31.3156, Calls: Disc Analysis, Pragmatics/Switzerland

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Subject: 31.3156, Calls: Disc Analysis, Pragmatics/Switzerland

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Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 19:12:50
From: Georg Marko [georg.marko at uni-graz.at]
Subject: Language & Risk. Communicating Risks, Danger and Safety in a Late Modern World

 
Full Title: Language & Risk. Communicating Risks, Danger and Safety in a Late Modern World 

Date: 27-Jun-2021 - 02-Jul-2021
Location: Winterthur, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Georg Marko
Meeting Email: georg.marko at uni-graz.at

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 25-Oct-2020 

Meeting Description:

Risk, danger and safety are prominent topics in today’s society, some
theorists even claim that they are the predominant principles according to
which social life is organized, cf. Ulrich Beck’s theory of the risk society.
As a consequence, risk communication, i.e. any text informing a wider audience
about potential hazards in life and/or instructing them how to deal with them,
constitutes a central form of language use today. While the main intention of
research into risk communication is to enhance its efficiency, we will take a
broader perspective in this panel, looking at how discourses represent aspects
of life associated with risk, thereby foregrounding or backgrounding them,
maximizing or minimizing them, and making them seem identifiable and
manageable or unidentifiable and unmanageable. These aspects include
calculated probabilities and subjective un/certainties, the people creating
risk, taking it or being affected by it, the actions and events interpreted as
dangers or opportunities, the emotions evoked, and the world in which risk and
safety play a central role. Currently, there is of course also the question of
the relationship between conceptions of risk and conceptions of crises and to
what extent and how they are different.

The panel, which is part of the 17th International Pragmatics Conference in
Winterthur, Switzerland, organized by the International Pragmatics Association
(IPrA), is intended to cover discourses in different social domains, including
(but not limited to) politics, finance and the economy, medicine, technology,
sports, forensic science and the law, ecology and the private sphere, and on
different topics, including (but not limited to) terrorism, accidents, product
safety, adventure sports, personal relationships, or identity. 

The panel organizers are Hermine Penz (hermine.penz(at)uni-graz.at) and Georg
Marko (georg.marko(at)uni-graz.at), both from Karl-Franzens-University Graz
(Austria).


Call for Papers: 

We invite contributions approaching this topic from various methodological and
disciplinary angles, ranging from micropragmatics (e.g. form-based studies of
epistemics) to macropragmatics (e.g. critical discourse analyses of risk
constructions in specific types of texts). Interdisciplinary projects,
combining pragmatic research with other linguistic and non-linguistic
disciplines, are particularly welcome. There are no restrictions on the
language or the semiotic mode of the material to be analysed. 

Please submit an abstract of 250-500 words to the official conference site by
25 October 2020 (login is via http://ipra2021.exordo.com/login). Mind that for
this process – and also for participation – you will have to be (or become) an
IPrA member. Once you have accessed the dashboard on the above site, go to
“Submit abstract”, click on the “Track” button, choose “Panel contributions”
and follow the instructions. For further submission guidelines, see
http://pragmatics.international/page/CfP. If you have any further questions,
contact the panel organizers.




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