35.2452, Calls: 19th International Pragmatics Conference - Panel: Pragmatics in Action: Language as a Catalyst for Societal Change

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Subject: 35.2452, Calls: 19th International Pragmatics Conference - Panel: Pragmatics in Action: Language as a Catalyst for Societal Change

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Date: 04-Sep-2024
From: Ruth Karachi Benson Oji [roji at pau.edu.ng]
Subject: 19th International Pragmatics Conference - Panel: Pragmatics in Action: Language as a Catalyst for Societal Change

Full Title: 19th International Pragmatics Conference - Panel:
Pragmatics in Action: Language as a Catalyst for Societal Change
Short Title: IPrA2025 - panel

Date: 05-Aug-2025 - 09-Aug-2025
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Contact Person: Ruth Karachi Benson Oji
Meeting Email: roji at pau.edu.ng
Web Site: https://pragmatics.international/CfP2025

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

Call Deadline: 01-Nov-2024

Meeting Description:

The scope and applications of pragmatics as a field in linguistics
have significantly evolved since the concept was coined by Charles
Morris (1938) and further elaborated by the seminal works of the logic
and language philosophers (Austin 1962; Searle 1969; and Grice 1975;
Leech 1983). As pragmatics’ main concern is the study of language use
in the society with the postulate that ‘people use language to achieve
goals (Wittgenstein, 1953; Austin, 1975; Clark, 1996; Frank and
Goodman, 2012), producing effects on other people and the world’,
political discourse has become one of the major domains of pragmatic
analysis (Ilie 2018).

Politics, being the domain par excellence for the exercise of power,
can be examined through pragmatics, which offers a peculiar prism
through which the potential of language to enact social changes can be
effectively explored. In this light, and besides many other works,
Fetzer (2013) provided a pragmatic perspective to the analysis of
political discourse as multilayered mediated discourse in a different
cultural and global context. As the global orders are constantly
disrupted by geopolitical dynamics, new analytical perspectives might
emerge. Besides, the geopolitical perspective needs to be explored
too. The breakdown in the longstanding order dominated by the West,
the rise of new powers such as China, and the constitution of new
blocks such as the BRICS have created some geopolitical uncertainty.
The war in Ukraine has further complicated the situation by
exacerbating the divide between the great nations. In this context,
language is used to deconstruct and construct new realities. It is
used by global actors to position themselves in relation to the
political happenings, either implicitly or explicitly.

IPrA 2025 offers the opportunity to explore the role of language in
expressing the stance of parties and in establishing new geostrategic
and geopolitical equilibrium. In Africa, there is also a field of
these geopolitical changes as new diplomatic relations are being
renegotiated between the ex-colonies and their ex-colonial masters.
The advent of social media has contributed to giving a voice to the
masses who do not hesitate to take a stance either vehemently or
soberly and engage in social mobilisation and web-activism.

The purpose of the proposed panel is to investigate the dynamic
interaction between language and action, with a focus on how pragmatic
approaches might shed light on how language shapes and changes social
reality.

Through the integration of varied viewpoints from different subfields,
this panel aims to provide a thorough comprehension of the practical
implications of pragmatic action. We will study how language serves as
a potent weapon for political transformation in addition to its role
as a means of communication, through empirical research, theoretical
investigations, and case analyses.

The following are the objectives the panel hopes to achieve:
 1. Review and restate the fundamental function of action in the
pragmatics discipline.
 2. Show how pragmatic research may address global concerns in a
transformational manner and with practical ramifications.
 3. Incorporate cutting-edge techniques and action-oriented viewpoints
in order to expand the scope of conventional pragmatic research.

Call for Papers:

To this end, we invite abstracts that show the connection between
pragmatics and political discourse, with an emphasis on the linguistic
techniques activists and legislators use to manufacture dissent or
consent; how language affects political results by shedding light on
practical methods for organising, persuading and enacting change; how
speech acts act as accelerators for societal reform by examining case
studies from various cultural contexts.

Presentation Format
 • 20-minute oral presentation
 • 10- minute discussion

Abstracts should not exceed the limit of 500 words and cannot be less
than 250 words. They should represent completed or close to completion
research with some explicit results and contain information about the
purpose, research questions, design, method, findings, and
implications of the study.

Submissions should be made via the Official IPrA2025 Call for Papers
site:
https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP2025

Deadline: 01.Nov.2024 (23:59 PDT)

Inquiries:
Dr Ruth Karachi Benson Oji: roji at pau.edu.ng
Dr Herbert Rostand Ngouo: rostandngouo2000 at yahoo.fr

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