35.1970, Calls: Discourse & Communication: Above & Beyond

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Subject: 35.1970, Calls: Discourse & Communication: Above & Beyond

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Date: 02-Jul-2024
From: Marwa Mekni Toujani [marwaISLT at gmail.com]
Subject: Discourse & Communication: Above & Beyond


Full Title: Discourse & Communication: Above & Beyond

Date: 07-Nov-2024 - 08-Nov-2024
Location: Tunis, Tunisia
Contact Person: Aida Seddik
Meeting Email: seddikaida75 at yahoo.com

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discipline of Linguistics;
Discourse Analysis; Ling & Literature
Subject Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb)
                     English (eng)
                     French (fra)

Call Deadline: 10-Jul-2024

Meeting Description:

We would explore the actual functions and purposes of discourse.
Therefore, we would like to delve into this question in depth at our
international conference where we seek to address communication
problems in discourse analysis at different levels (explicit and
implicit, spoken and written, practiced and unspoken) and in various
domains.

Call for Papers:

Applicants are invited to submit abstracts (with a title, a
theme/sub-theme, 4-5 keywords and a few references) that do not exceed
250 words (font: New Times Roman, size: 14), short bios and
participation forms to the following e-mail address
(Discours.Communication at gmail.com) no later than 30 June 2024.
Applicants whose abstracts are accepted have to send their full papers
by 15 September 2024.

Important Dates:
Deadline for Abstract Submission: 30 June 2024
Extension: 01 July 2024
Notification of Acceptance: 15 July 2024
Deadline for Full Paper Submission: 15 September 2024
Deadline for final acceptance: 30 September 2024

Abstracts are submitted and presentations are delivered in one of the
three languages (Arabic, French, and English). The organizer does not
cover travel expenses for the participants in the event.

Discourse analysis has received increasing attention in contemporary
studies. Obviously, the interest of scholars and critics has shifted
from the authority of the sacred discourse in religious
interpretations and the power of eloquence in literary criticism,
poetry and prose, to a focus on human discourse in general, and all
related verbal and non-verbal communication, in both internal and
external contexts. This is how the subjectivity of the agent emerged
with their affiliations, specificities, and the quality of their
relationships with others. Additionally, the signs that they remained
silent about and marginalized have resurfaced. Within these studies,
the meaning of the term discourse has expanded to include every
creation of meaning in a general social communication context (e.g.,
the president's speech, an advertising flash, a political slogan, a
cultural practice, and a sign). Thus, the types of discourse have
multiplied in terms of communication channels. They are no longer
limited to aural, read and written discourses, but rather referred to
the communicative act itself, to the point that some scholars such as
Fairclough (2016) suggest replacing the term discourse with ‘semiosis’
(semiotic reference). Therefore, discourse patterns have become
synonymous with semiotic patterns, one of which is linguistic
discourse along with other modalities such as images, body language,
and videotapes. Discourse has also become associated with a perception
of the world with various socio-economic and ideological dimensions.

On this basis, rhetorical and critical studies of discourse have kept
pace with these transformations and have moved towards deconstructing
its different patterns, analyzing them and disclosing their secrets
and hidden aspects in different communicative contexts. Such studies
have also taken care of the processes of constructing, deconstructing
and then reconstructing meaning at both the theoretical and applied
levels. Therefore, this approach to discourse has led to a
reconsideration of the concept of communication and to the idea that
the primary function of discourse is to achieve a dialectical
relationship between the sender and the receiver. This traditional
function of language and discourse, on which functional and pragmatic
theories have been based for decades, has become a subject for
questioning and controversy. Public discourse in its various forms
(e.g., political, religious, media, and educational discourses) has
become a determining element in the mental models of individuals (Van
Dijk, 1993) in a manner consistent with the ideological choices of the
dominant groups, whether politically, socially, culturally,
religiously or economically.

Laboratoire de recherche : LR19ES19 Langues et Formes Culturelles
Organizes an international conference on 7-8 November 2024 at the High
Institute of Languages in Tunis:

Eventually, new discourses have sometimes emerged to covertly spread
the ideas, positions and ideologies of their groups. These discourses
are presented as common knowledge and general truths, despite the
absence of objectivity and the presence of subjectivities competing
for all kinds of power to control local and global public opinion.

These various considerations make the discourse of interest to many
contemporary researchers from various humanities disciplines:
linguistics, philosophy, history, psychology and sociology, allowing
each of them to consider the discourse from the perspective of their
own specialty. Thus, the methods of analysis have multiplied and led
to different interdisciplinary studies of discourse depending on the
various contextual domains, which has given birth to an independent
research program, "Critical Discourse Studies". This program is the
outcome of the cognitive synergy and overlap between all these
specialties (Wodak, 2012).

Conference Chair: Aïda Seddik Scientific Committee: Mongia Khammassi
Arfa Mensia, Ouannes Hafiane, Mounir Triki, Raoudha Razgallah, Moufida
Bennour, Besma Nouha Chaouch, Hichem Kalfat, Sondes Hamdi, Sondos
Krouna, Bootheina Majoul, Selila Mejri, Manoubia Ben Ghedhahem, Lilia
Beltaief, Amina Chenik.
Organizing Committee: Mongia Khammassi Arfa Mensia, Sondos Krouna,
Malak Mustapha Sabeur, Bootheina Majoul, Selila Mejri, Marwa Mekni
Toujani, Ferdaous Hamdi, Rakia Ghozzi, Minyar Khalil, Yosra Tayeb.



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