27.2897, Calls: Pragmatics/UK

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Subject: 27.2897, Calls: Pragmatics/UK

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Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2016 10:01:31
From: Cristina Perna [cperna at pucrs.br]
Subject: Position and Stance in Politics

 
Full Title: Position and Stance in Politics 

Date: 16-Jul-2017 - 16-Jul-2017
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Cristina Perna
Meeting Email: cperna at pucrs.br

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 15-Sep-2016 

Meeting Description:

We would like to invite you to participate in a panel of the upcoming
International Pragmatics Association Conference: Position and Stance in
Politics: The Individual, the Party, and the Party Line

Lawrence N. Berlin (Northeastern University) & Cristina Perna (Pontifical
Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul)

Within the political sphere, a political actor is often judged by what he
says, with language perceived as representative of the individual actor.
Indeed, they are individuals with a lifetime of experiences and actions which
inform, but may also undermine, their aspirations in gaining political capital
(Bourdieu, 1986). However, these actors do not exist in isolation; they are
members and, at times, potential candidates of a particular political party
with its own ideology and agenda which may cause them to modify their personal
speech to align with espoused policies of the party. The aim of this panel is
to examine the discourse of political actors through a pragmatic lens,
enabling the unraveling of multiple layers of language use and pragmatic
representation within political discourse.

Panel participants may explore the pragmatic acts within the discourse from a
variety of ways, including (but not limited to) the approach and the social
practice (e.g., speech, debate, blog). For instance, from a theoretical and
categorical perspective, panel participants may integrate Positionality Theory
(Harré & van Langenhove, 1991, 1999; Harré & Moghaddam, 2003) as it presents a
manner of identifying how individuals enact their roles through language, or
pragmatically. Through their utterances, political actors provide an image of
who they are; through first order, second order, and third order positioning,
the language use delimits who the speaker is (or who he wants the voters to
believe he is), who he believes the interlocutor is, and who he believes
others outside the immediate communication are. Positionality Theory is
quintessentially pragmatic in that the focus remains on the speaker and his
use of language to frame a picture of the parties referred to, even more so
because it doesn’t need to rely on absolute truth, but can present a case of
language manipulation par excellence (Berlin, 2015; Mey, 2001).

This panel and its speakers will explore various forms of political discourse
and the multiple stances politicos take therein, utilizing a clearly defined
theoretical perspective and a specified social practice in order to shed light
on the ways political actors can position themselves, their party, and/or
their opponents toward the ostensive voters. In so doing, we hope to generate
hypotheses surrounding how espoused perspectives relate to or reflect on the
nature of the individual and his truth, the party he represents and its
ideology, and/or the pandering to popular public opinion in order to curry
favor.


Call for Papers: 

Please contact Berlin, Lawrence lnberlin at neiu.edu and/or Perna, Cristina
cperna at pucrs.br for information about the panel or to submit an abstract for
review. Abstracts must be sent to the panel organizers before September 15,
2016. 

Note that all accepted abstracts must also be submitted officially to IPrA by
15 October 2016 via the conference website:
http://ipra.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=.CONFERENCE15&n=1516




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