33.219, Confs: Applied Ling, Disc Analysis, Gen Ling, Ling Theories, Socioling/Spain

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LINGUIST List: Vol-33-219. Fri Jan 21 2022. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 33.219, Confs: Applied Ling, Disc Analysis, Gen Ling, Ling Theories, Socioling/Spain

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Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2022 04:16:22
From: Maria Lopez Medel [medel at ua.es]
Subject: 6th ESTIDIA Conference Dialogue-shared Experiences across Space and Time: Cross-linguistic and Cross-cultural Practices

 
6th ESTIDIA Conference Dialogue-shared Experiences across Space and Time: Cross-linguistic and Cross-cultural Practices 
Short Title: ESTIDIA 

Date: 15-Jun-2022 - 17-Jun-2022 
Location: Alicante, Spain 
Contact: Organising committee Estidia 2022 
Contact Email: estidia22 at ua.es 
Meeting URL: https://web.ua.es/en/estidia22/ 

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

Meeting Description: 

>From the Socratic dialogues to post-modern cyberchats, it is only in and
through communicative interaction that we can understand the world, people,
and how things are working around us (Bohm, 2004/1996, Rockwell 2003). By
means of dialogue people are able to argue for their viewpoints, to come to
terms with each other, to jointly solve problems, and to resolve conflicts
(Pickering and Garrod 2021). Dialogue brings together women and men, young and
old, people from the east and the west, from the north and the south. Through
the creative synergy of shared thoughts, ideas, and experiences, we can travel
anywhere in space and time. The ongoing proliferation of new communication
channels on social media platforms (Whatsapp, Facebook, YouTube, webchat,
chatbots) is expanding the opportunities for multi-participant and
multi-purpose dialogue involving people from across the world willing to share
information and current concerns (Papacharissi 2002). At the same time,
however, recent trends in dialogue practices, primarily on new digital
platforms, reveal worrying signs of growing misunderstanding, opinion bias, as
well as extreme and conflicting position-takings. Many situations of
communication break-down are caused not necessarily by faulty technology, but
rather by certain users’ deliberate interference with and suppression of free
public dialogue. At the core of these situations lie several
communication-related paradoxes.

A first paradox concerns the tendency to introduce and encourage redundant
monologues (instances of ad nauseum fallacy) in environments that are normally
dedicated to open-ended dialogues. While there is ample user participation in
a genuinely free exchange of ideas, some users exhibit a closed mindset,
aggressively promoting their own interests and short-circuiting independent
thinking, showing reluctance to learn about and try to understand other
viewpoints that do not resonate with theirs.
A second paradox concerns the tendency to reduce the plurality and diversity
of perspectives in open-ended dialogue to an oversimplified binary opposition
by means of false dilemma fallacy. This is explicitly displayed in interviews
where the questioner restricts the respondent’s answering options to ‘yes’ or
‘no’, or on digital platforms, where only two options are available for
expressing one’s opinion: ‘like’ (thumbs up) or ‘dislike’ (thumbs down). An
interactive dialogue is thus restricted to simply expressing agreement or
disagreement, denying the middle ground (“Maybe…”) or any qualified response
(“Another way of looking at it …”).

A third paradox concerns the tendency to exclude (‘othering’), rather than to
include (bringing people together through dialogue), creating division by
discrediting and viciously attacking a person rather than their views, based
on social, political, racial, ethnic or religious background (ad hominem
fallacy), often resorting to abusive threats (ad baculum fallacy). By blocking
or distorting the meanings of other dialogue platform users, such
confrontational and aggressive behaviour is meant to trigger compliance from
and to embolden hate groups.

Manipulating behaviours like the ones presented above can seriously discourage
and obstruct a trust-based dialogic exchange of views, disconnecting instead
of connecting, creating divisions between those easily persuaded by relentless
false or abusive statements and those engaged in open-minded, argument-driven
dialogue. Counteracting such tendencies requires decisive and sustained
collaborative action to generate shared meaning within and across language and
cultures.

Registration period is open:
Early bird: 15/01/2022 – 01/03/2022
Standard: 02/03/2022 – 15/04/2022
https://cvnet.cpd.ua.es/uaCuestionarios/preguntas.aspx?idcuestionario=118098&i
dioma=en
 






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