33.1596, Calls: Anthro Ling, Applied Ling, Disc Analysis, Pragmatics, Socioling/France

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Subject: 33.1596, Calls: Anthro Ling, Applied Ling, Disc Analysis, Pragmatics, Socioling/France

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Date: Sun, 08 May 2022 19:07:28
From: Mark Dang-Anh [dang at ids-mannheim.de]
Subject: By the way or in your face? Political positioning by linguistic means

 
Full Title: By the way or in your face? Political positioning by linguistic means 
Short Title: SYMP22 

Date: 17-Jul-2023 - 21-Jul-2023
Location: Lyon, France 
Contact Person: Mark Dang-Anh
Meeting Email: dang at ids-mannheim.de
Web Site: https://aila2023.sciencesconf.org/browse/author?authorid=951095 

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

Call Deadline: 26-Jun-2022 

Meeting Description:

Abstract 

Political positioning is a linguistic practice by means of which people
discursively bring forth and process the fundamental states and constitutions
of social coexistence. Especially increasingly liminal and precarious (cf.
Spitzmüller/Bendl 2020) fluid and uncertain states of crisis and permanent
transformation - which are not only to be found in recent global history or
the current developments in Eastern Europe - require social positionings that
are produced interactionally and discursively (cf. positioning theory,
Davies/Harré 1990). Such positioning is carried out on the basis of historical
retrospection, current stocktaking and future perspectives and proves to be
political insofar as it has a reference to common and communal coexistence,
which is accomplished indexically (cf. Dang-Anh/Scholl 2022).

The thesis of the symposium is that linguistic positionings are accomplished
in the most diverse ways. Political positioning can be – in your face –
demanded and undertaken loudly, vehemently and very explicitly. Such
positionings are visible and salient practices of political discourse.
However, positioning can also be very implicit, subtle or taken-for-granted
(cf. Garfinkel 1967) and thus take place on the basis of barely perceived
features of expression. It is above all these subtle indexical forms of
political positioning – by the way – that make our everyday interactions
appear discursively relevant for social coexistence.

Furthermore, speakers make use of a variety of linguistic means in political
positionings. For example, they employ narratives (cf. Dang-Anh/Scholl 2022,
Fina/Georgakopoulou 2012) and appellations/categorisations (cf. Acke 2015,
Hornscheidt 2006) to position themselves or others both explicitly and
implicitly. Implicature and presupposition as well as phonetic, orthographic,
grammatical or lexical variation are linguistic means by which more implicit
positionings are performed.

For our symposium, we invite speakers to present their research on political
positioning by linguistic means in current and historical discourses in
democratic and authoritarian political systems as well as in all regions and
languages. We are especially interested in contributions which explore the
question of how macro-states and conditions of common existence are
(re)produced on the microlevel of concrete interactions and texts. Topics can
include but are not limited to political positionings

- towards or by political actors, for example candidates for political
offices, influential individuals in media and society, authoritative leaders, 
- towards or within political systems, groups or movements, for example
political parties like social democrats or conservatives, unions or online
communities, feminist, ecological or populist movements, 
- towards political opinions, ideas or ideologies, for example as against or
for COVID-19 measures, as a proponent of gender-fair language, as
anti-communist or as Marxist, 
- in everyday interaction or in settings and communities of practice that are
not to be considered primarily political.


Call for Papers:

We call for submissions to join our symposium ''By the way or in your face?
Political positioning by linguistic means'' [SYMP22] at the hybrid AILA World
Congress in Lyon in July 2023. Submission due date is June, 26 2022. Please
refer to https://aila2023.fr/ for further information on how to submit.
Symposium site:
https://aila2023.sciencesconf.org/browse/author?authorid=951095.

More information: https://aila2023.fr/




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