35.3233, Calls: 40th International LAUD Symposium

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Subject: 35.3233, Calls: 40th International LAUD Symposium

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Date: 13-Nov-2024
From: Monika Reif [m.reif at rptu.de]
Subject: 40th International LAUD Symposium

Full Title: 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 Person: Monika Reif
Meeting Email: LAUD2025 at rptu.de
Web Site:
https://ksw.rptu.de/abt/anglistik/forschung-projekte/current-projects/40th-international-laud-symposium

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

Call Deadline: 30-Nov-2024

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.

Final Call for Papers:

Please submit your abstract as a pdf-file (max. 300 words, excluding
references) by 30 November 2024 to:
laud2025(at)rptu.de

Please indicate your affiliation above the abstract and state which
theme session you would prefer.

Conference format:
Presentation time: 25 minutes plus 10 minutes for discussion
2-3 parallel sessions

Conference fees:
Regular rate: 160 EUR
Reduced rate (PhD students, students): 90 EUR

Theme sessions:

(1) Climate change in media discourse and public debates
Contributions to this theme session should explore patterns in the
public discourse and media coverage of environmental issues; e.g.:
 • (Cognitive) critical-discourse studies on metaphors, scenarios and
frames in media representations and public debates
 • Studies on the multimodal representations of climate change
 • (Cognitive) critical-discourse studies on changes and continuities
in media representations and public debates over time and in various
parts of the world
 • Studies on the language of climate activists
 • (Cognitive) critical-discourse studies on the language of
climate-change sceptics and deniers
 • Studies on the public perception and the impact of media discourse
on lifestyles

(2) Climate change in scientific discourse and science communication
Contributions to this theme session should explore ways of how
scientific knowledge on climate change can be presented and
disseminated in public discourse; e.g.:
 • Studies on heuristic metaphors in climate science
 • Studies on strategies and models in science communication
 • Studies on the impact of science communication
 • Studies on the representation of climate change in educational
material and public-awareness campaigns
 • Studies on the public perception and the impact of science
communication on lifestyles
 • Studies on the interrelatedness of climate change and other crisis
phenomena

(3) Animal-rights discourse
This theme session will explore how the protection of animal rights
can contribute to an environmentally-friendly agenda; e.g.:
 • Studies on the interrelatedness of climate change and animal
welfare
 • Studies on sociological and ethical aspects of animal consumption
in consumer societies
 • Studies on the representation of animal rights in the media and in
public discourse
 • Studies on the multimodal representation of animal rights
 • Studies on the language of animal-rights activists

Confirmed plenary speakers:
Jonathan Charteris-Black | University of Bristol, UK
Kjersti Fløttum | University of Bergen, Norway
Martin Reisigl | University of Vienna, Austria
Arran Stibbe | University of Gloucestershire, UK

Conference organisers:
Prof. Dr. Frank Polzenhagen
Dr. Monika Reif
Dr. Neele Mundt

Contact: laud2025(at)rptu.de

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