31.2369, Calls: Disc Analys, Pragmatics/Switzerland

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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2020 11:34:39
From: Angeliki Alvanoudi [aalvanoudi at enl.auth.gr]
Subject: Discourses of Discrimination

 
Full Title: Discourses of Discrimination 

Date: 27-Jun-2021 - 02-Jul-2021
Location: Winterthur, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Marianthi Georgalidou
Meeting Email: georgalidou at rhodes.aegean.gr

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 15-Oct-2020 

Meeting Description:

Panel on Discourses of discrimination: Language aggression in the construction
of otherness 

Organizers:
Marianthi Georgalidou, University of the Aegean, Greece
Angeliki Alvanoudi, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Confirmed Discussant: Maria Sifianou, University of Athens, Greece 

The dynamic nature and the multiple facets of identity constructions have
become a widely discussed parameter in discourse analysis and social sciences.
Identities being interactional constructs are negotiated via discursive
choices of speakers/authors who construct self and audience as members of
social categories. Identity work involves processes of othering, that is, the
portraying of a person or group of people as intrinsically different from and
alien to oneself. The construction of otherness is a key element of
discriminatory discourses that underlies a multitude of institutional and
non-institutional genres. Despite the institutional and legal recognition of
the inherent dignity and the inalienable rights of all members of society
(https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/), discourses of
rejection and hatred addressed to persons based on race, gender, sexual
orientation, religious and political affiliation still prevail in different
modes of interaction in the Third Millennium. Some recent studies on the topic
are Bou-Franch & Garcés-Conejos Blitvich (2014), Culpeper (2011), Georgalidou,
Frantzi & Giakoumakis (2020), Hatzidaki (2020), Jane (2017), Karachaliou &
Archakis (2015), Musolff (2019) and Sifianou (2019).

In this context, the main goal of the proposed panel is to examine various
facets of discriminatory discourses connected to aspects of otherness in the
identity of the attackees. We are interested in the sociopragmatic analyses of
data coming from various genres including political/parliamentary discourse,
the press, legal and medical texts as well as digital communities of practice
and polylogic conversations. Our research aim is to critically examine direct
and indirect verbal discriminatory discourses in the said variety of contexts
for their potential to create divisions among speakers/authors, immediate
recipients, and audiences. Inspired by this year’s theme that invites us to
consider a pragmatics and linguistics of inclusion, the panel explores how
sociocultural diversity is deployed as a negative category/vehicle for
legitimizing oppression in spoken and written discourse. We want to bring
together scholars working across different frameworks such as ethnography and
discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis, membership categorization
analysis, conversation analysis and im/politeness theory.

In this panel we welcome contributions that address the following topics:
1. Gender, racial, and religious discrimination
2. Aggressive discourse and verbal attacks
3. Political ideology as a divisive factor
4. Discriminatory discourses embedded in forensic and medical genres
5. Language aggression in digital communities of practice
6. Practices of resistance and inclusion


Call for Papers: 

If you are interested in presenting a paper in this panel, please send your
abstract (min. 350 and max. 500 words) by 15 October 2020 to:
georgalidou at rhodes.aegean.gr & aalvanoudi at enl.auth.gr 

All abstracts will have to be submitted individually through the IPrA website
(https://ipra2021.exordo.com/) by 25 October 2020. Please prepare your
abstracts for submission with a reference to the IPrA Call for papers &
Submission guidelines https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP and make sure
to select “Discourses of discrimination: Language aggression in the
construction of otherness” as the panel for your submission.




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