35.3488, Calls: 39. Romanistiktag, Transversal Section (20): "SchreibTechnologien der Empathie" (Writing technologies of empathy)

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Subject: 35.3488, Calls: 39. Romanistiktag, Transversal Section (20): "SchreibTechnologien der Empathie" (Writing technologies of empathy)

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Date: 05-Dec-2024
From: Mailyn Lübke [mailyn.luebke at uni-osnabrueck.de]
Subject: 39. Romanistiktag, Transversal Section (20): "SchreibTechnologien der Empathie" (Writing technologies of empathy)

Full Title: 39. Romanistiktag, Transversal Section (20):
"SchreibTechnologien der Empathie" (Writing technologies of empathy)

Date: 22-Sep-2025 - 25-Sep-2025
Location: University of Konstanz, Germany
Contact Person: Mailyn Lübke
Meeting Email: mailyn.luebke at uni-osnabrueck.de
Web Site:
https://www.romanistiktag.de/xxxix-romanistiktag/sektionen/sektion-20/

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Morphology; Pragmatics;
Semantics; Syntax
Subject Language(s): French (fra)
                     Italian (ita)
                     Portuguese (por)
                     Spanish (spa)

Call Deadline: 31-Dec-2024

Meeting Description:

39. Romanistiktag Universität Konstanz | 22.–25. September 2025
SchreibTechnologien der Empathie (Writing technologies of empathy)
Transversal Section (20)

Life today is characterised by extensive human-digital coexistence,
where communicative exchange often occurs through writing technologies
(internet, mobile devices, messaging services). Computer-mediated
communication is transforming interpersonal relationships, whose
empathetic foundation no longer takes place only face-to-face.
Representations of empathy must be renegotiated through digital
writing technologies. This section understands empathy as a
prerequisite for linguistic processes that generate and represent acts
of understanding and emotional insight. Empathy thus carries a
textual-hermeneutic potential. (…) How can empathy occur within
writing technologies? (…) This section aims to explore, for the first
time, the transformed parameters of communication through writing
technologies for human-digital coexistence from a linguistic and
literary perspective.

(…)

Phenomena of digital communication are increasingly becoming the focus
of linguistics, particularly in pragmatics. For example, chat corpora
and social media threads are being studied more intensively for their
linguistic phenomena and functions (cf. Dürscheid/Frick 2016) and can
thus also be examined for possible markers of empathy. From a
pragmalinguistic and interactional linguistic perspective, diachronic
and digital corpora can be considered that provide material for a) the
description and b) the function(s) of writing practices aimed at
creating analogue and digitally textualized representations of
empathy. These can be realized, for example, through sound objects,
attenuation strategies, deictic references, repair processes and
self-disclosures.

(…)

The section project begins with the assumption that empathy-building
processes are narratively and sequentially structured. The aim of the
transversal section is to investigate, from multiple perspectives, the
constants and changes in media-technological communication within the
context of empathy. The languages of Romance cultures offer a field of
study that provides historical, sociocultural and linguistic points of
comparison, ranging from analogue writing technologies to online
communication in the Digital Age. The section is open to all Romance
languages and literatures (talks in German and English will also be
accepted).

Possible Research Questions

–       What functions do writing technologies take on in
empathy-building processes in literature and computer-mediated
communication?
–       What methods can be developed to analyse empathy markers from
a linguistic and literary studies perspective?
–       What conceptual-oral structures and sociocultural practices
can be analysed in written representations of empathy?
–       How can a historical comparison of literature and language
provide insights into the current transformation of communication in
human-digital coexistence?
–       What role do AI and digitally generated forms of communication
play in contemporary literary production? How are representations of
empathy reflected here? How can this be understood narratologically?
–       What influence does the Digital Age have on language from a
literary and linguistic perspective? What methodological consequences
arise for analysis practices in both disciplines?

The submission of an abstract is possible until 31 December 2024. It
should include your name(s) and affiliation(s) as well as the title of
your contribution and it can contain a maximum of 4000 characters,
including spaces and bibliography. Please send your abstract in pdf
format via e-mail to schreibtechnologien2025 at outlook.de. For the
complete abstract in German, French, Spanish and Italian check:
https://www.romanistiktag.de/xxxix-romanistiktag/sektionen/sektion-20/.

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