30.366, Calls: Anthro Ling, Applied Ling, Disc Analysis, Gen Ling, Socioling/Italy

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Subject: 30.366, Calls: Anthro Ling, Applied Ling, Disc Analysis, Gen Ling, Socioling/Italy

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Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 23:59:15
From: Antonio Fruttaldo [afruttaldo at unior.it]
Subject: 5th ESTIDIA Conference

 
Full Title: 5th ESTIDIA Conference 
Short Title: ESTIDIA 2019 

Date: 19-Sep-2019 - 21-Sep-2019
Location: Naples, Italy 
Contact Person: Antonio Fruttaldo
Meeting Email: estidia2019 at gmail.com
Web Site: http://www.unior.it/ricerca/18780/3/5th-estidia-conference-hybrid-dialogues-transcending-binary-thinking-and-moving-away-from-societal-polarizations.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 17-Feb-2019 

Meeting Description:

5th ESTIDIA Conference
Hybrid Dialogues: Transcending Binary Thinking and Moving Away from Societal
Polarizations 

19 September 2019 (Pre-Conference Workshops)
20-21 September 2019 (Conference)
University of Naples 'L'Orientale' (Italy)

The 5th ESTIDIA conference, to be held on 19-21 September 2019, is organised
together with the I-LanD Interuniversity Research Centre and hosted by the
University of Naples 'L'Orientale'. The conference welcomes a wide variety of
thematic and disciplinary approaches to hybrid dialogues in various
communities of practice across time and space. The theme of the conference was
prompted by the risks and challenges posed by the increasing use of virulent
polemics both on- and off-line that are constantly shifting the boundaries
between traditionally dichotomous forms of communication (e.g.,
public/private, face-to-face/virtual, formal/informal, polite/impolite) and
types of mindsets (e.g., trust/distrust, liberal/illiberal,
rational/emotional, biased/unbiased). The dangers of dichotomy run parallel
with a blurring of the distinction between real and unreal, true and false,
genuine and fake, etc., in terms of both what people say and do, and what they
say they do. At the same time, conflicting, and often contradictory,
understandings of socio-political issues, cultural concepts and historical
events are fostered by a proliferation of binary thinking, whereby one side of
the divide is set up as positive/right, and the other as its negative/wrong
counterpart.

Binary or dichotomous thinking is responsible for producing and/or maintaining
historically unsustainable hierarchies and inequitable power relations. As a
counterbalance of dichotomy-based beliefs and ways of thinking, new and hybrid
forms of dialogue are needed to cross the frontiers of established
dichotomies, questioning the legitimacy of increasingly conflictual,
aggressive and divisive encounters conducted both offline (in public meetings,
TV debates, political and parliamentary debates, etc.) and online (on social
media, such as Twitter, YouTube, Snapchat). The boundaries between online and
offline discourse may sometimes become fuzzy, allowing newly integrated and/or
overlapping forms of discourses and uses of language to emerge.

This international ESTIDIA conference, like the preceding ones, offers an open
forum for cross-disciplinary and multi-level dialogue among researchers and
practitioners interested in exploring dialogic and discursive interaction
observable across communities of practices and various social-cultural
contexts.

You are warmly welcomed to propose contributions from diverse fields of
enquiry, including linguistics, media studies, journalism, cultural studies,
psychology, rhetoric, political science, sociology, pedagogy, philosophy and
anthropology.

Conference website:
http://www.unior.it/ricerca/18780/3/5th-estidia-conference-hybrid-dialogues-tr
anscending-binary-thinking-and-moving-away-from-societal-polarizations.html 

Keynote speakers:

Marina Bondi, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Cornelia Ilie, Strömstad Academy, Sweden
Lucy Jones, University of Nottingham, U.K.
Majid KhosraviNik, University of Newcastle, U.K.

Contact:

Please check the Conference website periodically or send inquiries to:
estidia2019 at gmail.com


Call for Papers:

This international ESTIDIA conference, like the preceding ones, offers an open
forum for cross-disciplinary and multi-level dialogue among researchers and
practitioners interested in exploring dialogic and discursive interaction
observable across communities of practices and various social-cultural
contexts. The questions participants are called upon to consider, analyse and
debate include, but are not limited to, the following:

- What types of polarized dialogue are to be found in various communities of
practice (e.g. business, politics, education, health sector)? What are the
distinguishing features of such dialogues in particular institutional
settings? How do they emerge and develop? 
- Has the increasing use of social media had a noticeable impact on the
proliferation of the use of aggressive language and person-targeted attacks?
Does this apply to some forms of social media more than to others?
- What cross-cultural parallels can be noticed with regard to dichotomy-based
polarization patterns in off-line and online dialogues? Is it possible to
identify differences in terms of age, gender, education, to name but a few?
- What dichotomy-based forms of reasoning and arguing are more likely to be
found in spoken, written or hybrid types of discourses, respectively? 
- How are the audience's emotions targeted, as well as manipulated, by the use
of fallacious dichotomies in online and offline dialogue? Are there strategies
that are specific for particular subtypes/instances of these two kinds of
dialogue?
- How do face-to-face and online dialogues compare as to the opportunities
they offer various categories of interlocutors willing to have their voices
heard and their interests taken into account in particular contexts?
- Are there characteristics of the interactants' communicative styles across
social media that confirm the assumption that online interactions are more
prone to disagreement and conflict? How do they compare to offline
interactions?
- What discursive and metadiscursive mechanisms can be found in populist
rhetoric deployed in the private and public sphere, whereby speakers resort to
audience manipulation through topic dissociations and issue polarizations?
- Is there empirical evidence that indicates a greater tendency of
communicating with known others (through the phenomenon of echo chambers) in
online or offline interactions?
- What is the role played by digital platforms in reproducing, reinforcing or
challenging class and gender systemic inequalities within and across
social/professional groups?
- How have radicalised, polarized, confrontational and downright violent
discourses of extreme political movements given rise to institutional
confrontations and the use of violence in both face-to-face and online
interactions?

Abstract Submission:

We invite submissions of abstracts both for individual paper presentations (20
minutes for presentation, to be followed by 10 minutes for questions) to be
scheduled in parallel sessions, and for paper presentations within thematic
workshops. The thematic workshop format will be determined by the workshop
organisers, taking into consideration the correlation of topics/sub-topics and
the number of participants.

All abstracts should include the name, institutional affiliation and email
address of the author(s), the paper title, and four-five keywords. The
abstract should be approximately 500 words in length.

All abstracts will be peer-reviewed by the conference scientific committee
according to the following criteria: originality and/or importance of topic;
clarity of research question and purpose; data sources; theoretical approach;
analytical focus; relevance of findings if already available. We especially
encourage abstract submissions from early-career researchers, including
postgraduate research students and postdoctoral researchers.

Email abstract submissions to: estidia2019 at gmail.com

Conference languages: English, Italian, French, Spanish, German

You are warmly welcome to propose contributions from diverse fields of
enquiry, including linguistics, media studies, journalism, cultural studies,
psychology, rhetoric, political science, sociology, pedagogy, philosophy and
anthropology.

Conference website:
http://www.unior.it/ricerca/18780/3/5th-estidia-conference-hybrid-dialogues-tr
anscending-binary-thinking-and-moving-away-from-societal-polarizations.html




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