37.760, Confs: Beware of the Stereotype (Belgium)

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Subject: 37.760, Confs: Beware of the Stereotype (Belgium)

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Date: 23-Feb-2026
From: Martina Temmerman [martina.temmerman at vub.be]
Subject: Beware of the Stereotype


Beware of the Stereotype
Short Title: Stereotypes
Theme: Categories, Generalizations and Clichés in Journalistic
Language and Journalism Practice

Date: 03-Dec-2026 - 04-Dec-2026
Location: Brussel, Belgium
Contact: Martina Temmerman
Contact Email: martina.temmerman at vub.be
Meeting URL: https://www.vub.be/en/event/beware-stereotype

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Cognitive Science; Discourse
Analysis; Philosophy of Language; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Submission Deadline: 30-Jun-2026

Building on its longstanding engagement with journalism theory and
practice, the Brussels Institute for Journalism Studies (BIJU)
launches its sixth international conference, devoted to the study of
categories, generalizations and clichés in journalistic language and
journalism practice. The conference is explicitly multidisciplinary
and welcomes contributors from, among others, communication and media
studies, discourse and conversation analysis, (cognitive) linguistics,
corpus linguistics, translation studies, epistemology, social
psychology, and the political and social sciences to share their
insights with us on the way stereotypical representations,
generalizations, and clichés occur in journalistic language and
practice, and on how they are reproduced.
For a linguistic approach of categorization and generalization, the
use of generic language will be worth examining. From a linguistic
perspective, categorization and generalization are fundamental to
meaning making. Generic language enables speakers and writers to refer
to categories, formulate general claims and abstract from individual
cases. This naturally entails the risk of overgeneralization and
stereotyping, or drawing inferences based on overly limited
observation, experience or evidence.
This conference aims to critically examine how journalistic language
contributes to the formation, circulation and contestation of
stereotypes and overgeneralizations, as well as how such processes
shape journalistic knowledge production and public discourse.
Stereotypical or biased language in journalism, in connection with
gender, religion, nationality, the generic use of pronouns like you
and we, the way presuppositions and inferences are conveyed, these are
just a few examples of what a linguistic approach to the topic of our
conference can focus on.



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