CFP: Political Linguistics 2007
Francis M Hult
fmhult at dolphin.upenn.edu
Fri Apr 7 22:58:57 UTC 2006
Political Linguistics 2007
http://www.ils.uw.edu.pl/pl2007/
Warsaw, 13-15 September 2007
In recent years, 'political-linguistic' studies have been drawing on increasingly bigger
empirical input from the neighboring domains, including linguistic pragmatics, critical
discourse analysis, social psychology, sociology and anthropology. Our conference, the
first international event of its kind and scale in central/eastern Europe, comes as a
response to this trend.
It aims at convening scholars from a wide range of disciplines, interested, broadly
speaking, in the rich and heterogeneous but thus yet to become better demarcated area of
intersection of language/discourse and the political sphere (i.e. politics, both in its
institutionalized and everyday dimensions). The general purpose is to explore and deepen
ways of analyzing language as a political instrument, a political theme, and a political
domain.
More specifically, we invite papers addressing the following issues:
the use of language in political rhetoric, advertising, media discourse, propaganda,
persuasion, etc.;
language and processes of ideological symbolization;
including folk linguistic ideologies, normative use of language and language-based
reproduction of ideologies;
language of the state, viz. language policies and language planning at various stages of
the information flow, including the art of document design and press releases;
societal multilingualism, linguistic pluralism and linguistic minority policies;
language change and variation in political discourse: transformations at the lexical
(terminology, neologisms, semantic shifts), morpho-syntactic, and text/discourse-pragmatic
levels; language contact in the political domain: borrowing processes, style-shifting,
code-mixing;
globalisation of political discourse: homogenisation of social and linguistic knowledge in
the political milieu; hybridisation of generic/discursive structures, text types, and
interactive strategies across languages and cultures; mulitimodality and unification
patterns in political communication;
historical/diachronic transformations in political genres;
intertextuality and mediation in political communication;
axiological aspects of political discourses (valuation in political texts);
language attitude research: social attitudes to political discourse(s);
translating the language of politics;
directions in language training of politicians.
The list is by no means exhaustive.
The language of the conference is English.
Papers
Individual papers (20 min. paper / 10 min. discussion) and workshop proposals are invited.
Abstracts (300-500 words), with the author's name, affiliation, e-mail address, and paper
title should be sent electronically by the end of February 2007 to the address
pl2007 at ils.uw.edu.pl. Notification of acceptance will be sent to the authors by 31 March
2007.
Selected papers will be published in the Conference proceedings.
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