35.1775, Calls: Enhancing Sustainability: Bridging Corporate Practices with Academic and Popular Discourse

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Subject: 35.1775, Calls: Enhancing Sustainability: Bridging Corporate Practices with Academic and Popular Discourse

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Date: 13-Jun-2024
From: francesco nacchia [francesco.nacchia at hotmail.it]
Subject: Enhancing Sustainability: Bridging Corporate Practices with Academic and Popular Discourse


Full Title: Enhancing Sustainability: Bridging Corporate Practices
with Academic and Popular Discourse

Date: 18-Dec-2024 - 20-Dec-2024
Location: Naples, Italy
Contact Person: francesco nacchia
Meeting Email: francesco.nacchia at hotmail.it
Web Site: https://www.facebook.com/share/SAg8LNaaxYL79zhF/

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis;
Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics
Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 08-Sep-2024

Meeting Description:

The Conference aims to promote an in-depth understanding of
sustainability communication while providing innovative insights and
practical solutions to current sustainability challenges. The event is
intended as a meeting place for local companies, academia, and other
subjects (e.g. from media, film and television) to exchange knowledge
and practices, improve communication, and expand theoretical,
methodological, and practical approaches to the study of
sustainability.

Info: enhancingsustainability at gmail.com

A complex, “contentious concept” (Catenaccio, 2019: 208),
sustainability is the subject of interdisciplinary interest, spanning
several research areas and occupying a central role in recent
international literature (see Krieg and Toivanen, 2021) in its attempt
to contribute to “th[e] ecological transformation founded on shared
democratic values [...]” (Brüggemann et al., 2023: 5039). Due to its
multifaceted nature, sustainability has largely entered popular
discourse, opening to several theoretical and methodological
approaches for the analysis of different genres and text types. One
the one hand, language and discourse studies have explored the
persuasive nature of sustainability
communication – “how emotions are triggered by language and
performance and then channelled within the minds of the people in an
audience” (Burke, 2023: 22). On the other hand, they have underlined
how dialogue between the various stakeholders is crucial to creating
mutual understanding and “introduc[ing] new discourses that may open
up new directions in how companies contribute to sustainability”
(Higgins and Coffey, 2016: 18).

Based on these premises, the conference aims to promote an in-depth
understanding of sustainability communication while providing
innovative insights and practical solutions to current sustainability
challenges. The event is intended as a meeting place for local
companies, academia, and other subjects (e.g. from media, film and
television) to exchange knowledge and practices, improve
communication,
and expand theoretical, methodological, and practical approaches to
the study of sustainability.

Papers selected for the conference will take a close look at
sustainability in its linguistic, discursive, multimodal, and
pragmatic aspects. Topics for contributions in English include, but
are not limited to:

- sustainability communication across media and text types
- persuasive and effective sustainability communication
- digital sustainability communication (i.e. on social media)
- multimodal representations of sustainability
- framing and discursive construction of sustainability
- discursive polarisation around sustainability topics
- LSP and popularisation of sustainability specialised knowledge
- criticism and limitations of sustainability as theory and practice
- sustainability best practices and corporate strategies
- interdisciplinary features of sustainability

Theoretical and methodological approaches include, among others:
(critical) discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, multimodal
(critical) discourse analysis, media and film studies, communication
studies, corporate communication, digital humanities, pragmatics,
stylistics, sociolinguistics, comparative studies, translation
studies, and literary studies.

Important dates

Abstracts up to 250 words (max 5 references excluded) should be sent
to: enhancingsustainability at gmail.com
Deadline for abstract submissions: September 8, 2024
Notification of acceptance: September 23, 2024
Registration: September 23, 2024 – December 10, 2024
Conference dates: December 18-20, 2024

Please, include: title; name; affiliation; email address; a short
bio-biographical sketch (max 100 words); up to 5 keywords.

Each talk selected for presentation will be allotted 20 minutes
followed by 10 minutes for discussion.

Fees (registration costs, lunch, coffee breaks) 80€



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