31.2652, FYI: Call Special Issue on Institutional Discourse and the Covid-19 Pandemic

[The LINGUIST List]

LINGUIST List: Vol-31-2652. Wed Aug 26 2020. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 31.2652, FYI: Call Special Issue on Institutional Discourse and the Covid-19 Pandemic

Moderator: Malgorzata E. Cavar (linguist at linguistlist.org)
Student Moderator: Jeremy Coburn
Managing Editor: Becca Morris
Team: Helen Aristar-Dry, Everett Green, Sarah Robinson, Lauren Perkins, Nils Hjortnaes, Yiwen Zhang, Joshua Sims
Jobs: jobs at linguistlist.org | Conferences: callconf at linguistlist.org | Pubs: pubs at linguistlist.org

Homepage: http://linguistlist.org

Please support the LL editors and operation with a donation at:
           https://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/

Editor for this issue: Everett Green <everett at linguistlist.org>
================================================================


Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2020 00:03:30
From: Anne Bannink [e.a.bannink at uva.nl]
Subject: Call Special Issue on Institutional Discourse and the Covid-19 Pandemic

 
Special Issue "Institutional Discourse and the Covid-19 Pandemic: Challenges
and Opportunities"

Dear colleagues,

The Covid-19 pandemic that has held the world in its grip since the spring of
2020 has introduced major shifts in the ways we communicate with others – in
informal everyday encounters as well as in formal institutional or workplace
settings. Lockdowns have required people – sometimes whole families in far
from ideal circumstances – to work from home for prolonged periods of time.
>From the moment face-to-face communication with non-household members became
impossible, the search for digital alternatives and technical innovations to
facilitate remote communication took on a new urgency. Since new tools had to
be introduced at very short notice, there was little time to pause and reflect
on the practical, social and cultural impact of these technical innovations on
the lived experiences of people interacting in institutional environments.

This issue aims to investigate the findings of experts and users with respect
to the different forms of remote or technologically-mediated  communication
that were adopted on the spot in institutional settings . There are important
questions that need to be addressed, such as:

- Has the pandemic-induced tech revolution  opened new vistas with respect to
the way specific tasks in schools, offices, hospitals, and other workplace
ecologies can be performed? 
- HOr has it mainly been a source of concern, anxiety or frustration because
it turned out to be very difficult to effectively compensate in online
settings for the lack of shared space and body language feedback in engaging
participants? 
- And perhaps more importantly, since both positive and negative effects may
apply simultaneously:  what types of tasks/people in what situations typically
do – or do not – respond well to online communication formats?

This Special Issue seeks to draw together research from a variety of
theoretical angles and methodological approaches to the study of institutional
discourse data. These range from, but are not limited to, conversation
analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, pragmatics, (critical) discourse
analysis, ethnography of communication and linguistic anthropology. We welcome
original data-based research articles, methodological articles, and
perspective articles from researchers investigating the effects of the
Covid-19 epidemic on language use and communication in a wide range of
institutional settings in the field of e.g. education, medicine, politics,
traditional/social media, and business.
We request that, prior to submitting a manuscript, interested authors
initially submit a proposed title and an abstract of 400-600 words summarizing
their intended contribution. Please send it to the guest editors
(e.a.bannink at uva.nl; h.r.vandamvanisselt at uva.nl) or to /Languages/ editorial
office (languages at mdpi.com). Abstracts will be reviewed by the guest editors
for the purposes of ensuring proper fit within the scope of the special issue.
Full manuscripts will undergo double-blind peer-review.

The tentative completion schedule is as follows:

- Abstract submission deadline: 1 October 2020
- Notification of abstract acceptance: 1 November 2020;
- Full manuscript deadline: 1 May 2021

Dr. Anne Bannink
Dr. Jet Van Dam
Guest Editors

Call for papers:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/languages/special_issues/Institutional_Discourse

 



Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis

Subject Language(s): English (eng)





 



------------------------------------------------------------------------------

***************************    LINGUIST List Support    ***************************
 The 2019 Fund Drive is under way! Please visit https://funddrive.linguistlist.org
  to find out how to donate and check how your university, country or discipline
     ranks in the fund drive challenges. Or go directly to the donation site:
               https://iufoundation.fundly.com/the-linguist-list-2019

                        Let's make this a short fund drive!
                Please feel free to share the link to our campaign:
                    https://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/
 


----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-31-2652	
----------------------------------------------------------