language and ideology,
the task is somewhat easier: we are looking at language constructed for some
ideological purpose.
What is then the relationship between language and ideology? Is language a
core element in any ideology? To what extent can we say that an ideology
cannot arise, exist and spread without language?.

Section 2: The form and function of politico-social ideologies in spoken and
written texts
To what extent can politico-social ideologies be called a question of
lexical structures and networks and what other resources of language are the
unconscious or conscious instruments by which ideologies thrive and are
propagated? Do competing ideologies use identical or similar labeling and
metaphors and do these ideological discourses display linguistic,
discursive, and rhetorical overlaps? This point of departure invites
participants to dig analytically and critically into particular texts that
have a perceivable ideological purpose. This work can be as data-driven as
any other form of linguistic analysis.

Section 3: The role of grammar and cultural models in ideology
Is the grammar of a language a value-free resource leading to universally
valid representations of an objective world, or does it on the contrary
impose a number of biases in the perception of the world, of humankind's
place in it, of men's relation to women or vice versa, of cultural
communities' relations to their own members, to other communities, and to a
possible world order? Cultural models reflected by language and reflecting
different world views seem to contradict the idea that grammar is value-free
and that it leads to universally valid representations of an objective
world. Indirectly linked to all this are ecolinguistic questions such as the
dominance of European languages in the world, colonialism, English as a
global language, and linguistic imperialism

In summary, whereas the main purpose of the symposium is to raise the issue
of convergence between language and politics in general and to discuss a
number of politico-social ideologies in particular, it is also clear that
the methodological questions raised here are part and parcel of the
methodology of the analyses themselves and can, in some way or other, become
an integral part of the analyses brought forward. This interdisciplinary
approach includes intercultural analyses and invites the participation of
scholars representing both dominant (Western) and so-called marginal
(non-Western) languages, cultures and ideologies from around the world.

ABSTRACT DEADLINE
Deadline for submission of abstracts is July 1, 2001

Abstracts of max. 500 words (one page), including a choice of one of the
three main sections/themes, should be sent by email to each of the
following,
from whom further information can be obtained:

Martin Pütz
puetz at uni-landau.de

Angelika Daniel
daniel at uni-landau.de

René Dirven
rene.dirven at pandora.be

GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS FOR LAUD 2002
1. Author name(s) and affiliation
2. Email address of submitter
3. The title of the paper
4. Theme/section

Local Conference Organizers:

Martin Pütz & Angelika Daniel
University of Koblenz-Landau
in Landau
Institut für Anglistik
Im Fort 7
76829 Landau, Germany
Tel: +49-6341-280-162 * Fax: +49-6341-280-460

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