LINGUIST List 35.2617

Wed Sep 25 2024

Confs: The (Cognitive) “Key to the Hearts of Men”: The Perlocutionary Power of Political Narratives.

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Date: 24-Sep-2024
From: Melissa Martin-Kemel <melissa.martin-kemeluniv-lyon3.fr>
Subject: The (Cognitive) “Key to the Hearts of Men”: The Perlocutionary Power of Political Narratives.
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The (Cognitive) “Key to the Hearts of Men”: The Perlocutionary Power of Political Narratives.

Date: 16-May-2025 - 16-May-2025
Location: Lyon, France
Contact: Melissa Martin-Kemel
Contact Email: [email protected]

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis

Meeting Description:

The Centre d’Études Linguistiques – Corpus, Discours et Sociétés (University of Lyon – Jean Moulin Lyon 3) will organize a symposium on May 16, 2025. The theme is political narratives and their use in political discourse. Our keynote speaker will be Philip Seargeant (Open University).

Operating within the prolific fields of narrative studies and discourse analysis, this one-day conference aims to contribute to our understanding of how narratives frame the political debate in today’s democracies. As “one verbal technique for recapitulating past experience” (Labov & Waletzky 1967: 13) narratives constitute a cognitive activity (De Fina & Georgakopoulou, 2012: 5) that is partly subjective and may have an emotional (Reisigl 2021) and persuasive (Polletta 2006) effect on the story recipient. This perlocutionary effect of the narrative format makes it highly relevant to the study of political discourse.

Submissions should include an abstract (up to 500 words, excluding references) as well as a short biography and should be sent to:
• Melissa Martin-Kemel <[email protected]>fr>,
• Bérengère Lafiandra <[email protected]>fr>,
• Jon Delogu <[email protected]>fr>,
• Alma-Pierre Bonnet <[email protected]>

Please don’t hesitate to submit an abstract if you’re interested.

For more details about the conference and the abstract submission process, please visit: https://cel.univ-lyon3.fr/cel-journee-detude-the-cognitive-key-to-the-hearts-of-men-the-perlocutionary-power-of-political-narratives

The organizing committee
Melissa Martin-Kemel <[email protected]>fr>,
Bérengère Lafiandra <[email protected]>fr>,
Jon Delogu <[email protected]>fr>,
Alma-Pierre Bonnet <[email protected]>




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