35.2095, Calls: Knowledge and Science Communication: The Language of Scientific Journalism in the past and present (@ÖLT48)

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Subject: 35.2095, Calls: Knowledge and Science Communication: The Language of  Scientific Journalism in the past and present (@ÖLT48)

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Date: 21-Jul-2024
From: Lucia Assenzi [lucia.assenzi at uibk.ac.at]
Subject: Knowledge and Science Communication: The Language of  Scientific Journalism in the past and present (@ÖLT48)


Full Title: Knowledge and Science Communication: The Language of
Scientific Journalism in the past and present (@ÖLT48)

Date: 17-Dec-2024 - 19-Dec-2024
Location: Innsbruck, Austria
Contact Person: Lucia Assenzi
Meeting Email: lucia.assenzi at uibk.ac.at
Web Site: https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/congress/oelt2024/

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

Call Deadline: 15-Sep-2024

Meeting Description:

In our section, we would like to address the topic of knowledge and
science popularisation in ‘traditional’ mass media from a linguistic
perspective. While science communication online and in social media is
currently at the centre of various (media)linguistic and multimodal
studies, interest in science journalism in the ‘traditional’ mass
medium of newspapers seems to have somewhat declined. However,
newspapers and their online outlets are still the primary information
channel for many people today (cf. Kohring 2005). In the immediate
past, the coronavirus pandemic has shown just how great the influence
of science communication in newspapers can be. The NDR science podcast
Corona Update, for example, gained incredible popularity, reaching an
audience of millions, especially at the beginning of the pandemic. As
was to be expected, the traditional knowledge and science sections of
quality newspapers have also seen an increase during the last
pandemic. The demand for objective, seriously researched, and reliable
information seems to be particularly high in times of crisis.

Call for Papers:

The workshop intends to investigate the linguistic strategies for
establishing objectivity and credibility of scientific information as
well as for increasing trust in science in general in popular science
articles in ‘classical’ mass media. At the same time, the workshop
will delve into another urgent research desideratum, that is, the
history of popular science communication (cf. Samida 2011), its
preliminary forms in historical newspapers, and the changes that
science journalism is undergoing, particularly due to the increasing
competition from science communication in social media.

We therefore invite you to submit papers on the following topics:
 ● Linguistic strategies for establishing objectivity and credibility
in science journalism in the past and present;
 ● Linguistic strategies to increase trust in science in science
journalism in the past and present;
 ● Preliminary forms of science journalism in historical newspapers
and their linguistic features;
 ● Linguistic and multimodal strategies of knowledge constitution and
communication in ‘classical’ science journalism and in social media.

Please send your abstract (max. 400 words + references) by 15
September 2024 to Marina Iakushevich
(marina.iakushevich at uni-greifswald.de) and Lucia Assenzi
(lucia.assenzi at uibk.ac.at)

Notification of decision: 22 September 2024
Conference registration: 1 October 2024



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