36.2640, Confs: Languaging Crises (Finland)

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Subject: 36.2640, Confs: Languaging Crises (Finland)

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Date: 04-Sep-2025
From: Jenni Räikkönen [jenni.m.raikkonen at helsinki.fi]
Subject: Languaging Crises


Languaging Crises
Short Title: LanCris

Date: 04-Mar-2026 - 05-Mar-2026
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Contact: Jenni Räikkönen
Contact Email: lancris at helsinki.fi
Meeting URL: https://blogs.helsinki.fi/languaging-crises/

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis;
Historical Linguistics; Pragmatics; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Submission Deadline: 31-Oct-2025

In a world characterised by the presence of multiple, simultaneous and
overlapping crises, language and communication have an increasingly
important role. For example, in the context of large-scale, societal
crises, effective communication during and about a crisis keeps people
calm and informed by carefully controlling the flow of information,
and by providing guidelines and directions that are understood and
accepted by all segments of the populace.  Similarly, during
organisational, political or personal crises of reputation, language
use becomes an essential tool for minimising and mitigating the
effects of the crisis. The different parties involved in the crisis
communicate their own interpretations of the situation, while also
interacting with other affected parties.
The Languaging Crises conference focuses on the ways in which language
is used and abused in crisis situations or the ways in which various
crises are dealt with in different texts. In particular, more research
is needed on how the language used during small- and large-scale
crises is targeted at, and received by, different demographic subsets
within heterogeneous societies, and whether effective communication
requires a messaging strategy that takes those subsets into account in
different ways.
The presentation proposals can approach communication and language use
during crises from various perspectives, ranging from linguistics and
language studies to discourse analysis, communication and social
studies. They can also deal with both diachronic and synchronic
communication about global and local crises and examine texts by
public figures, the media, organisations or individuals. The crises
investigated may include, but are not limited to, the following:
 - health crises, accidents and traumas
 - wars, conflicts and violence
 - natural disasters and environmental crises
 - economic/financial/political crises
 - organisational crises and reputation crises
 - inter/personal crises and life changes
 - hateful and impolite situations
The confirmed keynote speakers are Tony McEnery (Lancaster
University), Merja Koskela (University of Vaasa), Dario Del Fante
(University of Ferrara), Heini Hakosalo (University of Oulu).



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