[Gala-l] CfP: Conference Workshop: Discourses of Aggression and Violence in Greek Digital Communication

[Ourania Hatzidaki]

*Workshop title: *Discourses of Aggression and Violence in Greek Digital
Communication

*Convenor*: Ourania Hatzidaki, Hellenic Air Force Academy



Held in the context of the 13th International Conference on Greek
Linguistics (ICGL13), 7-9 September 2017, University of Westminster, UK.



This workshop aims at exploring the multifaceted relationship between
language and aggression/violence, with a special focus on the discourse of
Greek users of social media and other means of computer-mediated
communication (CMC).



Aggressive and even violent language abounds in digital communication,
notably in the social media. Crucial affordances making the online
environment conducive to verbal aggression are (perceived) anonymity,
physical distance, invisibility, (relative) lack of accountability,
amplification by viraling, guilt free exploitation of people’s voluntary
self-exposure etc. Such features render online environments fertile
breeding ground for the phenomenon of toxic disinhibition (Suler 2004),
resulting in a multitude of forms of (often excessive) verbal aggression.



Research areas for proposed contributions can include but are not limited
to:



- cyberhate (political, racist, sports- and gender-/LGBT-related etc. hate
speech)

- violent/insurgent speech of (potentially) politically radicalized
individuals or extremist groups

- online slang, swearing and blasphemy

- cyberbullying, cyberthreatening, flaming, trolling, verbal dueling

- indirect or covert linguistic violence (via irony, humour and sarcasm, or
via metaphor and euphemism)

- cyberbanter (using aggressive/violent language for entertainment,
bonding, agreeing/approving, supporting etc.)

- correlation between linguistic violence and non-linguistic/demographic
variables (e.g. gender, political ideology etc.; CMC type; and so on)

- formal (morphosyntactic, lexicophraseological, lexicosemantic etc.)
issues of violent CMC speech (e.g. neologisms, ad hoc coinages, types of
argot – e.g. sports fans’)


This workshop welcomes multidisciplinary analyses, i.e. combining a variety
of methodologies (critical discourse analysis, conversation analysis,
corpus/quantitative linguistics, multimodal analysis, social science
analysis, ethnographic research etc.). However, proposals should have a
clear and substantial linguistic component. Especially welcome, given the
availability of massive quantities of social media language in digital
form, are analyses (quantitative and qualitative) of large datasets
(collected, for instance, by means of a web crawler).



*Reference*



Suler, John. 2004. “The online disinhibition effect.” *CyberPsychology &
Behavior* 7(3), 321-326.



*Guidelines for abstract submission: *



Those who wish to participate in the above workshop are invited to submit
their abstract by *15 January 2017 *to the following electronic address*: *



http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/ICGL13

On the abstract submission page, log in to the submission system and start
the submission process. An e-mail confirmation of receipt of abstract will
be sent to you immediately. Your text should be 300 words maximum
(including references, if any). Do not use any special fonts, such as bold
print or caps. Do not add tables, photos, or diagrams to your abstract. Do
not indent your paragraphs, leave one space between paragraphs instead.
Papers may be presented either in Greek or in English and should be 20
minutes long followed by a 10-minute discussion.



Notification of acceptance will be sent by *15 April 2017. *



This workshop is held in the context of the 13th International Conference
on Greek Linguistics (ICGL13, http://icgl13.westminster.ac.uk). Each
participant is entitled to submit only *one *(single or joint) abstract,
whether for an oral presentation to the main conference or for a workshop,
or whether for a poster presentation, either as a single author or as a
co-author. In exceptional circumstances a single and a joint abstract by
the same author might be allowed- please contact the Organising Committee
for further details: icgl13 at my.westminster.ac.uk




-- 

Ourania Hatzidaki

Assistant Professor

Hellenic Air Force Academy

Department of Aeronautical Sciences

Division of Leadership-Command,

Humanities and Physiology

Dekeleia Air Base

13671 (1010)

Dekeleia, Attica

Greece

o.hatzidaki at gmail.com
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