35.2368, Confs: 40th International LAUD Symposium

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Date: 28-Aug-2024
From: Monika Reif [m.reif at rptu.de]
Subject: 40th International LAUD Symposium


40th International LAUD Symposium
Short Title: LAUD 2025

Date: 25-Aug-2025 - 28-Aug-2025
Location: Landau in der Pfalz, Butenschoen Haus, Luitpoldstrasse 8,
76829 Landau, Germany
Contact: Monika Reif
Contact Email: LAUD2025 at rptu.de
Meeting URL: https://ksw.rptu.de/abt/anglistik/forschung-projekte/curr
ent-projects/40th-international-laud-symposium

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Discourse Analysis;
Text/Corpus Linguistics

Meeting Description:

Topic of LAUD 2025:
Climate-change Discourse:
Language in media representations, public debates, science and science
communication

Coping with the consequences of human-induced climate change and
preserving the basis of existence on our planet are urgent, if not the
most urgent, challenges of our time. In recent years, they have become
a central topic of discourse in the media and society, driven in
particular by mass movements such as Fridays for Future and campaigns
by climate activist groups with high public impact. Since the topic
reached the discursive agenda on a larger scale three decades ago,
environmental awareness and knowledge of climate change processes have
undoubtedly increased considerably among broad sections of the
population, albeit to different extents in various regions of the
world. On the other hand, in many countries we are currently
witnessing a decline in both political effort and support from broad
sections of the population for measures in this regard. In view of
numerous other crises, the problem of climate change has lost much of
its urgency for many. The form and speed of the necessary
transformations are being met with widespread anxieties. At the same
time, we witness an increasing discursive presence of climate change
sceptics and climate change deniers, with representatives in extremely
prominent and powerful positions.
One of the most fundamental problems, however, is the drastic global
disparity with respect to both the responsibility for the present
condition and the availability of resources required for
environmentally friendly transformations. The so-called “global North”
has brought about the current collapse through its inconsiderate
exploitation of nature since the industrial revolution. The so-called
“global South”, whose share of the historical responsibility for the
present condition is infinitely smaller, is the region most affected
by climate change. At the same time, it is the region that is now
expected to refrain from and not to repeat the practices of
exploitation that made the global North economically prosperous and
dominant, being, however, compared to the global North, the region
seriously disadvantages in terms of financial resources to do so. It
is a truism that the challenges of climate change can only be met in a
joint global effort; however, such fundamental inequalities seriously
undermine this endeavour.

These conditions and developments call for continuous reconsiderations
of efforts, in particular context-sensitive measures, promoting
environmentally friendly policies and lifestyles.

The topic became the subject of linguistic research on a broader scale
through the so-called ecolinguistics of the 1990s (e.g. Fill &
Mühlhäusler 2001; Stibbe 2021). From the outset, several strands were
opened up in this research field, which have been pursued ever since;
e.g.:
 • How is ecological knowledge inscribed in languages (e.g. Maffi
2001)?
 • How are non-ecological positions and ideologies (e.g. so-called
speciesism) inscribed in language (e.g. Stibbe 2012)?
 • Critical analysis of political and media discourses on ecological
issues (e.g. Fløttum 2017; Reisigl 2020)
 • Analysis of the language of climate science and climate-science
communication (e.g. Nerlich, Koteyko & Brown 2010; Janich 2022)

In this field, cognitive-linguistic approaches play a central role, in
particular recourse to conceptual-metaphor theory and the notion of
framing (e.g. the work by Nerlich, Goatly, Semino, Deignan and
Stibbe). These cognitive-linguistic concepts have also been applied in
science-communication manuals (e.g. Corner, Shaw & Clarke 2018).

The 40th LAUD Symposium aims to address this topic from a linguistic
perspective, especially in light of the declining public resonance of
the climate change issue mentioned above. The wider context of the
conference is critical (esp. cognitive) discourse analysis (e.g. Hart
2017, 2019; Charteris-Black 2018) and science communication.

Program information will be available soon:
https://ksw.rptu.de/abt/anglistik/forschung-projekte/current-projects/
40th-international-laud-symposium



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