CFP: Political Linguistics 3 conference, Warsaw 8-10 May 2014 (PL2014)

[Piotr Cap]

(with apologies for cross-posting)

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

We cordially invite you to submit abstracts for the PL2014 conference:

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POLITICAL LINGUISTICS III
 
(Re)construing nationhood in ‘(un)doing Europe’ today?Warsaw, 8-10 May 2014
http://pl.ils.uw.edu.pl
Contact: pl.ils at uw.edu.pl 

Conference theme and foci
The conference will examine the current nexus between national and 
European thinking (in talk and text). Our focus is on the various 
discursive (re)constructions of national identification vis-à-vis Europe (and the contemporary world in the background): whether, and if so, 
then how, where and why, the ongoing discourses of European integration 
(and disintegration) invigorate, mute, or simply redefine national talk 
in (semi)public practices and domains, whether domestically or 
internationally. Relational, dynamic and integrative perspectives on 
nationhood are welcome in particular: how does the national element 
interact with other social dimensions and categories, especially those 
based in regional, global, political, professional or gender and 
age-related variation? What is the role of ideologies and policies of 
multiculturalism, employment, race and immigration? Do national (and 
nationalistic) arguments correlate with parameters of social 
diversification (economic, educational; elitist and egalitarian 
attitudes)?

The conference will address discursive (texts, genres, metaphors, 
etc.), and more broadly, semiotic (artifacts, images, icons, etc.) 
manifestations of nationhood in how Europe is being ‘done’, but 
also‘undone’ today. This, we hope, will reveal various aspects, sites and styles of interdiscursivity and dialogization of difference (in the 
sense of Bakhtin) over issues involving national, European and 
international concerns. We welcome contributions examining interactions 
marked by power differential (esp. among citizens, politicians, experts 
and authorities).

We invite papers exploring various contexts, domains and practices 
(politics, media, business, research and education, religion, sports and entertainment, tourism, health and environment protection), as well as 
different media and technologies (old and new media; translation and 
interpretation; sign language; school and academic teaching).We envision the conference as an international and interdisciplinary forum of 
discussion, gathering scholars working within or (preferably) at the 
intersection of different methodologies: discourse analysis, critical 
discourse studies, pragmatics, (new) rhetoric, Systemic-Functional 
Linguistics, Register & Genre Theory, narrative theory, ethnography, social semiotics, multimodal analysis, and related approaches with 
communication at the forefront.

We are pleased to announce the following plenary speakers:
Prof. Peter Berglez, Örebro University, Sweden
Prof. Elżbieta Hałas, University of Warsaw, Poland
Prof. Leszek J. Korporowicz, Jagiellonian University, Poland
Prof. Michał Krzyżanowski, Örebro University, Sweden
Prof. John E. Richardson, Loughborough University, UK
Prof. Carlo Ruzza, University of Trento, Italy & University of Leicester, UK

The conference languages are English, German and Polish. Papers will be allocated 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions. 
Abstracts of no more than 300 words including references should be sent 
as MS Word attachment to pl.ils at uw.edu.pl by 15 December 2013. Please include in the body of the email but not in the abstract itself 
your name, affiliation and email address. Notifications of acceptance 
will be communicated by 15 January 2014.

Organizers
University of Warsaw
Institute of Applied Linguistics
Dept. of Discourse Studies
Prof. Anna Duszak
Dr. Łukasz Kumięga

University of Łódź
Institute of English
Dept. of Pragmatics
Prof. Piotr Cap
Dr. Monika Kopytowska

In cooperation with the University of Nottingham
School of Sociology and Social Policy
Dr. Christian Karner
 

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Best regards,

(on behalf of the Organizers)
Piotr Cap


Prof. zw. dr hab. Piotr Cap
Department of Pragmatics (Head)
Institute of English, University of Lodz
Al.Kosciuszki 65, 90-514 Lodz, POLAND
tel/fax +48 42 6655220
http://ia.uni.lodz.pl/pragmatics/faculty/pcap
http://ia.uni.lodz.pl/anglistyka/ZPJ?piotr_cap
http://unilodz.academia.edu/PiotrCap



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