LINGUIST List 30.366

Tue Jan 22 2019

Calls: Anthro Ling, Applied Ling, Disc Analysis, Gen Ling, Socioling/Italy

Editor for this issue: Everett Green <everettlinguistlist.org>

Date: 19-Jan-2019
From: Antonio Fruttaldo <afruttaldounior.it>
Subject: 5th ESTIDIA Conference
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Full Title: 5th ESTIDIA Conference
Short Title: ESTIDIA 2019

Date: 19-Sep-2019 - 21-Sep-2019
Location: Naples, Italy
Contact Person: Antonio Fruttaldo
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: http://www.unior.it/ricerca/18780/3/5th-estidia-conference-hybrid-dialogues-transcending-binary-thinking-and-moving-away-from-societal-polarizations.html

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics; Sociolinguistics

Call Deadline: 17-Feb-2019

Meeting Description:

5th ESTIDIA Conference
Hybrid Dialogues: Transcending Binary Thinking and Moving Away from Societal Polarizations

19 September 2019 (Pre-Conference Workshops)
20-21 September 2019 (Conference)
University of Naples 'L'Orientale' (Italy)


The 5th ESTIDIA conference, to be held on 19-21 September 2019, is organised together with the I-LanD Interuniversity Research Centre and hosted by the University of Naples 'L'Orientale'. The conference welcomes a wide variety of thematic and disciplinary approaches to hybrid dialogues in various communities of practice across time and space. The theme of the conference was prompted by the risks and challenges posed by the increasing use of virulent polemics both on- and off-line that are constantly shifting the boundaries between traditionally dichotomous forms of communication (e.g., public/private, face-to-face/virtual, formal/informal, polite/impolite) and types of mindsets (e.g., trust/distrust, liberal/illiberal, rational/emotional, biased/unbiased). The dangers of dichotomy run parallel with a blurring of the distinction between real and unreal, true and false, genuine and fake, etc., in terms of both what people say and do, and what they say they do. At the same time, conflicting, and often contradictory, understandings of socio-political issues, cultural concepts and historical events are fostered by a proliferation of binary thinking, whereby one side of the divide is set up as positive/right, and the other as its negative/wrong counterpart.

Binary or dichotomous thinking is responsible for producing and/or maintaining historically unsustainable hierarchies and inequitable power relations. As a counterbalance of dichotomy-based beliefs and ways of thinking, new and hybrid forms of dialogue are needed to cross the frontiers of established dichotomies, questioning the legitimacy of increasingly conflictual, aggressive and divisive encounters conducted both offline (in public meetings, TV debates, political and parliamentary debates, etc.) and online (on social media, such as Twitter, YouTube, Snapchat). The boundaries between online and offline discourse may sometimes become fuzzy, allowing newly integrated and/or overlapping forms of discourses and uses of language to emerge.

This international ESTIDIA conference, like the preceding ones, offers an open forum for cross-disciplinary and multi-level dialogue among researchers and practitioners interested in exploring dialogic and discursive interaction observable across communities of practices and various social-cultural contexts.

You are warmly welcomed to propose contributions from diverse fields of enquiry, including linguistics, media studies, journalism, cultural studies, psychology, rhetoric, political science, sociology, pedagogy, philosophy and anthropology.

Conference website: http://www.unior.it/ricerca/18780/3/5th-estidia-conference-hybrid-dialogues-transcending-binary-thinking-and-moving-away-from-societal-polarizations.html

Keynote speakers:

Marina Bondi, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Cornelia Ilie, Strömstad Academy, Sweden
Lucy Jones, University of Nottingham, U.K.
Majid KhosraviNik, University of Newcastle, U.K.

Contact:

Please check the Conference website periodically or send inquiries to: estidia2019gmail.com

Call for Papers:

This international ESTIDIA conference, like the preceding ones, offers an open forum for cross-disciplinary and multi-level dialogue among researchers and practitioners interested in exploring dialogic and discursive interaction observable across communities of practices and various social-cultural contexts. The questions participants are called upon to consider, analyse and debate include, but are not limited to, the following:

- What types of polarized dialogue are to be found in various communities of practice (e.g. business, politics, education, health sector)? What are the distinguishing features of such dialogues in particular institutional settings? How do they emerge and develop?
- Has the increasing use of social media had a noticeable impact on the proliferation of the use of aggressive language and person-targeted attacks? Does this apply to some forms of social media more than to others?
- What cross-cultural parallels can be noticed with regard to dichotomy-based polarization patterns in off-line and online dialogues? Is it possible to identify differences in terms of age, gender, education, to name but a few?
- What dichotomy-based forms of reasoning and arguing are more likely to be found in spoken, written or hybrid types of discourses, respectively?
- How are the audience's emotions targeted, as well as manipulated, by the use of fallacious dichotomies in online and offline dialogue? Are there strategies that are specific for particular subtypes/instances of these two kinds of dialogue?
- How do face-to-face and online dialogues compare as to the opportunities they offer various categories of interlocutors willing to have their voices heard and their interests taken into account in particular contexts?
- Are there characteristics of the interactants' communicative styles across social media that confirm the assumption that online interactions are more prone to disagreement and conflict? How do they compare to offline interactions?
- What discursive and metadiscursive mechanisms can be found in populist rhetoric deployed in the private and public sphere, whereby speakers resort to audience manipulation through topic dissociations and issue polarizations?
- Is there empirical evidence that indicates a greater tendency of communicating with known others (through the phenomenon of echo chambers) in online or offline interactions?
- What is the role played by digital platforms in reproducing, reinforcing or challenging class and gender systemic inequalities within and across social/professional groups?
- How have radicalised, polarized, confrontational and downright violent discourses of extreme political movements given rise to institutional confrontations and the use of violence in both face-to-face and online interactions?

Abstract Submission:

We invite submissions of abstracts both for individual paper presentations (20 minutes for presentation, to be followed by 10 minutes for questions) to be scheduled in parallel sessions, and for paper presentations within thematic workshops. The thematic workshop format will be determined by the workshop organisers, taking into consideration the correlation of topics/sub-topics and the number of participants.

All abstracts should include the name, institutional affiliation and email address of the author(s), the paper title, and four-five keywords. The abstract should be approximately 500 words in length.

All abstracts will be peer-reviewed by the conference scientific committee according to the following criteria: originality and/or importance of topic; clarity of research question and purpose; data sources; theoretical approach; analytical focus; relevance of findings if already available. We especially encourage abstract submissions from early-career researchers, including postgraduate research students and postdoctoral researchers.

Email abstract submissions to: estidia2019gmail.com

Conference languages: English, Italian, French, Spanish, German

You are warmly welcome to propose contributions from diverse fields of enquiry, including linguistics, media studies, journalism, cultural studies, psychology, rhetoric, political science, sociology, pedagogy, philosophy and anthropology.

Conference website: http://www.unior.it/ricerca/18780/3/5th-estidia-conference-hybrid-dialogues-transcending-binary-thinking-and-moving-away-from-societal-polarizations.html




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