Poland: Political Linguistics Conference

[Harold Schiffman]

Political Linguistics Conference



In recent years, 'political-linguistic' studies have been drawing on
increasingly bigger empirical input from the neighboring domains,
including linguistic pragmatics, text linguisitics, (critical)
discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, translation and literary
studies, social psychology, sociology anthropology and philosophy. The
Political Linguistics conferences are a series of international
scholarly events that come as a response to this trend. They are a
joint endeavor of two leading Polish universities, University of
Warsaw (www.uw.edu.pl) and University of Lodz (www.uni.lodz.pl), and
are held biannually, alternately in the cities of Warsaw and Lodz.

Their aim is to convene 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;
rhetoric of political systems and political changes;
language of political institutions;
linguistic thought (its development and directions) in the light of
past and present political transformations;
politics in language pedagogy;
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);
literary reflections of political communication;
translating/interpreting the language of politics;
directions in language training of politicians.

http://pl.ils.uw.edu.pl/
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