34.484, Confs: Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics/France

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Subject: 34.484, Confs: Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics/France

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Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2023 02:59:58
From: Rachele Raus [rachele.raus at unibo.it]
Subject: Conference - Observatory of the discourses of/on Europe

 
Conference - Observatory of the discourses of/on Europe 

Date: 16-Nov-2023 - 17-Nov-2023 
Location: Paris, France 
Contact: Juliette Charbonneaux 
Contact Email: colloqueeurope2023 at gmail.com 

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

Meeting Description: 

Discourse & Device(s)
In the field of the humanities and social sciences, the notion of 'device' is
often and commonly attributed to Michel Foucault, who envisaged it as 'a
resolutely heterogeneous whole comprising discourses, institutions,
architectural arrangements, regulatory decisions, laws, administrative
measures, scientific statements, philosophical, moral and philanthropic
proposals; in short, the said as well as the unsaid' (Foucault, 2001a: 299).
Giorgio Agamben is notably responsible for highlighting the heuristic
potential of this notion and for establishing a proposed definition. Following
Foucault, he proposes to call 'a device anything that has, in one way or
another, the capacity to capture, orientate, determine, intercept, model,
control and ensure the gestures, conducts, opinions and discourses of living
beings' (Agamben, 2007).
In so doing, he broadens the notion to include uses that are not only linked
to the exercise of power but also common, a dimension that is also primordial
in Michel de Certeau's conception of the dispositif, from the point of view of
users’ ''tactics'' (Certeau, 1990). « The pen, writing, literature,
philosophy, agriculture, cigarettes, navigation, mobile phones and, why not,
language itself, the oldest device », can be considered as devices. (Agamben,
2007).
The growing plasticity of the concept can explain its plural mobilisation, in
meanings which, although distinct, are not antagonistic. It thus allows us,
without being exhaustive, to understand the political and institutional logics
of 'governmentality' (Lascoumes, 2004), the sociological dimension of
innovation (see Akrich, Callo, Latour, 1989), the processes of organising
discourse (Veron, 1983, Angermuller, 2015, Maingueneau), or even to enter into
the depths of 'representation', in semiology and aesthetics (Marin, 1981). It
is also encountered in information and communication sciences when it is
declined as a 'mediation device' (Caune, 1999) or 'info- communication device'
(Jeanneret, 2014). In 2015, an issue of the French journal
Communication&Langages proposed to 'take an interest in the daily life of the
European Union', intending to 'propose a new approach to the use of
communication devices on the Internet (social networking sites and websites)
by political actors to promote or not to promote it' (Jeanne-Perrier and
Roginsky, 2015).
 

The focus
The upcoming conference intends to take advantage from this disciplinary
diversity, in order to critically question the dispositive construction of
Europe and the discourses or counter- discourses that accompany it.
The proposed papers may thus come from discourse analysis, linguistics,
information and communication sciences, political science, law, history, etc.
and be based on theoretical discussions, empirical cases, comparative and
interdisciplinary studies that contribute to the development of approaches and
methods for understanding the relationship between discourse, device(s) and
Europe. This plurality of possible approaches is matched by a deliberately
broad understanding of 'Europe', seen as a 'cultural being' (Jeanneret, 2007):
research can thus be proposed that considers it from an institutional (EU) or
geographical angle, or as a space for political, cultural, commercial or
intellectual exchanges...
While remaining open to the diversity of proposals that seek to contribute to
the analysis of devices related to Europe, we hope to receive contributions
from the following perspectives :
- Epistemological: In what way does the very notion of device prove to be
operative for thinking about Europe today? What place should be given to
discourse analysis?
- Methodological: How can we empirically approach the scope of the devices of
and in Europe?
- Strategic and tactical: Who are the actors at the origin of European
mechanisms? What are their motives for action and/or mobilisation ? And, in
relation to this, who are those who propose alternative paths?





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