37.292, Calls: I-LanD Journal - "Special Issue: The Politics of Emotions: Discourse, Media, Digital Spaces" (Jrnl)

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Date: 19-Jan-2026
From: Antonio Fruttaldo [iland at unior.it]
Subject: I-LanD Journal - "Special Issue: The Politics of Emotions: Discourse, Media, Digital Spaces" (Jrnl)


Journal: I-LanD Journal
Issue: The Politics of Emotions: Discourse, Media, Digital Spaces
Call Deadline: 28-Feb-2026

I-LanD Journal – Identity, Language and Diversity
International Peer-Reviewed E-Journal
Call for Papers for Special Issue (1/2026)
The Politics of Emotions: Discourse, Media, Digital Spaces
Guest editors: Alexandra Palau (Université Bourgogne Europe), Denis
Jamet-Coupé (Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3) and Alma-Pierre Bonnet
(Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3)
Call for Papers:
This special issue of the I-LanD Journal aims to reflect on the use of
emotions in political discourse, be it in actual legislative
assemblies, among the 'chattering classes' on conventional media, or
on digital platforms. The objective is to explore the discursive and
visual dimensions of emotional levers that drive political dynamics
and the practice of citizenship in today's world. The ambition is to
compare methodologies and corpora from different linguistic and
cultural areas in order to understand, for example, the role of
emotions in the emergence of new forms of protest and in the
communication strategies of current forms of populism. How do
emotional structures inform group identities? To what extent do they
shape collective representations? What discursive and rhetorical
devices are used to convey emotions in politics, and is it possible to
measure their influence? These avenues for reflection invite us to
also analyse the interactions between institutional and
non-institutional players. Focusing on the 21st century, several
research topics can be envisaged.
A non-exhaustive list would include the following (proposals in
English or in French are welcome):
 - The role of emotions in political discourse, against the backdrop
of a crisis of representativeness. What are the emotional drivers used
by institutional players to persuade citizens? How are conflicting
emotions incorporated into the communication strategies of populist
and extremist parties?
 - The emotional strategies of citizen protest or disobedience
movements in contemporary public spaces. To what extent do collective
emotions help build the identity of protest movements and establish
new collaborative practices and forms of political engagement?
 - The role of emotions in traditional media and digital media
discourse. The aim is to explore the link between emotional dynamics
and the construction of identity through the analysis of the digital
and visual strategies implemented by political actors and/or protest
movements. What are the new emotional markers in the digital sphere -
hashtags, emoticons, short messages, videos, etc.? How do they
contribute to the formation of emotional communities? How can digital
tools reinforce or reduce emotional polarisation? The contribution of
multimodality seems fundamental, and semiotic studies – as well as
studies of images and other visual representations – will be more than
welcome.
If interested, please send an abstract (500 words including
references) simultaneously to:
 - Alexandra Palau Alexandra.Palau at u-bourgogne.fr, Université
Bourgogne Europe, France
 - Denis Jamet-Coupé denis.jamet-coupe at univ-lyon3.fr, Université Jean
Moulin Lyon 3, France
 - Alma-Pierre Bonnet alma-pierre.bonnet at univ-lyon3.fr, Université
Jean Moulin Lyon 3, France
Important Dates:
Submission of abstracts to guest editors: by 28 February 2026
Submission of chapters to guest editors: by 24 July 2026
Submission of proofs to contributors: by October 2026
Submission of final manuscript: by December 2026
More about the I-LanD Journal
Editors in Chief:
Giuditta Caliendo (University of Lille) and M. Cristina Nisco
(University of Naples Parthenope)
Advisory Board:
Giuseppe Balirano (University of Naples L'Orientale)
Marina Bondi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
Delia Chiaro (University of Bologna)
David Katan (University of Salento)
Don Kulick (Uppsala University)
Tommaso Milani (University of Gothenburg)
Margaret Rasulo (University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli")
Paul Sambre (KU Leuven)
Srikant Sarangi (Aalborg University)
Christina Schäffner (Professor Emerita at Aston University)
Vivien Schmidt (Boston University)
Stef Slembrouck (Gent University)
Marina Terkourafi (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Girolamo Tessuto (University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli")
Johann Unger (Lancaster University)
The I-LanD Journal
(https://i-land-researchcentre.eu/i-land-international-journal/)
reflects a commitment to publishing original and high-quality research
papers addressing issues of identity, language and diversity from new
critical and theoretical perspectives. All submissions are
double-blind peer-reviewed. In fulfillment of its mission, the I-LanD
Journal provides an outlet for publication to international
practitioners, with a view to disseminating and enhancing scholarly
studies on the relation between language and ethnic/cultural identity,
language and sexual identity/gender, as well as on forms of language
variation derived from instances of contamination/hybridization of
different genres, discursive practices and text types.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Discourse Analysis
                     Sociolinguistics




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