35.2332, Calls: Discourses of (Perma)Crisis

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Subject: 35.2332, Calls: Discourses of (Perma)Crisis

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Date: 26-Aug-2024
From: Ksenija Bogetic [ksenija.bogetic-pejovic at zrc-sazu.si]
Subject: Discourses of (Perma)Crisis


Full Title: Discourses of (Perma)Crisis

Date: 26-Sep-2024 - 27-Sep-2024
Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia
Contact Person: Ksenija Bogetic
Meeting Email: ksenija.bogetic at gmail.com
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/view/language-of-crisis/home

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

Call Deadline: 02-Sep-2024

Meeting Description:

The notion of crisis has emerged as a defining concept of global
reality, but the language surrounding it is radically changing at the
moment. While crisis was traditionally used to denote moments of major
social and political transformation, the notion is increasingly taking
on a meaning of “a state of greater or lesser permanence”
(Krzyzanowski et al. 2023). Marked by a global pandemic, a
longstanding climate crisis, and the eruption of new waves of
conflict, the third decade of the 21st indeed seems to be ushering in
a new language of permacrisis that is clearly never just about naming.
The rhetoric of a permanent ‘new normal’ has by now proven to carry
much potential to reinforce inequality and exclusion. The open-ended
semantics of crisis are a worrying echo of their historical use to
strengthen politics of violence and even genocide as unavoidable
(Pollack 2020). Their dynamics, nevertheless, are far from
predictable, as felt in the ongoing tug-of-war over the meanings of
words like ‘freedom’, ‘solidarity’, '(dis)information or ‘truth’.

This conference explores varied aspects of language that construct the
meanings of crisis in the public realm. Within a broadly
sociolinguistic and critical discourse perspective, it will examine
different forms of crisis discourse, with a particular interest in
representations of collectivity, division and solidarity. Bringing
together scholars from a range of linguistic and geopolitical
contexts, we hope to stimulate conversations about the role of
language – as well as language scholars and academia – for all the
power to perpetuate polarization, but also for the potential to
imagine alternatives beyond normalizing the global systemic collapse
as the only possibility for the future.

Call for Papers:

We seek contributions discussing various forms of crisis discourse,
dealing with any language and geographic area. While the main focus is
on the (post-)pandemic time, we also accept contributions addressing
other periods and discourses of crisis, as long as broader relevance
is demonstrated. We expect both contributions addressing the inner
sociolinguistic processes of crisis-time language, as well as those
taking a critical discourse approach to crisis communication, and to
the distinct constructions of collectivity, nationhood, race, gender,
‘us’ and ‘others’ in public discourse and beyond.

Possible topics include, but are by no means limited to, the
following:
 - local discourses of economic crisis, health crisis, climate,
conflict, ‘migrant crisis’ etc.
 - conceptions and definitions of crisis
 - the role of metaphor and figurative language in crisis
conceptualization
 - crisis communication (media, politicians’ and citizens’ discourse)
 - crisis and right-wing populisms
 - crisis, nationhood and nationalism
 - crisis and protest
 - gender in crisis discourse
 - race and ethnicity in crisis discourse
 - constructions of permacrisis and polycrisis; interacting discourses
of multiple crises
 - conspiracy narratives and legitimization of conflict
 - crisis and new solidarities
 - diachronic or cross-linguistic perspectives on crisis

The range of approaches may include:
 - (Critical) Discourse Analysis
 - sociolinguistics
 - corpus linguistics
 - cognitive linguistics
 - metaphor and figurative language
 - linguistic anthropology
 - ethnography of communication
 - pragmatics
 - media and communictations studies

Oral presentations will be 20 minutes, with 10 minutes for discussion.

Abstract submission deadline: September 02, 2024
Notification of acceptance/rejection: September 03, 2024
Abstracts (200-300 words) should be sent to ksenija at zrc-sazu.si.
Registration is free for all presenters.



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