28.4410, FYI: Call for Chapters: Discourses of Aggression in Greek CMC

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Subject: 28.4410, FYI: Call for Chapters: Discourses of Aggression in Greek CMC

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Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2017 16:56:22
From: Ourania Hatzidaki [o.hatzidaki at gmail.com]
Subject: Call for Chapters: Discourses of Aggression in Greek CMC

Call for Papers

Working Title: Discourses of Aggression in Greek Computer-Mediated
Communication
Editors: Ourania Hatzidaki (Hellenic Air Force Academy, Greece) and Ioannis E.
Saridakis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)

In the context of the 13th International Conference on Greek Linguistics in
September 2017 (University of Westminster, London) a workshop was held under
the title “Discourses of Aggression and Violence in Greek Digital
Communication”. Our aim is to publish a special issue on this theme in the
Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict (John Benjamins), pending
acceptance of our proposal. We invite you to submit a paper abstract for
inclusion in the proposal to be submitted to the journal editors.

The purpose of this special issue is to explore the multifaceted relationship
between language and aggression/violence, with a special focus on the
discourse(s) of Greek speakers’ computer-mediated communication (CMC).
Aggressive and even violent language abounds in CMC. 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 such as racial
discrimination and hatred (Baider and Constantinou 2017), gender-related
verbal abuse (Bou-Franch 2016, Jane 2017), stereotyping in contexts of poverty
and social exclusion (Baker and McEnery 2015), trolling (Hardaker 2010, 2015),
etc. This type of online behaviour causes or is presumed to cause offence to
the addressees on the grounds of many interrelated factors (Culpeper 2010:
23), both personal and social/sociolinguistic, and may have a serious, even
permanently damaging impact on the off-line lives of those verbally targeted
(Jane 2017 and elsewhere).

Data sources for potential contributions can include all forms of digital
communication, synchronous or asynchronous, such as the social media, the
discussion sections of mainstream media, internet fora and (micro)blogs, etc.

In terms of subject matter, we are especially interested in contributions
dealing with the following areas:

- Politics
- Ethnicity and race
-  Gender
- Sports
- Popular culture
- Personal/private digital interaction

Methodologically, a range of approaches are welcome, including but not limited
to critical discourse analysis, corpus/quantitative linguistics, conversation
analysis, communication studies, pragmatics, multimodality, argumentation
theory, social science analysis, ethnography of communication etc., however,
studies should have a clear and substantial linguistic component. We
especially look forward to proposals combining qualitative and quantitative
approaches (cf., for instance, Goutsos and Hatzidaki’s (2017) discourse-driven
quantification), or relying on triangulated corpus-driven/based research (cf.
Baker and Egbert 2016). Especially welcome, given the availability of massive
quantities of social media discourse in digital form, are analyses of large
datasets/corpora.

Submitting a proposal:

Potential contributors are expected to send in an abstract of their proposed
contribution by January 20, 2018 to the editors Ourania Hatzidaki
(o.hatzidaki at gmail.com) or Ioannis E. Saridakis (iesaridakis at gmail.com).
Authors will be notified about the acceptance of their abstracts by February
20, 2018. Provided the publication proposal is accepted by the publisher, a
deadline will be set for the submission of full papers by around November
2018.

Abstract format:

Title of proposed paper
Author’s/s’ name(s), affiliation(s) and email(s)
Proposal of 700-900 words (excl. references), including a description of the
paper's theoretical and methodological framework, the data analysed and its
relevance to the publication’s theme.

References:

Baider, Fabienne, and Maria Constantinou. 2017. At night we’ll come and find
you, traitors: Cybercommunication in the Greek-Cypriot ultra-nationalist
space. In Greece in Crisis: Combining Critical Discourse and Corpus
Linguistics Perspectives, ed. by Ourania Hatzidaki, and Dionysis Goutsos,
413-454. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Baker, Paul, and Tony McEnery. 2015. Who benefits when discourse gets
democratized? Analysing a Twitter corpus around the British Benefits Street
debate. In Corpora and Discourse Studies: Integrating Discourse and Corpora,
ed. by Paul Baker and Tony McEnery, 224-265. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Baker, Paul, and Jesse Egbert. 2016. Triangulating Methodological Approaches
in Corpus-linguistic Research. London: Routledge.
Bou-Franch Patricia (ed.). 2016. Exploring Language Aggression against Women.
Amsterdam: John Benjamins.  
Culpeper, Jonathan. 2010. Impoliteness: Using Language to Cause Offence.
Cambridge: CUP.
Goutsos, Dionysis, and Ourania Hatzidaki. 2017. Making Sense of the Greek
Crisis. In Greece in Crisis: Combining Critical Discourse and Corpus
Linguistics Perspectives, ed. by Ourania Hatzidaki, and Dionysis Goutsos,
457-466. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Hardaker, Claire. 2010. Trolling in asynchronous computer-mediated
communication: From user discussions to academic definitions. Journal of
Politeness Research 6, 215-242.
Hardaker, Claire. 2015. ‘I refuse to respond to this obvious troll’: An
overview of responses to (perceived) trolling. Corpora 10(2), 201-229.
Jane, Emma A. 2017. Misogyny Online. London: Sage.
Suler, John. 2004. The online disinhibition effect. CyberPsychology & Behavior
7(3), 321-326.

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

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

Language Family(ies): Indo-European

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