28.148, Calls: Greek, Disc Analysis, Pragmatics, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling/UK

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Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2017 14:06:38
From: Ourania Hatzidaki [o.hatzidaki at gmail.com]
Subject: Discourses of Aggression in Greek Digital Communication

 
Full Title: Discourses of Aggression in Greek Digital Communication 
Short Title: Gr-CMC-Disc 

Date: 07-Sep-2017 - 09-Sep-2017
Location: London, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Ourania Hatzidaki
Meeting Email: o.hatzidaki at gmail.com
Web Site: http://icgl13.westminster.ac.uk 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): Greek, Modern (ell)

Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2017 

Meeting Description:

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. 

Reference:

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


Call for Papers:

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).

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).




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